Free Searching for Sea Glass: BEST-SELLING AUTHOR (Sea Glass Secrets Book 1) by Teal Wingate Page A

let me kiss you. Of course you’re frightened. What did he do? Hurt you?”
    “There was no man. I don’t want to talk about this.”
    “Did he try to rape you?”
    “No.” Her head shot up. “Of course not.”
    “Then was he rough with you? Did he make you do something you didn’t want to do?”
    “There was no man.”
    “Quit lying. At least to yourself. You know I’d never hurt you. But I’d like to show you how good it can be, between a man and a woman.”
    She nodded. “I know that. I do. I just don’t have those kinds of feelings.”
    “Just not for me or not for anybody?”
    Sunny didn’t answer him. She stared off at the water. After a few moments she began to speak, “There was a man. A long time ago. He made me feel things, crazy wonderful things. But he wasn’t who I thought he was. And he didn’t want me like I wanted him. He just used me. And then he made a joke out of what we’d done together. How I’d responded to him. And now… now… I just don’t think I could live through something like that again, Trey. I really don’t. You’re right, he hurt me. But not physically. He took something that should have been almost holy and he made it ugly. I still feel dirty. I don’t know if I’ll ever feel clean. And I’m too much of a coward to try and find out. So you need to move on.”
    “I don’t want to move on. I want you.”
    “But don’t you get it?” her voice took on a hysterical note. “Don’t you get it? Even though he threw me away, I still want him. I dream about him Trey. I remember how his voice sounds. I bought a bottle of men’s cologne I couldn’t afford just because it smells like him. How sick is that? I hardly knew him. But I feel things for him that aren’t just physical. Things that won’t go away, no matter how much I want them to. Do you think you can love and hate somebody at the same time?”
    “Sunny, I think you’re just obsessed with a memory.”
    She shook her head. “Move on Trey. Let me grieve for what I’ve lost. Give Trinity a chance.”
    “Trinity?” he scoffed. “What would I want with that little freak?”
    “She’s a really good person Trey. And she’s pretty.”
    “Sunny, she’s got blue hair and a big black hoop through her eyebrow.”
    “You’re a snob. She’s just Bohemian.”
    “Sunny she’s a freak. No man wants a woman who curses like a sailor and probably has to register at the local health department once a month to report on her sex partners.”
    “You’d be surprised at what some men want,” the woman in question said sarcastically from behind them. “And you’re wrong about the health department too. I haven’t had a social disease in at least a year or two.” She turned to walk off.
    “Trinity wait!” Sunny called. She tried to run after her friend. Trey stopped her.
    “Let her go,” he said.
    “Her feelings are probably hurt. I need to explain.”
    “No Sunny, I need to apologize. I need to explain,” Trey said. His eyes looked troubled.
    “I just don’t understand? Why would you say those things about her? She’s never done one thing to make you hate her so much.”
    Trey rocked back on the heels of his boots. He grabbed the back of his neck with an impatient hand and rubbed. “I don’t hate her.”
    “You give a pretty good imitation of it.”
    “She just gets under my skin, is all.”
    “Under your skin?”
    “I want her Sunny. Is that plain enough for you? I think she’s just about the hottest woman I’ve ever seen. And she’s totally off-limits for a guy like me.”
    “But I’m not?”
    “You’re not. You’re everything I should be looking for in a wife.”
    “You make me sound about as appealing as soggy white bread. So all that stuff you just said to me was a line? I thought I knew you Trey, but apparently I have no clue who you really are.”
    “None of it was a line. You are beautiful. You are all the things I said you are. You’d make me the perfect wife. And I’d have