It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1)

by Tessa Bailey

Another man who thought she was worthless? How positively breathtaking.

And then she knew, by the determined set of his jaw and his confident energy, that Brendan Taggart did not think of her as a friend.

The possibility that he’d shown up to see her, help her, without anything in return, made her comfortable in her own skin—ironically, without any of her usual beautifying trappings.

So … how real or substantial is an image if everything it earns someone can all go away in two weeks?”

“Trying to figure out what to do when no one is watching. And wondering if maybe that’s the stuff that actually matters.”

She climaxed. Which was a pitiful word for traveling to a distant plane where fairies danced and gumdrops rained from the sky.

home. And he wanted to do this for the rest of his life. Collect her from a night out with the girls, have her soft and pliant against him, be her man.

When he turned Piper around, she saw he was visibly concerned by what she’d revealed. Well, welcome to the party, bucko.

He’d woken up with a plan to try to slay her dragons … and he’d executed it. Nothing stood in his way. He’d even passed on sex so they could dig to the root of their issues, and God, that wasn’t just commendable. It was hot.