Sinful Seduction_The Davies Family Book 1 by Ann Christopher

Author:Ann Christopher [Christopher, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Iris Press
Published: 2018-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Tears prickled the backs of Skylar’s eyes as she hobbled back toward the house, and they were the worst kind: hot and bitter, with a whole lot of anger thrown in. She didn’t waste time being angry with Sandro, though. Why bother? He hadn’t done anything other than be himself and display the sense of honor that she apparently lacked. She couldn’t very well fault him for being the kind of man who attracted her so strongly in the first place.

No. Despite what she’d told him, she was the problem here, not him. She was the one who’d saddled up and left Boston to come here, armed only with the lies that she could never quite believe.

What lies were those?

That her reasons for wanting to see him again weren’t personal.

That she needed to give him the paperwork relinquishing her share of the estate.

That she needed closure.

That she needed to make sure he didn’t blame her for Tony’s death.

All of it was wall-to-wall lies.

Oh, she’d given it her best, sure. Who didn’t embrace a little self-delusion from time to time? But the denial was played out, and she’d never been that good at it anyway.

Now was the time to face facts, whether she wanted to or not.

She’d come here because she needed to see Sandro again and determine, once and for all, whether she’d imagined or exaggerated the connection they’d felt the night they met. She’d needed to yank Sandro out from under her skin one way or the other, expel his face from her thoughts and rinse away the longing for him that thrummed in her blood.

How hard could it be, right? What man, upon closer examination, was that fascinating? Surely spending a little more time with him would be the psychological equivalent of roach spray: he’d act like an idiot, maybe, or reveal himself to be a complete jerk, her bubble would burst, she’d get him out of her system and she’d return home to Boston free of his haunting shadow once and for all.

Except that that was more bullshit, wasn’t it, Skylar?

Bullshit at a deeper, subtler level, true, but still bullshit.

There was only one truth here, and she’d known it since the night she arrived.

She was in love with him.

Utterly, desperately and unhappily in love with him.

It didn’t make sense, and it wasn’t neat and pretty, but there didn’t seem to be anything she could do about it. If she had any success diverting her feelings, Lord knew she wouldn’t be here in the Hamptons right now.

What was it about him that touched her so deeply? Was it his quiet strength? His sense of humor? His streak of tenderness that he tried so hard to hide?

She stumbled down the boardwalk, the escalating wind making her eyes stream harder and her leg ache. Was she actually this stupid? Had she actually told him that she wouldn’t give up on him?

Way to surrender the keys to the kingdom, girl. Nice job.

But…

On the beach with him just now… She’d thought… She’d seen…

Lust, yeah.

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