That Kind of Guy (Queen's Cove, #1)

by Stephanie Archer

She often joked she felt more comfortable around fictional men than real ones.

“Everything and more.”

I told her the truth. “This time, I went to prom with the right girl.”

I want to see your photo, even if you look like a dork. I want to know you.”

Tea. If I wasn’t sure sex was off the table at the threat of bedbugs, now I knew for sure. No one had sex after drinking tea. Tea was the least horny drink.

“Louder,” he demanded.

I didn’t want this to end. I wanted to do this every day with Avery, forever. This feeling, there was only one name for it. I swallowed. The cold spread in my chest as I looked into her eyes. I was in love with her, and I wanted to marry her for real. Shit.

“What’s the occasion?” “My girl had the day from hell.” My girl. If I had a diary, I’d write those words down so I’d never forget him saying them.

Tonight, I’d let myself be a little in love with Emmett Rhodes.

I willed myself to remember every second of this. I never wanted to forget being in love with Emmett Rhodes.

“I never expected to find someone I trust and respect so much, someone I want to talk to and see every day.”

“Someone I want to wake up with every day. You are what my life was missing, and I didn’t even realize it until I found you, but I have no plans to let you go.

“I’m going to make you come so hard you can’t remember what it was like before we were together,”