From Hawaii to Forever by Julie Danvers

Author:Julie Danvers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-12T18:50:01+00:00

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The next night found Kat laying out three different outfits on her bed, repeatedly accepting and rejecting each one.

It didn’t matter what she wore, she tried to tell herself. She and Jack weren’t supposed to be trying to impress each other. She didn’t need to care if he liked what she wore. And yet somehow tonight it was unusually difficult to make an outfit choice.

The more she thought about her arrangement with Jack, the more confident she became that it was a brilliant idea. She’d only had a few boyfriends in her life, and all the way up until Christopher she’d been a serial monogamist, going through one long-term relationship at a time. Part of her was still a bit shocked at her proposal to Jack—but mostly she was excited about her first foray into spontaneous thrill-seeking. She was nervous, but excited, and she intended to enjoy every minute of it.

Even though it would be her first time having sex since before the breakup...

It’s just a meaningless fling, she reminded herself. Don’t put too much pressure on it.

Over the two years she’d dated Christopher she’d tried to meet his expectations in every way possible. He was a career-driven perfectionist, and she’d thought she’d admired those qualities in him. She’d even thought that she and Christopher were a little bit similar in that way.

But Christopher’s perfectionism had always seemed to involve making her feel less, somehow. Every time he’d told her that she’d look great if she worked out a little more, or that her hair would look nice if she’d only wear it in a certain way, she’d believed him, and tried to do what would make him happy. But it had never seemed to be enough. And in the end it hadn’t been.

Her arrangement with Jack meant that neither of them had to worry about expectations. The thought of that was wonderfully freeing. Tonight would be her first serious attempt to let loose and let go.

Kat’s heart pounded in her chest as she pulled into the driveway of Jack’s house on the beach. She wrapped her black leather trench coat more tightly around herself as she stepped out of the car. Her outfit was a risk; she was wearing the trench coat, heels, and not much else. She’d been a little worried about what might happen if she got pulled over, but she’d been very careful to drive at exactly the speed limit for the entire drive to Jack’s house.

The nice thing about keeping their relationship on a physical level, she thought, was that now she could freely admit her attraction to Jack without worrying about where it might lead. It would lead to sex with Jack and no further. Nice and simple. No other complications to worry about. No reason to be nervous.

Two hours is an awfully long time to spend deciding what to wear when you’re supposedly just interested in a purely physical relationship, a small, disloyal corner of her mind piped up as she stepped out of the car.

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