Temporary to Tempted--A fake wedding date romance by Jessica Lemmon

Author:Jessica Lemmon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-01-11T14:13:34+00:00

Thirteen

“That was a close one.” Andy had been on the spot in front of her sisters. The jig would’ve well and truly been up if she’d even hinted at the fact that hers and Gage’s first time had been today.

“I thought I’d whisk you out of there before you had to make up a story about the first time we had sex. You liked me coming to your rescue.” He tossed their suite’s key card on the counter where they’d had sex hours earlier, and then he gripped her hips, pulling her in front of him. “Admit it.”

He’d been dying to kiss her again all evening, and while he hadn’t minded leaving her sisters with something to chew on, out-and-out PDA seemed over-the-top for Andy.

“I did love it.” She swept her fingers into his hair and toyed with the curled ends. “You claimed me.”

His eyes sought hers, lost in the depths of those earnest blues. Andrea Payne was a woman who was smooth and detached on the outside. A woman who knew what she wanted and how to get it. A woman who, to achieve a goal, would approach a man in a bar and offer him two grand to come with her to a wedding. What she didn’t know about herself, and what Gage was trying to show her, was that she was also soft and caring, giving and loving. She was sensitive and demure, and the slightest bit shy, and every one of those attributes did it for him. Especially when they came wrapped in a package of freckles and strawberry hair and blue eyes so bright he could sink into them for days.

He blinked, jerking his chin back in shock. Normally when it came to women he wasn’t this...poetic. Could be the cognac. Could be the setting—love was in the air.

Or it could be that he’d been taking this pretend role of boyfriend to real extremes.

He hadn’t been a boyfriend in a long, long time. The last time he’d escalated to fiancé and that wasn’t something he was interested in repeating. When Laura left, he’d felt filleted. Like someone had stripped out his bones and left him a heap of flesh on the floor.

Yeah, no repeats on that, thanks.

“No one would’ve believed we waited eight months before making love on a countertop at my sister’s wedding retreat.” She played with his hair some more. “We didn’t wait more than a few weeks before we caved.”

“Two weeks too long,” he admitted, his earlier reminiscing forgotten.

Right now was about right now.

He’d didn’t typically worry about the future and he’d be damned if he ruined the weekend with it now. He moved her hair over her shoulder. “When you came at me like a lioness in that bar, I’d decided to take you home and damn the consequences.”

“Is that so?” She tilted one eyebrow. “What about that cute bartender you’d been flirting with all evening? Did you swap her for me so easily?”

“You were watching me.” He narrowed his eyes in accusation.

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