Summer Sparks by Kris Pearson

Author:Kris Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: beach vacation, secret baby, enemies to lovers, sizzling romance, secret relationship, new zealand romance, finding someone special, love at the beach, wealthy heroine, international holiday

CHAPTER 12 – CONFESSIONS

“I smelled the beer this morning,” she agreed.

“Shit,” he said, stroking his hands down her arms and back up again. “I shouldn’t have mentioned that. He’s still good at what he does.”

She managed a sad smile. “You don’t get on with him, and yet you defend him?”

Jason’s shoulders rose and fell. “I hate him. I owe him nothing. But he’s all the family I have.”

Her smile faded. “All you know about, anyway. Are you still in touch with your mother?”

“A couple of birthday cards with ‘love from Mum’ on them, fifteen years ago. No news about her life, no questions about mine.” He raised his chin and stared straight ahead. “Then Dad sold the house and moved, and if there were any more, I didn’t get them.”

Anna laid her face against his chest again, trying not to think of her own lost child, but failing horribly. “You might have younger sisters or brothers. Your mother may be really sad she’s lost touch with you.”

His hands clutched her close against him, and that desperate grip was almost painful.

“She could have looked us up any time she wanted.” The coldness in his tone told Anna he’d longed for that contact. “I have a website so I’m searchable. Even Trev has a basic one so he can chase jobs. We’re not hard to find. She knows our names.”

Anna looked up, watching as he made a visible effort to soften his expression before changing the subject. Her child didn’t know her name. There was no way he or she could search for her and find her, if they even wanted to.

“What about the others?” she asked. “Mei and Kieran seem like a couple?”

“Yep - although her parents are dead against it. They want a Chinese son-in-law.”

“Hard…”

“Lockie has a little daughter, and a son on the way.” He cleared his throat. “Cam and I…” He shrugged.

“Aren’t ready to settle down,” Anna supplied.

He bent and nuzzled the side of her neck, teasing her with open-mouthed kisses that ran down to the edge of her T-shirt and back up again, making her shiver with pleasure. “Not yet,” he said. “Things to finish.”

She nodded slowly, considering them. Jason was as solitary a man as she’d ever met, driven by bitterness as much as ambition. What she’d gained from Cam’s breezy comments about himself put him forever on the move with multiple women on the menu, none of whom really mattered. Two restless souls - and was she really any better? Working hard, even here, when she should be on holiday. Forever trying to make up for something that could never be fixed. No prospect yet of a special person or any shared future. No expectation of finding one, if she was honest.

Jason stroked her hair. “I loved your singing,” he said, breaking the silence that had fallen between them. “What else will you do?”

She sighed. “Something folksy, maybe. Then everyone could join in.” She tried to keep her voice steady because his distress had affected her more than she wanted him to know.

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