Actually Love - Jessie & Zach by Melanie Shawn

Author:Melanie Shawn [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2014-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Jessie tapped her pen on her desk as she reread an email for probably the eighteenth time. She knew the words would make sense if she put all of them together, but sadly, her brain was not cooperating with that game plan. She was absolutely fine reading each word individually, so her sight was still on the job. Her comprehension, however, had definitely left the building.

Focus, Jessie told herself. All she needed to do was focus. Since this whole thing with Zach and the brownstone had started, her focus had flown right out the window.

Every day, when she woke up, she’d tell herself that this was the day that she was going to get a handle on it. That this would be the day she would stop obsessively thinking about Zach. Zach’s body. Zach’s voice. Zach’s touch. And every day, she failed. Miserably.

Sleep, her inner voice piped in. All she really needed was sleep. That was a great plan, but it was close to impossible to execute in her current living situation. Being right down the hall from Zach was about as conducive to getting a peaceful night’s sleep as having a newborn baby was.

Jessie’s nights were spent restlessly tossing and turning in bed. It had been bad enough that, when she was finally able to drift off to slumberland, she had begun dreaming of Zach. But now, she didn’t even have to be asleep before she had X-rated fantasies playing out in her mind while she was lying in her bed, desperately wishing that her dreams (sleeping or awake) would become reality.

Her favorite was the one where Zach knocks on her door, opens it, standing in the doorway in black boxer briefs, and says that he heard a noise so he is checking on her. She says that she’s fine, but he doesn’t take her word for it, so stalks in her room and climbs in her bed just to make sure…and oh boy, his ‘body check’ is thorough.

Sex. She knew that, if she were being honest with herself, the real issue here was not that she was lacking in the sleep and focus departments (although she abso-freaking-lutely was). Those were just symptoms of a much bigger, much more difficult problem to solve—sexual frustration.

In and of itself, being sexually frustrated would not be an insurmountable issue for someone like Jessie. The way she saw it, there were several options at her disposal to remedy that situation. One, take care of things herself. Two, expend excess energy by exercising, which also released endorphins to combat the dopamine that her body was flooded with every time she thought of Zach (not to mention what happened when she saw him). Or three, have actual sex with someone other than herself.

Giving up on the email, Jessie turned in her chair to look out over the river. Over the past few weeks, Jessie had tried options one and two on a regular basis. They were not cutting the mustard—or any other condiment for that matter.

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