Game For Love: Best Laid Plans (Kindle Worlds Novella) Read Online Free PDF Page B

about Garret that inspired you to give him a chance.
    You’re going to regret it. Maura crossed her arms over her chest. At that thought she decided to be more cautious. She tensed at the sound of the doorbell then relaxed. Now that she had in her mind what she would do, Maura knew she wouldn’t waver. She smoothed her damp palm down the leg of her dark blue shorts. Maura grabbed her purse off the entryway table then took a step to the door before she opened it.
    Damn him for being so damn fine. Last night when she had teased him about his voice not being sexy instead of how he looked Garret has taken it with his usual affable way. No way would she admit that he wasn’t just sexy but downright gorgeous. She knew it was those shoulders that did her in. She was a sucker for a man with shoulders so broad they made you want to just lay on them and stay a while. Then there were his heavily-lashed, dark blue eyes which again she thought could see deep within her soul. Stop being fanciful. You deal in reality. And the reality is you want to jump him. Have you way with him. Yet you’re waiting because you want to control things as usual. Looking at him Maura wondered which of them would lose control first.
    He’d done as she asked and dressed casually. His white T-shirt stretched across his broad chest and shoulders showcasing his build while his black jeans hugged his thighs. The sandals he had on his feet completed his look. The front of his hair was pushed up from his face with the sunglasses at the top of his head. He smiled and those blasted dimples that made her want to lick along them appeared. Until Garret she never knew she was also a sucker for dimples.
    He leaned in and she met him. His kiss was gentle yet through. They hadn't even greeted each other hello yet but somehow it felt right no words had been spoken. Garret slid his hand along her waist and pulled her into his muscular frame. Maura leaned against him reveling in all that wonderful strength. Another thing she hadn't known she was a sucker for-—someone whose hold made her feel safe yet vulnerable all at once. Maura stiffened. No man would ever make her that way again. Garret pulled back slightly looking at her with those damn all seeing eyes.
    “Hello.” He rubbed his thumb along her side.
    Bare skin . She wished fervently for magic powers so she could be naked and he could touch her with those fingers. You're such a hussy. Maura chuckled then said, “Should I say the other part to the song?”
    “Which one?” Garret smirked. “There are quite a few of them out there.”
    “I love Adele's as well as Lionel Richie's version which uses the word 'Hello'.” Maura hummed a few bars of each.
    “Hello is a great word to use.”
    “It can convey so much according to how it is used.” Maura lowered her voice and said, “Hello.”
    “DD don't do a come-hither voice on me unless you want me to take you to the nearest flat surface,” Garret said then groaned.
    “Who said a flat surface is needed?” She smirked. “A wall is a very useful thing. It isn't just used to separate rooms or us from the outside world. Poor walls are so unappreciated for their other valuable uses.”
    “Woman.”  He growled.
    “Man.” She widened her eyes and wiggled her eyebrows. “Now that we have it straightened out what we each are, shall we go?”
    Garret stared then chuckled. “Woman, you're going to drive me nuts.”
    She stepped closer to him and spoke by his ear. “You have no idea.”
    Garret glanced at her sharply and inhaled. The flare of his nostrils and the determination in his gaze made her pulse race. Maura licked her lips and he followed the movement with his gaze. He lifted his hand and stroked a finger softly against her lip. Maura followed his touch with her tongue then caught his finger between her teeth. The intensity in Garret’s gaze increased. Maura locked her knees wondering how fast they could get naked. From the look in his eyes, Garret would