Pursue Me: Josh & Charlie #1 (Hawthorn Hills Duet Book 7) by Claire Raye

Author:Claire Raye [Raye, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-26T18:30:00+00:00

I’m on the couch when Josh walks in from work. It’s after six and I’ve already ordered dinner, knowing he’s going to be starving.

“Honey, I’m home!” he calls out, making me laugh. He’s so damn cheesy.

“Tell me a secret!” I yell out before he even has a chance to make his way into the living room. “It’s day four and I’m getting impatient.”

“Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, my impatient little possum,” he says, leaning down to kiss me, but I pull back, my nose wrinkled up as I shake my head.

“Um, no. Possum?”

“Yes, possum. Why?”

“Yuck. No thank you. Like the nocturnal thing that plays dead and has a gross, hairless tail? I think I’d prefer a better one than that.”

“In Oz they’re much cuter than here, I promise,” he defends, but I shake my head and tell him to keep trying. “Babe? Baby? Char?”

“Oh my god, not Char. Anything but Char. You can go back to possum if you want. Char is like the nickname of the old lady who chain smokes at the slot machine.”

“Got it, no Char. Now tell me your secret,” he says, smirking at me in a way that clearly says he’s giving me shit.

“That’s my line!”

He sits down next to me on the couch, pulling me into his lap and I wrap my arms around his neck, nuzzling my nose against the warmth of his skin.

“I missed you,” I say, sounding strangely vulnerable. “How was work?”

“I miss you every day,” he says back and my heart stutters out a fast rhythm making my chest and stomach flutter. “Work was work. Nerds doing nerd shit.”

“I like that you do nerd shit. It makes you nerdy-hot,” I tease, kissing his neck. His hand slides over my thigh and up to my ass, making me think we’re never going to make it ten days. Every single time he touches me, all I can think about is sex. This ten-day thing is harder than I thought.

I push his hand away and slide off his lap, waggling a finger at him. “You need to keep your hands to yourself. I’m never going to make it ten days.”

“Then you need to stop lounging around on my couch in tank tops and shorts,” he replies, once again pulling me back into his lap. “Now tell me your secret.” His voice is low and deep and so sexy. I watch his tongue slip out and wet his lips, his warm breath dances over the skin just below my ear as he leans in and lets his tongue trail along the overly sensitive skin on my neck. “I want something real,” he murmurs, and I swallow hard, my heart racing.

I take in a deep breath, scared of being truly real with him, but knowing I need to start somewhere. I can’t tell him the whole truth, that part feels far too scary, far too real and I have no idea how he’ll respond. I hate the pity that it always brings when someone finds out, and even though Josh doesn’t seem like the type of guy to bail, I still have no idea.

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