Hookin' Up by Tracy Broemmer

Author:Tracy Broemmer [Broemmer, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tracy Broemmer

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Since Parker had avoided Nick’s house since the night Vanessa had come for dinner, he wasn’t surprised to find Mercedes at his door halfway through the next week. Didn’t mean he was excited about finding her there or that he knew what to say to her.

That night—dinner at Nick’s house—had been both good and bad. Fun and scary as hell. Parker had been thrilled to have Vanessa there with him. He loved introducing her to Mercedes and the kids and, sort of Nick, though his older brother was definitely part of the scary as hell factor there. Parker loved seeing his niece and nephew baptize Vanessa into the family. Watching the kids climb over her lap and relax into her the same as they did with Mercedes had made him happy.

Happy in a way Parker had never known. Happy in a way Parker didn’t know he needed to be happy.

Scary. As. Hell.

Because while for seconds at a time, he could forget the true basis of his relationship with Vanessa and pretend that they were a thing, and that he could invite her over for anything and everything and then take her to his home and crawl into bed with her and love her all night, the truth would come crashing back at him like a shovel right between the eyes. She didn’t want that sort of relationship with him.

He had followed her home that night because, well, he thought he was supposed to. He and Vanessa had both been given the all-clear, so he assumed the sex fest would begin immediately. While he couldn’t wait to taste her, couldn’t wait to press his lips to hers and remember her sweet scent and the soft sounds she made in her throat when he touched just the right spot, he wasn’t ready to start. The job. The sex fest sounded like every single guy’s wet dream. Who the hell wouldn’t want a woman like Vanessa Mayne willingly naked beneath him every damned night?

But. Sex. Without a condom. Impersonal, business-like sex. Even if it was incredibly hot, he had never been a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am kind of guy.

And the money. That thought actually made him sick to his stomach.

They had snuggled together on the lounge chair. Talked about books and movies. It was the best non-date night he spent in ages. But he didn’t tell her that.

He went back two nights later. Found Vanessa on a ladder washing windows. Hair twisted up in a messy bun, long legs bare under soft shorts, and face without a lick of makeup. Vanessa hadn’t said anything, but he noticed the way she pushed the escaped strands of hair back from her face and kept her arms folded over her faded old T-shirt. She had been embarrassed for him to catch her looking like that.

Parker helped her finish the last of the first-floor windows. She offered him frozen pizza. They ate in the living room on the couch where she apparently had uninspired sex with Greg and had more recently given Parker a top-notch blow job.

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