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“Nicely played,” he said. “Any regrets?”

“None.” I’d never be rich, but I had my artwork, my dog, and a gorgeous cabin to call my own. And I was sharing my bed with a hot, sensitive mountain man.

Life didn’t get much better than that.

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Lake Bluff

MEAGAN C. MATTHEW

Tropes

Grumpy/Sunshine, Age Gap, MF

Blurb

Eclectic Artist Nora needs a distraction free place to work on her painting, so when she finds a cabin on Lake Bluff in northern Wisconsin, she’s more than excited to make the trip. Until she finds it’s not as distraction free as it was advertised. Next door lives a grumpy silver fox who proves to disrupt her thoughts and dreams with every swing of his axe.

Nora has no intention to ever confront this frustratingly sexy man next door; that is until a storm rolls through and takes her power out leaving her with no other option but to knock on his door.

LAKE BLUFF

Copyright 2024 Meagan Matthew

All rights reserved.

No part of this story may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

This is a work of fiction Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to an actual persons, living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental.

Chapter One

Nora

Damn,Icouldlickthe sweat right off his shoulders.

My attention is all over the place, and I can’t decide where to focus, scanning his light skin. His muscles rippling underneath as he swings the axe up before slamming it down in the center of the wood. Suddenly, I’m imagining myself lying across the large stump of wood, my legs spread wide as his masculine hands hold on to my thighs. He’s slamming into me, a delicious pressure bursting in the pit of my stomach as I yelp through each punishing thrust.

A beeping sounds off in the distance, distracting me for only a moment.

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