Sausage King: An Enemies-to-Lovers Romantic Comedy by Tara Crescent

Author:Tara Crescent [Crescent, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

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Dakota

Who am I kidding? Of course, I'm going to invite him in.

For a year, I've been fantasizing about Julian. For a year, I've wanted another night with him. I'm tired of fighting how I feel. I'm tired of pretending I don't want this.

When I thought that Rana and Julian were on a date, I’d been upset and jealous. I'm not the jealous sort. When it comes to Julian King, my emotions are topsy-turvy. All my rationality goes flying out of the window.

Why is that?

There was no reason to believe that Rana and Julian are an item, and I'd still assumed the worst. There was no reason to think that Julian would have sabotaged my sauce, and yet, that's where my mind went.

I know why. I’m running scared. I throw up these barriers to drive a wedge between us.

It’s too late. I’m already in too deep.

Tomorrow morning, I’ll start over. Tomorrow morning, I’ll push him away.

Tonight, I don’t have the strength. He’s at my door, holding an apron in his hands. He’s told me something real about himself. It's a chink in the armor of Julian's overwhelming self-confidence, and it makes him human.

It makes him irresistible.

“I have some ground rules,” I tell him. “This thing, whatever it is, it's just for tonight. It doesn't change anything between us. You and me, we’re still in competition for that restaurant permit. I intend to beat the crap out of you. Tomorrow morning, we wake up, and go our separate ways.

Something flickers in his expression. “Okay.”

He's standing in my living room. I don't know how to play this. Exactly a year ago, Julian King had been in my home, and I’d had the best sex of my life. More than that. Julian had been everything I wanted in a man.

A year later, that hasn’t changed. I want him with painful intensity. My emotions are too close to the surface. My heart is exposed, and I'm terrified. It feels like I'm standing at the edge of an abyss, and I'm about to fall into a pit from which I cannot emerge.

I'm a minute away from turning into a blubbering mess. I’m fighting the urge to cling to Julian and beg him to never leave me, and I can't stand how vulnerable I feel.

He thought I was brave and fearless. I'm anything but that. If he only knew what a coward I really was, the look of admiration in his eyes will change to disgust. If he knew how fucked up I really am, he’d sneak out in the middle of the night. Just like my father.

Keep it light. Make a joke. This is Julian, remember? You can never go wrong with a sausage pun.

“So, Julian.” I paste a bright smile on my face. “Are you going to stuff your sausage meat into my casing?”

He groans out loud. “That is a terrible line, sweetness.”

“Admit it. You can dish it out, but you can't take it.”

His lips twitch. “Take off your clothes, Dakota,” he says with characteristic directness.

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