THE CRITIC by Davis Dyanne

Author:Davis, Dyanne [Davis, Dyanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

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Fire ran rampant through her veins and she breathed as though each breath would be her last. She was falling in love with him and he was clueless. What did one do with a clueless man, she wondered?

Jared smiled a little as he laid Toreas’s paper on the table. “That’s very good, Toreas, a lot better than the stuff you wrote a couple of months ago. Do you want to read mine?” he asked and handed over his paper. For a moment she hesitated and Jared wondered if she would take the paper. He found himself suddenly hoping that she would.

Strawberries, that’s what she smelled like, fresh luscious strawberries. He’d had a taste of her lips and could still taste her on his tongue. He wondered what would happen when she let down her defenses, when he moved over her body the way that he wanted. He wondered if all of her tasted like fresh strawberries. He was taking it slow, waiting for permission. It had begun as a game but now it was much more. He wondered if she knew he was falling for her. He wondered if he told her if she’d think it was a line.

Jared watched Toreas as she read and saw the moment she knew it was about her. Her skin warmed with the heat of her embarrassment and she swiped at her luscious lips. He’d be willing to bet liquid was pooling in her nether regions. What he wouldn’t give to find out. But he’d learned his lesson. He would take it slower, he’d wait until she was ready to admit that things had changed.

“Toreas,” Jared called softly and waited for her to turn toward him. He saw the desire in her eyes, the hope that flared and died only to be replaced by fear. She still didn’t trust him or his motives. He decided to steer them both to safer ground. “How was it?” he asked.

“I liked it very much. I think you show a lot of promise.” Toreas looked down. “Your scene is a lot better than mine. Maybe we should change places. Maybe I should become the critic.”

“Are you going to enter the contest?” Jared asked, gazing tenderly at her, not wanting to revisit the days of him tearing into her group. Not wanting her to ask about his job.

“I’m not ready, Jared. Besides, that’s fifty bucks I don’t have.”

“If that’s the only thing stopping you…” He reached for his wallet.”

For the first time in a month Toreas’s head became crowded with voices. The choir was singing its head off.

“Don’t, Jared.” She wondered how he could not know a Baptist girl taking money from a man she wasn’t married to was practically a mortal sin.

He was staring at her in that way he had that told her he was laughing at her. She knew he thought her a prude in ugly clothing. A prude he didn’t mind kissing because he was forced into it by their nearness, but a prude he wasn’t attracted to.

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