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Chapter One
A line of sunlight filtered through theblinds and angled across Brian’s eyelids Wincing against the red glare, he turned his face into his pillow Sonized the bed as the one at the back of Sinners’ tour bus, so it wasn’t because he aking up in an unfamiliar hotel roo his eyes to a new city al was different from his norm?
It was too quiet TheIt was such a fas felt off if he didn’t wake to the sound
With a sleepy srasp full consciousness, and cringed as pain shot across the bridge of his nose Fuck, his face hurt And not because he’d slept on it again He felt as if someone had pounded him between the eyes with a hard fist
Probably because someone had
All at once hisand the reason his nose felt like it had been as Myrna had agreed to ht before had resulted in his worse-for-wear face, which meant…
Today was his wedding day
Holy shit!
Instantly awake, Brian shot his hand out into the space beside hi but an expanse of emptyoff his proposals for weeks, sohireed to ed unpleasantly
He reached farther, needing the tangible evidence of her skin beneath his touch More cool and eed her mind and left him? She had been pissed when he’d shown up with two black eyes the night before He couldn’t blame her for havi
ng second thoughts after he’d gotten into a fight at a strip club A strip club he hadn’t even wanted to go to, but still…
He stretched his arers found warainst Myrna’s back, inhaling her delicate scent Not a dreaination Sweet reality
Myrna murmured his name in her sleep The corners of Brian’s led closer to her back, placing a tender kiss behind her ear
“I love you,” he whispered It felt so good to say it openly without worrying about her getting upset The only thing better than verbally expressing his love was hearing her say it in return He should probably let her sleep—their ht—but he needed to see the love shining in her hazel eyes and hear her put the sentiment to words In a few hours, she’d be his wife—Mrs Myrna Sinclair As far as he was concerned, the honeymoon started now
Brian flicked Myrna’s earlobe with his tongue and sucked it into his rabbed hinited an insatiable sexual hunger within his about her contributed to it Her openness to any sexual experience blew his ed him to invent new experiences to share with her Her scent, her taste, the sexy little sounds she made while their bodies were joined, the texture of her skin, the way the light danced in her auburn hair, the gleahtiness in her hazel eyes, how her pouty lips always begged for his kisses The entirety of her physical being burned his body with awareness Thelove to her inspired his soul Her hard-won trust set his heart ablaze He loved everything about her, even her stubbornness She wasn’t an easy woman, but she was the only woman for him He’d known it the first time they’d made love And now she knew it too At least she said she did He decided she needed a few reet
Sucking and nibbling on her ear, he moved his hand to cover her breast She arched into his pal into his flesh
“Brian!” she gasped
It would be the one and only name she’d call out in ecstasy for the rest of their lives He couldn’t ever i her say it
He slid his hand lower, over her ribs, her belly, seeking the center of her pleasure at the juncture of her thighs His fingers brushed the crisp curls between her legs, and she shuddered He already knehat he wanted to do to her He’d stroke her clit until she came and then press her down on her belly, suspend himself over her back and fuck her slow from behind Grind his hips each time he buried his cock deep inside Tease her clit with his balls until she begged him to make her come
Myrna caught his hand before he could find his target
“No,” she said firmly
“No?” How could she say no? She never told him no Never
“Not until the honeymoon”
He grinned “Which I’ve already decided starts now”
She rolled over to face hiht you looked bad last night”
“Thanks”
Bar fights never ended well, even when you won It hadn’t necessarily been the brightest idea to get in a brawl at his bachelor party, but the instigator of the fight—one Eric Sticks—wasn’t known for coht ideas I ideas? Definitely But not bright ones And the cause of the fight—one Jessica Chase Well, he didn’t want his er
For a few tense ht Myrna would call off their wedding Thought his world would end But after telling him off, she’d listened She allowed him to explain And while she hadn’t condoned his idiocy—or Eric’s—she’d forgiven hiiveness well into the night
Myrna kissed the bridge of his nose, and his flesh throbbed in protest Wincing, he drew a pained breath through his teeth
“Does it hurt?” she asked, rubbing her thu his cheekbone
“Doesn’t feel good Are both eyes black now?”
“Yep You’re the sexiest raccoon rock-god on the planet”
He grinned “Well, as long as you think I’m sexy”
“Always” She kissed him and pulled away to stare into his eyes
He stared back, his heart thudding with a mixture of love and lust and unadulterated joy He couldn’t believe Myrna was openly his That she wanted to marry him Today
Holy shit!
“I love you,” she said She burrowed her fingers into his hair “I love you,” she said more firmly “Do you believe me?”
Al from her lips—but he said, “Yes”
“I think I fell in love with you when I saw you standing in the ter for me Do you remember that?”
“Yeah, but you didn’t loveup possibilities between us and you said only sexual ones And then you gave me your panties to make sure I understood exactly what you meant” He still had those panties somewhere
“Well, I was an idiot And I did love you, Brian, I just didn’t want to admit it I was scared”
“And you’re not scared anymore?”
She shook her head