Hard Compromise (Compromise Me) by Samanthe Beck

Author:Samanthe Beck [Beck, Samanthe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotic romance, Valentine's Day, NYE, contemporary romance, Sexy, Wrong side of the tracks, woman in peril, entangled, New Year's Eve, Erotic, brazen, one night stand, Samanthe Beck, one-night stand, Sam Beck
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-11-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

I’ve called you. I’ve texted you. What do I get for my efforts? Silence. Don’t make me come over there…

Booker sighed at the screen of his phone. His mother rarely issued idle threats, but he planned to ignore the text anyway, because she wasn’t the woman he wanted to see right now.

There’s someone I want you to meet before your sister’s wedding…

He slammed the front door behind him and threw his keys and phone on the narrow table he’d put there for the express purpose of saving himself the pain of searching for the damn things every morning. Too bad he couldn’t resolve other pains quite so easily.

A week spent in a semi-constant state of blue balls surely set some kind of record. One he preferred not to hold, obviously, but it was what it was. The sound of his footfalls changed from hushed thuds on the refinished oak floor to distinct treads on the black-and-white octagonal tile in the kitchen. A rummage through his nearly empty fridge produced a cold beer. He twisted the cap off, took a long swallow, and considered his options.

Avoiding the cause of his torment hadn’t helped—though it had proved easier than expected. A normal week of circulating through their town generally put him in Lauralie’s path at some point, but without the bakery as her control center, her daily routine had become less predictable.

So much for seeing her around.

He flicked his beer cap into the trash and wandered to the large, arched window over the sink to stare at the view—just enough light left in the day to identify the outlines of Channel Islands in the distance, but nothing unique enough to distract him from his thoughts. They wandered to Lauralie whenever he didn’t keep them on a leash, and that was bad enough. But his dreams? Those were impossible to control. His subconscious refused to wear a leash. It treated him to feverish and all too lifelike fantasies.

The longing went beyond a physical ache. He missed her. Not just her body, or the sex. He missed her smart mouth and her hard head. Over the better part of ten years she’d worked her way under his skin, and there was no quick, painless way of getting her out.

Even knowing this, he’d spent the last week fighting relentless urges to engineer things so he would, in fact, see her around. He resisted, in part because arranging a “coincidental” encounter involved resorting to stalker-ish shit like staking out her apartment, but in larger part because the ruse wouldn’t work. They’d both know he had given in, and, frankly, weaseling a confrontation ran afoul of his ethics. If he caved, he’d at least do it in a straightforward way—come to her door, tell her she had five seconds to slam it in his face or prepare for the ride of her life, and then do his level best to fuck an answer out of her.

Did your mother’s visit have anything to do with why I

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