[How can you resist him? ~ Lisabet]
A
fun, flirty romantic romp…with a twist!
Paige
Barber needs a vacation. She can’t resist her best friend’s offer
of a remote vacation home on a private Caribbean island. Jimmy, the
sexy pool boy, is part and parcel with the offer. But recently dumped
Paige has no intention of taking advantage of that amenity…until
she sets eyes on Jimmy. He’s not a boy at all, but the sexiest man
Paige has ever met.
And
he can cook. Oh, man, can he cook!
She
thinks it will be easy returning to the real world after an utterly
wanton and sensuous week in the arms of a hot, hard, perfect man.
But
it’s not. It’s not easy at all.
Read
an Excerpt:
The
house was quiet and shadowed as I padded back to the pool. I didn’t
see any sign of Jimmy, which was just as well. My dreams had been
filled with him; he’d haunted every crevice of my sleep. I felt
like I’d been steeped in him, reliving every touch, every glance,
every fantasy.
Those
dreams clung to my consciousness, as dreams sometimes do, stoking a
hunger I hadn’t even realized I had.
I’d
been kind of joking when I’d invited Jimmy to my room, but in
truth, it hadn’t been a joke at all. I wanted him. Really wanted
him. Needed him, maybe.
Needed
the oblivion a wild, steamy, pointless affair could provide.
My
ego ached after Harlan’s betrayal, but it was more than that. It
was more than assuaging a hit to my self-esteem.
I
simply wanted Jimmy.
Wanted
him in a way I’d never wanted a man before.
Maybe
it was the isolation. Maybe it was the magnificent surroundings.
Maybe it was simply the fact that he was hotter than hot. Certainly
hotter than Harlan with his bad-boy-biker persona, his bull ring. His
tattoos. Nothing about him had been real in the end. Nothing
about us had been either.
The
tiny lights strung around Marlee’s patio glowed as they bobbed in
the breeze. The waters of the hot tub steamed a warm welcome, bathed
in a surreal blue that shone like a beacon in the gathering night.
I
tossed my towel on a lounge chair and stepped in. And hissed.
Warmth
lapped at me. I sank, allowing the water to consume me slowly. My
skin shivered as I eased deeper, all the way to my neck. I turned
around and leaned against one of the benches formed in the tile and
closed my eyes.
Heaven.
I
owed Marlee. And I owed her big time.
This
place was, indeed, heaven on earth. And Jimmy… Well, the jury was
still out on that one. Marlee had been frank. “Paige,”
she’d said. “You need to
get laid. And trust
me, if anyone can
help you forget about
that douchebag Harlan
Rivers, it’s my
Jimmy.” I tried not to let it bug me that she’d
put it that way. My Jimmy. Not that I had
any ownership of him. Not that I wanted it.
I
just wasn’t used to sharing men with my best friend.
Remembering
the ripple of his pec beneath my palm, I nibbled my lip.
I
could probably get over it…
“May
I join you?”
I
opened my eyes at the deep voice, at the question tinged with a
throb.
My
heart stuttered. My breath caught.
Gawd.
Jimmy.
Standing there next to the hot tub, wearing nothing but a tight black
Speedo. Everything I had imagined under his casual clothes,
everything I had hoped for, was there. Thick muscles roping his chest
and forearms, thighs like tree trunks, a flat, taut belly, sculpted
abs and a tantalizing dark line arrowing toward a magnificent bulge.
I
nearly swallowed my tongue.
“May
I?”
Oh
lord, I’d been ogling. “Yes. Please. Come on in. The water’s
fine.”
Yeah,
lame. Cliché. But there you go. It was the best I could come up
with. My brain, apparently, was on vacation as well.
The
water rose as he eased in. His groan echoed off the shadows. He’d
taken off his glasses so I had an unfettered view of his face. When
his eyes closed, in that moment of bliss as the water enveloped him,
when his lips parted…I thought, perhaps, that was what his O-face
would look like.
One
could hope.
Many
men were like monkeys when their crisis descended. Which was why I
rarely looked. I was possessed of the sharp, sudden urge to see Jimmy
in ecstasy. To watch him come.
Okay,
not so sudden. But definitely sharp.
Though
he sat across from me, the hot tub wasn’t too big, and his foot
nudged mine. I didn’t jerk away, though my first inclination was to
do just that. I reminded myself that any advance had to come from
him. Jimmy was Marlee’s pool boy, not a sex slave. And if he wasn’t
interested—I ignored the dark dip of my mood at the thought—that
would be that.
So
when his foot grazed mine, I steeled my spine and left it there. Next
to his.
Our
gazes tangled. His toe slipped up my ankle, a tentative foray. A
fluttery thrill, an unexpected shower of arousal, trickled through
me.
I
stroked back.
His
focus on me intensified, though it flicked, for a fraction of an
instant, to my breasts. They bobbed in the water, as breasts often
did, buoyed and jubilant to be released from the bondage of gravity.
He licked his lips. My nipples pebbled as I imagined his mouth on
them.
His
eyes narrowed then raked their way back to my face. “How-how did
you sleep?”
Was
it my imagination or was he struggling for words? As though casual
talk had no place between us, but he needed the lubricant.
The
thought of lubricant, and what we could do with it, flashed through
my brain. Fizzled there, incinerating all other preoccupations.
“I
slept well.”
“Good.”
A rough growl. “The room was to your liking?”
“Yes.”
“The
bed…comfortable?”
The
word bed made me shudder. Maybe it was just the way he said
it, infusing it with meaning, intent.
Or
maybe it was simply the fact that he’d slipped nearer.
The
breeze shifted and brought his scent to me on wispy tendrils. That
intoxicating bite of his cologne made my head spin.
“Are
you…hungry?” His voice rumbled, thrummed with double entendre.
“Not
for food.” A whisper. I barely choked it out. Because he’d come
close, and closer still. “But first… Rules.”
His
brow wrinkled. “Rules?”
I
nodded primly. Best to just get this out. I held up a finger. “One.
Always use protection.”
“P-protection?”
He stared at me like a deer in the headlights. Seriously? Had he not
known it was going this way? Had he not suspected?
Or
was he shy?
I
kind of liked that. I kind of liked the fantasy that he didn’t
screw Marlee and every one of the friends she sent to him.
He
cleared his throat and nodded. “Okay. Protection.” He swallowed.
“Any other rules?”
“Just
one.” It had to be said. “No talking about Marlee.”
His
features froze. His lips opened and closed. “No, ah, talking about
Marlee?”
“Exactly.”
I pushed off, floated into his arms. He caught me. His hands skated
over my wet skin reverently, sending ripples in his wake. “I don’t
want anything between us, Jimmy. Not anything at all.”
“Oh
God.” He yanked me close. It was a shock, the feel of him so hard
and rough against my body, but a delightful one.
“Nothing
between us,” I whispered.
“Nothing.”
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Sabrina York, is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author
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