Lovestruck by Bronwyn Sell

Author:Bronwyn Sell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQ Fiction
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Trip Review: Curlew Bay

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Review: It was really humid and my hair was really limp for the whole week, even after I blow-dried it. I had to tie it up and I look horrible in all the photos.

23

Sophia

Sophia forced herself to concentrate on the winding stony road and not the views that unfolded at every turn, until she reached the arm of a bay with an old jetty jutting out into darker water. A small pale-grey naval vessel was tied up alongside. Now she could see why Amy had been so casual with directions. Just keep driving until you run out of road.

Harry was already sitting on the jetty, which was not surprising seeing as she’d taken it slowly. She was used to driving country roads but this was more or less off-roading, and she hadn’t been able to resist stopping to snap a few photos, though her phone camera didn’t do the views justice. He was working on a laptop, his back against a wooden piling, those lovely legs stretched out in front and crossed at the ankles. A crate sat on the planks next to him. He glanced up as she approached, slipped the computer into a case, hauled his backpack up and stood.

She rolled down her window and watched for the moment he realised it was her behind the wheel and not Amy—yep, there—a tip of his head, a tweak of his lips. A pleasant surprise or not? The butterflies churned and she breathed deeply, enjoying the warm, prickly awakening, even if there was no promise of more to come. Yes, this was the first time she’d seen him since she’d kissed him but where was the sense in being embarrassed? He had kissed her back.

She pulled up into a gravel turning circle next to a long, low wooden building, her body fizzing head to toe at the memory of those lips on hers, those arms around her. It was that feeling you got straight after a hard workout when endorphins flooded your system, the reward for the pain and effort.

He strode to the tray of the ute, holding eye contact with a half-smile that carried a meaning she couldn’t decode, pulled back the cover and dropped the pack in with a thud. From somewhere behind the building—a barracks?—multiple power tools screamed and buzzed in disharmony.

He returned for the crate. ‘Please tell me Nan hasn’t employed you,’ he called, his voice straining as he lowered the box into the tray.

Sophia twisted in her seat to maximise the cheap thrill of looking at him, all casually sexy in his T-shirt and shorts with a few days’ growth on his jaw. ‘I haven’t spoken to her since the bachelors party.’ That morning didn’t count. It was entirely possible she’d imagined the woman’s presence.

‘Good. Keep it that way.’ He pulled the cover back over the tray and secured it.

Hmm. Amy had mentioned their grandmother’s habit of employing potential partners for her family, but was the prospect of Sophia’s recruitment really that

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