Lie For Me: Autumn (Mandrake Falls Series Romance Book 2) by Catherine Lloyd

Author:Catherine Lloyd [Lloyd, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Writewood Creations
Published: 2014-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten: She Has a Shady Past

SAWYER KISSED her again. Their bodies did not touch. He removed his hand from her chin as though even that innocent contact could be dangerous. His kiss deepened. Everything he wanted from her, he poured into that kiss. Shelby wasn’t in doubt as to what that was.

But she wasn’t as impulsive as she used to be. Shelby was beginning to discover that sex had a price tag. No matter how hard she tried to be the girl who didn’t fall in love—she always fell in love and the older she got, the longer it took her to recover from the heartbreak. Because there was always heartbreak—hers. She wasn’t willing to go down that road again, not with Sawyer, not on a whim.

Shelby broke away from him, gasping, rolling back on the cold wet grass. Every nerve in her body rebelled against the words her good sense was making her say. “I should go home.”

He bent over her, bringing his face close, so close she could feel the stubble of his beard against her cheek. Sawyer covered her with his body, part shield, part master; she couldn’t move and didn’t want to.”Stay with me. Nothing will happen to you. Just stay.”

He kissed her deeply. Her breath left her body and her resistance fled with it. She wasn’t strong enough to do the right thing for herself even after all these years. She was, as the cliché accurately described it, putty in his hands.

“Everything will happen to me,” she groaned under the assault. “It always does. When this ends you’ll be fine, but I’ll have to leave town.”

That got him. Sawyer stopped groping her. “What are you talking about?”

“I’m talking about the calls that won’t get returned. The cold shoulder. The ‘we-need-to-talk’ talk—you know—the inevitable heartbreak. You’ll be fine but I’ll have to see you every day with whoever you wind up with. I’ll fall in love with you because that’s what I do after I sleep with a man—I fall in love with him. Don’t ask me why. It must be hormones. But you won’t and the only way to save myself will be to move away from Mandrake Falls.”

“Did you fall in love with Roger?”

“Of course I did! And look where it got me. I wish I’d known this about myself then; I would have waited until we were sure about each other. I’m twenty-nine and I’ve been in love three times. Each time it gets harder to bounce back.” Shelby pushed herself up to her elbows.”Thank you for kissing me and pretending to be my boyfriend but I cannot see you naked. If you really are my friend, you will not let me see you naked.”

“Okay, I won’t let you see me naked.”

How did he do that? How did he make her feel like he was on her side? Like she was important to him. His breath was a hot wind on her skin, in her ear—and then his mouth was on hers again and Shelby didn’t stop him this time.

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