Campus Crush, 5
A recent divorcee gets the spring break she never had when the college boy next door brings home a sexy young friend for a little R & R…
Emma Hastings has been divorced, and purposefully celibate, for the last five years. But all that changes when she hears a ruckus from the neighbor’s house late one sultry night. When she goes next door to complain, she finds a sexy spring breaker waiting up to smooth things over, but his lean, hungry presence only confuses her all the more.
Mitch Carlson was just along for the ride. He’d never seen the beach before and wanted to before he graduated from Sunrise State the following year. A quick ride share home with some cash-poor freshmen brought him to Flamingo Shores and, even better, right next door to the hottest, sexiest, fieriest fortysomething woman Mitch had ever met. Even if it was at three in the morning so that Emma could file a noise complaint!
When his friends ditch him for a concert down south, young Mitch stays behind and makes Emma a deal she can’t refuse: he’ll give her the spring break she never had if she’ll show him around the beach he’s never seen before. What could possibly go wrong?
Excerpt:
Emma had been in the pool house before, during some Memorial Day cookout or other, as she recalled. “There’s nowhere for a big, strapping boy like you to sleep in there.”
“Alas,” Mitch sighed, body heat radiating off of his lean, pale chest in waves that crashed upon her own deliciously. “Why do you think I’m up at this ungodly hour?”
Emma merely nodded, mind working through a dozen different saucy scenarios as his long fingers lingered just beside her own. “What’s your excuse?” he asked, eyes penetrating in the deep dark of night.
Emma nodded, as if to herself, no longer able to deny her craven desires or the way her body was responding almost uncontrollably to each and every one of them. “You, silly,” she murmured, easily unlatching her fence door and stepping cautiously aside, an unspoken invitation she hoped he’d notice. “I can’t let you sleep on some random deck chair, Mitch.”
“Yeah,” he murmured, fiddling with the latch on his side to open his door of the neighboring fence. “But you didn’t know that when you came over here tonight.”
Emma blushed and waved an impatient hand. “Do you have to notice every little thing?” she blurted as he inched slowly onto her property line, pale feet crunching on the soft spring grass. “Can’t you just ignore the fact that I came over here in the middle of the night just to gaze at you in the pool?”
“That was you gazing?” Mitch asked as Emma shut the gate behind them and led him toward the back door past her own shimmering pool. “I just thought you were being nosy again?”
“Again?”
“I mean, that’s why you came over last night, right? To see what all the fuss was about?”
“I didn’t hear you complaining,” Emma teased, holding the screen door to her wraparound patio open for him. He paused, glancing slightly down and leaving her just on the verge of breathlessness. “Do you have to notice every little thing?” He winked then, using her own teasing phrase on her this time.
“Besides,” he added, pausing just inside the doorway as she joined him on the patio. “I thought you were waiting until tomorrow to kick off your spring break.”
“Silly boy,” Emma teased.
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