A Dangerously Sexy Affair by Stefanie London

Author:Stefanie London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

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THE MINUTES HAD ticked by slowly as Quinn finished her meal, shoving the last forkful of pasta between her lips. What was it about Aiden Odell that made her want to spill her guts?

Perhaps it was because he’d opened up to her, too. As much as she hated that he’d been handed her job on a silver platter—while she had to fight to prove herself—he was being honest with her. What if he really had been about to tell her the truth the night they met?

“What are you thinking?” His deep voice broke her concentration.

“Just getting up in my own head.”

“You do that a lot, don’t you?”

A smile pulled at her lips. “And you don’t?”

“Touché.” His eyes crinkled at their corners. “But you can tell me what’s going on. I can’t be the only one getting all deep and meaningful tonight.”

God, he looked so damn sexy. So at ease in his environment, like he belonged. She had to fight the urge to reach across the table and run her fingertips along his stubble-roughened jaw.

She was sick of being scared, sick of wanting sex and then feeling guilty for it. Sick of denying herself because some creep had screwed her over.

But how could she admit that she’d been dumb enough not to notice her boyfriend—the one who’d supposedly loved her—was streaming video of them having sex to a bunch of people? Not to mention what had happened in the aftermath...

She squeezed her eyes shut.

“Quinn?” Aiden placed his hand over hers and she forced herself not to flinch.

“I want to be normal,” she whispered.

As she wrenched her gaze away from the floor and up to him, she’d expected to see pity. Sympathy. Panic, even.

But what she got was something else entirely. Anger blazed in his eyes like a house fire, terrifying and out of control. All consuming.

The silence absorbed her. For a moment she wondered if he could see what had happened flickering across her face like an old reel of film. Revealing her deepest, darkest secrets.

“Someone hurt you,” he said. Not a question, a simple statement.

“Yes.” She reached over the table and grabbed his beer, bringing it to her lips and downing it in one long swig. Desperate to drown out the voices telling her she was headed straight for danger. “That’s where I learned that I can’t trust people.”

She was through with people like Zach the Horrible intimidating her, through with missing out on something she’d loved so much before the webcam incident. Sleeping with Aiden that first night had been a step forward, a test to see if she could change.

A test she’d passed.

“Will you take me home?” She held her breath, watching the uncertainty mixing with lust in his expression. He had hungry eyes, but a wary mouth. “Then you can come up to my apartment.”

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea, Quinn.”

“We can play ‘Mario Kart.’” She pushed back from the table and reached for her bag. “Or are you afraid I’ll win?”

He laughed. “Never.

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