WIP Wednesdays -Beauty & the Brit, CHAPTER 3 (Patreon)

Here's a sneak peek into the next chapter of Beauty and the Brit coming this Sunday! Enjoy!

Paige arrived to find Rae out of sorts. "Oh my gosh Paige you're home!" she squeaked bolting off the couch like a gazelle sprinting across the plains pursued by its enemy.

"Jeeze Rae what's wrong!?" Paige had rarely ever seen her friend move so fast.

"Wrong? No, no, no what's right?! We have a drop dead gorgeous sexy ass neigbour! I'mma die gurl!"

Paige breathed a sigh of relief while laughing. “Wow okay not what I thought you were going to say but go on then,” she urged.

Rae explained how she had been outside on the lawn picking up things here and there so that the grass could be mowed later on when she’d whipped around to belt out the chorus on the song she was listening to in her headphones and had simultaneously smacked someone with her arm whipping around and lost her balance in the process. Whoever it was had been planted firmly like a tree. “And so I looked up, the sun in my eyes, and pulling out my headphones quick I was like: whoa what the hell are you built like a brick wall or what? And this sexy husky voice replies and is like ‘I’m so sorry about that are you alright?’ and obviously I wasn’t alright because I’d just fallen gracelessly onto my ass and had hit this Adonis of a man with my arm like an idiot and had been belting out a note or two at the top of my lungs,” Rae explained, cheeks reddening again at the memory.

It was here Paige felt a pit drop in her stomach and she struggled for breath to interrupt her friend, “D-did you say Adonis?” she exhaled breathlessly. This wasn’t the first time she’d heard this comparison today and it unnerved her.

“Yeah! Like sexy fine God-level gorgeousness!” Rae gushed.

“Oh God. Was he tall: six five-ish with high cheekbones and dark hair and too white to be true perfect teeth a-and一”

“Eh no not quite that tall. You seem upset –have you met our neighbour before?”

“No! But I一wait our neighbour?”

“Yeah don’t want to skip ahead but this guy is our neighbour,” she explained even though the story was supposed to be about how she’d met said neighbour. She figured Paige had missed that detail when Rae had announced that she’d run into someone sexy.

“Jeeze you mean Hugh’s moved in next door!? Oh my God!” Paige felt like she was going to faint and Rae’s hold on her arms was the only thing making her not sway back and forth.

“Hugh?! LIke nasty, bothers you, ‘sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen’ Hugh!?” Rae put forward with a laugh of nervous surprise. “God no!”

“Wait you’ve一”

“Well yeah I know what Hugh looks like! Remember you and I Skyped that one time and I located his Facebook profile to understand what you were dealing with?”

“Oh God you’re right!” Paige exhaled in relief. “S-sorry, I一”

“No it’s okay girl. God no I’m not interested in the likes of someone who looks like that God no!” Rae reassured, “Our neighbour is most definitely not your creeper-stalker-former downstairs apartment neighbour,” Rae promised. Paige was evidently quite relieved at this news.

“Alright so where was I?”

“Uh he asked if you were alright,” Paige reminded.

“Right! Okay and I was totally not okay but instead I lied and said I was fine and he reached out his arm to help me up and sweet baby Jesus, Pay, the most fine and handsome man I’d ever seen in my entire god-dang life is staring back at me with these piercing blue-green almost grey eyes like...like一”

“Like flint? Or azure?”

“Like the sea. I know it sounds stereotypical but I’m just trying to speak your language,” Rae laughed.

Paige laughed too, “I was trying to speak yours! With weird colour names,” she teased.

Rae laughed along. “Anyways so this God of a man gets me to my feet –quite easily I might add, and once I’m there of course I notice his muscles sticking out from his wife-beater and his beautiful thighs inside of his jeans bulging a little and he starts talking again and I notice his perfect lips. Paige I’m so serious I’ve never seen a man who had such kissable lips like they were full but not feminine or botox full and normally men just have a mouth, you know and then afterwards you’re like yeah he kisses great but no I’m looking at him and I already know those lips would be just fantastic to kiss, lordy!”

Paige laughed softly at the description.

“So I finally pay attention to what this Angel-God hybrid is saying and he was apologizing for knocking into me but he thought I’d heard him say ‘hey’ or whatever as he’d approached. And he confirms that he’s our neighbour and he wanted to introduce himself and bring over some mail that got dropped off at his place by mistake. After clarifying that, he wanted to see if I needed any help,” Rae explained.

“Oh wow,” Paige exhaled.

“Long story short he agreed to help us out around here with repairs when he’s between jobs which by the sounds of it recently is going to be quite a bit for the next while.”

“Oh gee that’s… that’s so kind! How much does he want for his work? Is he giving us a discounted rate?”

“No! Free!” Rae exclaimed with gusto, “Can you believe it!?”

“No I can’t!” Paige shook her head in disbelief. “Free? There...there has to be a reason or a… a catch…”

“Nope! Seems the man is just too perfect; wanting to help out his pretty neighbour ladies!” Rae beamed.

“Oh gosh that’s...that’s so amazing!” Paige laughed as she realized the weight of this offer. “That’s going to be such a weight off our shoulders! But wait- This is starting to sound like the stereotypical beginning of a bad, cheesy porno!” she chuckled nervously.

“You’re wrong there Pay! It’s a good, cheesy porn!” Rae teased with the sticking out of her tongue when Paige exclaimed in surprise and swatted her friend’s arm.