Uniformly Hot! Volume 1 from Harlequin: Letters from Home\Breaking the Rules\Coming Up for Air by Rhonda Nelson

Author:Rhonda Nelson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

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FLIPPING THROUGH THE MAIL, Sophia tried to remember the blissful pleasure she’d woken up to, with Max doing naughtily delicious things to her body. But with each envelope, her mood sank deeper.

Bill, bill, bill, letter from Rico, bill, letter from her attorney, bill.

This sucked. She’d rather be back at Max’s mother’s being treated like a hooker with open sores. Between Tabby—and what the hell kind of name was that?—and her horrified chilly looks, and the General—what the hell kind of name was that, did the man sleep with his combat boots on?—and his over-bearing attitude, that had definitely been the most miserable lunch she’d ever experienced. And to discover von Schilling had an exclusive contract with Esprit? Now that had been a shock.

And still it’d be preferable to this morning.

She might as well face it. The gallery was sinking fast. The most exciting thing that’d happened at her big show was a skunk attending. She’d sold nothing in the past week. Artists were pulling their work.

At this rate, she’d lose the gallery before summer.

She sank into her desk chair and threw the mail, half of it unread, onto her desk so it scattered in an angry fan of envelopes. The movement jostled her computer mouse, pulling her computer out of hibernation.

On the screen, mocking her, was her goals chart. Bright colored rectangles, each filled with an unachieved goal.

At least she could highlight the purple box with its dream of having a fabulous and fulfilling sex life. Who knew, the one goal she’d been sure was a pipedream was the only one she’d achieve.

No wonderful career. No returning the gallery to its former glory. No proving she was savvy, strong and in control. The only time she was on top these days was when she had Max stretched out beneath her.

Too bad finally finding the key to great sex couldn’t solve all the rest of her problems.

Heart heavy and confidence skimming the floor, Sophia found her fingers moving of their own volition. They slid the mouse arrow over to the photo file and opened the pictures she’d taken of Max. Other than highlighting them in the upload box on her computer, she hadn’t once looked at them. What was the point?

Pictures were windows to the soul. A snapshot of the inner self. Without the force of his commanding—albeit charming—personality, she’d see what was underneath all that sexy sizzle. It’d be one of two things.

She’d either see that he wasn’t what she thought—and she’d be heartbroken—

Or she’d see that he was everything she’d ever dreamed of—and she’d be terrified.

Because Max wasn’t sticking around.

Oh, sure, at first his being a sexy soldier boy who’d be heading back overseas had been one of the things in his favor. After a lifetime of men bossing her around, the idea of having one who had a defined deadline, who’d head back to his job defusing bombs and saving the world, held a lot of appeal. There was a freedom in opening her life, her body, to a man like that.

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