By Mutual Consent by Tracey Richardson

Author:Tracey Richardson [Richardson, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781594934759
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2015-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Sarah’s attention wandered throughout the flight to Fort Myers. She’d spent five minutes on the same page of Helen Humphreys’ new novel, and she was envious of Joss’s remarkable concentration. You could set a clock to the regularity with which she turned pages of The New England Journal of Medicine in her lap, her brow furrowed in concentration as she read. Clearly, Joss was not nearly as anxious about the trip as Sarah.

Sarah’s heart leapt to her throat every time she thought about what might happen between them tonight. Or if not tonight, then one of the six nights they’d be spending in the cozy, two-bedroom, beachside cottage. She was ready to give in to the fathomless physical need to be close to Joss—to touch her, taste her, kiss her. To be touched and tasted and kissed by her. To be held in her arms. To be swallowed whole by those green eyes that looked at her with a desire that seemed greater each time they were together. Sarah felt the connection between them growing in her body too. An innocent touch by Joss was now enough to ignite a spark that could nearly destroy her. She couldn’t imagine how a romantic, sexually charged touch might unravel her.

By the time their hired car pulled into the driveway of crushed seashells outside the white clapboard cottage, Sarah began to doubt all her preconceived conclusions about the trip. What if she’d gotten the signals all mixed up? What if Joss simply wanted some innocent companionship? Or worse, what if she dove into that thick briefcase of work she’d brought with her and hardly bothered with her at all? Sarah had brought only a sketchbook and a couple of novels to read. Would she have to amuse herself most of the week? Do her own thing and only be at Joss’s beck and call when she felt like a distraction? That would mean their trip was merely an extension of their little arrangement back home, and that was not at all what Sarah had in mind when she’d agreed to come here.

The truth was, she was growing weary of their arrangement and all its constrictions. It’d been fun at the start and provided her a much-needed financial boost. They’d pulled the whole stunt off remarkably well, she thought, and they’d grown to be good friends in the process. But she liked Joss as more than simply a friend. She was attracted to her. So attracted that she was nearly ready to throw herself naked in front of her. But the attraction was not limited to physical. She wanted, needed, to cross the boundaries and explore the forbidden emotional territory between them. She ached to find out if her gut instinct was right—that there was a very special bond between them, that they’d begun to need one another. Whenever she looked inside her heart these days, there was Joss, staking out a bigger and bigger claim. With a little more time together, she could, she realized, very easily fall in love with her.

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