Love is a Four Letter Word by Zara Stoneley

Author:Zara Stoneley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007583317
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“You’re wasting your time. Nobody in.”

The motorbike had headed straight to her house like it was a homing pigeon and even Jake’s first rap had been angry, by the time he’d progressed to what must have been the sixth or seventh attempt at raising her he’d been close to riding up the steps and ramming the bloody door at 50 mph.

Now, as the soft tone broke through his impatience he spun round expecting to be furious. But oddly, he wasn’t. He was pleased to see her. “You are. You’re in.”

“Nope, not my front door anymore.”

“It is, I dropped you—”

“I’ve been demoted to the apartment.” She nodded to the right. “But I heard the bike.”

“You didn’t answer your ‘phone.”

“I put it on mute, it was annoying me.”

He’d wanted answers the moment she walked out on him, with her aged hippy of an artist, so he’d rung. No answer. And with each unanswered call his gut had twisted tighter and his need to know had escalated until he knew he was being ridiculous. Acting out of character. But when it had hit 9pm he’d decided he had a choice. Go and find her, or get drunk. He’d opted for the first.

I mean, just who was the guy? Friend, lover? The way he’d had his hands on her, the way he’d kissed her like he was staking some kind of claim, like some stud marking his territory, the way she’d let him. That wasn’t about casual acquaintances. That was the way lovers behaved. Lovers with unfinished business.

Jake could feel the muscles in his shoulders curl up a bit tighter. Why would a girl like Georgie let someone like that into her life? A dead-end idiot who knew a good thing when he saw it. Rich, young, sexy. He didn’t know what bothered him more, the fact that Georgie seemed happy to go along with it, or the fact that he wanted to stop it. He needed to know if the guy was on his plane, and he needed to know exactly why Georgie has walked into his life and seemed set on turning it upside down and inside out. If he was going to get fucked, he wanted to know why.

She’d taken her mobile out of her pocket and was waving it at him.

“See, no sound.” She glanced at the display. “Oh, yeah, you have been trying to get hold of me.” Raised an eyebrow, part quizzical, part mischief. “What it is to be popular.” But the tone was dry.

He sighed with exasperation. Yeah, he knew that feeling, when he could have thrown his mobile in a bucket of water. But she’d just been avoiding him, not the rest of the world. “You can’t just ignore me.” Her raised eyebrow said she could. “We had a deal.”

“A deal, it doesn’t mean you own me, I just said I’d give you a hand when I could. And today I couldn’t.”

“Why not? Busy with your artist friend?”

“I told you, he was catching a plane. Not that it’s any of your business.

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