Free healing-hearts by Yvette Hines Page A

afternoon.”
    “Umm...I don’t think so.” She took a few retreating steps backwards toward the door.
    “You can bring Leigh if it makes you feel more comfortable.” That seemed to make her feet pause.
    “You’d be willing to subject yourself to her scrutiny?”
    “If it gets me a chance to see you again, outside of you being my health counselor, then I’d do just about anything.”
    Yasmine’s full lips pulled up into a grin. “That’s sweet, but I’m still going to pass. See you around.”
    Jason watched her spin around, hurry into the hotel and out of his sight.
    Snatching his T-shirt over his head, Jason removed his rubber shoes and dove head first into the icy water. Pushing himself, he didn’t stop until the little voice inside of his head telling him he had been a fool to listen to his brother’s advice faded.
    ~ML~
    Yasmine took a brief moment once she got into the hotel to turn and look through the tinted glass window to the view of the pool. As she watched Jason remove his shirt over his head, she couldn’t help noticing the firm, lean chest. It was smooth, with the exception of a sparse amount of hair in the center. She remembered him saying that swimming was something that he did often. She could definitely tell that by the muscle play in his broad shoulders as he brought his arms down and tossed his T-shirt on the chair. Her nipples tightened and pressed against her swimsuit, sensitive. She didn’t waste time fooling herself that it was the hotel’s A.C. that caused the reaction. It was Jason.
    Leigh would be shocked to know Yasmine could now confirm he had not had open-heart surgery.
    Yasmine took a deep breath and turned away from the sight as thoughts of running her hand down his chest to his taut abs entered her mind.
    She shook her head to halt her train of thoughts and allowed herself another quick look as she admired Jason’s athletic skill when he dove into the pool. She couldn’t fool herself in believing that she didn’t desire to go out with him. As she sat across from him, his smile had driven her crazy. She couldn’t seem to stop the little flip her heart performed when it appeared on his face. She tried to brush it off by telling herself he had worn a scowl when she had met him, so it was just a result of the surprise of seeing her.
    As much as she would like to do something as simple as a date, she knew it would not be possible. She couldn’t allow herself to be put in a position to be hurt again. Her track record proved she was not the best judge of character and her getting hurt was inevitable.
    Turning away from the sight of Jason slicing through the water; she went to her room.
    When she arrived there, she showered and lay down on her bed, then grabbed the romance novel she was almost finished with from the nightstand. She stared at the hero on the cover. “Why can’t I find a man like you or the other guys I read about? Bet I’d never have to worry about you hurting me.”
    Yasmine set the alarm on the bedside clock before opening the novel to the marked page. She and Leigh were going out to dinner, then to the fireworks show. Most likely, afterwards her friend would try to get her to go out dancing again, as they did last night, and she wanted to make sure didn’t read to long and run late.
    ~ML~
    Desire led her back out to the pool in search of him. Now, she lay on her stomach before him, willing and waiting. This wasn’t her. Never before had she availed herself to a man. But, he tugged at something so reckless, so forbidden deep inside of her, she couldn’t resist.
    His lips started at her ankle and made their way up her body. The light kisses he placed on the back of her caves, caused tingling sensation to dance across her spine. When his wet tongue touched the back of her knee, her body temperature rose. Her sex began to ache as strong, open mouth suckling began on the back of one thigh then the other.
    His hands joined in the play as he massaged her behind,