The Rival (Looking to Score, #2)

by Kendall Ryan

“If you end up falling for her, you have to get a tattoo on your ass.”

She’s a good girl. The kind of girl you have to work for. But something tells me it would be worth it.

I can’t say I ever felt the desire to take care of Eden when we were together; she was always as self-sufficient as they come.

“So, what? Now your heart’s closed for business? No room for anyone else to get in there?”

I’ve bedded a lot of women, but suddenly my mind goes blank of everyone before her. I can’t recall a single one of them, not even if you paid me a million dollars.

It’s the most powerful orgasm of my life, and my hips jerk up in a hard thrust as I bury myself inside her for a final time. Holy shit. What was that?

“For the record, you didn’t upset me. But you did make me feel like I was nothing more than a used Kleenex. So, yeah.”

God, I miss Aspen. I miss talking to her. Cooking for her. Holding her. Making love to her. I miss the person I was when I was with her.

“All that to say Alex wasn’t right for me. But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong for you.”

“Aspen Ford, you have completely turned my life around. Not by trying to change me, just by being your gorgeous self. I think back on the man I was before I met you, and I feel bad for him. Because he didn’t know what happiness was yet.” His voice catches with emotion. “And now I’m greedy, and I want you in my life for good. I want you to be my wife. I want you to be mine forever. Will you marry me?”