mystery man wooing her with words and a real-life,
sexy bar owner turning her thoughts to jelly with only a touch. It was too bad she
couldn‟t have both guys but at this point, she wasn‟t even sure if she could handle one.
* * * * *
Grant had honestly tried to keep his thoughts on the straight and narrow for the
rest of the evening but he was completely distracted. Distracted by the smell of Celeste,
by the way his heartbeat seemed to react to her nearness.
She‟d been in his thoughts since they‟d met the day before. So much so that he had
composed some sexy text messages for her himself, knowing that he could do much
better than the idiot who had been sending her messages previously. He hadn‟t
expected her to answer, though. Surprised, he really hadn‟t stopped to think of a plan.
He went with his first impulse, which was to let their flirtation play out and see what
came of it. Sending her messages about what he wanted to do to her, how attractive he
found her. As her mystery man he was free to tell her what he really wanted.
As Grant, he wanted to play it cool. Hence the casual invitation to come to the bar
that night. Unfortunately, it seemed she‟d decided to use the occasion to do some
sleuthing about her mystery man, which was both gratifying and frustrating. Now he
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was his own competition. He had purposefully asked her the embarrassing questions
about her mystery man to get a little of his own back but the sight of her all-too-
charming blush had put an end to that plan.
Grant stretched uncomfortably in his recliner. Even now, two hours after saying
goodnight to Celeste at the bar, the memory of her blush was enough to make him hard.
The playful teasing about reading her messages had brought out a reaction from Celeste
that he hadn‟t expected. She‟d seemed almost frantic in her need for him not to see
them. Whether that was because she was embarrassed about the sensual nature of them
or she didn‟t want him to think she was talking to another man, he wasn‟t sure. Either
way he wasn‟t concerned since he was the other man and he knew exactly what the
messages said.
But the teasing had also elicited a reaction that he hadn‟t expected from himself.
Possessiveness. The sight of her in distress had affected him in ways he had never felt
before and he knew that there wasn‟t anything he wouldn‟t do to make her happy
again. And the fact that he had been the one to cause the distress was especially galling.
He hadn‟t meant to upset her. After learning that she‟d been at his bar with Noah
the night she had lost her phone, he had felt an almost insane need to call her attention
to him. To make sure that he was the only man in her thoughts. He‟d grabbed her cell in
a move to bring her focus to him. Never mind that he hadn‟t even known Celeste on the
night in question, he knew her now. And he couldn‟t shake the feeling that she was his.
It was causing him to do out-of-character things like text naughty messages to a woman
he barely knew, stay up all night fantasizing about her, attempt to push her into
revealing those things at a table full of people.
Of course, the only person at the table who hadn‟t known what was going on had
appeared to be Noah. He had been too caught up in Rory to pay much attention to
Celeste, for which Grant was grateful. Things would have been much more complicated
if the handsome Noah had decided to step into the complicated storyline that Grant had
created. When Grant had walked up behind Celeste, he had heard her talking to Rory
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about her “mystery man”. It had been amazing to find out that she found their little
game arousing and that she wanted it to continue. Not so amazing when she‟d
questioned Noah later about being her anonymous texter. Jealousy, hot and searing,
had boiled through him at that point. The girls had obviously been attempting to sniff
out if Noah was
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