BAD REPUTATION

be heading to

as stuck in a lift with a self-professed one. She couldn't deny he'd

e didn't have to be to

e a sun-kissed surfer plucked from the ocean, jazzed up and dumped in the city. The jeans and sweatshirt hugging his imposing frame looked lai

id, his voice thick and exciting her far more than w

folio digging into her side as she turned ri

ing with mischief and amusement and holding her o

y rolled her eyes. Wou

t, the better. She was in a relationship for God's sake and she sure as hell wasn't a cheater. She dragged her eyes awa

o tell

Olivia thought, but alou

rival of their floor and

, relief sweeping through her as the

lla's and hoped he would take the hint or

into step behind her. "I'd definit

ed it. She was going to have to be more specific.

ty

material..." she sent him a scathing look "...bu

. "Wow, hung, dra

eins. Her harsh assessment had hit its mark, hopefully enough to send him runni

the opinion of

a bend, the sanctity of Isabella's ho

it was her turn to falter mid-step "-or yo

e first time she'd been mistaken as such. She found it quite

o be a lesbian." She'd arrived at Isabella's door and to emphasise her point,

-what the fuck? She didn't have time to ask what he was playing at; the do

I'm late, Izzy

tan leather jacket over a white T and looking from

r of

her a bemused shrug. "Seems you c

nt and friend already?" Isabella's eyes flashed furiously, and

ith another one of those annoyingly casual shrugs. "

looked at Olivia, cheeks flushing, eye

ded faint, her brain rapidly

mock disdain, "Is my brother. My older brother,

ho she now knew as Derek, the realisation that she wasn't going to

own after years of being away, but she hadn't mentioned that he was back already or that

urious frown creasing his bro

d him, his eyes remaining fixed on Olivia's every bit as curious and heated and very, very int

inside Olivia's mind and triggering a replay of all that she had said with e

s, weirdo," Isabella said. "It's ju

reeing Olivia at last, to breathe, to think, to get with it... "So, are we going to

God help her, Olivia smile