Three Times Love: 3 Full Length Novels by Alison Kent

Author:Alison Kent [Kent, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance
Published: 2014-03-07T23:00:00+00:00

He hadn't meant to kiss her. He really hadn't. And now he damn sure wished that kiss had never happened, because he could think of nothing else.

The big white bandage swathing his left thumb proved the point. He hadn't missed with a hammer in years.

Four days ago, the morning after their ill-fated showdown, he'd purposefully delayed his arrival until noon, counting on the fact that if she'd stuck to her usual timetable, Eden would be busy in the shop.

After skulking through the back door into the kitchen, he'd spent the day boxing up the contents of her two kitchen cabinets before tearing them down from the wall. The mindless labor gave him too much time to think, and his imagination took over where the kiss left off.

Seconds into picturing Eden naked and stretched out on his bed, he'd brought the hammer down on his thumb, effectively derailing his train of thought, as well as a good day's work.

Friday morning he'd shown up minutes after she opened shop and worked like a madman to finish dismantling and hauling away the debris before she closed The Fig Leaf at five.

The worst part of those few days had been passing her in the hallway, or running into her in the kitchen, with nothing more than a mumbled, "Hi." That, and the meals he'd eaten alone.

He'd sat on the tailgate of his truck and chewed a tasteless ham and cheese sandwich, thinking of the reasons he'd moved to Arbor Glen, reasons he'd done a good job of sitting on until, with Eden's simply asked questions, he'd opened a vein and bled out his past.

And until he'd been stupid enough to kiss her.

Feeling her warm lips pressed against his had been the purest kind of torture. But a different kind of torture than forcing her to understand who and what he was.

He hadn't wanted sympathy. Or pity. And neither was what she'd offered. What she wanted to give him he couldn't take without hating himself for the rest of his life.

He and Eden had no future. She was a determined single woman, making a life for herself and her unborn children. And that life might one day take her back into the jaws of the very monster that had wreaked havoc on Jace's life.

He wasn't about to confront the demon on its own feeding grounds. Yeah, he was afraid. He knew the lure of success, the high that came with celebrity, with every professional coup.

Knew, too, that avoiding temptation was the surest way to guarantee that he wouldn't fall back into those old traps. And avoiding temptation meant keeping his distance from the woman who could take him there.

Right now he wasn't able to completely understand what he felt for Eden. Their relationship had gone way past business and though it pained him to admit it, way past friendship. He owed her an apology for walking out the way he had. "I'm sorry" didn't seem like enough.

This first day of the Spring Fest seemed busy. Even at nine o'clock this morning, he'd barely been able to pull into the traffic on Highway 37.

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