Falling for the Guy Next Door by Claire Robyns

Author:Claire Robyns [Robyns, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, best friends, small town, one night stand
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Megan couldn’t sleep. She tossed and turned until her covers strangled her and then she kicked them off with a burst of frustrated energy. She tried emptying her head of all thought, but that just left a blank canvas for a fresh slew of mind games. She should have stayed; could have spent the night in his arms.

They’d shared the bottle of wine on the beach and talked for hours, swum in the frigid ocean and warmed up afterwards with slow, lingering kisses and entwined limbs. Talked some more and watched the oranges and pinks bleed into inky blue as the sun met the horizon with spectacular grace. They’d stopped in town for calamari takeaways and eaten on the pier while Jack told her all about his upcoming exhibition at a London gallery, his eyes lit with passion as he delved into technical aspects she didn’t quite understand. It didn’t matter. With a breeze cooling the muggy evening, his thigh brushing hers as their legs dangled off the end of the pier, his enthusiasm rumbled out on a sexy baritone that washed her senses with pure pleasure. And then he’d brought her home and taken his sweet time adoring every inch of her body.

Dragging herself away from his warmth, her limbs drugged with his lovemaking and the heaviness of sleep invading her muscles, had felt like the hardest thing she’d ever had to do.

It wasn’t.

Waking up in Jack’s bed, watching his eyes shut down as he back-pedalled from the night before, tripping over his own feet in his haste to leave…a repeat performance of the last time she’d woken up beside him would have been much, much worse.

Sleep must have claimed her eventually, because next thing she was drifting awake, her head groggy but her senses seeking out the disturbance that had roused her. She lay perfectly still and held her breath. Nothing to hear, except the familiar echo of the churning ocean. She released that breath, was just relaxing into the long descent back to sleep, when her body jerked and she was instantly wide awake.

Something wasn’t right.

She scrambled out of bed and padded across the room to peek through the drapes. The view from her window was the sloping meadow and the town nestled in the crook of the battered limestone headland that reached deep into the ocean. The sun wasn’t up yet, but the black of night had lifted and the winding pattern of streetlights far below was a dim yellow against the creeping dawn.

She let the drapes fall back into place with a sigh.

The only thing that was wrong was also the one thing that felt a hundred percent balanced, whether she liked it or not. Jack was leaving. Assuming she’d been the unfinished business keeping him here, well, he’d definitely taken care of that yesterday. Twice over. She rolled her shoulders and took a deep, calming breath. No regrets.

She went through to her office and switched her computer on so it could boot up while she brewed her morning coffee.

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