Romancing the Beach by A.M. Williams

Author:A.M. Williams [Williams, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Seven

Bethany

It was official. Scott was acting weird. Well, at least different from he had been. She’d noticed it while they were treading water together and again when she was on the deck with him. What was his deal?

Now that she’d picked up on some weird vibes from him, she’d kept an eye on him. She’d caught him looking at her more often than not. At first she thought it was because she had something wrong or a wardrobe malfunction.

But his looks weren’t malicious. They were, dare she say it, bordering on sweet? As the night progressed and people got drunker, stumbling over their words and feet, she paced herself, wanting instead to see what happened. She had gotten drunk the night before, so she wasn’t exactly feeling up to another night of sloppiness and questionable decisions.

Scott seemed to be of the same mind as her, nursing a beer for several hours. Eventually, she gave up on watching him from the corner of her eye and started to outright stare at him. Most everyone was on the back deck as the sun went down, painting the sky beautiful shades of red, orange, and pink.

There was dim light coming from inside and from the low lighting along the floorboards, but it wasn’t much to go on. So much of the deck was bathed in shadow, making it hard to distinguish people from one another until they spoke.

But she could pick Scott out with little issue. Not only was he wearing a white shirt, but she seemed to be tuned into him. He was leaning against the railing like earlier, commenting every so often on whatever conversation was going on around him.

She saw several of the women approach him, twirling their hair around their fingers and she was sure batting their eyelashes. But Scott didn’t react to any of them. He either remained silent or briefly responded, never quite giving in to their advances.

Each time a woman walked away without getting something from him, Bethany felt a small triumph. It was crazy how much her initial opinion of Scott had changed from yesterday’s introduction debacle.

He was definitely an ass, as evidenced by his no-holds barred approach to people in general. But there was something else about him that she’d been able to glimpse that morning and afternoon.

Her mind flashed back to when she asked him whether he had a girlfriend. Her heart had been pounding wildly, and she’d held her breath as she waited to see if he would answer or just walk off. To her surprise, he had answered. And then drained his beer. His short answer and that action told her more than anything else he could have said.

It would seem that like her, he might have been unlucky in love. However, unlike her, he seemed to have no shortage of women throwing themselves at him while she was the wallflower, never quite working up the nerve to go after someone she liked. And she was finally admitting that while that first impression hadn’t been great, she definitely liked Scott.

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