Seagrove Secrets by Melissa Chambers

Author:Melissa Chambers [Chambers, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perry Evans Press
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Chase watched Shayla and Marigold at the bar, two guys in their forties hitting on them. They were probably married, here with their families from Memphis or Birmingham, getting off on two hot, younger girls paying them attention…locals at that. Shayla had opened up her body, leaning against the bar with her elbows up on it, looking chiller than Easy Rider.

Marigold was egging it on as usual. She’d been keeping them all laughing, flirting with both guys shamelessly while Shayla just smiled and watched, the guys watching her. He could only imagine the fantasies these two dads were having about her, what they thought about doing to her body, what they imagined her doing to them while their wives sat back at their rented houses on the beach watching Magic Mike with the sound turned down while the kids slept. Every bit of the thought made him sick at his stomach.

“Right Chase?” Desiree said.

“Hmm? Yeah.” They all busted out laughing. “What?” he asked looking between his friends.

“She said you liked to wear your tutu when you sing songs from Annie on the roof of your house,” Ashe said, and they all broke out in laughter.

“Honey,” Sebastian said, putting his hand on Chase’s back. “I’ve known you a while now, and I’ve never seen that look in your eye.”

Heat rose up to his ears. “I don’t have a look.”

Ashe raised his wine glass. “Oh, yeah you do.”

“I’m fine. I’m just looking around.”

“So what’s the scoop with Shayla?” Sebastian asked. “It will not leave this table.” Sebastian gave the other two a stern look, and they both pretended to lock their mouths.

“There’s no scoop,” he said, looking over at her. “In fact, she shut my ass down in no uncertain terms just a little while ago, before the fab forty club honed in over there.”

“Oh, man. That’s tough,” Ashe said.

“How exactly did she shut you down?” Desiree asked, leaning in with her chin resting on her threaded fingers.

Chase scratched his neck. “I don’t know.”

Desiree lifted an eyebrow.

“All right. Well, she said I was a womanizer, basically.”

“Any truth to that?” Ashe asked. “I’m just asking.”

Chase let out a huff of air, “It’s true I haven’t had a relationship in a while.”

“How long’s a while?” Desiree asked.

Chase met her gaze. “A while.”

“Why do you think that is?” she asked without judgement, but still.

He looked around the place. “What is this, a therapy session?”

Sebastian put his hand on the table. “Yes, and it’s free. Take advantage.”

Chase rolled his eyes. “I’ve got some issues, I guess.”

“Were you hurt before?” Desiree asked.

Chase thought about the night his brother showed up on his doorstep. The desperation that consumed him when he gave them the news. The look of pure horror on Rachel’s face.

“Yeah.”

“Did she cheat on you?” Ashe asked.

Chase thought about Rachel’s Facebook page, her perfect, four-person family, the child she had so soon after they’d lost theirs. The betrayal.

“Yeah.”

Desiree walked around the table and took Chase into her arms. This was not the time or the place to let any emotion out.

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