Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 139789 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 139789 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
Alec's laughter got my attention. "Sorry, I just wanted to see if you would freak out and you did."
I growled as I pulled on my bikini knickers then put on my cover up. I smiled maliciously when it fell to my knees. I tied my hair up into a messy bun and then slipped on my sunglasses and pink flip flops before I grabbed my beach bag from my suitcase. I crammed towels, sunscreen and other beach necessities into my bag.
"Okay, you can come out now," I shouted.
The bathroom door opened and out stepped Alec in just knee length shorts. I widened my eyes and was thankful I had sunglasses on.
"That is what you're wearin'?"
Alec shrugged then froze when he saw me. "Please tell me you have a decent swimsuit on underneath that curtain."
I gasped. "It's a cover up!"
"It's plain, shapeless and makes it look like you have a big butt... and not in a good way."
It did?
I pushed past him, annoyed that he said my arse was big in a bad way.
I heard him moving around in the room behind me just as I stepped out into the hallway. I took the elevator down to the lobby while Alec took the stairs. When I reached the lobby he fell in line beside me. I smiled and waved to the lad at the desk who instantly smiled and waved to me. His smiled dropped though when an arm snaked around my shoulder.
"Look at his face," Alec snickered.
I moved his arm from my shoulder when we got outside. "Stop being such a dick."
Alec pulled a face at me, so I turned and walked ahead of him and took one of the three paths that the signs said led to the beach. I picked the one that didn’t have many people on it.
"What did you call that thing you're wearing?" Alec asked from behind me.
"A cover up," I said without turning around.
He snorted. "What exactly is it meant to cover up? When the sun hits it, it goes see through."
I gasped and turned around. "Are you jokin'?" I asked.
He shook his head.
"I'm going to kill Aideen, she said it was matte black!"
"Why are you wearing it? You have a bikini on underneath - I can see it."
I flushed. "I'm... I'm just not comfortable with meself."
Alec looked at me, bemused.
I grunted. "I'm not happy with me body, and I doubt anyone else will be, so I'm not puttin' it on view for everyone to see."
Alec just shook his head at me. "You're such a girl."
I gaped at him. "Excuse me?"
"Yeah, you complain about your body when you have to know how good you look."
I gaped at him. "I have no idea what you're talkin' about."
Alec pinched the bridge of his nose and held up his hand. "What I'm about to say doesn't change the fact that I only want to fuck you, okay?"
"Okay," I replied, unsure of where this conversation was going.
He took in a breath and blew it out. "You're beautiful," he said real fast. "There, I said it."
I stared at him for a moment then shoved him hard causing him to stumble backwards. "I just told you I'm self-conscious and you decide to make fun of me by tellin' me you think I'm beautiful? You're such an arsehole!" I turned and stormed away.
I stopped a few meters away from the shoreline when I got onto the beach and set down my beach bag. I took out my huge towel and lay it down on the sand. I sat near the middle of the towel, raised my sunglasses over my head and looked out at the ocean and let a huge smile spread over my face.
I noticed the shadow next to me and out of the corner of my eye I saw twat face sit down on the other half of my towel.
"You like the ocean, huh?" Alec's voice murmured.
I shrugged. "I just think it's all pretty lookin'. I don't know why, but it makes me smile."
Alec was quiet for a moment then said, "I do think you're beautiful. I wasn't making fun of you."
I glanced to him and he just looked right back at me. He didn't grin or smirk or make any facial expression that told me he was fibbing, so I shrugged.
"Okay, well... thank you," I replied before turning away.
"You still don't believe me, do you?" he asked.
I shrugged. "I'm eighty-twenty on it right now, but it doesn't matter. Looks don't mean anythin' other than lustful attraction from one person to another - it's what's on the inside that counts. You know, a thing called personality?"
Alec snorted. "Something you seem to lack."
I smacked him on the arm making him hiss and rub it.
"I have a personality, a grand one. It's you who is the arrogant arsehole here with the pathetic excuse for a personality, not me."
"Are you trying to insult me? I can't tell," he asked, sarcasm dripping from his tone.
"Let's just say that you're so lucky mirrors don't base looks on personality."
"Why?" Alec asked.
I devilishly grinned. "Because if they did, you would be one ugly motherfucker."
Alec glared at me for a few seconds before a grin spread across his face.
I was annoyed by this - I wanted him to feel like shite over that insult, not happy about it.
"Why are you smilin'?" I snapped.
He continued to smile before laying down on his back. "No reason, kitten. No reason at all."
I angrily crossed my arms. "I hate you so much, you know that? I don't think I've ever met such an annoyin' arsehole in me entire life."
"I'm honoured," he chirped, mocking me which made me seethe in anger.
He closed his eyes as I turned away from him and rooted through my beach bag until I found the book I was currently reading. Ironically, it was the book Alec was reading in my apartment the day he moved in.
Fifty Shades of Grey.
I opened the cover, flipped to page fifteen - where I left off - and began reading. An hour or so passed and I had gotten about a hundred and twenty pages in when I felt movement beside me and then felt a breeze over my shoulder.