Unexpectedly His by Maggie Kelley

Author:Maggie Kelley [Kelley, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance;category;romance;Entangled;Lovestruck;geek;fake relationship;fake engagement;contemporary romance
Amazon: B012NCODYG
Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck
Published: 2015-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Live in the present, but plan for the future.”

—mantelligence.com

Maybe it was the glasses.

Nick sat behind the desk in his home office, his fingers tapping out the rhythm of John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, wondering how the hell he’d gotten so caught up in the moment last night. The normal logic of his rules and his partnership plan and his need for short-term had booked a flight to Miami Beach, and now that he’d crossed the off-limits line, a slew of new things topped his list of favorites.

Like his fiancée lying back against the leather cushions, all soft lips and steamed-up horn-rims, skin flushed and heated, blue eyes filled with a combination of innocence and unconstrained desire. Those favorites. He’d figured out the puzzle. Solved the mystery. Marianne was the cake girl. Now it was time to move on—like always.

Except that he couldn’t get her off his damn mind. Which was crazy. He was a man with rules. A man used to a different woman every other week.

Yeah, had to be the glasses. Why else would he feel so…protective? Well, protective and horny as hell. Devil damned if he understood it, but those specs were a major turn-on. Maybe it was some kind of librarian fantasy. He made a low sound in the back of his throat and shifted in the chair, suddenly uncomfortable in his casual, work-at-home jeans.

A cold shower might keep him from thinking about the glasses. Except Little Miss Slip-Aside-My-Cardigan-and-Take-Me was down the hall. If he laid eyes on her, he’d strip away the cardigan and the glasses—and whatever else she was wearing. Strip it away slowly, caressing the line of her spine, until his fingers tangled in the hair at the back of her neck and tugged her head back to gaze into those baby blues, so deep and vulnerable, bright with desire…

His hands slammed down on the armchair.

What the hell was wrong with him?

No matter how much heat was between them, he wasn’t a love kind of guy and she needed a love kind of man, a man willing to move to Connecticut, crank out the unachievable 2.5 kids and drive a freaking Prius. Not some wayward guy from Brooklyn zip-lining through relationships dictated by rules like No Sundays during football season. Not that there was anything wrong with rules and zip lines. He liked rules and zip lines. Liked them a lot.

But he liked Marianne, too, and when his sister found out how far he’d let things go with her friend—and in the space of a few days—she’d make him pay. Better to rein it in now. Like he had last night, when Marianne had wanted to reciprocate. He’d known then—as he did now—if his dick had made it out of his pants that he wouldn’t have stopped.

He’d never manage to honor a promise to a woman like Marianne. Smart, sweet, sexy as a summer night of jazz at the Blue Note. A total surprise, the kind of woman who deserved a good man.

But not the kind of woman for him.

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