The Escape Clause by Bernadette Marie

Author:Bernadette Marie [Bernadette Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Goodreads: 24835945
Publisher: 5 prince Publishing
Published: 2015-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Champagne was chilling in a silver bucket. The bubbles from the crystal flute she held to her lips tickled her nose.

Sea air blew through her hair and the late afternoon sun on her skin warmed her.

Laughter from people on the deck filled her ears. The thought that her mother had taken a yacht out into the French Rivera, or the Côte d'Azur, as she’d been corrected, humored her. It was unbelievable to her that her mother could drive a yacht, or a boat of any kind, and that she’d left Avery’s father there to get home on his own.

Knowing the love they had her mother must have seriously doubted what was to be.

Was she afraid of losing everything? Did she second-guess their affair?

Avery sipped from her glass. Her mother had been very open about that time. She’d wanted the affair to be true love, but she was sure it was only sex. Though, she was sure it was sex for her and a relationship for him.

Avery wasn’t sure, sometimes, if it was good to know all her parents’ secrets. Perhaps that came with being an only child.

She let the sun soak her face with warmth as she thought about her mother living like this every day—shopping, lunching, yachting, and spa-ing. Hadn’t Avery dreamed of this her whole life? Her grandfather was making it a reality. She hadn’t done much but toured facilities since she’d been there. There had been no work done on her part to earn what she was given. Was it possible it would all be too much in the end?

“Perhaps more sunscreen for you,” Marcus sat down in the lounge adjacent to hers, his body turned to sit facing her.

“Am I burning up?”

He opened the bottle in his hand and squirted the white lotion into the palm of his hand.

“Come. Sit up now,” he instructed.

Avery did as he said, turning her back to him. She felt his hands press to her skin and she held her breath.

She missed the touch of a man. Something like this was very intimate, she thought as he slid his hands over her shoulders and down her arms.

“Your skin is very hot. Perhaps we should go in and lie down.”

Avery realized her mouth had gone dry as Marcus moved to her lounge and sat next to her.

He trailed a finger down her arm. “I can make you a nice drink inside.”

She sucked in a breath as Marcus reached his hand to her cheek.

“I make you uncomfortable.”

“I wasn’t expecting this.”

Marcus smiled. He lifted his glasses to the top of his head and let his deep, dark eyes lock onto hers.

“Why not? We have been attracted to each other since I accompanied you from Nashville.”

“Is that so?”

“Do not play games with me, Avery. I know you have thought about this.” He moved in closer to her and pressed his lips to hers firmly.

Every muscle in Avery’s body began to shake. This wasn’t what she wanted, was it?

The captain came on the deck walking toward Marcus.

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