Page 65 of Her Ex-Husband's Brother

“I’ll walk you to the door.” I gesture gallantly at the door to the RV that is just three steps away from the kitchenette.

“How very gentlemanly of you,” she says, playing along.

But when she gets there, one hand on the handle, she pauses and turns around.

Except I expected her to keep going, so she turns right into my chest, and suddenly we’re face to face, only inches apart.

She sucks in a quick inhale, her eyes searching mine.

“Thanks for the hot cocoa and… everything.” She swallows hard, eyes still pinging back and forth between mine.

Which makesmeswallow hard, because everything inside me is drawn to everything this woman is, with such a powerful magnetism I can’t take the step backwards that I ought to.

There’s a voice in the back of my head shouting:make responsible decisions.

Instead, I freeze.

Both of us breathing in and out, chests almost touching.

Eyes dancing with desperate longing.

I’m not sure which of us breaks first, or if it’s literally both of us at the same time.

But the next thing I know, her arms are flung around my neck, and my hands are under her ass hiking her up into my arms.

My lips crash hungrily into hers and all I can think now is:fuck, nothing has ever felt more right.

SEVENTEEN

LENNON

Uh oh.

We’re kissing again.

This is bad.

Except it’s so,sogood.

The way his fingers dig into my ass makes me feel so womanly, it fires off every lusty cylinder inside me.

I did not know I had lust cylinders. This is not a thing I have ever experienced in my life before August Gallagher.

Fuck. AugustGallagher.

Who I now know is my ex-husband’s brother. Well,almostex-husband.

I should stop. We shouldn’t be doing this. It’s reckless.

Especially with how dirty I now know Jake is going to play in this divorce. He’ll weaponize this against me.

Which is so infuriating.

Because now that I’ve found something that actually feelsgood,Jake gets to ruin it, too? How is that fair?

All I want is to be free of him and his relentless control. God he’s been so sneaky about it this whole time, I just fell in line without even realizing I was being manipulated into the position.

My ex-husband doesn’t get a say anymore about a single thing I do from now on out. No matter how hard he tries.