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I buried my hands in her hair, ran my fingers against the silky threads. She was drenched in filtered light under the trees, all slender limbs and sharp angles and white skin. Those eyes that drowned me. “You’re my sun,” I told her.
She stomped her foot, but she was laughing. “Fine. Kiss me then, at least.”
“I’ve got a class in thirty minutes,” I said hoarsely. Did she even know what she was doing to me, simply by standing there and letting me hold her? My breath was coming short.
“It will only take a second,” she said, lifting her mouth up to be kissed.
I was a lost man. “You know I won’t be able to stop,” I said, lowering my lips to hers.
I missed my class, of course. And the next two. Totally worth it.
…
“Look at him, he’s almost falling asleep on his feet.” A voice brings me to reality. Right. I’m in Corfu. The tour starts tomorrow. Spencer’s girl is talking.
“Sorry,” I say. “Not sleeping, just… in my head.”
We set off for a specific taverna in Porta Remounda. We sit down in the thick shade of the sycamore trees and Spencer orders in fluent Greek. As soon as the waiter disappears inside, the most mouth-watering aromas fill my nostrils. It finally hits me how much every single muscle hurts and how ravenous I am.
“You ok, baby?” Spencer asks Ari, massaging the back of her neck.
I look up; she’s gone a bit pale, and he moves with her as she stands up.
“I’m fine,” she tells him, absently trailing her fingers down his sleeve. “My head is splitting. Be back in a second.”
He looks down as she walks to the bathroom, and a muscle ticks on his jaw. Is he mad or something?
“She do something to you?” I ask, before I think better of it.
He looks up and gives me a sad smile that’s more of a wince.
“Yeah,” he says. “She nearly died on me. Twice. I can’t… I stop breathing every time there’s something even a little bit wrong with her. Don’t tell her,” he adds quickly. “I won’t hear the end of it. I’m not allowed to worry. Unless she tells me to.”
“Sounds disgustingly cute,” I reply and he takes an audible breath. Maybe I should distract him, keep him talking—and breathing, for that matter. “I’m sorry that that happened to you. It sounds absolutely horrific.” It does. I can’t even wrap my mind around something ever happening to Eden… Not that she’s mine to worry about, the way Ari is Wes’. “But she’s ok now, right?”
He nods.
“Good. I was just thinking that you look so happy and calm,” I tell him. “I’m happy for you. A girl who makes you feel like that is hard to find, right?”
“And hard to keep,” he agrees, downing his water in one gulp. “Did you know she broke up with me?”
“What?” I can’t believe that this girl, looking at him the way she does, would ever do something like that. Then again, I didn’t think it would ever happen to me either, yet here we are. “How…” I have to clear my throat. Spence looks at me with interest. “How come you are together then?”
“How?” He repeats, as if it never occurred to him to wonder. “I have no idea. It’s not anything I did, I can tell you that. It’s only by the grace of God that I didn’t lose her many times over.”
The grace of God. How can I get a piece of that? I scoff, under my breath.
‘I came here for you.’
‘What do you need?’
‘What I’ve always needed. You.’
Spencer’s Amazon comes back, and all the tension leaves his face. “Better?” he murmurs and she nods.
“Did he freak out while I was gone?” she asks me.
I lift my hands in the air. “Hey, I’m no snitch.”
