Chapter 60: A Sweet Time
While the sun hung low in the sky, the atmosphere was also very peaceful. After the ’shopping’ trip in the morning, Nora had been worrying herself about actually wearing any of those bathing suits. Especially the white one. But instead, Demetri had simply brought her out to the private beach, telling her that she could do what she wanted, and no one would disturb her and she could ring the villa for some snacks. And then the man had left.
Sighing, Nora changed into her new ’clothing’ and quickly rushed towards the waves, happily dancing and enjoying her freedom. All this time, she had become used to being happy by herself so she did not find it difficult or even odd that she could enjoy this lonely time. Finally, after running around and swimming all day, she threw herself onto the sun lounge and lay down to enjoy the sunset.
And that is how Demetri found her. As he walked down the steps of the villa, he stopped as he looked at the beautiful vision in front of him. Nora reclined on the comfortable sun lounge, her eyes fixed on the pages of the novel she held in her hands. Her hair spilt over her shoulders, and a mischievous grin danced upon her lips while her cheeks were slightly pink.
Demetri sighed. He’d planned to take a long shower and get back to work after the day he’d had but somehow his feet dragged him here. She’d often have such an expression on her face, when she was reading but this was the first time that he was sure she was blushing.
Curious, he walked forward and leaned down to see what it was that put such a look on her face. Incredulous, he read out the words aloud," It was totally off the scale! He simply yanked me against himself and swooped in for a kiss."
"The yank and the swoop kiss is on scale with the push against the wall and swoop kiss! But it cannot be off the scale!"
"I am telling you it is off the scale..."
Nora, who had frozen when she first heard his voice, so close to her and finally reacted by snapping the book shut.
"What are you doing?" Her eyes shifted from him to the book before her face turned as red as a tomato.
The truth was even though she had been reading the novel initially, after the two women in the novel had started rating the kiss, her own mind had wandered to the way Demetri kissed. While he had not yanked or pushed her against the wall that first time, his kiss could be rated off the scale as well. And then just as this thought had been going on in her head, the man had started reading that...