Light Up The Tree by Regina Cole

Author:Regina Cole [Cole, Regina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Christmas
Publisher: Regina’s Mailing List
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Determined to put her worries into the back of her mind, Allison floated through the rest of the day and night. They had a “no texting while Nate’s on duty” rule, and that helped. If she’d had the option of chatting him up, there was no way she could have gotten anything productive done.

She'd managed to compartmentalize the whole “Nate’s secret drawer full of memories” thing and focus on the one thing that had kept her body humming with passionate memories.

The sex.

As she showered for work the next morning, soap ran down the planes of her body, and all she could remember was how Nate had touched her. How he’d kissed her. How he’d pressed her down into the covers, his big, hard body entering her, stretching her, filling her.

She shivered, even though the water was hot enough to steam up the bathroom. Thinking about that more would probably make her late to work.

But how was she supposed to forget the best sex of her life? At least the thoughts of the physical were engrossing enough that she was able to avoid focusing on the emotions brought to the surface by their encounter.

She wasn’t ready to face those feelings—wasn’t sure that she ever would be.

Rinsing quickly, she stepped out of the shower and brusquely toweled dry. Running a comb through her wet blonde hair, she stared into the mirror.

Allison wasn’t vain, but she was a realist. She knew that most men looked at her and found her attractive. There had been enough sexual partners in her life that she considered herself fairly experienced. And she’d had some pretty good sex. Adventurous sex. A little bit of kinky stuff, too.

But none of it turned her on like Nate had. No guy she’d ever been with had worshipped her with the same single-minded drive that he had. None of them had—well, none of them had touched her heart like he did.

She blinked at the mirror.

Her heart. Nate was in her heart. And she was beginning to think that the feelings she’d been denying for so long were something much more than a tender, devoted friendship.

“What do I do?”

Her whisper echoed off the dripping tiles, but no answer was forthcoming.

Sighing, she threw the towel over the bar on the glass shower door to dry and walked barefoot into her closet.

It was difficult. Things were complicated. How could she know what Nate wanted from this? And could she even consider having a relationship at all, with how things had ended with Burt?

Never again, she’d told herself when she'd caught him with that other woman. Relationships weren't necessary. She could have sex and have fun and not ever make any promises that could be broken.

But Nate wasn’t the fuck-him-and-forget-him kind. And she’d known that before falling into bed with him. But she’d been blinded by need, and now that they were apart, the fallout was more difficult to handle than she’d expected.

Even though her body was still burning with the memory of his touch, she wondered if maybe stepping back wasn't the right thing to do.

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