Escaping Reality by Jones Lisa Renee

Author:Jones, Lisa Renee [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Mystery, Adult, Suspense
ISBN: 9780985817084
Publisher: Lisa R. Jones
Published: 2013-07-12T06:00:00+00:00

Ten minutes after arriving for our reservations at North, a chic

modern restaurant with frosty dangling lights and steel and glass tables,

Liam and I are sitting inside a high-backed half-moon-shaped booth that

seems to hug us in privacy. Our twenty-something attractive blonde

waitress takes our orders of pasta and salads, batting her eyes at Liam in

the process, clearly smitten with him, but then so are most of the females

in the place from what I could tell on our arrival. He, however, is a perfect,

suave gentlemen, neither disrespectful to her nor encouraging for that

matter, casting me warm looks in the process. I am charmed and

remarkably at ease with her flirtation considering my inexperience and his

good looks.

Reluctantly the woman tears her eyes from Liam and departs, and a

waiter appears by our table with the insanely expensive bottle of

champagne Liam has ordered for us. Once the top has been popped and

our glasses are filled, Liam and I are finally alone.

Liam lifts his glass, shifting in his seat to stare down at me and his

blue eyes might as well be red fire, they burn so hot. “To new friends and

lovers.”

Goose bumps lift on my skin at the intimacy of his words, ripples of

awareness tingling across my chest, down to my belly, and I am blown away

by how easily Liam affects me. No one has ever come close to doing this to

me, but then, I know the sweetness of his mouth on mine.

The perfection of his body intimately molded against me. I know

what it is like to fall asleep in his arms.

I clink my glass to his, but I cannot repeat the sultry words of his

toast. Liam waylays my escape, reaching forward as my hand withdraws,

and gently shackles my wrist. He arches a dark brow and his face is etched

in silent reproach and yes, challenge. This man challenges me at every turn.

Irrationally, nerves flutter in my stomach. I have been naked with Liam,

with my fingers laced behind my back, and somehow, I feel more naked

here and now than I did then. But I am so very tired of hiding from

everything, most especially myself. And somehow hiding from me is hiding

from him.

Delicately, I clear my throat. “To new friends and lovers,” I repeat,

and I watch the approval in his eyes, and suddenly I know what feels

different about this moment than when we’d been making love, or rather,

fucking, as Liam has called it. Here, in public, there is no veil of spontaneity

to hide behind, and in this moment, there is no lie spoken to deny what is

burning between us. This is the most intimate I have been with this man, or

any man for that matter.

We both sip our champagne and the bubbles blossom in my mouth,

both tart and sweet, like this night with Liam. Like everything with Liam.

“Good?” he inquires.

I nod and set my glass down and he does the same. “It’s delicious.”

“So are you.”

Blood rushes to my cheeks and I am so out of my safe zone it’s not

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