Unexpected Interruptions by Trice Hickman

Author:Trice Hickman [Hickman, Trice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, African American, Contemporary Women, Romance
ISBN: 9780758285843
Google: AjvsNYYytZoC
Amazon: B00AAZTDBC
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2013-01-01T10:10:51+00:00

Right Here. Right Now. Today...

Parker threw his keys on the coffee table. “Okay, what’s wrong?”

“You know what’s wrong.”

“Victoria, it was nothing. She just came over to say hello.”

“Oh, really? Since when does a casual hello involve touching and rubbing? I saw you two laughing like you were at a Chris Rock concert.”

“You’re overreacting.”

“Parker, she was openly flirting with you, and you let her.”

“No she wasn’t.”

“Yes, she was. She was touching you like you two were together.”

Parker walked over to Victoria and led her to the couch. “She came up to me to say hello, but there was no flirting going on, just conversation. She put her hand on my chest when she told me a joke, and I laughed because what she said was funny. It was an innocent gesture. I even told her that you and I were there together.”

Victoria looked at him closely, trying to determine if she should believe him. She wondered how Parker could exercise such strong self-control during their heavy petting sessions, yet couldn’t manage to remove Sheila’s hand from his chest tonight, or disengage her obvious flirtation. Victoria’s head began to throb.

Over the last month she had come to realize that Parker was one of the most decent men she’d ever met, but she also knew that he was, or at least had been, a ladies’ man. In the back of her mind, she replayed the pictures of the women in his photo album. She wanted to trust him, but how could she believe a self-professed Casanova? And then there was Pamela, the one who had moved to Atlanta to be near him. Victoria had questioned Parker about her, but he’d insisted that his relationship with the woman was a thing of the past.

What Victoria didn’t know was that Pamela was still very interested in him, and had only stopped calling two months ago after their last sexual rendezvous. Parker had realized that sleeping with her had been a big mistake, so he decided that it was time to cut all ties with her and put a permanent end to their on-again-off-again relationship.

Victoria couldn’t shake the fact that a part of her felt insecure even knowing that Pamela lived somewhere near. All those thoughts, combined with the scene tonight, were feeding into her insecurities. She didn’t want things with Parker to end up as they had with Steven. No repeats!

“How would you have felt if you walked up to me and I was canoodling with someone you’d seen me with in the past?”

Parker shook his head. “I wasn’t canoodling. I don’t even know what that means.” He looked at Victoria and felt her distrust. “Baby, I have absolutely no interest in Sheila.”

“You know my history, and you know what happened to me in my last relationship. I have to know that I can trust you in order for this to work. Letting Sheila fawn over you like that, touching you, letting her whisper in your ear . . . that doesn’t instill trust.”

As soon as Sheila approached Parker, he’d felt uneasy.

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