What the Heart Wants by Rebecca Hunter

Author:Rebecca Hunter [Hunter, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Adult romance, athlete, beach, contemporary romance, hockey romance, international, destination romance, multicultural, read, romance, Sexy, sports, Sweden, travel
Publisher: Rebecca Hunter
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

Complicated

For the second time in two days, I found myself pacing. This time, I was in my kitchen, waiting for the coffee to boil. On the table across from the stove, my laptop was open, waiting for me. After two weeks here in Sweden, I had turned in the first of my interviews, the one with Veronica. The response to the series was overwhelmingly positive. It was the break I needed for this career change to work.

Which meant I should be focusing on setting up the next interview.

Instead, my mind stubbornly returned to thoughts that had nothing to do with my career. Like the look on Niklas’s face when he stormed out my door. Now, while I stood at the stove, waiting for the coffee to boil, my thoughts skipped back to the night we had spent together. My fingers tingled with the physical memory of his body as he stood over me, his mouth on mine, the ferocity lurking behind his slow kisses. His hands had explored my thighs and hips, pulling me closer.

But what had surprised me most was that fulfilling my desires with Niklas had left me wanting more. I had thought it would be the opposite. Over the years, I had had tastes of passing attractions. I had felt this kind of pull, the kind that could quickly evolve into infatuation: a hyper-awareness of a man’s every move, each half-glance in my direction, each casual gesture. But it didn’t take long to understand that initial attraction wasn’t enough. I knew how easily the lure of infatuation faded when the fantasy of the unknown was gone. Nothing ever fit quite as well as I had imagined it.

This was different. Something about Niklas fit with me in a way I hadn’t known was possible. I had assumed that acting on my fantasies would expose these encounters with Niklas for what they really were: lust, nothing more. But instead of casting the harsh light of reality, the long, beautiful night with Niklas stoked something deeper inside of me, something that I was trying hard to ignore, though I knew well that ignoring it was exactly what I should be doing.

More than once over the last two days, I had thought about how quickly professional athletes went through women, especially those with the kind of base, brutish sex appeal that Niklas had. It might as well be part of his job description. And I was leaving soon, so any glimmer of hope that he, too, felt something more than intense sexual attraction after our night together ultimately didn’t matter. This couldn’t be more than temporary.

I let out a deep sigh. My body might refuse to let the memory of Niklas’s touch go, but I could coax my mind somewhere else. The empty email field at the top of the screen stared back at me. Veronica had sent me a few leads for my next interview, and all I had to do was send those people a message. But after the second article, I was on my own.

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