Forever Starts Now by London Stefanie

Author:London, Stefanie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Small Town Romance;Fake relationship romance;Australian;Widower;Stefanie London;Mass Market Paperback Romance;Entangled Publishing;Amara;Kissing Creek Series;Forever Starts Now by Stefanie London;Contemporary Romance;Romantic Comedy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Monroe wasn’t sure why she was feeling this way. Was it a sugar high? Some kind of hot guy magic? Or maybe she’d accidentally electrocuted herself and this was some kind of coma-dream?

“I guess we’re not so different after all,” he said. Ethan’s blue eyes roamed her face and the pound of his pulse against her palm was surprisingly erotic. He was still holding her hand in place, and they were close.

So close.

“You’re not as grumpy as me,” she said with a laugh.

“I don’t think you’re as grumpy as you think you are. You care about your family more than anything, you take care of your colleagues, you work hard and…well, you’ve helped me and I’m just a stranger.”

“You don’t feel like a stranger,” she said, without thinking about what it meant. Without thinking that it might shatter a barrier between them that she desperately needed.

But it was true. Ethan felt like someone she could have known her whole life—he was open, warm, self-effacing. He was exactly the kind of man she always dreamed of.

“You don’t feel like a stranger, either.” He slipped one hand along her jaw, driving his fingers into her hair.

The air snapped and popped around them and Monroe felt her eyes flutter shut in response, her body giving over to the need driving through her body. Giving over to him. When Ethan’s lips touched her own, tentative and gentle at first, and then harder and more searching, she melted into him. His strong arms wrapped around her body and pulled her close, cradling her.

She kissed him back, her lips and tongue finding a rhythm with him, and for a moment she let herself believe in it all—that this meant something, that she had this life, this future, with a man like him. She let herself drown in the fantasy of it.

Ethan backed her up and suddenly she was wedged between him and the wall of her apartment. She gasped as his body lined hers, hard everywhere. Solid and trustworthy and so, so decadent.

“We didn’t talk about this,” she said, her head rolling back and a soft moan falling from her lips as he kissed her neck. “What are the rules?”

“Ladies first?” His smile was wicked.

“I mean…” It was so very hard to speak when his hands were on her hips, solid and splayed with the tips of his fingers brushing the skin underneath her T-shirt. It was torture. “We only talked about a kiss.”

“Do you want me to stop?”

His expression turned serious, but Monroe’s mouth popped open before her poor brain even had the chance to have a say. “No.”

The lust in Ethan’s eyes was electrifying. He looked at her…

Like she was beautiful.

Like she was special.

Like she mattered.

And it had been a long time since anybody had looked at her like that. It was addictive—a sugary lollipop of emotion that made her want more, more, more. But her heart screamed out for protection.

“This doesn’t mean we’re really dating,” she said, sliding her hands up and down his chest, delighting in the way his muscles felt under her palms.

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