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Levi gaped at me. “What are you—”
“Oh sorry,” I giggled, the sound high-pitched and annoying to my own ears as I interrupted him. “I didn’t mean to embarrass you by talking about our hook up this afternoon.”
“You slept withher?” the blonde woman asked as I looped my arm through Levi’s and stroked his chest with my hand.
“Oh, don’t be jealous, honey,” I said, giving her a sweet smile. “It was over so fast that it hardly counted as sex for me.”
The woman looked shocked and enraged at my words, and I silently celebrated my effectiveness in ruining what was probably a sure thing for him. But when I turned to look at Levi again, I didn’t see the embarrassment I was hoping for in his facial expression. There was only mild amusement at my antics.
My payback was a bust.
CHAPTER2
Levi
Summer Hendrix had always been impulsive, and I assumed that trait fueled this crazy antic of hers. I knew she was trying to get under my skin, but I didn’t care one bit. Once I processed that she was somehow here on this island with me, I was just amused by her drunken act. I knew she wasn’t really wasted. I’d seen her that way enough times in the past to be able to tell the difference.
But if she thought she was going to embarrass me with this act, she was wrong. I didn’t get embarrassed that easily.
“You know, you’re right,” I said, putting an arm around her shoulders. Summer stiffened and looked up at me with wide green eyes. “But if you give me another chance, I’d be happy to show you that I can go for hours.”
There was laughter from some of my coworkers that were standing around us. They might not know about the complex history between the two of us, but they all knew me well enough to recognize the teasing in my voice.
Summer was less than amused. Letting out a huff, she shot me a dirty look as she shoved my arm off of her.
“Jerk,” she mumbled before turning on her heel and leaving with her head held high, dropping her drunk act.
I guess that didn’t go the way she wanted.
Watching Summer stomp away, I also saw Amanda frown out of the corner of my eye, but I didn’t pay much attention to that. I’d slept with her once about a year ago, and she was just hanging all over me because she was trying to get me into bed again while we were here on a work retreat. Amanda was hot, but she didn’t mean anything to me and I had no intentions of hooking up with her again.
Summer was a different story. Just seeing her again knocked me on my ass and chased thoughts of all other women from my mind.
I kept my eyes on her, shamelessly letting my gaze trail down to her ass, which looked amazing in her swimsuit. She didn’t get the reaction she clearly wanted out of me, but she did get my attention. She hadn’t been far from my mind over the last three years, but I truly thought I’d never see her again.
Turns out that I was wrong.
“So, are you going to fill us in? Who was that?”
I turned back to my coworkers, blinking as I tried to focus on the people around me instead of the woman that had always managed to captivate my attention. Keith, my boss and close friend, was watching me with a slight smile and raised eyebrows.
“Uh...just an old friend,” I said, knowing that my explanation didn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the history between me and Summer. “I’m shocked to see her here, to be honest.”
No more questions were asked, and the topic of conversation shifted back to our plans for the week. This was supposed to be a team building work retreat, and that meant participating in daily activities while we were on the island that were supposed to somehow make us function better as a team, something that was incredibly important in the field of video game design.
I’d only been working for VisiGames for about two years, so this was my first time going on a work trip like this. It seemed a little silly to me, but who was I to pass up five days on a tropical island? Besides, Keith wanted me to come, and I owed the man for getting me this job in the first place. Being a team player was the least I could do for him.
But I didn’t participate much in the conversation now. Seeing Summer stirred up a ton of memories and emotions that served to thoroughly distract me. I never thought that the two of us would become strangers like this, enemies even, and I fucking hated it.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I barely paid attention as the group decided to leave and head back to our hotel. I just followed Keith to his rental car on autopilot, my mind replaying that brief interaction with Summer and picking up on things that I didn’t fully register due to the shock of seeing her.
Like how long her dark hair had gotten. The last time I’d seen her, it had been cut above her shoulders.
Or the small tattoo of a feather on her inner wrist. Small and sexy.
The hatred in her eyes as she looked at me. That was new too.
Damn it.
