Page 43 of The Romance Library

‘I’m fine!’ I raised my voice. There was no way I was giving him the satisfaction of discovering one of my fears. ‘And I’m definitely not leaving.’

‘Fair enough.’ He held his hands up in surrender. ‘I was just trying to help, that’s all.’

‘There you are!’ Nancy came over. ‘I thought you’d run off to the rides already! So the coach will be leaving at seven p.m. sharp. You’re free to do whatever you like during that time, but I’d like to meet up with you at some point to take some photos.’

‘Photos?’ My brow furrowed.

‘Yes. Edwin sends his apologies, but he’s not sure he’ll be able to make it. But he asked me to take some photos of our newest residents for the community newsletter.’

I groaned inside. The last thing I wanted was any photographic evidence of my spending time with Theo, but I couldn’t say no when Edwin wanted to check that we were making an effort to get along.

‘Great!’ I said as enthusiastically as I could. ‘If you can’t find me, just call!’

Edwin had asked if he could pass our numbers on to Nancy when he’d booked the ticket.

‘Will do. You kids have fun together!’ She winked before rushing off.

‘We should exchange numbers too,’ Theo said.

‘Why would I want to give you my number?’

‘Could be useful. And it’d save us from having to email…’ He smirked.

‘I’ll pass.’

‘Suit yourself. Come on.’ He started walking towards the entrance. ‘Seeing as Edwin’s got Nancy spying on us, we may as well make the most of it. Which ride do you want to go on first?’

The truth was I didn’t want to go on any of them.

I took in the theme park in front of me. There was an assortment of rides—a big wheel, a merry-go-round, a railway and of course a roller coaster. My stomach twisted.

Then I had an idea.

‘Do they have bumper cars here?’

‘Think so.’

‘Let’s do that.’

Having the opportunity to crash into Theo repeatedly was definitely something I could get on board with.

Once we’d bought our tokens, we headed over to the dodgems, queued up, then climbed into our cars.

‘You’re going down, Eaves!’ I shouted happily.

‘Given your love of testicles, I thought it’d be you who’d be going down!’ He smirked.

‘Ha-ha, very funny.’ I rolled my eyes. I’d known it was only a matter of time before that balls email conversation reared its ugly head. Head probably wasn’t the best choice of word.

As soon as our cars started up, I made a beeline for Theo and crashed into him.

‘That’s for stealing my parking space.’ I smashed into him.

‘You sure you want to do this? Once I start to ram you, I won’t stop.’

My cheeks heated. I knew he was referring to what he’d do with his bumper car, but my mind went straight to the gutter.

When I was working three jobs, I was too exhausted to even think about sex, but after a few days of going at a slower pace, my libido seemed to be coming back to life. The fact that Theo was ridiculously hot didn’t help.

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