Indecent Exposure (Rude Awakenings) Read Online Free PDF

to keep costs down and that Sarah would sort
out selling the house. By midday they had finalised all the details, leaving
Sarah anxious for Jack to leave.’ …and stop hanging round the house like a
bad smell… ’ She had noticed him sending a few texts through the morning and
guessed he was trying to contact Carrie. Lovely thought …‘Not my problem,
don’t care one bit either…’
     
    Eventually he ran out of excuses to hang around
and headed off. She pecked him once on the cheek as he stood in the hallway,
wished him luck, then turned and walked back into the kitchen. Hearing the
front door slam, she was surprised to find the unexpected trickle of tears
running down her cheek. ‘Oh well…s’pose you can’t just kiss off four years
of marriage just like that… ’ Shaking her head she soon lost herself in the
mindless drudgery of housework.
     
    It became something of a pattern over the next
few days, her bursts of hard work gardening or cleaning interspersed with
aimless staring into space. The garage at last got the clearout she had been
promising it since they moved in. The spiders in the cellar finally got their
marching orders, though there was still the occasional unwelcome straggler. She
showed a couple of people round the house and it looked like it was going to be
easy to sell at least. Phone calls from Jack assured her that he was keeping
his side of the deal and that the legal wheels were turning ‘…yeah …very,
very slowly as usual though… ’.
     
    Preoccupied with all that was going on, she had
nearly forgotten about her evil designs on Rob. In fact, it wasn’t until an
unexpected ring on the doorbell early one evening that she thought of him at
all. She was wrestling with a vacuum cleaner halfway up the stairs and saw the
shape of a figure through the glass. Oh…Great bloody timing whoever you
are…idiot…. ’ On opening the door, there he was, smiling cockily and
handsome as ever, standing with her laptop in his hand. Taken by surprise, she
found herself flicking her hair back out of her eyes and wishing she didn’t
look quite so much like the scruffy help.
     
    “Hi Sarah…Erm. I’ve brought your laptop back.”
He held it out like an offering.
     
    “So I see… Thanks…Did you get it fixed?”
     
    “Yeah, it was easy enough to sort out in the
end. Just took a while to get the right part.” He took in her somewhat
flustered appearance. “Did I catch you at a bad time? I was just about to start
my run and thought I would catch you first.”
     
    “No…No not at all. I was just fighting a losing
battle with the cleaning… Look, can I get you a drink or anything.” Now she had
time to recover from her surprise she was trying to decide if he was behaving
oddly towards her or not. ‘ After all, he’s seen me in a few compromising
positions and he must’ve jerked himself stupid at some of those pictures… ’
     
    “Anything”…Anything at all?…Or just anything
within reason?” He winked at her and handed over her laptop. “I’d settle for a
drink of orange juice I suppose unless you’ve got something better in mind.”
     
    The flirty tone in his voice was unmistakable ‘Doesn’t
mean he wants to take this further though… ’ and she found herself wanting
to talk more. ‘Just to see for certain …’
     
    “Look…I’ve been slaving at the housework all
morning, ‘bout time I had a break I reckon. I’ll bring us out a jug of cold
juice and a couple of glasses. It’s the least I can do for a knight in shining
armour isn’t it.” She stuck out her tongue rudely at him. “That’s you by the
way. For being a clever nerd I mean.”
     
    He laughed. “Nerd?! Damn…Hot damn!…How did you
know. I thought I had disguised it brilliantly.”
     
    “Oh, call it woman’s intuition.” She smiled encouragingly.
“Now how about that drink?”
     
    They sat out on the front grass for a while,
enjoying the last of the evening sun. She found him amusing