One Hot Winter Break (Yardley College Chronicles Book 2) by Page Sharon

Author:Page, Sharon [Page, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The next day, Jonathon and I take a boat in to the main island to watch a cricket match, shop, and have dinner. Cricket is fascinating, I don’t understand all the rules about batting and runs and overs, but it’s tremendously fun to sip tea and eat scones while watching.

We stop for some of the famous Christmas treats, including slices of Black Cake, a fruit cake where the fruit is soaked in rum for weeks. Some people soak their fruit for a year. Rum is also drizzled on the cake, with more rum added to the remaining pieces after slices are served.

After my second slice, I am buzzed. We drink a rum drink that has cream and crushed ice, and is topped with nutmeg—kind of an island eggnog.

The brilliant sunshine makes it seem surreal to have Christmas coming. It helps take away the homesickness of not having Christmas Day with my mom. This was the first year Dad wanted to have me visit for the holiday—but of course, now I won’t be there.

Shopping on the main island makes me nervous. I have the exact opposite problem of what I had with Ryan. Ryan was hurt because he felt I’d assumed he couldn’t afford a gift. I guess I did think that, and I didn’t want him to spend money he would need for school.

Jonathon can have anything he wants and his own personal fortune continues to grow. What can I get him for Christmas? I have no money and can’t even dream of buying him something expensive that will dazzle him.

I’d love to get something meaningful, but would that be too much too soon? If there was a sex shop, I could get him a new spanking paddle or a set of handcuffs, but since getting spanked proved to be an emotional roller coaster, it might not be a good idea.

We split up for an hour since he says he has something to buy on his own. I chew my thumbnail. Is this where he buys my gift? Wearing a large hat, jean shorts and a tanktop, I stroll one of the main shopping streets. Beautiful, inviting stores lure me to stop and look in the windows.

There are gorgeous clothes. Sparkling jewels. Delectable edible treats. I see the price tag dangling from one jewel-encrusted clutch bag, which is in a locked four-tier glass case in the window. I swallow hard. It costs more than my entire first year at Yardley.

As I watch, a pretty saleswoman with a dark brown complexion and long braids highlighted with strands of pink unlocks the case and takes out the clutch. I watch it sail away. But really, what would I have done with something like that? Lock it away out of fear of losing it.

“See something you like?” Jonathon’s deep voice washes over me.

I turn to meet his sexy smile, and my heart stutters.

“There are some beautiful things. It’s fun to just look,” I say brightly. I feel out of place. My mom stayed with my stepfather for years because she didn’t think she could support both of us alone.

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