Page 53 of Sweet Heat at Bayside
“Do youdoubtit?” He snagged an apple and bit into it, chuckling as he chewed.
“Drake! This isn’t funny. What if other people,paying resort customers, heard us?”
He hauled her against him and pressed his lips to hers. “Then I’d say they got their money’s worth.”
“Forget your deck. From now on, we’re sleeping at my place.” At least there they’d have privacy.
“Until your lease runs out.”
She rolled her eyes as she pushed to her feet. “I have to go home and get clean underwear before I meet the girls.”
“Let’s go.” He stood up and grabbed his keys. “And let’s bring some of your clothes over, so if we do stay here, you’re not stuck going pantiless around other guys.”
“You’re coming? Don’t you have to work?”
“I’m taking a few hours off with my girlfriend,” he said, surprising her. Drake hardly ever took time off. “Unless you’d rather go alone?”
She went up on her toes and kissed his lips. “Heck no. I’m alone every night in Boston. That’s more than enough.”
“Good. Now let’s talk about your shopping list.”
“Shopping list?”
“For the toy-shop detour.”
Oh my…
SERENA AND THE girls weaved around tourists streaming in and out of an array of galleries, eclectic shops, and restaurants on their way to the boutique for Desiree to try on her wedding dress.
“So, you’ll just see each other on the weekends?” Emery asked. She and Chloe badgered Serena for the scoop on her and Drake as they hurried along Commercial Street in Provincetown.
Serena and Drake had started out as such close friends, it felt like they’d been a couple for much longer than they had. It was a little jarring for her to realize this was the first weekend her friends would see them acting like a couple. That made her acutely aware of everything she said and of the immensity of her feelings toward him.
“Yes. Did I tell you about my teammates?” Serena kept trying to change the subject to work, the inn, yoga,anythingother than her and Drake, but they kept circling back to them.
“Stop with work already,” Chloe said. “We want details about your love life, which I might remind you, you haven’t had in averylong time.”
“No sexy details, please,” Mira said as she tried to keep pace with one hand beneath her belly, as if she could make it lighter. “My son nearly got an eyeful this morning.”
“He did not!” Serena insisted. “We were just lying there, and we were totally covered up.”
“On amattresson hisdeck,” Emery pointed out.
“How doyouknow?” Serena glared at Mira.
Mira held her hands up. “Don’t look at me. Thank goodness we weren’t out catching fireflies in the middle of the night.”
“Mira didn’t spill the beans,” Emery said. “I have eyes. I was on my way to the inn to teach my early class this morning and I saw something on his deck. A closer look showed me two pairs offeettangled up in sheets.”
Desiree gasped. “Seriously? Right there above the office? I thought I was risqué being naughty in the crow’s nest at the inn.”
“You’re still learning how to spell risqué, sis,” Violet said as they maneuvered around a family sitting on the front steps of a bakery, eating delicious-looking pastries.
“Serena, you and Drake werenakedon hisdeck?” Chloe went wide-eyed. “And this is the firstI’mhearing of it?”
“We weren’t naked!” she lied. “At least not this morning when Mira saw us.” Geez, this was embarrassing. How could she joke about sex so easily when it was other people’s love lives under the microscope?
“Trust me. You would haveheardlast night had you been within a five-hundred-foot radius.” Violet flashed a satisfied smirk.
