Beginner's Luck (Chance of a Lifetime, #1)

by Kate Clayborn

“It means,” he says, looking right at me, looking right through me, really, “that if you say okay, I’m coming in this house with you and finishing what we started. It means I got Sharon to stay with my dad tonight, so I have every intention of taking you to bed and keeping you there all night. It means I haven’t stopped thinking about your mouth since Saturday. It means that right now, I don’t give one good goddamn about anything other than making sure I have you every way I can before you have to go to work tomorrow.”

I feel restless, unsettled, a little, and I know it’s because Kit just—she just puts herself out there, telling me this thing about her and her brother, and I’m still dammed up. I try and imagine what she’d say if I told her how I took it about Dad and Sharon. That’s new, that imagining—because while I’ve been told by more than one woman that I had problems communicating, I don’t think I’ve ever thought once about how I might go about doing it better.

Ben is part of what home means to me now—he’s not everything, but he might be the biggest thing, and he’s going to change every careful arrangement I had set up in my life, but for once I’m so excited about that prospect. I can’t wait to see what’ll happen.