Adoring Alejandro: An Unrequited Love Romance (Falling Down Book 3) by Eve Black

Author:Eve Black [Black, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Falling Down #3
Publisher: Eve Black
Published: 2022-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

After a week split between work, spending time with Denise, and avoiding an even quieter and more withdrawn Maeve, AJ kissed Denise goodbye. The goodbye kiss was decidedly more forced that the one he’d given her that first day—and he hated it. He hated that the woman he’d been so eager to meet no longer inspired the lust or passion she had in her emails. She’d tried to seduce him throughout the week, but he’d held her off with promises of “taking that step” after she was moved and settled, and they could continue getting to know one another. The night before her departure, she’d begged him to come with her so they could spend more time together, but he’d declined. His excuse was his it was Christmas the following week. The truth was, the thought of spending another minute with her made him jittery.

Denise was the kind of woman you handled in small doses, and one whole week with her was enough of a dose to hold him over until Armageddon.

With a pout in her lips and the promise to call and text every day, Denise headed back to Miami to start the process of listing her condo and getting her house packed for the move.

To Jackson Key. Where he lived.

The excitement he expected to feel—he wanted to feel—wasn’t there. Instead, there was only an icy, slowly spreading anxiety.

What the fuck was wrong with him?

“Okay, what the hell is wrong with you?” Sally plopped down on the white leather couch beside him, nearly spilling the margarita in her hand. She was just on the other side of drunk, when Sassy Sallina made an appearance, and her usual filter—already dangerously thin—disappeared.

“What do you mean?” he asked, leaning forward to put his still full beer bottle on the coffee table…and to give himself something to do other than to focus on who wasn’t there.

Maeve had been invited to spend Christmas with them, but she’d declined, telling Sally that she wasn’t feeling good and wouldn’t want to “intrude on a family thing” anyway.

He remembered the look on Maeve’s face when she’d spotted him with Denise that first day. Pale. Stricken. So, he could guess at her sudden “illness.”

God…he needed to talk to her. To explain. To apologize. He’d never meant for their—whatever the hell it was—to go as far as it did. He never meant to hurt her, though he knew he did. Maeve was a gentle soul, someone who put their whole emotions into something. And their shared kisses…they’d been passionate, hot, blazing with need, desire, and unspoken yearning. Maeve had given of herself in those kisses.

Like Swan had that night in the dark….

Shaking off that thought, AJ flicked his gaze to the open French doors. Anna was outside curled up on a lounger next to Blaze who was arguing Fantasy Football with Sly.

Though it was Christmas, it was like any other Saturday night, and AJ and his sister and their friends were settled in a Sly’s beachfront mansion for a BBQ and drinks.

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