Take a Chance on Greece by Emily Kerr

Author:Emily Kerr [Kerr, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008542986
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Chapter Fourteen

That night, I lay awake in bed for a long time going over and over what had happened in the bookshop. Had I imagined it, or had Alexis and I nearly shared a Moment? I felt like there had been something between us, a charge in the air. Maybe the heightened emotion after my encounter with Already-married Andreas had confused me, or perhaps there was something more to it than that. After all, Alexis was the person I’d rushed to after that disturbing date, knowing instinctively that I would find comfort and safety with him.

Daylight alas did not bring with it clarity of thought, but as I lay in bed, I realised that there was only one person I wanted to spend my day off with. Before I lost courage, I rang Alexis asking if he’d like to go to the beach with me. After yesterday’s events, I felt quite shy extending the invitation. He’d been so kind since he’d rescued me outside the tattoo studio, but I couldn’t work out what he really thought about me. An insecure part of me still feared that he was acting out of a sense of duty, as if I was some kind of stray animal that he felt obliged to look out for.

But I could hear the smile in his voice as he enthusiastically responded. ‘I would be very happy to. I have not been to the beach much this summer. As my sister keeps telling me, I am spending too much time at work.’ He dropped his voice to a confidential tone. ‘But I don’t think she fully understands that when I am surrounded by books, it does not feel like work.’

‘If I worked in a bookshop, I’d spend the whole time reading.’

Alexis laughed. ‘That is pretty much what I do, which is why it doesn’t feel like work. Anyway, enough talk about my lack of business drive. Which beach would you like to go to?’

‘When I visited with the girls, we went to one on the other side of the island, I think it was called Myrtos beach? It was absolutely stunning, but I’d love to go to a beach closer to home. Is there a good one in the local area?’

‘I know just the place,’ promised Alexis. ‘It is only a short drive from town, and the water is unreal.’

Half an hour later, I was climbing into Alexis’s classic Mini and trying not to laugh at the sight of his tall frame folded into the driver’s seat. My attempts were not very successful.

Thankfully, Alexis’s eyes were also sparkling with amusement.

‘It is a shame the car does not have a sunshine roof for me to have more headspace,’ he said completely deadpan before he started chuckling at the thought. ‘Perhaps I should arrange for a hole to be cut in the roof.’

‘And you’d get your own air-conditioning system too,’ I joked.

His car may have been more suitable for someone of a much smaller stature than Alexis, but I soon realised why he must have chosen it.

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