Once Bitten: A Steamy Sexy Chance Romance (A O'Reilly Clan Novel Book 1) by Daisy Allen

Author:Daisy Allen [Allen, Daisy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I hadn’t tossed and turned in bed so much for as long as I could remember. Usually I collapsed into bed each night, having craved the cool, crispness of my sheets and fluffiness of my pillow hours before I made it to the bedroom for sleep. And I barely had time to turn out the light before I was dead to the world, chasing my thoughts into dreamland before they had a chance to keep me up.

I tried to blame it on jetlag but that could only last so long. I couldn’t blame it on the bed, it was everything I’d ever wanted in a bed, firm but giving, the pillows supportive but not too soft, the sheets like butter under my naked body.

It wasn’t work, Finn had proven to be an incredibly astute and knowledgeable negotiator, he put the French team at ease even though they would’ve normally have been put out that Larry could not attend. By the end, with the exception of Michel the manwhore PA, they were eating out of his hand, charmed by how much an American understood their special French ways.

So what was left?

Why did I even bother to wonder?

“Argggh!” I buried my face into the pillow screaming and kicked my legs. “Fuck!”

My mind went back to a few hours ago, Finn leaning in to kiss me, whispering goodnight and then walking back to his room. We’d agreed in the cab that we weren’t going to talk that night, and that anything that we decided could be done after a good night’s sleep. I scoffed at my past self, thinking that I would be able to sleep after the night that we had had, and with everything still up in the air.

I sat up and took a sip of the lemon water by the bed, looking out the window, losing myself in the view for a few minutes.

I wonder what 17 year old Kara would make of this? On a glamorous business trip to Europe, staying in one of the most luxurious suites in Paris, twenty steps away from Finn O’Reilly’s bedroom. After having had sex with him twice in as many days.

17 year old Kara would be dead from happiness.

I should be dying of happiness, I couldn’t help thinking. If I just forget the past and ignore anything beyond the end of this week, then everything else is perfect. And don’t I deserve that? 10 years of pining after Finn O’Reilly, and come on, even while I was hating him for the last 15 years, I was probably unconsciously pining for him, and now I had the chance to be with him, just BE with him. Shouldn’t I let myself have that? Enjoy life, everyone is always telling me. Maybe I should just listen.

I slipped out of bed, wrapping the bed sheet around me and padded through our joint living room.

Can I really do this? I asked myself as I reached up to knock on Finn’s door. Can I really pretend that

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