America's Geekheart by Grant Pippa

Author:Grant, Pippa [Grant, Pippa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Humour, Adult
ISBN: 9781940517513
Amazon: B07Q84P1LR
Goodreads: 53347356
Publisher: Bang Laugh Love LLC
Published: 2019-04-05T07:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

Sarah

I’ve barely finished a blog post about an upcoming meteor shower when Beck knocks on the office door.

Not that I’m surprised.

He doesn’t seem like he does well when he’s alone. And I don’t mind, because he’s remarkably easy to talk to.

About anything.

“Hey. You hungry?”

I push my computer back and just look at him.

Which isn’t a hardship, honestly. He gets more attractive with every little twist to his personality. If I weren’t biased against gorgeous men with thick dark hair and movie star blue eyes and easy grins and perfectly formed bodies—yes, including the ape arms—I’d probably call him hot.

Instead of a classy button-down or a polo, he’s lounging in a white Simpsons T-shirt. His jeans still look like they cost a million bucks and they fit his slim hips and hug his long legs perfectly—again, undoubtedly from his own fashion line—but he’s also barefoot, which adds exactly the right amount of realness to him.

And somehow, hearing that he hasn’t had many girlfriends adds even more to the appeal. I’m not usually so forward in talking about sex—not that I have a lot of opportunities, because guys are hardly banging on my door every day—but he was the one who brought up making out.

Multiple times now.

Like maybe he doesn’t care that I forget to get haircuts and I never wear makeup and I think of clothes as functional items for comfort and to prevent me from breaking indecency laws more than as fashion statements.

His lips twitch like he can’t stand the silence, and sure enough, within seconds, he’s talking again. Not that I mind. It’s just kinda amusing.

“It takes a lot of calories to look this good,” he says, as if he needs to explain why he’s hungry again.

“If I ate that many calories, I’d look like a blimp.”

“You work out?”

“Occasional yoga classes and tae kwon do four days a week. Except this week, because my dad went to check out the studio last night and had a fight with the grandmaster about the windows in the front of the building, and so I have to wait until my parents leave town and then send some kind of apology gift.”

“Isn’t martial arts above bribery?”

“Not when this particular grandmaster knows you have fresh local honey.”

“Your parents should meet my parents. They’ll trade baby pictures and stories for three days.”

“Do your parents know? About our agreement?”

He shakes his head.

“Beck. You have to tell your parents.”

He shakes his head harder.

“But—that’s so—cruel.”

“Would you tell your parents if they were normal people?”

“We wouldn’t be in this mess if my parents were normal people.”

“Sure we would.”

“No, we wouldn’t, because half the reason the world’s shipping us, or whatever you call it, is because they want the excuse to gossip about how you feel about the world speculating that my mom should be in rehab.”

He frowns. “Has your mom ever been in rehab?”

“Nope. But she disappeared to South Africa for three months one time when her career was crashing and let people think she was in rehab so that there’d be more attention and speculation when she came back.

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