Take Me by Bella Andre

Author:Bella Andre [Andre, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Adult, Erotica, Chick-Lit, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781416509578
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Giggling like kids as they pulled Travis’s T-shirt down from the olive tree, they got their clothes back into some semblance of order and walked, arm in arm, back up the winding street to the hotel. Travis felt looser than he had in years, as if a huge weight had been taken away from him. He was tempted to fight the feeling—he had always kept firm control over any emotions that threatened to jumble his well-ordered life—but he decided this once to go with the flow. After all, this was Tuscany.

Living a little wouldn’t kill him.

The only blip in the perfect evening was upon their return to the hotel. He had been dreaming of tying Lily to the bedposts, but as soon as they walked into the room, she pulled her hand from his.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, more afraid than he wanted to admit about what she was about to say. This is a mistake or I take back what I said about us wanting to be lovers.

Instead she pointed to his suitcase. “I can’t believe I forgot all about that.”

Travis looked at his bag and then back at her. “Forgot about what?”

Anger flashing in her incredible blue orbs, Lily moved toward his bag and dumped the contents on the floor. “About these clothes! How dare you make love to me when you’re planning to meet another woman here. How could I forget for a single second that you’re a man with a lover on every street corner? I’m such an idiot.”

Lily’s voice broke, and Travis was shocked by her emotional volatility. She’d always been such a mouse, and now she was making him come on a regular basis and freaking out about everything. Why couldn’t things go right for once? Where Lily was concerned it was one explosion after another. And the worst part of it all was that Travis knew he was responsible for laying all the bombs in their path.

He could see how strong she was trying to be, but her lower lip was on the verge of trembling. He dragged her into his arms.

“I brought them for you,” Travis said, feeling more than a tad guilty about leaving off the fact that he only went to go pick up the clothes for Lily because he didn’t want her to walk around Italy with him in shapeless, colorless sacks.

Abruptly she stopped struggling in his arms, and he could see her weighing the truth of his words. “I stopped in at Janica’s studio before we left.”

Lily surprised the heck out of Travis by bursting into laughter. “You and Janica in the same room together? I can’t believe you don’t have scars all over your body. I mean,” Lily rambled on in a fit of giggles, “Janica really hates you.”

Travis forced a grin even though he was stung by Lily’s words. “No kidding. She was on the verge of cutting me into pieces with her massive scissors.” Forcing the words past the lump of guilt in his throat,

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