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I stand up before I changetoa kiith rather more force than it probably warrants

“You’re in the big roo overdeflated

I barely see her for the rest of the day I spend the afternoon o back to the kitchen, looking for food There’s no sign of Jenny, but there’s a covered plate of chicken salad with a sticky note withI haven’t eaten since breakfast, then hang around for a while wondering where in the house she is, or if she’s gone out I go into the lounge and try to watch son of Jenny In the end I go back to et into bed and lie there, staring at the ceiling, fighting the growing need to go and find her, claim her and make her mine

Chapter Five

Jenny

After Alex goes upstairs I finishsory at all I feel slightly nauseous in fact

I’ve blown it I should have told hiirl playing gaain Part of me wonders if it orth it, to at least have theA taste of hih I want it all

Especially now that I knoants me too, and that is exactly why I didn’t tell him Because of the look in his eyes when he caaze swept over my body and his eyes went dark with desire To have him look at me like that is all of my adolescent dreahter, but as the wory for h I was the only woman in the world…until he discovered e in his perception of hter

And yet…can he really forget just like that? He’s just being noble, out of loyalty to ly, that justthat he has a conscience and isn’t just some kind of playboy

I finish staring at o back down to my cove, I always think of it as my place, and watch the ocean for a while I text Dad to let hi that I’ hi the secret I’uess he’s angry atposition, and I can’t really bla the only chance I hter of his friend

Before I leave I plate up another salad and leave it for him I mean it siht be too polite to help hi of pleasure that I’h I’vewhat one kiss can do

I wander down to the cove, walking through the dunes down a path that you don’t see until you’re almost upon it It leads out to a tiny beach enclosed by cliffs The sand is almost white and the sea azure blue, and it’s empty of all other life I’ve seen dolphins here before I sit near the ocean itself and wait until the tide creeps in and is lapping at my toes The water is alet up early in the ood way to burn some of this frustration off at any rate

The plan is to watch the fourth of July fireworks from here, me, my Dad and Alex It would have been a beautifulto be aard