The Surprising Catch, Complete Series (An Alpha Billionaire In Love BBW Romance) by Alexa Wilder

Author:Alexa Wilder [Wilder, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-19T18:30:00+00:00

3

Ashley

After a slight detour to clean themselves up and try to look presentable, they went down to the kitchen and found Maude at the table and Frank leaning back against the stove, the silence in the room thick enough to cut. As Preston and Ashley entered, Maude looked up at them hopefully, then slumped with dejection when Preston shook his head.

“We couldn’t find the lighter in either of their rooms.”

“And I don’t have it on me, look,” Frank said, tugging out the inside of his pockets. Maude narrowed her eyes over at him, but didn’t question his display of innocence.

“We think Larry probably lost it,” Preston said. “When the snow clears and we can get some of the staff in, we’ll do a full search for it.”

She smiled sadly at him, something like appreciation, and they all startled a little when Karen crashed into the room behind them, heels click-clacking on the solid floor.

“There’s a phone ringing out in the foyer,” she said, breezing past them and heading straight for the coffee machine.

Preston inclined his head, saying, “Excuse me,” and went off to investigate. A moment later, clearly feeling supremely awkward, Frank followed him.

Ashley considered what to do next, whether to slip away and finally take the second shower she’d been wanting all day, or stay and have some coffee, wait for Preston to return. She still hadn’t had time to fully process what had happened between them, so swept up in the intimacy of it, of finding pleasure in another person’s body, of not getting enough of each other.

Not just anyone’s body—Preston’s. This was very specifically him. Everything she’d achieved with him, from showing her body to making love, it was all on him. She’d had offers the past few months—of course she had. A new doctor in pediatrics had courted her for a few weeks, pulled all the classic flowers-and-chocolates moves, but in the end she’d never quite felt the moment was right to even kiss him, let alone fall into the kind of intimacy she’d found with Preston in just a few short days.

And she’d even joined a dating site briefly, went on a total of three dates. The third date she’d thought she’d struck gold—a chef at a five-star restaurant, affable and funny, with a twinkle in his eye that made her want to smile without reason. But when it came time to call him back and arrange the second date, she found she never really had time, always an excuse, a late shift here, a headache there. Nothing made her want to take the leap and get closer to another man, despite how much she’d liked him.

Not until Preston, and he’d had her since day one. Way back at Cami’s wedding, when she’d lost control of her senses and thrown herself at him in a closet before drowning in embarrassment and fleeing. And then Maggie’s wedding, when she’d very nearly slept with him—and she hadn’t stopped him because she didn’t want to have sex, or didn’t feel it was right.

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