CHAPTER 12:
A Gift too Tempting to Turn Down
When Rex reached the café he saw no sign of any gang members near where his car was parked. Shawn stepped up beside him. ‘I saw them down there. You better go check your car.’
It was hard to know whether Shawn was telling the truth or not, but he’d didn’t want to take any chances, especially considering his car was so expensive. No doubt if any major damage had been done, the car alarm would have gone off, but that might not necessarily be the case if it was just a few scratches or tagging.
He opened the café door and hurried down the road to where his car was parked. He made sure to keep an eye out for anyone that might be nearby. On closer inspection, he saw that his car was fine. If anyone had been there, nobody had damaged it.
He turned to go back up to the pools and came face to face with Nadia.
‘Hey,’ he said. ‘You should have stayed in there.’
‘No way. If there’s gang members here, I couldn’t bear the thought of you being here on your own against them. I at least wanted to be sure you were ok. Hey, down there!’
She pointed to a bank which led down to the rocky shore of the harbour. She rushed down it, waving for him to follow. Rex wondered what she had seen so decided to follow, just in case it was the alleged gang members.
Once at the bottom of the bank, Nadia turned and smiled. ‘It’s ok. I thought I saw some one.’
Rex began to suspect that it was all a ruse just to get him down there. He even considered the possibility that there were no gang members at all in the vicinity. Ordinarily he wouldn’t have minded, because Nadia was indeed extremely hot, but Vanessa would no doubt be worried about him, wondering if he had run into trouble. He couldn’t stay there. ‘Well, we better head back up.’
‘No wait.’ She stepped up to him so that her breasts almost touched him. Her voice became soft. ‘Don’t go. Stay here with me for a bit.’
All Rex could think about was Vanessa being worried about where he was. He hated that thought.
‘It’s ok,’ she assured him. Vanessa saw there was no one down here. She said I could come down and spend some time alone with you.’
‘Really?’ Rex considered it might be possible, but at the same time he had trouble reading whether Nadia was sincere or not. He was normally pretty good at picking up on a lie, but if this was one he had no idea.
She battered her eyelids and spoke in the voice of a little girl. ‘You do trust me, don’t you?’
She had a similar magnetism to her like Vanessa. Nowhere near as strong, but it was definitely there and something very hard to resist. He could feel his willpower melt as she pressed herself up against him and moved her face closer to his.
‘I don’t know if I can trust you,’ Rex said. ‘I’ve only known you one day… which is virtually not at all. Even Vanessa doesn’t know you.’
‘She likes to share right? You know she’s happy about me being here too. She won’t be jealous, right?’
‘I guess not.’ If Nadia was telling the truth, Vanessa would most likely be back in the pool now fooling around with the rest of their friends. However, if Nadia was lying, then she may be standing at the cafe window wondering where he had disappeared to. She might even be coming to look for him. He peered up the bank wondering if she would appear.
‘Hey!’ Nadia, placed her hand on his cheek and turned his head so his eyes met hers. ‘Let’s just go for a walk along the beach. Just for a few minutes. It’s not that cold. In fact, it’s quite warm. Then we’ll come back.’
Rex stared into her eyes. ‘I guess ten minutes won’t hurt.’
‘Of course it won’t.’ She took him by the hand. ‘Come on, before someone really does come looking for us.’
Nadia clutched his hand and they walked for five minutes along the rocky shore. It was more of an exercise of skipping from rock to rock rather than walking. They came to a sandy spot amongst some large rocks. ‘This looks like a nice place to stop for a bit,’ she said.
Rex didn’t argue. It was very private and obscured the rest of the beach from vision. It couldn’t hurt to take advantage of that just for a few minutes.
‘Perfect,’ Nadia said. ‘No one will see us here. I doubt anyone will even come down here at all.’ She turned and smiled. ‘I’ve got something here.’ She reached down the front of her bikini top and pulled out a small, flat and square plastic package. ‘How about it, Sexy Rexy?’
Rex paused for a moment and his thoughts went back to Vanessa. The question of whether she had helped orchestrate this little ruse was still there in his mind. If it wasn’t for the fact that Vanessa had been behind similar schemes like this in the past, he would have distrusted Nadia right away.
‘Come on, Rex,’ Nadia said. ‘You don’t strike me as the type of guy to back away from a hot chick offering you one of these and herself to go along with it.’
‘I’m not.’
‘Then I take it you’re going to accept my gift and the benefits that come with it?’ She smiled.
‘Absolutely.’
‘That’s what I wanted to hear.’