The Swan by Aja

Author:Aja [Aja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Loves Words Publishing
Published: 2020-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter SEVEN

When Nova disembarked from the ship last month, she was still tender from their lovemaking. There were still days that just a glimpse of a memory would assail her and her core clenched as it remembered Mikhail stroking her body over and over. He had been an expert lover and great company.

She was also trying to figure out how to move on from it knowing there was no such thing as moving on when it came to him. After their first night together, they were inseparable. The next port found them much the same. They took a bus tour of Freeport and stopped at a restaurant where they ate jerk chicken and sipped on Carib beer.

They laughed with each other and had so much fun that even when they ran into Toya and her buddies from high school, they ignored her sneers and returned to Nova’s cabin to make love. She was on a high with him and didn’t want to come down. His attention and his sex were making her feel like she was catching up from a year's long drought.

But on the last night, as he held her whispering sweet nothings against her temple, reality started to sink in. There was absolutely no way they would return back to Chicago and continue this affair. Paradise was one thing; real life was another. In her mind, Mikhail would eventually figure out he had too many drinks and wouldn’t want to be seen with Nova the Scum.

So as he slept, she slipped out of his cabin. She rushed to pack so that she would be in the express departure to get off the ship. She’d never given him her number so there was no way for him to reach her. Nova did have his if she ever decided to reach out, which she knew she would want it, but would never actually do it.

Days later, Debbie was still trying to get all of the details. Nova only shared that Mikhail had, in fact, been on the cruise and that they were friendly now.

“Did anyone tease you like you were worried about?” She asked, her eyes big with curiosity.

“Nope, not one person had a bad thing to say.”

“See, I told you. Not that it was ever warranted back then, but girl, you got it going on today. No one can deny it.”

The part that had always bothered Nova was the fact that she was never scum. Sure, she had glasses and the occasional acne breakouts. Sure, her glasses were so thick that you could use them to burn ants on asphalt. But, she wasn’t atrocious, so she could never understand the issue.

“They are just jealous of you,” was what her mother would say. That explanation never sat right with Nova back then. It still didn’t.

What did they have to be jealous of? They were the ones that had everything she wanted at the time. Lots of friends, popularity, and the fashionable clothes.

Her parents worked hard to provide for her and

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