So this is what Elvin Bishop is on about in his hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"!
You can't help but hear this song as background music in your mind throughout this story. Josh and Emma are oil and vinegar but we all know what a delicious salad dressing the two make. The flavor is unique and combustible.
Emma just wants to be loved and Josh, man-whore that he is, is happy to oblige Emma...just as long as she knows the rules...no strings, just for fun, yada, yada, yada...Then you have Avery and Isaac pushing them together and even into Isaac's playroom at Hardbodies. Two things wrong with Josh taking Emma to the playroom: 1) It's their first date! Nevermind she purchased him at auction and asked him to have sex with her for their date-tacky, no other word will do. 2) Wrapping my head around a nice dinner in a BDSM room where others have been spanked, whipped, tied up and, okay, I digress-you get the picture--even if Emma is blind, your mind can paint pictures you can't unsee!
The true love at first sight in this story--Fergus! What a sweetie and scene stealer. Isaac sums it up best: "He sits by the door and stares at you like you're the only thing in the world." Fergus melts my heart with his compassion and loyalty for his owner.
Of course, Emma and Josh do the deed, discord drops into the relationship and trouble lurk for Avery when Ajax rears his head again. You know an HEA awaits so no need to fret. Getting to the HEA is a bit predictable and no real surprises.
If you haven't heard it in awhile, listen to Bishop's rendition and picture Josh and Emma, but for now, I'll leave you with his classic lyrics...
I must have been through about a million girls
I'd love 'em then I'd leave 'em alone
I didn't care how much they cried, no sir
Their tears left me cold as a stone
But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love, yes I did
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
It used to be when I'd see a girl that I liked
I'd get out my book and write down her name
Ah, but when the-the grass got a little greener on the other side
I'd just tear out that page
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love since I met you, baby
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
Free, on my own, is the way I used to be
Ah, but since I met you, baby, love's got a hold on me
It's got a hold on me now
I can't let go of you baby
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love, oh yes I did
I fooled around, fooled around, fooled around, fooled around,
Fooled around, fooled around, fell in love
Fooled around, fooled around, fooled around, fooled around,
Fooled around, fooled around, fell in love
I fooled around, fell in love
I fell in love, I fell in love, yes I did
Songwriter: ELVIN BISHOP
Fooled Around And Fell In Love lyrics © Warner/Chappell