One Night To Forever by Joss Wood

Author:Joss Wood [Wood, Joss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Reconcile The Past, The Ballantyne Billionaires Series, Billionaire Tycoons, Best Friend's Little Sister, Jewelry Acquisition & Design Business, Long-Lost Daughter
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
Published: 2018-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

Reame felt the feminine hand land on his thigh and looked down at the painted pink fingernails and the expensive rings decorating that hand. It was inching higher up his leg and he waited for his junk to react, his interest to form.

Nope. Nothing.

Crap.

Reame turned his head to look at his date and wondered what the hell was wrong with him. He’d met Gretchen a few weeks ago on a dating app and had invited her out for a drink. Over a couple of beers, he’d found the forensic psychologist fascinating. Intelligence and sexy was a killer combination. Within an hour, they’d both known that if she hadn’t been flying out that night, they would’ve hooked up in her hotel room for a night long on pleasure and short on regrets. She was based in Seattle but she crisscrossed the country and would like to, she’d told him, have dinner with him the next time she was in town.

And by dinner she meant food followed by hot, no-strings sex.

Now here they were, in a taxi, headed toward her hotel. The dinner had been good, her company interesting, but his body wasn’t cooperating. Gretchen was tall, buxom and confident and, he was sure, knew her way around a man’s body. She was what he’d been wanting, looking for, but the thought of kissing her mouth, palming her breast made him feel a little nauseous.

Maybe he was coming down with something.

Gretchen lifted her hand off his thigh and half turned in her seat, crossing her spectacular legs. “Are you okay?”

Reame lifted one eyebrow at her very female question. “I’m fine, why?”

“Well, we had a lovely meal and we enjoyed the conversation.” She tipped her head to the side, her eyes roaming over his features. “At least, I enjoyed myself.”

“Dinner was fine, Gretchen.”

“Fine. Just what every girl wants to hear,” Gretchen replied, her tone cooling. She tapped her clutch bag against her knee in obvious frustration. “I thought we were on the same page, Reame.”

So had he. Reame sighed, thought about fudging his answer and decided not to, that Gretchen’s confidence deserved the truth. He pushed his hair away from his eyes and tried to smile. “I did enjoy dinner, Gretchen. You have a fascinating job and an interesting life. You’re a fascinating woman.”

“A month ago, if I hadn’t had a flight to catch, we would’ve spent the night together.”

“Yeah, we would’ve,” Reame admitted.

“But that’s not going to happen tonight, is it?”

Again, it would be so much easier to fudge. But she deserved better. “It could,” he admitted. He shrugged and her thin eyebrows pulled together in a frown. “I’m a guy—touch me in a couple of places and it could happen.”

“But it wouldn’t be about me.”

If they had sex, he’d make it good for her—of course he would. He’d get off and she would get off and afterward there wouldn’t be anything to say because she’d know that he’d been thinking of someone else while kissing and touching her. Women were spooky clever that way.

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