holding it in front of her face. “I like the Adonis belt, I guess…”
That gives me pause. “The fuck lines, eh? That’s pretty raunchy, Olive.”
She moves her book to the side and shoots me a glare. “You are a terror. I don't even know why I’m still sitting here and putting up with this… this inquisition.”
My grin widens. “Who’s the best sex you’ve ever had? Hmm? Who just totally blew your stack?”
She goes bright red in an instant, glancing away. She drops the book, but she won’t look anywhere near me. “Ummm…”
I grin. Reaching out to touch her bare knee, I rib her a little. “Come on, you can tell me.”
She looks back at me, her blue eyes full of mortification. “You’re going to make fun of me.”
“Me? No.” I shake my head. “Scout’s honor, I won’t.”
Olivia looks like she’s about to die. “You go first.”
I have one already lined up. “Easy. When I went to Amsterdam, I did a ton of mushrooms and got crazy with a girl in my hostel. It was four hours of intense awesomeness… followed by her rushing to leave. She had a flight to catch, I guess.” I laugh. “Now it’s your turn.”
Red as a tomato, she forces her gaze down and mumbles. “I’ve never… umm… done more than kiss?” Her voice drops to a whisper. “I’m a… um… a virgin.”
“Bullshit.” My answer is instantaneous, bursting past my lips unheeded. There is just no way that anyone could look like Olivia does and still be untouched. “That is one hundred percent a huge fucking lie.”
She shoots to her feet, looking mad. “You’re a jerk.”
I’m still giving her my most suspicious eye. Is she being for real?
Shoving her book back in her tote bag, Olivia yanks her tote from the sand and storms off.
“Hey,” I call after her. She doesn’t even pause. “Olivia!”
She stalks off, heading across the road. I sit back in the sand, marveling over what she just told me.
Olivia’s a virgin?
No way.
My cock hardens, just thinking about what it would be like to plow that maidenly field.
How amazing her pale skin would look under my deeply suntanned hands.
The sounds she would make.
Knowing that I would be the first man to make her cum…
I sit on the beach as dusk falls around me, wondering what it would be like. And I know full well I can never, ever be the man who takes her v-card…
Still, a guy can dream, can’t he?
Chapter Eleven
Olivia
“Hey.”
I glance up from a mountain of papers that I am meticulously cataloguing in a notepad. I’ve dragged a table and a folding chair into the ballroom, and begun sifting through the stacks of paper, discarding the things I’m sure are trash.
The stacks on the table in front of me are high enough that I have to push onto my tiptoes to see Aiden. He’s lounging in the doorway, looking as handsome as ever. My cheeks instantly begin to burn.
The other day on the beach, I stormed off without so much as a backward glance. And yet here he is, in low slung blue jeans and a white tee shirt, looking unrepentant. I feel like such a fool, not just for admitting that I am a virgin, but for leaving like I did.
Yet he seems unworried. Am I supposed to read into that?
“Um.” I step around the table I’m using as my desk. Now there are only twenty or so stacks of books and papers between us, and none so tall as what is on my desk. “Hey.”
“This is a lot of stuff,” he comments, looking around at all the neatly organized stacks I’ve created.
Clearing my throat, I try to decide how to answer. I take a minute, working off the lightweight linen gloves I had on to protect the documents. “Yes, it is a lot. I’m starting from the oldest papers and working my way to the future. It’s proving to be interesting work.”
He nods, looking around. “You weren’t kidding about the ballroom thing. It’s like Beauty and The Beast in here, except all dusty and stuff.”
I turn, looking toward the wall of windows. Like everything in the ballroom, the windows are all done up in elaborate gold filigree and heavy royal blue drapes. However they are mostly broken and boarded up.
“It could use some work,” I sigh. “Like almost everything in this house. Margaret keeps everything downstairs in good repair, but I don’t think the second or third floors have got much attention over the years. It’s been quite a