Secret Love (Love Collection Book 1) by Natalie Ann

Author:Natalie Ann [Ann, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-02T23:00:00+00:00

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He knew right away who was knocking on his door. He could pretend he wasn’t home, but it wouldn’t do any good. Piper could just look in the parking lot and see his car.

He had left this morning. Ran out to the store quick when most people would consider it still the middle of the night, picked up a few groceries, and came back. He hadn’t been able to sleep, so he didn’t even try.

Instead he pulled his weights out of his closet and went through a workout routine, hoping it’d exhaust him enough, but it didn’t. He should have been worn out as it was, but since he was still wide awake, he figured no exercise routine would tire him either.

He made his way to the door and pulled it open. There she was, standing there in shorts and a T-shirt. Barefoot again. Like she was walking around the same house they might have shared rather than walking in the hallway to get to his door.

What she was holding told him he was getting breakfast and he was going to love it. The homey smell of cinnamon mixed with a vanilla sweetness. “Come on in,” he said.

She looked at him, tilted her head, then brushed against him, gave him a kiss, and all those insecurities about last night just vanished. “Good morning. I thought maybe you’d need some fuel today.”

“I’ve had one workout already, so I could use some sugar.”

“Sugar here?” she said, holding the pan up. “Or sugar here?” she said, wrapping one arm around his neck and pulling him in.

“Both,” he said, surprising himself for saying that out loud. So much for keeping things close to his chest.

“Now you’re thinking,” she said, walking right by him and sitting at his counter. Making herself at home once again.

“About what?”

“About what happened last night. Which, by the way, was pretty darn spectacular. I’m kind of hoping to have a few more nights like that in the future.”

“Only a few?” he asked.

“Well, as many as we want. But you’re thinking, what’s the next step? That you’ve only known me a few weeks. We’ve had a few dates. We had fabulous sex and oh crap, she lives next door to me. I can’t avoid her now even if I wanted to. Not unless I move out. But then you’d be breaking your lease and that’d cost you a lot more money than just being honest with me.”

“Has anyone ever told you that you do a really good job of portraying someone that doesn’t know as much as you do? That you’re damn intuitive?”

“I don’t hide much. I guess I just judge people well. And those I can’t, I keep talking to them until I figure it out. I didn’t need to talk to you all that much. Actions speak louder in your case. So am I right?”

“About what?” he asked, as she grabbed the knife out of his hand and sliced him a generous slab of coffee cake. He swiped his

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