Husband With Benefits
Chapter 60: A Sweet Time

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...

"They are rating kisses? Do women do that?" Demetri murmured as he straightened and walked over to the lounge next to hers.

Confused, Nora followed him with her eyes and questioned," Do women do what?"

"Sit around the breakfast table, discussing their various se*ual encounters," Demetri asked the question as easily as if he had been enquiring about the weather while Nora almost spewed the small mouthful of her drink that she had just sipped.

What was she supposed to say to something like that? Umm, Isabelle and her would usually just bring up her encounters in passing and Nora always felt that she was a bit incapable in that department because she never felt anything like that from Antonio’s kisses. Anyway, she could not possibly tell Demetri the truth right? Taking the fifth and avoiding self-incrimination was the best option. Trying to be neutral, she shrugged and spoke," Well I don’t know, people do all sorts of things. Since the author has written it...

Demetri shook his head in disbelief as he took the glass from her hand and sipped the drink casually. Before she could point out that drink was hers, it had already been finished and Nora could only sigh.

Silence settled between them for a while, broken only by the distant sound of the waves crashing against the shore. Nora shifted uncomfortably on her sun lounge, acutely aware of what had just happened. She’d just been caught red-handed reading something so explicit. She reminded herself that it was perfectly alright to read such things, she was already old enough, she felt the need to explain herself.

Clearing her throat, she finally spoke up. "I think I am going to take a stroll along the shore."

"You can bear to put down your novel at such an interesting turn? I mean they might give you some pointers about scoring points,’ like how to judge technique, passion, unexpected swoops, etc..."

Even though everything was said with a straight face, Nora knew that Demetri was teasing her. He was actually having a good laugh at her expense. Crossing her arms in front of her she frowned and snarked," My gosh, husband! Do you need another drink? Your throat must be dried up by speaking so much!"

With that petty comeback, Nora marched away, with the should of Demetri’s laughter echoing in her ears.

As she walked along the shore, Nora recognized that the water had receded, leaving behind empty shells in the wet sand. Grinning, she bent down and picked up a pretty shell. It was so pretty. As she glimpsed another one a few feet further, she decided that she was going to collect these shells and maybe make something out of this for herself. They were so small and pretty.

Suddenly, Demetri glanced up from the lounge, and felt his heart jump into his throat! Why was she so near the edge? Standing up, he shouted for Nora to move away from the shore but either she did not hear him or chose to ignore him. Quickly, he started to run to her. But before he could reach her, he watched in horror as a large wave crashed over Nora, pulling her under its force.

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