Winning It All by Catherine Mann

Author:Catherine Mann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-07-03T22:00:00+00:00

Holding Brittney’s hand, Connor felt the full force of her allure like a punch to the solar plexus. Damn. She was not just beautiful. She was knock-him-over, sexy-as-hell beautiful.

And for an instant, he wondered if she even knew it.

That look of hers was half come-hither, half pure innocence. It stirred images of tousled sheets and lazy afternoons in bed. He knew in that instant that he didn’t just want to sleep with her, he wanted to pursue her. To lavish her body with sensual pleasure. To seduce her very spirit. There was something magical about her. She was the kind of woman men went to war for and wrote sonnets about.

Then he blinked and forced the moment to pass. She was just a woman. More beautiful than most, even in a city like New York, which had more than its fair share of beautiful women. But there was nothing magical, nothing sonnet-worthy. Where had that come from?

Feeling slightly off-kilter, he released her hand. He glanced at the dance floor, wanting to ask her to dance, but when he looked back, she was gone, retreating through the door. She’d ditched him. She’d warned him, of course, but still, it was something that rarely happened to him.

This was not how he’d imagine tonight’s seduction going.

He wasn’t a long-term relationship kind of guy. He drifted in and out of affairs, all with women whose expectations were as low as his. He liked an eager bedmate as much as the next guy, but work was what was important to him. Which meant he should probably be glad that Brittney Hannon had disappeared from his life as quickly as she’d appeared in it. He had neither the time nor energy for sex with a complicated woman.

Walking away now without giving her a second thought was definitely the smart move.

“Told you she’d shoot you down.”

“Don’t worry,” he surprised himself by saying. “I’ll find her again.”

“Boy, you’re not giving up, are you?”

“She’s the daughter of a senator,” Connor mused aloud. “And you said something about her going to the Hamptons for polo. How hard can she be to track down?”

“Dude, this isn’t going to end with a restraining order and me being interviewed by Nancy Grace, is it?” Tim raised his hands in a gesture of innocence as Connor glared at him. “Just checking. If you’re going to stalk her, I want to know in advance.”

“I’ve never had to stalk a woman in my life.” He’d meant it as a joke, but the determination in his voice surprised him.

Tim gave him an odd look. “I’ve never seen you like this before.”

And that was precisely the problem. If he never slept with her, Brittney would slowly become more than just a woman he’d met in a bar one night. She’d attain mythical status in his life. The woman who got away. The woman he might have written sonnets for, if he’d had the chance.

And damn it, he was not a sonnet-writing kind of guy.

No, the only solution was to find her, arrange to run into her and seduce her.

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