A Summer to Remember(76)
Rihanna’s “Diamonds” began to play in the ballroom which signaled they’d ended their set early. This was certainly not acceptable to me because they were contracted to play for an hour and had barely lasted ten minutes.
I soon discovered why as Kaz made his way over to me. His blue-green eyes were heated and he looked thoroughly pissed off.
“Nice lead in on my birthday,” I greeted before I turned my back on him in a huff and continued to look out towards the ocean.
“I wasn’t singing it about you, Sydney. Everyone knows the song was written about my ex-wife so if you can’t take a joke then f*ck it.”
“You guys have a set to finish up,” I replied with a quick change of the subject.
“Hard to play for the guest of honor when she’s outside chillin’ on the deck of the ship…will you accompany me back inside so we can finish our set?”
I knew how silly and nonsensical I was being but there was just something about Kasper Gillian I found absolutely irresistible and the problem was what happened if this went beyond the realm of lust?
I wasn’t some naïve young woman who thought after a couple of days in the company of a world-famous, international selling rock star I was in love. It didn’t happen like that and true love could form rather quickly but right now, we both knew it was our hormones talking and how we felt had little to do with even our pheromones. It was just an instant type of attraction that happened between two people who enjoyed being feisty with one another and neither wanted to particularly give in but more often than not, Kaz acquiesced.
I hardly doubted he acted this way in a real relationship. Kaz and company was being paid mega-bucks to be nice to me and not “rock the boat” so to speak. He’d managed to keep that legendary temper of his in check and all I could think about was whether or not he was worth the time and energy of giving up my virginity to especially knowing what I knew.
Finally, I grabbed his hand and walked back inside with him. My behavior was childish and uncalled for and, both of us knew it.
Syd, you think too much, an inner voice told me, and I wanted to knock that bitch out for interfering with a plan I had so carefully mastered. I knew what I wanted and ending up as another notch on Kaz’s belt wasn’t it. However, as soon as I took my seat next to my best friends who were bopping their heads to Demi Lovato’s “Heart Attack” I knew I was instantly in trouble.
“What the hell happened to you?” Faith wondered in an irritated tone. “Jeez, they were just getting warmed up with ‘Cock Tease’ and you had to ruin it because of course they had to be singing the song about you.”
“It wasn’t like that. I just needed some air…I think I had too much champagne,” I offered as an excuse although I lifted my fluted glass of Dom Perignon and sipped from the delicious bubbly.
“You are such a bullshit artist,” Laurel responded before she shook her head with a mirthless yet mock-aggravation.
“You’re one to talk,” I murmured under my breath.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elle Chardou is a world traveler and author of several different series.
Ms. Chardou is the author of The Ties That Bind Trilogy, The Atonement Series, Seasons of Love & Lust, The Hart Family Saga, The Vamp Saga, The Supernaturals, The Undertow Trilogy, and Beginnings: Book I (The Plague) series.
She is currently working on Bleeding Love, a stand-alone novel, Only Time (The Atonement Series) and Immortal Dawn from The Vamp Saga series.
Ms. Chardou has lived abroad in Stockholm (Sweden), Manchester (England), Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. She currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.