Old Temptations: Dad's Best Friend Romance Novella (Experienced Men Book 1) by Savannah May

Author:Savannah May [May, Savannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dirty Sexy Romance
Published: 2016-10-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter EIGHT

I unlock the metal door and Carl steps inside my studio. One room but at least it's not a cubicle like the new highrises that have shot up throughout the city. This old warehouse has yet to come up for renovation and it probably never will. More likely to be bulldozed to rubble.

I can't believe how an army of tiger moths has lifted off in my stomach now that we're finally alone. Carl is in my little space.

Here.

With me.

It feels so grown up and totally different. I so badly want him not to say something negative, like when my father showed up to check on his latest investment, the few thousand I'd borrowed to set myself up outside his control tower and told me no daughter of his had to live like this.

““Um, I'm all out of single malt,” I say, “Can I get you a beer?”

“Love one,” he says, wandering the full perimeter of the room, taking in the semi-grubby 50s couch I found at Goodwill and fell in love with the lines of. Perusing the industrial shelving that holds my equipment and sort of separates my bedroom area.

Mostly he gazes at the walls. Blow-ups of my best work hang on the exposed brick in an attempt to hide the destruction and stains of god knows what.

“Jesus Blair, you are so talented. These are amazing. How the fuck do you put so much sensuous sex into a photo of a flower?”

He takes the beer and pulls me against him, kissing me with the full force of his admiration. I have never felt so proud. Knowing Carl thinks my work is good means everything.

“Repression maybe?” I say, full of meaning.

“Shit, I don’t wanna be the cause of that dwindling to nothing.”

His face turns downward again and the frown returns. Something is definitely making him angry.

“Is anything wrong?” I say, noticing how easy it is to ask him anything. I'm not afraid that he'll get into a rage like my father does or blow me off like a young guy. “You seem annoyed, or mad.”

“No, Angel. Just sad. You have your whole life to come. I don't have the right to take that from you. You should be with a guy like that kid, Josh, the bastard.”

“I don't want a guy like that. This isn't a girly crush on the strong perfect man,” I tell him, noting how he startles at the word perfect. “I've wanted you my whole life.”

“And I've wanted you but it's so wrong. I'm far from perfect and this is going to bring down a shitload of judgment on us. I need to shield you from all that.”

“Hey Mr Lawyer, when can we stop worrying about judgment crashing down from above?” Long enough to dive into sin and never climb back out.

“Ex-lawyer,” he says. “I gave up practising over a year ago. It was never my calling.”

“Wow, my dad never said.” I'm wondering why my father told me absolutely nothing about Carl apart from the very rare times I inquired.

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