Hope Breaks: A New Adult Romantic Comedy by Alice Bello & Stephanie T. Lott

Author:Alice Bello & Stephanie T. Lott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-06-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

DREW’S GIRLFRIEND’S NAME WAS Darla. And she was just the most darlin’ thing you could imagine. The pictures in Drew’s phone didn’t do her justice, not at all. Her skin was peach colored and she had wisely shunned tanning. She would reap the rewards for that later on when her face didn’t look like a roadmap of the Adirondacks.

She was a little shy right off, but as I talked to them both and showed them to my studio, she started to relax. And as soon as I offered her a Diet Pepsi she just bloomed into a real chatterbox.

Drew rolled his eyes as Darla’s yak motor revved up. He leaned in and took the can of cola out of her hands.

She looked up at him haughtily and stamped her foot.

He just gave her a level look and handed the cola back to me. “Darla gets all hyper on caffeine.”

“What are you, my father?”

Drew gave her a hard look. “That’s gross, baby… really gross.” And then he reached over and rubbed his hand against her cheek, making her blush beautifully. “We’re here to do a job, and this lady here won’t be able to snap any photos of you if your mouth is going a hundred eighty miles an hour.”

She started to argue, but Drew leaned down and kissed her sweet, honeysuckle lips and quelled the words before they made it off her tongue.

When he broke the lip lock they were both flushed, and their lips were a little pink.

Nice…

“You can have one after the shoot. Then you can go all chipmunk on me if you want.”

Okay, that was chauvinistic and condescending… but the sight of those two arguing was just adorable.

“Okay,” I said and lead them to my big table of photographic junk. “First thing we need to do is for you to sign some release forms, so I can use the images, and I’ll need to make photocopies of your driver’s licenses.”

Darla went a little pale, and Drew puffed out his cheeks, obviously trying to fight back a laugh.

“You are both eighteen, right?”

Drew burst out laughing, and Darla and I both gave him icy glares.

“Sure, sure. We’re both nineteen,” Drew guffawed. “But Darla here can’t pass—”

Darla elbowed him hard right in the solar plexus and Drew fell silent, except for a couple of expletive laced groans.

She leveled a glare that would drop a tiger, and then turned and faced me.

“I’ve taken the test nine times. I’m not good with the parallel parking… or the cones… or—”

“Or the driving part!” Drew crowed and jumped out of her reach.

Darla looked at me and winced. “I’m not good with tests is all.” She jerked her head back toward her boyfriend. “And this one is no help at all. Every time he takes me out on the road in his precious truck we end up breaking up for a week.”

“Overbearing jackass?” I asked.

“Precisely.”

“Hey! That’s not fair… I try to just let her go, but I don’t want my truck demolished.”

I put up my hands to ward off a full on fight.

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