The Beach House by Rochelle Alers

Author:Rochelle Alers [Alers, Rochelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Leah smiled as she turned into the driveway to Derrick’s beach house to find the garage door open. When she’d called to tell him she was on her way, he told her he would leave it open for her to pull her car in. She maneuvered next to his Highlander, shut off the engine, and got out. She picked up the container with dessert off the seat and a bouquet of flowers in a colorful hand-painted vase from the floor behind the second row of seats, leaving a baking sheet covered with flour-rubbed dish towels over unbaked Parker House rolls on the passenger-side seat.

Earlier that morning she’d driven into town and purchased the flowers from a shop on Main Street. She hadn’t had the ease of driving around on the island last summer because as a tourist she was given a vacationer permit to park in designated lots, allowing her to get around the island either on foot, bicycle, or jitney. There was an island-wide ordinance that vacationers were not permitted on local roads because it led to congestion and impacted the quality of life. She planned to talk to Kayana about getting her a resident sticker, because after all she would be living in the upstairs apartment through the tourist season.

The door leading from the garage opened, and she went still when Derrick came down the stairs to meet her. He’d covered his white shirt and dark slacks with a bibbed apron. Whenever she recalled the taste and feel of his mouth on hers every nerve in her body tingled; and when she remembered writhing against him she was unable stop the waves of shame attacking her when she least expected it. He had to know that he had aroused her as she had him. And once she’d felt his erection pushing against her thighs she’d wanted to beg him to make love to her. Her body had been on fire, and even after she’d finished cleaning up and retreated to the apartment, the need to assuage what had been years of sexual drought was stronger than ever.

Using a vibrator to relieve the buildup of sexual frustration had become a temporary reprieve as an alternate to sexual intercourse. Inasmuch as she’d told Derrick how long it had been since she’d had sexual relations, she did not want him to think she was using him replace what she should have had with her husband.

However, whenever she looked back on her relationship with Alan, Leah knew she hadn’t been a prisoner, that she could have taken her children and left him. There was no doubt she would’ve been facing a long and costly legal battle to retain full custody of her sons, yet she would have been willing even to share custody with Alan if it meant being rid of him.

But fear and intimidation from her husband and mother-in-law had stripped her of any modicum of self-confidence as they manipulated her life from sunrise to sunset. The few times she’d

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