When It's Love

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Book: When It's Love Read Free
Author: Bella Andre
Tags: Romance
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couple of bags at his feet, and he was holding on to a surfboard. There was a small crowd of onlookers around him, people who had clearly been caught up by his charisma. As Rachel began to make her way over, she realized Nicholas was telling his adoring crowd a story.
    “So there I was, I’d lost sight of land and I wasn’t sure which way I was supposed to be heading. All of a sudden, this crew of oceanographers shows up, and we get to talking about the waves over on the next island, so I end up taking a ride out with them to go check them out. Only, when I get back, I find out that half the Coast Guard was out looking for me, thinking that I’d drowned.”
    His hands were animated as he talked, and he flashed that easygoing smile at the crowd around him as they hung on his every word. The ocean breeze picked up a little, ruffling his hair and lifting up his shirt just enough for Rachel to see a hint of perfect washboard abs.
    Not that she was purposely looking, of course. After all, he was clearly an adventure-seeking show-off who’d never grown up. After Guy, she was all too familiar with guys like him, and they were definitely not her type anymore. In fact, the whole image Nicholas presented to the world left her cold.
    At least, it should have left her cold and disinterested. Instead, she couldn't seem to stop hanging on his every word, while trying not to think about just how messy and untidy she must look.
    Of course, it was right when she was trying to run a surreptitious hand through her hair that he looked straight at her and smiled. A smile that made him look even more perfect, darn it.

CHAPTER TWO
     
    Nicholas had always been told that he could surf before he could walk, since one of his uncles used to hold him on a board in the very shallowest water when he was just a few months old. Honestly, he couldn’t remember a time when he hadn’t been surfing. Growing up in Hawaii, that wasn't so unusual, given that swimming and surfing were things that nearly every Hawaiian did. Nicholas was only exceptional inasmuch as he surfed professionally, did occasional stunt work, and generally found ways to keep life exciting wherever he went. There were so many things in the world that allowed him to get his adrenaline pumping by pushing himself a little further every day…and he loved it.
    Even coming to this little island in the Pacific Northwest was an adventure. Places like Walker Island tended to bring out the drive in people to try to be so much more. Just like it had with Morgan Walker—she'd grown up here and had become a huge success with both her locally grown organic makeup line and now her TV show as well.
    Walker Island was twenty degrees cooler than Hawaii, and the waves were much smaller, but as far as he could tell from chatting with some locals on the ferry ride over, it had the same close-knit community feel to it. And, just like in Hawaii, he bet people here spent as much time outdoors as they did inside.
    “What is your first impression of our island from the ferry?” one of the people on board had asked him after they'd recognized him sitting on deck with his surfboard.
    “It reminds me of home. There’s nothing as good as island life.” He spent much of his time traveling to all corners of the world, but he always loved being on an island best.
    “What’s the best wave you’ve ever ridden?” someone else had asked. “Was it that one you caught at Mavericks this year?”
    If there was one thing that Nicholas took seriously, it was waves. Which was why he’d brought his board to Walker Island despite the fact that it was not a well-known surfing destination. He wanted to be ready if it turned out that the perfect wave was just around the corner.
    “The best wave so far this year was one I caught not far from my house in Hawaii,” Nicholas had replied. “I was out surfing with some buddies, and there it was. The right height, the right curl, everything. The conditions hadn’t even been

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