Contemporary/Erotic Romantic Suspense
Date Published: March 25, 2014
Synopsis:
The last thing Michaela Prentice expected was to end
up in bed next to her friend Jordan Marsh after a wee bit too much
champagne. The sex was incredible but she doesn’t want their one night to
ruin their friendship.
The
last thing Jordan Marsh wants is to remain friends with Michaela. They’d
crossed the line from friends to lovers and that was where he was going to
stay, after all he’d been relentlessly plotting her seduction for months.
Now
Michaela has woken up to a slight hangover, a relationship with a guy she
thought she knew, a mother planning a wedding, and a brother and a best friend
who think it’s important to run a background check on your new man. What could
be more normal?
Just
as Michaela is beginnings to adjust to the status of their new relationship
things start exploding; literally.
Warning: This book is funny, steamy and contains sex
scenes with chocolate that some readers might find delicious.
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Excerpt:
Jordan’s eyes opened at the sound
of the crash. The first thing he saw was
the box of condoms on the nightstand; the second thing he saw was the expiry
date on the box of condoms. They had
expired last year. He smiled at the
thought that Michaela had obviously not been entertaining very many guests, if
any, since she had broken up with Noah.
Then it occurred to him that expired condoms could possibly be a mood
killer. He wouldn’t mind a baby on the
way, but Michaela might want to wait awhile before they went down that
particular road together. He doubted he
was going to be able to talk Michaela into any morning fun if he imparted that
news to her so maybe he would wait awhile before mentioning it. A warm smile broke
across his face as he remembered the previous evening. It had been everything
he’d been fantasizing about for the last six months and much more. He rolled over in the bed intending to reach
for Michaela and discovered to his disappointment that she was gone. Lifting himself up on his elbows, he raised
his head and searched the room for her.
He saw her on her knees in the bathroom scrambling to pick up the
aspirin that had scattered all over the floor.
“Drop something?” he asked, slightly amused at her position.
She looked up with a rueful
smile. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to wake you.
I was just trying to grab a couple of aspirin. I seem to have a bit of a headache this
morning.”
As Jordan rolled to his side the
sheet dropped to his waist clearly revealing his naked chest and abdomen and his
morning erection prodded eagerly against the sheet seeking attention. Propping his head in his hand he noted with a
great deal of satisfaction that Michaela couldn’t help herself from staring. Treating her to a devilish grin, his blue
eyes gleaming, he said, “I’ll just bet you do. Didn’t I warn you about that
last night?”
“I seem to recall you telling me
it was okay as long as I didn’t pass out,” she muttered as she finished
gathering the last of the aspirin.
Jordan would have helped her with
her task if he hadn’t been admiring the enticing view of her cleavage the robe
afforded while she was bent picking up the aspirin. He felt himself responding and thought he was
ready for some morning fun deciding to tell her about the expired condoms later,
much later. He wanted to call her back
to the bed now, or better yet he thought, he would go get her. Acting on his decision he started to rise out
the bed. “Michaela …,” he began, his voice was husky.
Michaela appeared panicked
causing Jordan to pause in his actions. She got up quickly from the bathroom
floor immediately putting her hand out in front of her to halt him. “Stop! Look Jordan before you get up, I have
a few things to say.”
Jordan was a little stunned by
her reaction. He’d intended to bring her back to the bed for some hot sex and
Michaela was acting as if he was intent on assault. He arched a brow at her
inquiringly. “Okay, go ahead,” he said slowly, completely perplexed by her
mood.
Taking a deep breath she began
speaking as fast as she could. “About last night, I think we’ll both agree that
we were drinking and things just sort of got out of hand. I’m sure you don’t want to put our friendship
at risk any more than I do so I think it would be best if we just pretended
this never happened. After all we’re
both mature adults and there is no reason for one stupid night to ruin a great
friendship, right?” She gave him a
hopeful look as she finished her long-winded speech.
Jordan hadn’t known what to
expect when Michaela began talking, but it certainly wasn’t that she wanted
them to be just friends. How he could he
possibly be lying here naked in her bed after sharing not one but several very
intimate lovemaking sessions and then be informed that he had been relegated to
the friend zone once again? He had been
so sure that he had left it behind, never to be revisited. “You want us to be friends?” he asked slowly,
positive he must have misunderstood the intent of her little diatribe.
She nodded her head smiling
reassuringly. “Yeah, we’re friends, just like always.”
Jordan watched those cute little
chestnut curls bounce while she nodded her head. The thought drifted through
his mind that he was in love with a lunatic.
She wanted to be friends after the incredible evening they had just
shared; it didn’t make sense. What could
possibly be going through that curly topped head of hers? Was she really not interested in him in that
way? She had seemed extremely interested last night, but then again she had
been under the influence. No fucking way
was he returning to the friend zone.
She watched a number of
expressions cross his face as he absorbed what she had to say. Then a hard look she had never before seen
appeared. “No!” His voice was hard,
uncompromising.
Startled by both the tone of his
voice and his monosyllabic response she could only respond in a stunned voice.
“No?”
“No,” he said, as he got off the
bed oblivious to his nudity. He bent
down and began picking up the discarded condom wrappers. He walked over to her and held them up to her
face. “What are these?”
She could feel the restrained
fury vibrating through his body and shit, he was sporting a very big
erection. To say she felt intimidated
was an understatement. This was a side of
Jordan she had never seen before. Where
was her relaxed, easy going friend?
“Mmmm…condom wrappers?”
His voice was tight as he said,
“That’s right, and how many are there?”
Okay so he was really
pissed. She felt her anxiety go up one
more notch. “Four?”
He threw the wrappers down on the
floor in obvious frustration. “That’s right, four. We didn’t have one quick and dirty session of
drunken sex that we can’t remember. We
had sex all night long. Not once, but
four times, and let’s not forget that I went down on you in your living room
before we even made it to the bedroom.
So do you remember all of those times?”
She cringed inwardly. Okay so this was getting awkward. “Well, yes
of course I do.”
“So you really weren’t that drunk
that you can say you didn’t know what you were doing, were you?” he asked in an
aggressive tone.
Was she on trial? Cause it was beginning to feel that way. “Okay, so I guess I wasn’t that drunk, but
really do you want to ruin a friendship because of little too much champagne?”
His patience was at the end and
his irritation was growing by the minute.
He looked directly into her eyes and said, “I did not have too much
champagne. Do you really think the only
reason I slept with you was because I was drunk?”
Okay so who was this guy
anyway? “Well, I guess I sort of did.”
He grabbed her chin firmly
between his fingers. “Let’s get this straight, I’ve wanted you since the first
time I saw you. I’ve been waiting for
you to get over your breakup with Noah.
It wasn’t accidental sex, Michaela.”
“Really? I mean, we’ve been friends for a while and
nothing has ever happened, so I just thought nothing ever would.”
“We’re not friends. We’re lovers
now. Deal.” His voice was resolute.
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Anna Wells
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Michelle moved around the Midwest most of her life, transferring from school to school before settling down in the outskirts of Chicago ten years ago, where she now resides with her husband and two kids. She developed a love of reading at a young age, which helped lay the foundation for her passion to write. With the encouragement of her family, she finally sat down and wrote one of the many stories that have been floating around in her head. 
