Title: Some Sort of Love
Series: Happy Crazy Love #3
Author: Melanie Harlow
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Blurb
On the surface, I have it all—a career I adore, a loving
family, the Nixon metabolism but not the
Nixon ears, and a salary that supports
my lavish taste in designer shoes, fine wine, and lacy lingerie…
but I have no
one to share it with.
Until the day I run into him—my one night stand from college
with the cocky smile,
let’s-get-out-of-here eyes, and dirty, dirty mouth.
Levi Brooks is six feet four inches of hot bearded fantasy.
A sexy single dad with broad shoulders,
strong hands, and a fantastically
big…heart. (I mean, it’s massive. And generous.
And it pumps so hard… um.
Sorry. Lost my place.)
But he lives for his son, and he's keeping me at a distance
because he thinks
I deserve someone better—a man who can give me more time,
more attention, more of himself.
He doesn’t believe he could ever be enough.
But he's wrong.
He’s everything.
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Excerpt
“So.” I glanced out the windows to the patio. “You want to
go back out there?”
“Not really,” she said.
“You want to get out of here?”
She grinned. “Yeah. I do.”
I watched her rush up the stairs to get her things, and as
soon as she was out of sight, I adjusted myself in my pants. My dick had jumped
to life the second she said yeah, I do, as if the question had been you want to
get naked and fuck? rather than something much less suggestive. Not that I
didn’t want to get naked and fuck—hopefully I’d last a little longer than I had
in the broom closet eleven years ago—but I didn’t want to make her feel like
that’s what I expected. She wasn’t a horny nineteen-year-old college student
anymore; she was a doctor, for fuck’s sake. She was beautiful and smart and
mature and sophisticated, and a woman like her did not want some Neanderthal
who probably needed a haircut and a new pair of shoes to throw her up against a
wall for a five-minute fuck.
A woman like that deserved attention all night long. She
deserved someone who would undress her slowly and delight in each new inch of
her skin as it was revealed. Someone who would run his hands all over her body
and find out where she liked to be touched, how she liked to be touched, what
she wanted to hear whispered to her in the dark. Someone who would wrap those
gloriously long legs around his neck and use his tongue until she begged for
his cock, then use his cock until she begged for mercy.
Fuck. I could be that guy.
Except I couldn’t be. Not tonight. Because I wasn’t a horny
college student anymore either—I was just a horny single dad who didn’t have
the luxury of taking a woman home and lavishing all my time and attention on
her the way I wanted to.
As soon as I had the thought, I felt guilty. Scotty was the
love of my life and always would be, and whenever I felt the slightest bit
resentful about something I couldn’t do because of him, that resentment was
immediately crushed by shame. He didn’t ask to be born wired differently, into
a terrible relationship, to a mother who would decide she couldn’t handle being
a parent, to a father who wasn’t prepared for any of it. He was completely
innocent, and he needed me to be a better man.
Running a hand through my hair, I exhaled and wondered if I
should ask Jillian for a raincheck on a night when Scotty’s usual sitter could
be there. If he woke up again and I wasn’t home yet, he might never get back to
sleep. We’d be up all night, tomorrow would be miserable, and the whole start
to the week would be off.
But she was so beautiful. And I hadn’t been this attracted
to someone in so long.
“Fuck,” I muttered, checking my watch. What was the right
thing to do? If she were a different sort of woman, if her brother-in-law
weren’t my friend and client, if we lived three states apart…if any number of
circumstances were changed, I’d grab her hand, drag her out to my car, and
spend the next thirty minutes fucking her brains out in the back seat. It would
feel so good to take control that way, to lose control that way, to release
some of this fucking tension. But was that fair to her?
My phone buzzed in my pocket.
“Hello?”
“He’s up again.” Monica’s voice was strained, and in the
background I heard the familiar keening of a nighttime meltdown. My chest hurt,
the way it always did when Scotty was upset.
“Shit. OK, I’m on my way. Twenty minutes, OK? Thirty at the
most.”
“OK.”
“Tell him he can play on his iPad.”
“That’ll just rile him up more. He’s tired. He needs to go
to sleep.”
I clenched my fist. “Just do it, OK? It will help calm him
until I get there.”
As I ended the call, I heard footsteps above, and then
Jillian appeared at the top of the stairs carrying a small suitcase. I watched
her descend, the tightness in my chest growing. Also the tightness in my pants.
“Hey.”
“Hey,” she said, her face concerned as she reached the
ground and saw my expression. She set down the suitcase. “What’s up?”
Sighing, I put my phone back in my pocket. “I have to get
home. Scotty woke up and he’s upset.”
“Oh.” She tried to hide it, but I saw the disappointment in
her eyes.
“I’m really sorry. I’ll make it up to you, I promise.”
“That’s OK. I understand.”
“Can I call you?”
“Of course.” She smiled, and her lips looked so soft and
inviting, I took a step closer.
If you kiss her, it will be that much harder to leave.
I knew it was the truth, but I couldn’t help myself. One
kiss. Just one. And then I’ll go. I moved even closer and took her head in my
hands.
The curve of her smile deepened. “What are you doing?”
“I’m thinking about kissing you.”
“Stop thinking.”
I lowered my lips to hers and let them rest there, fully
intending the kiss to be short and sweet, just a goodnight.
But I couldn’t break it off. I wanted more—I wanted to taste
her. Slanting my head, I changed the angle of the kiss, teasing her mouth open
with mine, slipping my tongue between her lips. A little sigh escaped her, and
my dick jumped to life again.
You have to go, you have to go, you have to go.
But her hands were moving up my chest and my fingers were
sliding into her soft brown hair and I could smell something sweet and citrusy
on her skin and it mingled with the taste of whiskey on my tongue and oh God, I
wanted my tongue everywhere on her body. I wanted make her come with it just so
I could hear that little sigh again and again and again. And I wanted to feel
my hands in her hair just like this while she got on her knees and took my cock
between her lips, looking up at me with those big blue eyes…
Groaning, I forced myself to take my lips off her before I
completely lost my senses. “God, I wish I could stay,” I said, resting my
forehead against hers. “I wish a lot of things.”
“I know.” She played with my tie again. “I wish I was taking
this tie off you, not straightening it.”
“What a coincidence, that’s one of my wishes too.”
She laughed and kissed me quickly. “Another time, maybe. You
better go.”
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Author Bio
Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history
with the naughty bits left in. When she's not writing or reading,
she gets her kicks from TV series like VEEP, Game of Thrones, House of Cards,
and Homeland. She occasionally runs three miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak.
Melanie is the author of the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED
series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s.
She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home
near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters,
and pet rabbit.
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