His Forever Girl_A New Orleans Ladies Novel by Liz Talley

Author:Liz Talley [Talley, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: ARTalley Books, LLC
Published: 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

GRAHAM LOOKED DOWN at Tess as she stood in front of him, chest heaving with emotion, green eyes resolute, and his heart ached.

He should take her home and be done with her. After all, she’d made everything so damn difficult in his life. Things were supposed to be good—he had a decent job and a steady paycheck. Emily had fallen back into the same easy relationship they’d shared that summer. Monique had taken the high road… for a little while at least. Life smelled like a summer rose.

Yet Tess was the thorn pricking him.

He thought about her constantly. The way her skin felt beneath his fingertips, the scent of her hair, the way she’d made love to him, fierce and tender at the same time. He wanted her desperately.

But he was so far away from having Tess, he might as well be standing on the other side of the world.

And her leaving Ullo had made his workplace a living hell. Not only was he juggling more than what he’d signed on for, but the staff resented him. The coffee Billie brought him was old, papers were misplaced, and a cold shoulder would have been welcome compared to the icy reception he’d received. It was a wonder he didn’t have frostbite.

Everything would be so good if Tess would come back. Damn her stubborn pride.

“Don’t shut the door, Tess,” he said, giving a last-ditch effort to bring her to him… even if it was begrudging.

“The door is already shut.” Her delicious lips pressed into a line and she crossed her arms.

“No, it’s not,” he murmured, brushing her hair back from her face.

She batted his hand, even as something hummed between them. He felt the buzz of desire and knew she felt it, too. “I can’t, Graham. Things are too complicated. We made our beds, and now we’ll lie in them whether they’re lumpy or not.”

“Somehow I don’t think lumps would bother me a bit as long as you were in that bed with me. I still think about you tangled in those soft sheets.”

“That’s all we can ever be—a memory,” she said, her glance dropping to his mouth before shooting back up to his eyes. “We can’t go backward.”

“You can tell yourself all kinds of things, Tess, but convincing yourself you don’t feel something and actually feeling something… Those are two different things.” He clasped her elbows and brought her to him.

Tess let him.

More than anything he wanted to kiss her, but after the afternoon she’d had, he knew it would be manipulating her emotions for his gain, so he merely wrapped his arms around her and held her with tender resolve.

Tess was angry and hurt, but she needed him. This he knew. For a few seconds she held herself stiff, refusing to relax, but suddenly, as if someone had cut an invisible string, she sagged against him, wrapping her arms around him, her face tucked against his chest.

For a full minute, he held her, dropping the occasional kiss atop her head, begging his body to remember this wasn’t about sex.

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