Page 14 of Chasing Forever

“Of course. What color are his eyes?”

“Green.”

“Ah-ha! You answered that really fast.”

“So what.”

“So, you’ve studied him up close.”

“Well, yeah. We were in the pool together.”

“You were? Please don’t tell me you were wearing your matronly bathing suit.”

Callie cleared her throat but didn’t reply.

“Dammit! I told you not to pack that one.”

“He didn’t seem to mind.”

“What does that mean?”

She hesitated for a second, but Quinn was her best friend. She could tell her anything. “It was the strangest thing, but he kept looking at me even though he was there with two bikini models.”

“Were they really?”

“I don’t think so, but they could have been.”

“Hmm. Maybe I underestimated the power of the black one-piece.”

Callie giggled. “Anyway, we only talked for a few minutes before his friends pulled him away.”

“And you haven’t seen him since?”

“Not a glimpse… Hold on… I take that back.” Speak of the devil. Chase had just come outside and was walking down the path toward the beach.

“Where is he? What’s he doing?”

“Walking.”

“Walking where? Go chase him!”

“I’m not going to chase Chase!”

“You have to for research. If not for that, for me. I’m living vicariously through you while you’re in Hawaii.”

“I don’t want him to know I’m studying him. I have to be subtle about it.”

“Subtle? You? Go after him, and the next time we talk, you better have written three more chapters!”

“Quinn.”

“Bye. Love you!”

With that, Quinn hung up, leaving Callie standing there holding the phone and looking longingly out the window at Chase’s retreating form.

She paced for a few minutes and tried to talk herself out of it, but in the end, she decided Quinn was right. She needed more interaction with him in order to keep writing.

So far, she’d written the meet-cute chapters of her novel, where the heroine and hero meet for the first time and sparks fly. Those were some of her favorite moments in any romance book, and she’d struggled to get them right. She strived to make her characters believable and likable and placed them in realistic situations.