Love-Lines by Sheri Langer

Author:Sheri Langer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, chicklit, publishing, widow, writing, humor
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing
Published: 2019-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

IT HAD BEEN ONE OF those enchanting summer days when the sun spoke of fragrant breezes, frozen-yogurt sundaes, and whisper kisses. Fordham was due a long weekend and called in sick without compunction, quite certain Denim Palace had other girls anxiously waiting to fold jeans from dawn to dusk. Then she called Aaron. He was spending the summer getting paid by his parents to do odd jobs around the house and had plenty of free time. She knew he’d be psyched to hang out. But there was no answer.

Undaunted, she slipped on her tiniest bikini—fire-engine red with white swirls—and drove to his house. She arrived in record time and knocked repeatedly on the front door, but there was no response. She assumed his parents were at work and his little brother was at camp. Yet Aaron’s car was in the driveway.

She let herself in. “Aaron, you here?” she called once or twice.

No one answered. He was nowhere to be found. Her mind drifted to all those slasher movies in which the unsuspecting ingenue wandered into a nightmare, but other than the usual horrific clash of plaid and paisley in the den, nothing seemed wrong.

Except the noise. A sound like a cross between an aggressive vibrator and a broken muffler was coming from somewhere outside. She went out through the sliding door in the kitchen and was now sure the noise was coming from the shed. The yard was full of raked acorns, lopped off branches, and debris from chipped trees and trimmed bushes.

Fordham was walking gingerly across the lawn when a wayward branch snagged her bathing-suit top, tangling it up in the dead tree. She tried to pull away, but there was no way to do it without taking off her top. She was trapped. She was not going to undress in the yard, especially with neighbors in such close proximity. The noise finally stopped, and she was ready to scream for help when Bad Company’s “Feel Like Makin’ Love” started blasting.

Determined not to spend the day tied to a tree like a naughty cocker spaniel, she tried a new tactic. By jumping, she hoped to dislodge herself from the offending branches. With one final leap, she broke free, but her bikini top still dangled from the tree like a proud ornament. She was topless when Aaron emerged from the shed, holding a small lawn mower.

He squealed with delight to see her standing poised next to the tree like a model on some pornographic version of Let’s Make a Deal. “Whoa. Damn. Did I forget it’s my birthday?”

She explained what had happened as she was untying her suit from the branches. But Aaron didn’t seem all that interested in her explanation or in retrieving her bikini top. He scooped her up and brought her over to a tuft of grass in a well-hidden shady spot behind the shed. The music continued to play, and the sun continued to shine as they made love in what would later become the Karps’ zucchini garden.

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