The Honeymoon Period (The Austin Series) by C.J. Fallowfield Read Free Book Online Page A

down be careful. Phone if you need me, I’ve made sure it’s not on
mute and I can come straight back.’
    ‘Mia, I’ll
be fine. Go and enjoy yourself.’
    ‘I love you,
Gabe.’ I kissed him again and this time he responded with his good hand behind
my head, holding me on his lips as long as possible.
    ‘God, you
kiss so well baby,’ he murmured as I pulled away.
    ‘I was
about to say the same to you, my knees have gone to jelly. I need to go before
we do anything we’ll regret. Behave.’
    ‘Stay with
Lexi at all times, Mia,’ he warned. ‘I mean it.’
    I blew him
a kiss from the bedroom door and headed downstairs, making sure I had my new
door keys on me. I headed out through the passenger gate to wait for the taxi
and looked at the pavement to my left. He’d been found there by a passing
motorist who’d stopped to help him and called the ambulance. I shuddered at the
thought of what might’ve happened if he’d not had good reflexes and jumped and
I hated the fact that I was fast asleep in bed, metres away while he was lying
there dazed and in pain.
    It was
still bothering me that the police had no idea who it was. They’d tracked down
Adam in Peppers on Saturday night and whilst he had no concrete alibi, they had
nothing to tie him to the accident. He had a silver car, but as there were no
signs of damage, given Gabe hadn’t been struck, the police advised us it wasn’t
enough to charge him with, so it left us with no suspects at all. My taxi
pulled up five minutes later and I was pleased to see Lexi waiting outside for
me when we arrived at mine. She had on a pair of jeans with her biker boots and
a ribbed black polo neck and had dyed her hair again, so it looked black with a
slight blue sheen.
    ‘Wow Lex,
loving the hair, it really makes your eyes sparkle. How are you?’ I asked as
she hopped in and we headed off.
    ‘Good
thanks, enjoyed a pamper night, hence the hair. I need a nice caffeine fix so
badly it’s untrue. How’s the patient?’
    ‘Not so
patient. Still getting grumpy and frustrated and I don’t know how many times I
can keep … you know.’ I mimicked a blow job on my finger and Lexi roared with laughter.
    ‘Getting
lock jaw?’
    ‘Lexi.’ I
looked at the driver but he seemed to be in a world of his own, he’d probably
heard it all before and worse. ‘Yes, he’s insatiable. Is it normal for a guy to
get hard that many times in a day? It’s virtually every hour, sometimes more.’
    ‘At nineteen?
Totally. You’ll moan when you’re in your fifties and he can’t get hard at all.’
    ‘Don’t say such
mean things, Lex. God, I miss sex so much.’
    ‘You do? It’s
been longer for me. I finally think I’m ok now, the bleeding seems to have
stopped.’
    ‘So, are
you planning on going all the way with Doug?’ She went pink, grinned and
elbowed me in the ribs making me laugh at her coyness, which was so unlike her.
‘Lexi Clarke, you’re going to get Douged,’ I laughed and she joined me.
    We got to
the centre and headed straight for the nearest coffee outlet and sat enjoying
it as we caught up properly, we’d not had much time together yesterday, what
with lectures. We browsed some stores and I got a black wool mini skirt, a red
Bardot jumper and some fire engine red nail polish. I spotted a seriously high
pair of black ankle boots which I grabbed in the sale and Lexi got a pair of low
heeled knee high boots which surprised me.
    ‘What, I’m
not allowed to try and look sexy too?’
    ‘You really
like him. Lexi’s in lurrrrve,’ I teased and got another punch on the arm. ‘Can
we go and eat now, Lex? I’m starving, there’s an Italian somewhere in here. I’m
craving pesto, pasta and a bottle of zinfandel.’
    ‘You’re on,
let’s go.’
    We were settled
into our table and I instantly asked for a bottle of the Wandering Bear
Zinfandel, my favourite rose wine and the waitress went to walk away.
    ‘Sorry we
aren’t done, that’s just for me,’ I