Lasting Summer - [Loving Summer 05] by Kailin Gow, Kailin Romance Page A

said. “I’ll help you put them behind bars.”
    “Too
dangerous.”
    “Don’t
worry about me. I’m already involved. I get the feeling so is my mother and
even Aunt Sookie. I need to help you out or we will never be free.”
    “Then
come with me,” he said, leading me in the dark back into the office area as
easily as if there was light. He went to a switch and pulled down and up.
Before long, the light began fading in, and…Nat…Nat stood before me in the
light and as someone else…
     
    Cooper.
     
    “Cooper?”
I asked. “You’re Nat?” I almost fainted. Then it hit me. All the clues. Cooper
saying he took Aunt Sookie’s acting classes when he was little. Cooper happily
filming the beach and telling me how he loved the place. Cooper walking up to
the Pad and looking at the Pad with love in his eyes. The way he made me feel
when I was hugging him. The way he spoke to me, as though he was wise beyond
his years. The way I would see him looking at me when he thought I wasn’t
looking.
    How
he would say things that reminded me of Nat.
    “Oh
Nat!” I cried, running up to him and into his arms. “I thought I was crazy
feeling something for Cooper, but…now I know.”
    “Now
you know, my Perfect Summer. “You are and will always be my Perfect Summer.”
    “And
you will always be my Nat in Shining Armor.” He bent down and kissed me so hard
I knew my lips would be swollen.
     

 
    Ch.
15
     
    Summer
     
    I thought
that would be the ending to my Summer chronicles. That I would end up with Nat,
but fate had another surprise in store for us…and like so many things in life,
it doesn’t always go as we hope.
     
    We
both heard a click near the doorway to the hallway we just came in from and
turned.
    “This is just beautiful,” the figure holding
the gun pointed at us said. Because of the lighting, I couldn’t see who he was.
“I get out of prison to seek my revenge on that Drew fellow who would’ve killed
me if Summer didn’t stop him, and find the missing Nat Donovan. Do you know
there’s a bounty on you, pretty boy? Not nice to cross the head of the cybercrime
syndicate. Now it looks like I’m getting the bounty now.”
     
    He approached us, then stopped.
    “I could have sworn I heard Nat Donovan’s
voice. Now where is he?”
     
    He took a step closer to us and another step
until he was a few yards from me. Oh. My. God. My heart dropped. Sloane. Why
and how did he get here?
     
    “Still such a temptress,” he said. “Summer
Jones…how I fantasize about putting my cock into you.” He leaned in closer and
said, “I go through all my collection of photos of you…especially the ones
where you’re sleeping in bed, naked, waiting for one of your loverboys to come
fuck you. I get so hard just looking at those photos.”
    “You disgust me!” I said.
    “So it’s okay for Drew or Nat to enjoy your
luscious body but it isn’t for the rest of us non-billionaires. Not-so-pretty
types? You think you’re too good for guys like me, don’t you. Just like your
Aunt Sookie.”
    “Quit tarnishing her name!” I shouted.
    “Tarnish? She’s tarnished herself. She’s a
whore, just like you.”
    “Not true at all,” I said.
    “Then what were you doing just now having sex
with yet another loverboy?”
     
    He looked at Nat.
     
    “It’s not like it looks,” I said. “Plus a
woman can be just as sexual as a man, it doesn’t make them whores.”
    “But it does with you. Women should be pure,
chaste, and clean until their marriage night. Otherwise, they are whores,”
Sloane said. “And if they get pregnant out of wedlock like your Aunt Sookie,
they are a bigger whore.”
     
    Nat threw a punch at him then and knocked
Sloane to the ground. “The one being the filthy dirty scum is you,” he said in
a deeper voice, the one he used as Cooper, punching Sloane again in the face. “You
have no right to judge Summer, Aunt Sookie, and any women for anything. What
makes you perfect?” Punch.