Waves of Passion: Contemporary Romance (Holidays Beach Read Book 3) by Mitchell Lori Ann

Author:Mitchell, Lori Ann [Mitchell, Lori Ann]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Derek

Angel sat, sipping her Greek beer, long legs crossed and glossy in the setting sun. “This is new for me,” she sighed, before plopping a Kalamata olive between her sensuous, plum-colored lips.

Derek laughed. “What is… rejection?”

“Yes,” she laughed, but there was a bite to her laughter, rendering it joyless, and bordering on bitter. “I’m honestly flustered by this recent turn of events.”

“You don’t look flustered to me,” Derek chortled.

“But I am,” she insisted. “I’ve brought out all the big guns: Red wine, sexy negligee, exotic perfumes, every hint, twist and come on known to man, and still you resist.”

“I’ve been there,” he said, eyes automatically flitting to his cell phone, silent and still on the wicker table.

“Who, with Sage?”

Derek snorted, to hear his lover’s name on Angel’s tongue so often. They truly were a dysfunctional pair. “She kept me at bay just long enough for both of us to realize it was more than just lust when we finally hooked up.”

“So that’s the secret, huh?” Angel waved her empty beer bottle at the waiter, a swarthy type with an olive complexion and black stubble on his athletic head. He winked and went to get her another. “You hold out past the ‘I want to tear your clothes off every minute’ phase until you get to the ‘I want to grow old and die with you’ phase?”

Her tone made it clear she didn’t consider the exercise an altogether appealing one.

He smirked. “That’s the general idea, yes.”

“If that’s how you court in Florida,” she sighed, “remind me never to move to Florida. Or even visit there!”

They were at their favorite new place, Pita’s, a small Greek café just off campus. They had several tables out front and after a long day of teaching, they liked to sit and unwind, sipping Greek beer and dipping baked pita crusts into homemade lemon hummus.

It seemed inconceivable to him that he could sit across from someone so beautiful, tempting and willing as Angel and not even feel the slightest urge to cheat on Sage. He’d been there, done that, and his dalliance with young Colby had left him scarred for life. Seeing the hurt in Sage’s eyes, hearing it in her voice, seeing the tears – tears that he’d caused – rolling down her face, felt to Derek like a hot stove he’d touched once and feared ever going near again.

It amused him that Angel kept trying, though less and less each time they hung out. It had become a regular event, between binge watching their favorite vampire series on NetFlix in his dorm suite or sipping wine by candlelight in hers, there wasn’t an evening that had gone by where they hadn’t spent at least a little time together.

And yet, despite her half-hearted come-ons and bedroom eyes and sexy negligee and absolutely stunning, flawless and available body, Derek was more than content to slip back to his room at night and text Sage until they both grew drowsy and drifted to sleep. Was he

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