Page 69 of The Holiday Heartbreaker

She was determined not to be mean.

She was also determined to hide in her house, because she was embarrassed about facing Brody.

Brody.

She couldn’t even think straight when she thought about that man. He had done things to her that...

It made her hot even now.

And she was trying to draw a line under it and accept the fact that it was only going to be the one time.

It could only be the one time. And that was good. It was fine. It was fine because she didn’t need to have sex with him again. The mystery was solved. The mystery was well and truly revealed, nakedly. Yeah. She had seen it all.

And so had he. And put his mouth on it all.

Oh Lord.

We are going to have to figure something out, came the terse response from Carter. Okay, she didn’t know if it was terse, since she was reading it, but it felt terse in her heart.

I know.

It’s too far away for me to just go get him for the weekend.

Three hours was not that far.

If you feel that way, I’m sorry. But the judge deemed it an acceptable distance for us to move.

I’m actually not trying to have a fight with you.

“Well, you suck at it.” Again, said out loud while she typed: We’ll figure it out, just maybe not right now.

She put her phone away. She didn’t need to sit on it just to receive texts from Carter.

She suddenly heard excited moving, and she looked outside and saw Benny prancing around enthusiastically.

And then she saw why.

It was Brody.

Her heart clenched.

Benny had a bad case of hero worship for Brody, and it really scared her. Bad.

What about the hero worship you feel for him?

Yeah. But she more worshipped the abilities that he had with his mouth.

That made her face heat.

She went to the door and opened it.

“To what do I owe the pleasure?”

“Well,” Brody said, fixing her with a look that felt intimate. “I thought you might text me before now.”

Had he? Had he thought she might text him and ask him to come over? She wouldn’t have been opposed to that. The guy was smoking hot and...

And she was not going to have sex with him with her son down the hall. It just wasn’t going to happen.

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