Lie For Me by Laura Ives

Lie For Me by Laura Ives

Author:Laura Ives [Ives, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00


20

Lucy was getting out of the shower when she heard the door to their room bang shut. There was some shuffling and a couple of soft thuds, then it went quiet.

In the mirror, she looked at the towel piled on her head, at her face, flushed from the shower, her skin pink and damp. She felt oddly self-conscious and hiked the towel up under her arms, knotting it tightly. She paused at the door with her hand on the knob. It was hardly the first time Jack had seen her in a towel or scantily dressed. They’d been swimming together, gone on weekend trips to the beach where she’d lazed around in a bikini without a second thought. But now, walking out there to the room they shared in just a bath towel felt odd. The kiss had changed things.

She shook her head. It was a drunken fumble, a silly mistake that meant nothing and was now to be forgotten. Jack probably hadn’t given it a second thought since it happened. She glanced at herself once more in the mirror and pulled her shoulders back.

‘I’m coming out,’ she called as she turned the handle. ‘You’d better be decent.’

Jack was lounging on the bed as she opened the door, one ankle looped casually over the other, reading a copy of Hello! Magazine. He had kicked his shoes off, and they were lying half under the bed.

Lucy wrinkled her nose.

‘Why are you reading that?’

‘What? Don’t tell me you don’t keep up with the lives of,’ Jack consulted the magazine, ‘Lady Tittingbourne and Mrs Bunce?’

Lucy snorted. ‘You made those names up.’

Jack held up three fingers. ‘Scouts honour, that’s what it says here.’

Lucy sat down at the dressing table and began untangling her wet hair, teasing it apart with her fingers. She caught Jack watching her in the mirror, but he snapped back to his magazine when she met his gaze.

‘How was Ollie when you left?’ she asked as she brushed her hair.

‘Oh, he went off to get ready.’ Jack licked his finger and flipped a page. ‘And Dave seemed to have gone too, but not before your mother had a word with him.’

Lucy wrapped her hair back up in a towel.

‘I heard her tell Ollie that he should,’ he made air quotes with his fingers, ‘consider the kind of company he keeps as friends.’

Lucy gave a wry smile. ‘I bet she did. Poor Ollie.’

‘Oh, he seemed pretty impervious to it all really,’ Jack said.

‘Yes,’ Lucy replied, thoughtfully, dabbing cream under her eyes. ‘We used to call him Teflon; nothing sticks to him. He doesn’t really get wound up about anything, and mother never stays cross with him.’

Jack tossed the magazine onto a chair.

‘Well, I’d better get showered. Your mother told me she knows she doesn’t need to nag me, like she has to tell Ollie and Dave.’ Lucy pivoted to face him. ‘Because I will no doubt be dressed smartly enough to make the ladies swoon. Which I assume is her way of saying I’d better not let the side down.



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