Extract: Words of Love (Tempted by an old flame - an erotic romance) - Four Temptations #2 by PJ Adams

I really should have known better. I’d be the first to admit that.

Doomed relationships? Volatile lovers who can never make things work together? So many fights the admittedly fantastic sex just isn’t enough in the end? Temptations that should really be ignored, because how could that particular relationship ever stand a chance?

Tell me about it.

I’ve been there, seen it all. Written the book and sold the movie.

And maybe that's the problem.

The second of four inter-locking tales of passion, risk and love: three women... one pivotal night... four temptations... Explicit erotic romance from the bestselling author of The Object of His Desire and The Wings of Desire. 

Note: it's fine to read the first three stories in this set in any order, but best to save the fourth until last.

Extract:

So... Brandon and his flirting. And he really was flirting.
“That scent,” he whispered in my ear as we chatted to another of Jimmy’s authors. “Didn’t I buy that for you?”
“It’s soap.”
It was actually Madame by John Paul Gaultier, and yes, Brandon had introduced me to it. Call me a heartless bitch, but I hadn’t seen any reason to dump the scent just because I’d dumped the man.
“It’s okay. I just needed an excuse to lean in close like this,” he said, leaning in close to whisper into my ear again, one hand resting briefly on the small of my back.
That was the moment...
Up until then I’d been vaguely amused by his behavior, but now... now I realized he might just be serious, and what’s more, I liked it.
Yes, I know, I should have known better than that. I write about this all the time: relationships that work and those that don’t. I think I’m a pretty good judge of this kind of thing, and Brandon and I was a thing that had had its chance and been found wanting.
But that touch, on the small of my back. The look in his eye when he met my surprised look. That leaning in to whisper in my ear thing.
God but that all worked for me!
It was the same old chemistry. It was why there had been a Brandon and me in the first place. It was–
They were talking, Brandon and the author whose name I suddenly didn’t care that I’d forgotten. Looking at me for a response. That was the second time this evening that I’d lost track of a conversation. So unlike me.
Brandon had taken his hand away and, more than anything else, I wanted his touch again. I needed it. There was no denying a feeling so strong, no amount of logic that would argue successfully against that kind of need.
He met my eye again, and it was clear that he knew it too.
He steered me away to one side of the room. “Maybe we should–”
“What?” I interrupted. “Slip away from here? Find somewhere private? Was it a knee-trembler or a quick blow-job you were after, Bran? You always were the big romantic.”
“You can be so cruel sometimes,” he said, a mock hurt look on his face. “I do love that about you.”
“You can be an incorrigible bastard,” I replied. “And I tell you, I’m not so in love with that about you.”
“That old chemistry, eh?”
“That’s one way to describe it.”
Funny how I could switch from feeling so hot for him that I really would have slipped away from the party to this: the kind of exchange that was stuck uncomfortably somewhere between joking and bickering. In our time together, that balance had steadily tipped until every exchange had at least an undertone of fight to it and now I was reminded of all that had been wrong about us.
The moment was gone.
It was stupid, and I knew it was stupid. Even to lapse for a minute and enjoy his attention. Stupid.

(continues...)

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