Bad Mistake--A Scorching Hot Romance by JC Harroway

Author:JC Harroway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-28T18:09:07+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Nick

I FEEL HER questions build as I lie still under her, the painful thud of my heart mocking the calm, controlled exterior I’m trying to project. But she cut my restraint to shreds. I close my eyes, flashbacks going off behind my eyelids. Brooke embracing this club when I knew it was her first experience. Dancing for me, her beautiful stare displaying her every feeling. Her sexy striptease and how she instinctively heightened my desperation for her through a hint of denial...

She gave me everything I said I needed and it still wasn’t enough to keep me in control. Because she’s perfect. Too perfect. Still as dangerous as a steel blade to my throat.

Panic rolls through my stomach. I don’t need her to be any more of a temptation. I can’t allow this connection to get away from me. And yet in less than three days she’s managed to bewitch me so thoroughly, I’m already hard again. Desperate to touch her again and again and again...

But good sex is an emotional experience. That doesn’t mean I can allow this woman to undo the barriers I’ve spent years constructing. Barriers that make me the man I am. The man I want to be.

I don’t want to hurt her but, from her pensive silence and the wounded expression I caught on her face as I pulled her down to the mattress, I guess I already have with my messed-up need to stay detached.

Yeah...real detached, dickhead.

I wanted her so damned much that I almost lost my mind. Almost lost complete control. With every ragged breath I try to claw it back. But the sick sense of dread tells me it might be too late.

‘Why didn’t you come inside me?’ she asks, her question jabbing between my ribs.

I bide my time, my fingers toying with her short silky hair, which smells like sunshine and sin. I could lie. Construct some excuse that won’t expose the very heart of me and how I’m too twisted and ruined for any woman, let alone a woman like Brooke. But she’s smart, and after everything she’s given me tonight she deserves more than the scraps I’ve given her up to now.

Her gentle reassurance earlier over lunch all but slayed me. I want you to know that you can talk to me, if you need to. That you can trust me.

But no amount of talk will change what I did, or return what I lost. This post-coital emotion is as pointless as my regret. It changes nothing.

She must feel the defeated exhale that recoils my chest under her head.

‘I don’t have any infections and I’m on birth control, if that’s what you’re worried about.’ She looks up, a pinch of confusion settled between her brows and a glimmer of hurt lingering in her eyes. ‘And you were wearing a condom so...you know...double protection.’

I’ve hurt her. Hurt and insulted her.

Fuck.

I rest my hands on her back, stroking her warm skin so I can find the strength to formulate the right words.

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