The Sweetheart Hoax by Hayes Christy

Author:Hayes, Christy [Hayes, Christy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Phil was gone when Margot woke up with the sun on her face. She smoothed her hand over the imprint his body had left on the bed and felt the chill all the way to her heart. Go to sleep, Margot, before I do something we’ll both regret. His words, the hungry longing she’d heard in every syllable, zipped like lightning through her already throbbing body. He’d wanted her. If he’d had her, if he’d given in to the desire that had thrummed between them the night before, he’d have regretted it. Not because his parents were in the next room, not because he’d taken advantage of a situation, but because it was her. His receptionist. His friend. The girl who’d done him a favor. And now, because she knew him so well, she knew he already had regrets for what almost happened between them.

She threw back the covers and let her legs dangle from the side of the bed. She didn’t hear any noise from anywhere in the house. If only she could click her heels three times and be back home in her room in Echo with nothing more to face than hours of study time and a walk along the beach. Because she couldn’t click her heels and go home, she got up and gathered her things from the suitcase and went to the bathroom for a shower.

The pipes groaned when she started the water and reminded her of the night before. Not only did she have to face Phil and his conscience, but his parents who thought they’d had sex in their guest room. What had she been thinking, bouncing on the bed like some adolescent schoolgirl playing tricks on adults? No wonder Phil thought of her as a child. It had started out so innocently, bouncing on the bed with the sound of his laughter in her ears. Until she’d gotten carried away and maybe, just maybe, she’d kept going just to show him she wasn’t a kid. To show him what he was missing, to show him she was a woman with desires and needs and that, yes, she liked sex and that having it would be fun and real and exciting.

She let the water hit her face and thought of her mother. She would be ashamed of Margot, luring a man to her bed and acting on her desire without a second thought to the consequences. Only Margot’s behavior was worse because she’d condemned her mother for doing the same and then turned around and did it herself. “Like mother, like daughter, mom,” she mumbled to herself. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

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The air smelled so achingly familiar, a mix of grass and dirt and clean. Phil ran along the dirt road surrounded by corn and the sound of a tractor in the distance. He could see the plume of dust it created along the edge of the horizon. It felt good to stretch his legs and his lungs after a long and sleepless night.

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