Accidentally Married on Purpose: A Love and Games Novel by Harris Rachel

Author:Harris, Rachel [Harris, Rachel]
Language: ara
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: fake relationship, playboy, Marina Adair, Cindi Madsen, small town romance, musician, sweet romance, Julia London, country star, Catherine Bybee, marriage of convenience
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-07-14T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“You know what they say about a watched clock,” Tyler said, leaning his back against the couch. Sherry transferred her anxious gaze to his and raised an eyebrow. “It never moves.”

“Isn’t that a watched pot never boils?”

“Close enough.” He grinned and moved the guitar off his lap, holding out his hand. “Come over here and sit with me.” After only a slight hesitation, she slipped her fingers in his, and he tugged her onto the floor beside him. The tension in her body kept her spine locked tight, and he reached over and kneaded the muscles of her shoulder, coaxing her to relax. “It’ll be fine. I promise not to bite”—he glanced at her from the corner of his eye—“unless you ask me to.”

She rolled her eyes in a that’s never gonna happen way, but her shoulder began to loosen under his ministrations. Truth was, Tyler was anxious about sharing her bed tonight, too. Just not for the same reason.

Their plan was working. Every gossip site in the industry was speculating over Tyler and Sherry’s whirlwind romance, leaking pictures of that incredible kiss in her driveway. Arianne was like a cat that ate the cream, constantly sending him links with various messages, all renditions of, I told you so. The world was already in love with his sass-mouthed caterer, calling Sherry a “down-home sweetheart,” and after the photos of their kiss, the latest polls speculated how long it would take until she’d be in the “family way.”

Fat chance of that happening, rules or not. But the nonstop talk only fed his memories of Vegas. And three nights of sliding past each other in the hall, and three days of sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the sofa, ratcheted their sexual tension to the point of insanity. He was on two-a-day cold showers as it was; an entire night of breathing her sweet-scented skin, hearing her soft sighs near his ear might very well kill him.

Lying in the dark stripped away pretense. Cut through the bullshit to what was real. But after only a week together, real was becoming a fluid concept. When Sherry took sex off the table, he’d hated it. He’d respected her decision but didn’t think it was necessary. Now, he did. Keeping the line straight was crucial while they found balance.

It was another one of her rules, though, that he questioned—no romance in the house.

Was making out romantic?

Sherry moaned as Tyler pressed his thumb into a knot near the curve of her neck. If he didn’t know better, he’d swear she was messing with him.

“Hey, Ty?” she asked a little later, her muscles practically putty in his hands. “I need you to promise me something.”

Considering the last time she said that, he’d agreed to enforced celibacy, he was hesitant. But unsure how it could possibly get any worse, he replied, “Anything, sweet thing.”

Sherry shifted her head to look at him. Fear and vulnerability pooled in her eyes. “If I throw myself at you tonight, or even suggest we push the boundaries of our relationship…” His fingers stopped moving.

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