Home for Christmas by Judith Hudson

Author:Judith Hudson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christmas romance stories, holiday romance, small town Christmas stories, old friends to lovers, clean romance books, small town romance series, romance over 30
Publisher: Tall Trees Books
Published: 2016-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

LOUISE WOKE THE NEXT morning with a heavy weight on her ribcage. Blue’s arm lay over her. She gave him a shove but he didn’t respond, so she pushed him again. “Move over, you big lug.”

His hand curled around her waist and pulled her back so her butt nestled in the warm, safe curve of his body. Her eyes drifted shut and as he kissed her neck, she felt him harden against her.

Her eyes flew open as the realization hit her—she’d slept with Blue.

A chill washed over her as the enormity of her mistake became clear. Had sex, not just sex but intimate, fantastic sex. How had she not known it would be like that? He was so strong, so firm, yet so gentle. True Blue. She could surrender to him like to no one else because no one else knew her, knew all her secrets, the way he did.

She knew a lot about him too, though. That he’d only had a few girlfriends and didn’t go to bed with someone lightly. He was much too honorable for that.

Of course she didn’t either, but their parameters were different. So different.

She would never knowingly do anything to hurt him—and yet she just had. This would change everything. And if it weren’t for the mess she’d gotten herself into with Marco and the baby, she might be thinking very differently about what had happened last night, and where it might lead. But how, in good conscience, could she go there now?

Blue nibbled on her ear and his hands crept up until they brushed the underside of her breasts. She stopped his hands with her own.

“Blue.”

His arms stiffened around her. She rolled over so she was facing him and—oh, no. Instead of the warm open expression she’d seen on his face the night before, the face of her oldest and dearest friend had closed into the mask that she suddenly realized he’d been wearing around her for—cripes, how long?

Now that she thought about it, for a long time.

But he wasn’t distant last night. Last night he had opened his soul to her and his love had come pouring out like honey because, cripes on a donkey, she saw it now. He loved her. Not as a best friend or good buddy, but loved her. And she was going to hurt him.

If she promised him too much—and by sleeping with him she may have already —she would break his heart.

“Blue.” Even she could hear the sickening pleading in her voice. “You know what’s going on. I have to give him a chance.”

“When are you going to give me a chance?”

Her face went stiff and cold as if all the blood had been sucked out of it. “The timing’s all wrong.”

“The timing’s always wrong. There’s always a reason you can’t get close. To me or to anyone.”

His words stung. She put her hands on his chest and pushed herself back to get a better look at his face. “That’s not true. You have to

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