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Excerpt from Touch and Go -
Stupid Stalker Steve. This was all his fault.
Even as she thought it, she caught sight of him from across the room. Eyes locked on her like he didn’t believe a second of what he was seeing. Which was pretty ironic, actually, considering the last moments were probably the most honest Ava had allowed in too many years to remember.
But whatever.
“Jesus, this guy doesn’t give up,” Sam growled, following her eyes with his own. “How bad do you want to get him off your back, Ave?”
An entire evening of seeing her with someone else and he was still watching? “Bad.”
“Yeah, that’s what I figured. Here, come with me a second.” Smoothly, Sam guided her over to the terrace door and stepped outside.
The wind had picked up, and despite the half-dozen strategically positioned heaters, it was cold enough that they were alone. Ava shivered, and without missing a beat, Sam slipped off his suit jacket and draped it across her shoulders, pulling her toward a remote corner.
Suddenly Ava was wondering if she’d made a serious mistake.
“Sam, okay, you know I want to lose this guy. But whatever you’re planning out here is making me nervous. You can’t threaten him or try to scare him away. The whole point was to be passive. If I need to be direct, I’ll do it myself.”
She felt bad even saying it, because that was so not who Sam was. Not anymore. But—
“Whatever you’re thinking, you’re wrong. I’m not even going to talk to the guy.”
Ava breathed a sigh of relief. “Good.” Only there was still a tension in the air. In Sam, who hadn’t taken his eyes off the doorway since they’d gotten out there. “So what are you going to do?”
Sam squinted down at her with a look she recognized as typically preempting some fool move sure to torque her off. Only instead of the usual, “Don’t be mad,” this time he said, “Don’t freak out.”
Steven stepped through the doorway, and Sam kissed her.
Ava was giving it her college best, really she was, but there was no stopping the freak-out in progress.
Sam was kissing her.
His lips were on hers in a soft press that, based on its closed-mouth properties alone, should have been benign. But this was Sam. And he was in strict violation of a no-fly zone their friendship never breached. Sure, she and Sam were touchy-feely friends of the highest order. He always had an arm around her. Her legs draped over his. Something. She was a cuddler, so contact in and of itself was no big thing. But there were lines friends didn’t cross. Lines that started above the knee and ended below the belly button. Panty lines. Bust lines. And most important, lip lines. Which meant the intimacy of that taboo contact, even as chaste as it was— Well, it was crossing wires Ava had spent twenty years trying to keep straight.
So the freak-out? Yeah, it was on.
Because now how was she supposed to look at Sam’s hands without thinking of them warm at the sides of her face as he lowered his mouth to hers? How was she going to look into his eyes without seeing that last instant when they dropped to her lips? And how the heck was she supposed to look at that gorgeous, easy smile of his and hide the fact that after twenty years of wondering what his kiss would taste like, she wished the only one they were likely to share through the course of their entire lives had lasted just a little longer, gone a bit deeper, been a smidge more real?
Because already it was over.
Five beats of her heart and Sam was withdrawing. Slowly.
Really slowly, actually. And then after a point, not at all. The contact that had been a soft press was still there, but only in its most minimal form.
“You’re freaking out,” Sam stated quietly against her lips, one big hand moving from her cheek to brush back through her hair.
“A little.” No point in denying it. He knew her too well to miss the tension radiating off her in waves. They’d be lucky if Steven couldn’t catch it from where the ass was still watching them from the door.
Sam let out a low laugh, his mouth curving against her own and making that place deep inside her heart ache from the overwhelming pleasure of it. Another light caress through her hair, and she had to remind herself this was for show before she did something crazy like melt into a touch that felt altogether too real, but wasn’t.
“We can stop now,” he murmured against her lips. “Let the guy believe what he will. Or...”
The ache in Ava’s chest ceased with all other activity there. Her heart stalled, her breath caught on that single dangling word. Two letters she knew deep down to her core were trouble, but tempted her too much to ignore.
“Or,” she prompted, her whisper hardly reaching her own ears.
The corner of his mouth hitched hard on one side. “Or you let me kiss you for real . . . and you kiss me back.”
The obvious answer here was to leave it at the single kiss and let Steven draw his own conclusions. That would be the smart thing. The safe thing.
“But Ave, if you can’t handle it, just say the word and we’ll end it here. Cut out and go back to your place to watch The Hangover.”
If she couldn’t handle it?
Ava blinked up at her best friend of more than twenty years, her hardest crush and best-kept secret, about 98 percent certain the guy had just thrown down the gauntlet. Intentionally.
Giving in to her own laugh, she looped her arms around Sam’s neck and flashed him a merciless grin. “Do you want to kiss me?”
Sam met her stare with that same easy confidence he brought to everything else. This guy wasn’t ruffled. He wasn’t concerned. He was just . . . Sam. Grabbing whatever opportunities life granted him and having fun with them. Not taking things too seriously and reminding her not to either.
“Come on, you can’t tell me you’ve never wondered what it would be like? To try it. Just once.”
Tonight, in this context, it was a truth she could afford to share, even if the flippant, casual tone she wrapped it in was a lie. “Sure, I’ve wondered . . . you know, what all the fuss is about, because girls talk, and with you there are a lot of girls and, well, a lot of talk. And heck, I mean we’ve been friends a long time. So yeah, I’ve wondered. From time to time. A little.”
A lot. For years. But it was a curiosity she’d kept under control.
He was nodding, keeping his tone low. “And here we are with the perfect excuse. We won’t even have to worry about it being weird after. What do you say, Ava?”
“One real kiss and then we’re done?” God, this was what she wanted, but the way her heart was slamming against her ribs made her think it might be a mistake with catastrophic potential.
“Yeah. One kiss and then we’re done. But it’s got to be the real deal. No chintzing out on me.”
He was right. This was the perfect justification. Her one chance at living out a fantasy with zero risk of the repercussions that had kept her in check for more than two decades.
“Okay,” she whispered, half breathless at the idea alone. Because she was in. “Show me what all the fuss is about.”
“Brace yourself, Ave,” he warned, giving her his cockiest, most devastating grin.
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If you Dare To Love...
★★★★★ "Everything (and I honestly mean every single word) about this scrumptious novel appealed to my crack addict like addiction to a dirty flirty romance... If you love a book that will keep you on your toes, make you swoon like crazy and ensure that your heart rate is kept at a galloping pace then this is the book for you." - Lisa, Reviewer
Read this bundle if you like:
🖤 Enemies to Lovers 🖤 Neighborly trash talk and hard grudges 🖤 Dating Pacts built like iron clad contracts by friends who know each other too well 🖤 Guys who can't think about the girl who is Off-Limits for too many reasons to list 🖤 Brother's Best Friend 🖤 Fake Relationships
🖤 Guys with a growing collection of panties their best friend was wearing at the foot of the stairs but not by the second floor 🖤 Friends as close as Family 🖤 Friends To Lovers 🖤 Secret Relationships 🖤 Secret Crushes 🖤 Second Chances at First Love
🖤 One Night in Vegas 🖤 Marriage of convenience 🖤 Heroes who think they are immune to love 🖤 Best friend's Brother 🖤 Off-Limits 🖤 Players who have met their match 🖤 Second Chances at First Love
★★★★★"5 TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY, I TOTALLY LOVED IT STARS!!!!This story is everything you want on a friends-to-lovers romance. The rapport between Ava and Sam is amazing, the chemistry is off the charts, sizzling HOT, and the history of their friendship, and their secret desires is warm and heartbreaking at the same time.I could not put this one down. In fact, I READ IT TWICE. The pacing was incredible. The drama and angst...delectable" - A_Ryan, Reviewer
BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE BUNDLE
✅ TRUTH OR DARE
✅ TOUCH & GO
✅ NOW & THEN
✅ WAKING UP MARRIED
✅ ONCE IS NEVER ENOUGH
✅ FRONT PAGE AFFAIR
✅ THE S BEFORE EX
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