Naughty All Night (Lost Harbor, Alaska Book 5) by Jennifer Bernard

Author:Jennifer Bernard [Bernard, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945944604
Published: 2020-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

Darius lectured himself all the way back to the hotel about hopes, and not getting them up for nothing. But it was useless. The fact was, he’d been lusting after Kate for so long that he couldn’t ignore it anymore.

He wanted her so badly his scalp prickled.

Meeting her father didn’t change things at all. The opposite, actually. That dose of father-daughter dysfunction had made him understand so much more about Kate. Her independent spirit, her fire, even her prickliness—it all made sense now that he’d seen her with “dear old Dad.”

“Did you grow up mostly with your father?” he asked her as they sped toward the hotel in their third Lyft—taking the same precautions as before.

“Mostly, yeah. He and my mom split up when I was eight. I went back and forth between them until I was thirteen or so. Then she got together with a music producer who lives in Japan. I could have gone to live with them, but I didn’t want to leave my friends and I’ve always been bad at learning other languages. Maybe I should just learn accents like my dad.”

He slid his hand onto her thigh. “Just so you know, I have a thing for an Italian accent.”

“Hmm…espresso!” She made an Italian-ish gesture with her fingers. “Pasta, linguini! Bellini! Minestrone!”

“Now you’re just making me hungry.” He tightened his hand on her thigh, the firm curve of her flesh filling his hand. “So you stayed in California with your father?”

“Until I could emancipate myself. Had to wait until I was seventeen. But every summer I’d go to Lost Harbor and help Emma with the peony harvest. In a lot of ways, she’s the one who raised me. Things like morals and ethics and integrity and little things like that, they all came from her. Both my parents are a little sketchy in that realm.”

He scanned her profile and the clean lines of her face, like an artist’s quick and confident brushstrokes. “What’s your mother’s story?”

“My mom is a pleasure-seeking wanderlust type. Always falls for the shiny object. I always had to vet her boyfriends but she never listened. Her husband is decent, though. I don’t worry about her anymore. She had some kind of fallout with Emma, so they’re on the outs. I’m sure Emma must have been a difficult parent. But she’s an awesome grandparent.” She gave a sudden yawn. “Wow, seeing your sociopathic imprisoned father really takes it out of you.” She stretched her neck from side to side. “I feel like I could sleep for a week.”

His heart sank, and he gave himself another little mini-lecture. She’s had a nightmare couple of days. Take it easy, big guy. Just because this is our last night at the hotel. Just because we’ve been dancing around this thing the entire trip. Doesn’t mean a damn thing unless she wants it to.

Their Lyft pulled up outside their hotel. Kate took care of the payment while Darius stepped out and wrestled back his low-grade arousal. He could be patient.

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