Unconditionally Mine by Nadine Gonzalez

Author:Nadine Gonzalez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-04-26T14:32:41+00:00

Chapter 15

The extended-stay suite had a kitchenette with a window overlooking the courtyard. Banana trees hung limp, their leaves more yellow than green and heavy with the night’s rain. Beyond the hotel walls, the neighborhood was waking to the relentless crowing of large red roosters. For Sofia, it was like waking up in La Vega, the town in the Dominican Republic that her father was from and where she and Miguel had spent their summers growing up.

Today, they’d be heading home. Sofia breathed in the fresh salt air and realized that life in the Keys was very much what people imagined life in Miami to be. Miami had its welcoming outer shell, consisting of tropical weather and a party vibe. Its core, though, was tough and inhospitable. Jon had lived all over the world, but Sofia couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. For all its flaws, Miami was home. Jon could pack up and leave at any time. True, he’d bought a house. But what were houses if not investments? Hadn’t Leila made that clear? The house was an asset. Something he could sell, bank the money and move on.

Sofia pushed those thoughts out of her mind. She filled a moka pot with water, spooned ground coffee into the basket and placed it on the electric burner. The closest she ever came to meditation was when standing watch over her Nespresso machine. This simple stainless steel pot was primitive compared to her top-of-the-line coffeemaker, and waiting in quiet anticipation for it to boil over with fresh brewed coffee was a nice change.

She heard Jon stumble around in the bedroom. Last night, their last in Key West, they’d had dinner at a restaurant overlooking the water. They’d discussed politics over a world-class seafood meal. Then they taxied over to Better Than Sex where they shared a decadent dessert and licked unctuous chocolate off the backs of their spoons and talked about global warming. They ended the evening with a nightcap at The Rum Bar and walked back to the hotel at two in the morning. Hand in hand, they strolled past strings of A-frame houses painted Easter egg colors. Sofia had rolled onto their bedroom floor, doubling over with laughter at a story the bartender had told them. She flopped onto her back, the hem of her skirt fanning out over the wood floor. Jon stretched out next to her and the look in his eyes, a most adoring look, had sobered her up in a flash.

“It’s our last night,” she’d said.

At last, it was time to talk about the one topic they’d avoided all evening.

“Our last night here,” he said.

She shook her head from side to side. “I like it here. I don’t want to go back.”

He crawled over her, trapped her hips between his knees. “We can fake our own deaths and stay here forever, like the bartender’s girlfriend.”

Sofia burst into laughter again. “Wasn’t that the craziest thing?”

“Is there anything you want on our last night?” he asked.

Emboldened by the free spirit of Key West, Sofia had reached between his legs and grabbed what she wanted.

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