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Austin
It’s been years since I saw her last, but seeing her in the hotel lobby, she’s different now. A grown woman with curves in all the right places. Now, I need her to be mine forever.
*insta-everything standalone with an HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.
Chapter One
Sydney
Lugging my suitcase into the hotel lobby, I feel nerves clawing at my stomach. This is my last stop between home and college. I’m a late starter, only just starting my studies at twenty-one, but I guess I’ve never felt quite ready. Now, that’s where I’m heading whether I like it or not.
I wait to be attended to in the lobby in the line of holiday makers and businessmen. This hotel is fancy, way too expensive for someone like me. My Dad booked it last minute because I wasn’t even sure I was going to do this at all and there were no other places left. I know that going to college is a huge stepping stone toward a career, but I’ve never been sure of what I want to do with my life. My dream has always been to have a big family and finding my happiness there. A career never even crossed my mind.
But I guess now I’m going to have to figure it out. I can’t spend my whole life waiting around, especially when I’ve never met anyone I want to have a family with.
Well except for one man.
I feel a jolt in my stomach as Austin crosses my mind. Steely blue eyes. Close cropped hair and broad shoulders. A gaze that turned my stomach upside down the last time I saw him. I have to close my eyes to compose myself. Because Austin can never be mine. Not just because he’s twenty years older than me.
But because he’s my Dad’s best friend.
I feel my cheeks heat up as though everyone in this line can hear my thoughts. I know it’s wrong for me to be fantasizing about my Dad’s best friend. I’ve known that since I was sixteen and first began lusting after him. Not a day passes where I don’t think of him and wish he was mine. I remember everything about him. His calm, composed nature. His gravelly, sexy voice. The way his eyes felt like they were burrowing a hole through me whenever he looked in my direction. I’ve wanted him for so long now, but it’s been years since I saw him last. I guess it’s starting to feel as though I simply dreamed him up.
I sigh to myself. It’s not like he’d notice me anyway. He’s older, wiser, completely out of my league. Why would he ever waste his time on a girl like me?
I shuffle forward, cursing myself for always thinking of him. I have to get my head on straight. I need to start focussing on my life, my studies, my future. A life that doesn’t include him.
But when I look up, I see someone across the lobby. He sits on a stool at the bar, his hand clasped around a glass of whiskey. I gasp as I recognize him. I’d know those broad shoulders anywhere, even though I can’t see his face. I recognize the well dressed, confident, cool as a cucumber man.
Austin turns as if he can feel my eyes on him, and his steely eyes meet mine. I feel dizzy. He’s here.
This has to be fate.
Austin
It can’t be her...and yet it is. There’s no mistaking the beautiful woman in the hotel lobby. I’ve known her since she was a girl, but she’s a grown woman now. My eyes drag over her body. Curves you could get lost in. Dark hair, and thick lashes that frame her vivid green eyes. I have to blink once to make sure that she’s real, that she’s here.
My best friend’s daughter.
I clutch my glass of whiskey, trying to ignore the reaction she’s causing inside my pants, my cock standing at attention and throbbing for her. Seeing her, it’s awoken a desire in me for the first time. I’ve spent my whole life believing that no woman would be able to make me feel like this. But now, the one woman I’m not supposed to want has captured my eye. It feels like fate that she’s here. Sydney...the one woman who can make me feel.
I have to make her mine.
I stand before I can stop myself, abandoning my glass of whiskey at the bar. I know I should turn and walk away. I know pursuing her can only cause trouble. But I want her now more than anything I’ve ever wanted before.
And I’m used to getting what I want.
She looks shell-shocked as I approach her. I wonder if she can sense the primal energy I’m radiating, the animal urge I’m having to grab her and fuck her right here in the lobby in front of everyone. I’ve never had such an aggressive sexual thought before, but something about her makes me into a beast. I need her more than I need to breathe. And before this night is over, I intend to fucked her in every way possible.
