Heat Wave by Donna Hill

Author:Donna Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

“You can’t take your eyes off her, little big brother.”

Maleek shifted his eyes from watching Love across the patio as she animatedly talked to Ayannah’s hairstylist, Raoul. He looked down at his sister standing by his side. “Don’t you have something else to do but watch me all night?” he asked, only feigning any real irritation.

“Don’t you have anything else to do but eye-stalk Love all night?” Ayannah stopped a passing waiter and grabbed two mojito shots from his tray.

“You know I don’t drink,” Maleek said with a frown, crossing his muscled arms over his chest.

“Who said one was for you?” she asked with her usual sass before tipping one back.

Maleek chuckled. “I feel sorry for your husband.”

“Trust me, he ain’t sorry,” she said with a little belch.

“TMI.”

Ayannah nudged him with her shoulder. “Listen, why don’t you ask her—”

“She turned me down,” he said, shifting his unique eyes back to Love to find her eyes already on him. She licked her lips nervously before looking away.

“Nooo.” Ayannah gasped in shock.

Maleek took the other mojito from her hand gently, tossing the contents over his shoulder into the flora surrounding the patio area.

“You know I haven’t bought a Byron Bilton album since that freaky bastard embarrassed her like that,” Ayannah said.

Maleek’s eyes squinted deeply until his brows nearly touched. “Like what?” he asked, watching Love reach up to lightly touch the roses behind her ear.

As Ayannah filled him in on Love’s rocky marriage and tumultuous divorce playing out in the press, he finally understood her aversion to press and celebrity.

“It’s always been rumored that she found out about Byron’s cheating via a sex tape posted on some blog. The press hounded her bad in the days following the divorce. She pretty much stays out of the spotlight.”

The pain and shame he knew she must have endured filled him with a desire to protect her . . . and to beat the hell out of Byron Bilton!

Every time he was in her presence, he had to fight like hell not to just wrap her body in his arms and feast on her mouth. And he knew she felt it. He knew that everything brewing inside of him was gathering in her as well.

“She’s better than me.”

Maleek looked at his sister in question.

“When we were planning my wedding, I made this blasé comment about taking Lance’s ass to the cleaners if we divorced, and she told me with all this pride in her chin that she didn’t take a dime from her ex. She just wanted out. She didn’t want nothing from—”

Maleek didn’t hear the rest of his sister’s praise for Love. He was already striding across the patio in Love’s direction with his eyes locked on her. She looked up suddenly as if she felt his eyes on her, and then her pretty face filled with surprise and then question.

He smiled politely at the hairdresser. “Can I steal my event planner for a minute? I just had the greatest idea I want to run by her,” he said, already wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her away.

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