Lasting Summer - [Loving Summer 05] by Kailin Gow, Kailin Romance Page A

expensive Armani
suit doesn’t make him a gentleman.”
    “So,” Professor Knapp’s voice carried
over to Cooper and I, “That is the end of our session today. Be sure to read
the first five chapters of your book by next class. We may have a guest
speaker, and I would like for you to get the most out of his lecture.”
    The class dismissed, and I grabbed my
bag, placing my tablet which I’d taken notes, in it.
    Cooper stood up, and held out his hand
to me. “May I?”
    I smiled. Cooper was such a gentleman. I
took his hand and he pulled me up to face him. Like I thought, he was tall and
solid, like in solid muscles. He would definitely give Drew competition.
    Speaking of Drew, as soon as I was up
and smiling at Cooper, Drew had bounded up the stairs to stand next to Cooper,
glaring at me and him.
    Cooper gave me a look. “Do you need me
to walk you to your next class?”
    I glanced over at Drew, whose glare had
turned into a look of despair. “Summer,” he said, “I need to talk to you.”
    Cooper waited, crossing his arms like he
had all the time in the world.
    I was about to place my hand on Cooper’s
elbow to tell him, “let’s go,” when Drew grabbed my wrist.
    “Drew…” I said looking down at his hand.
    Cooper uncrossed his arms and stood up
next to Drew, letting him know his presence.
    Drew dropped his hand, and slumped down.
“I only wanted to talk, Summer. Alone, just us two.” He glared at Cooper.
    I looked down, remembering everything
that happened between Drew and I last night, including how he made love to me.
I blushed. “Okay,” I said.
    I turned to Cooper and said, “Thank
you.”
    “No need for thanks,” Cooper said. “Call
me if you need me.” Then he took off.
     
    Chapter 9
     
    Drew
     
    I t still gets me
bad when I see other men sniffing around Summer. I know she’s beautiful inside
and out, has the prettiest face I’ve ever seen, and a body like a Victoria
Secret model so she will be attracting guys like bees to honey without even
trying, but she’s mine. She may not think so at the present, but she has and
will always be mine.
    “Summer,” I said, after that too
good-looking hunk standing next to her left. I had so much I wanted to tell
her, but just seeing her angry at me, with her arms crossed, and instead of the
warm adoring smile she always gave me, there was a scowl on her face, my mind
went blank.
    “Yes?” she asked.
    My plan of getting her jealous, of
forcing her to react to me, to acknowledged me, to even notice me in the class
I saw we were taking together; back-fired on me. She was no longer buying my
bad boy one-night-stand act that the other girls ate up. In fact, when I
thought about it, she never did. She always saw through it. She always saw
through me.
    I was seriously at my wit’s end.
    I ran my hands over my face, looking
down. “What can I do to get you back into my life, Summer?”
    She uncrossed her arms, bringing her
arms down. Her face was no longer filled with anger as something like compassion
took its place. “Drew,” she said softly. “I want to have you in my life. I
truly do, but you keep doing something like this every time I get close to
you.”
    “Summer,” I said filled with remorse,
“this was stupid. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to get all these girls throwing
themselves at me like this in front of you. I…”
    “You can’t help that,” Summer said.
    “I know so I’m glad you understand that
it’s not my fault…”
    “But you could help the way you reacted
to them. You didn’t have to flirt back. You didn’t have to let that President
Sorority chick tongue-kissed you in front of everyone,” Summer said.
    My face was hot with shame as she
recalled everything that just happened an hour ago. I was so stupid. How could
I have done all that when all I wanted was to get Summer back? Now she never
wants anything to do with me.
    “Drew…it makes doubt what we’ve had,
what you said to me last night, that you love me…I