His Best Friend's Sister by Sarah M. Anderson

Author:Sarah M. Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-18T13:34:39+00:00

Nine

This was not how she’d planned on spending her evening—making a late-night mad dash back to Dallas for the safety of Oliver’s condo.

It wasn’t like Red Oak Hill was hers. She’d spent the equivalent of a long weekend there. But she was sadder than she wanted to admit to leave it behind. She been able to breathe there and even though she was a born-and-bred city girl and should be relieved to be back in a big city, she wasn’t.

It was true it was easier to hide in the city. But she hadn’t had to hide for a few days. She’d been able to sit on the porch and take a walk around the pond and be herself. No worries about who was going to get a terrible photo, no thoughts as to what the next headline would be. Just...peace.

If only she hadn’t ruined that.

“Did you enjoy baking the cookies?”

Renee turned her attention back to Oliver. His gaze was focused on traffic. She didn’t recognize where they were, but it wasn’t like she’d spent a lot of time driving around. She’d had a taxi take her from the airport to Oliver’s office. That was all she knew of Dallas. “I did. There was something soothing about mixing up the ingredients and hoping for the best. And when they were awful, I could try again.”

God, she sounded pathetic. But that was the truth. Wasn’t that why she’d come to Dallas and to Oliver? All she could do right now was mix things up and hope for the best.

She braced herself for a cutting comment, an affirmation that she wasn’t capable of anything other than a Pinterest fail, a warning that cookies would make her fat—something. Oliver couldn’t be happy that his house smelled burned. He couldn’t be thrilled about bringing her to yet another home on such short notice. He couldn’t enjoy the way she kept upending his life again and again.

So when he reached over and lifted her hand to his lips, pressing a tender kiss to her palm, her mouth fell open in surprise. “Then bake cookies. I won’t distract you anymore.”

Then he kissed her hand again. Sweet warmth spread from where his lips touched her bare skin and she wanted to revel in it.

Because underneath the worry and anxiety that had become her constant companion in the last few months was something new.

She and Oliver had made love. No, that felt too soft to describe what they’d done. They’d had hot, sweet, block-out-the-rest-of-the-world sex that had been a gift because he’d made her feel amazing and then, when it was over, he’d asked if she needed more. Because he was willing to give her more.

Oh, how she wanted to take him up on that offer. She’d wanted him to come upstairs and climb into the shower with her and pick up right where they’d left off before the fire department had shown up.

Instead, they were back in Dallas and any of those hot, sweet feelings had been put aside in the name of practicality.

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