Hot Mess Summer
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Read between October 20 - October 21, 2023
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Feeling like a bumbling teenager, I pick up the tray and spin around, smacking into a wall of stone and splashing coffee everywhere.
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I look up, registering the irritated gaze of a rugged man with windblown black hair, salt-and-pepper scruff,
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I’m so sorry. Why aren’t there lids?” Balancing the tray in one hand, I grab the napkins and start patting his shirt dry.
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He lets out a long, loud breath, as if he’s had a day, and grits out, “It’s fine,” in a deep, craggy voice.
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As I process his authoritative tone, he flashes a boyish grin, bringing out killer dimples that soften his bite and cause an unexpected flutter in my chest.
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“Don’t you think he’s a little young to get you all worked up?”
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He chuckles and steps up to the counter, like he didn’t just infer I was too old and too eager. I hear Matt say, “Declan, my man. Were you flirting with my girl?”
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coffee. “Color me impressed.” “Yeah, well, I don’t know if you should color me annoyed or embarrassed. He basically called me a cougar. Let’s get out of here.”
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“Shows how much you know. If you’re going for size, get the Magnum Ecstasy.” I hold up a box of them. “It’s four-tenths of an inch longer than the XLs.”
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do you know that?” Dani asks,
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“Book research.” I toss the box in the cart, lift my chin, and head down the aisle. “I might not have a great ...
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After we divorced, my new motto became Like me as I am or say goodbye,
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Absolutely love that!!!!!
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A guy who is kind to everyone and likes to laugh, even during sex, and looks like hell in the morning so he can be down with my frizzy hair and puffy eyes.”
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“A guy who thinks Daisy Dukes and boots qualify as dressing up and would rather hang out around a bonfire with friends than in a five-star restaurant?”
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want to be anyone’s second choice that they settle for because someone else blew them off.”
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who cheers you on while you’re writing
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until midnight because you’re late for a deadline?”
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while we’re at it, let’s throw in a back rub when I’m done for the night and maybe a hand massage, too.”
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he knows you’ll support his
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dreams and use those talented hands to ease his a...
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“We should open a single ladies’ service station. Think about it. A guy shows up for a lube job and leaves an hour later. No fuss, no muss,
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I can’t stop thinking about that asshole kissing you the other night. That should’ve been me, and back there on the island, I wanted to kiss you so damn bad,
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“I know what I said about you deserving someone who can give you more, and you do deserve that, but I can’t stop wanting to get you naked.”
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smile tugs at my lips, and my cheeks burn. “You can’t?”
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I’ve had more fantasies about you than I had in all my teenage ...
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He pushes his hands into my hair, fisting them as his mouth claims mine, greedily devouring me, unleashing a flood of desire that’s been building for weeks.
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“Now, where were we?” “You were about to stop teasing and start satisfying.”
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can’t remember ever having so much fun in bed or feeling so in sync with a woman.
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being inside Nicole? Feeling her shatter around me? That was nothing short of mind-blowing.
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Chuck turns back to me. “It was fun hanging out with Nic again. She’s a hell of a woman.”
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“You said she’s your adventure buddy. Does that mean I can ask her out, or . . . ?” Chuck asks.
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green-eyed monster digs its claws in, and my chest knots up.
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“That depends. Do you value your life?”
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“If I don’t leave, your daughter’s going to find us naked in your driveway and be scarred for life.”
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I don’t want to leave Chatemup.
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want to wake up and see the water and go to the coffee shop to write.