ETHAN’S HIT A ROUGH SPOT
So I caught my dad in bed with my
ex-girlfriend.
My best friend cancelled our plans
to celebrate my birthday.
Decided to drink away the betrayal.
Made out with a cardboard cutout of
a celebrity in front of my new roommates.
Got in a bar fight.
Hooked up with that pretty
bartender whose sad smile I’ve secretly been painting pictures of since
forever, but she shoved me out the door without a word.
Did I mention the tattoo I don’t
exactly remember getting?
And that’s only Saturday.
Now I need to pick up the pieces of
my messed-up life.
LEEANNE’S HAD A TOUGH LIFE
What do you do when you’ve lived in
the same small town your whole life and you feel as if you’ll always be stuck
in the same rut, like a piece of busted wagon wheel? Well, maybe you start by
hooking up with the first decent guy who walks into your bar.
Maybe once you do, it’s hard to get
him out of your head even though you try. And maybe, just maybe, you find out
he makes you laugh even more than he makes you want to shout his name.
If you’re me, you don’t even know
what to do with a guy like him. A little piece of happiness…that feels
downright dangerous.
So, whatcha thinking? Time to go?” He rises up on his knees.
The way he’s poised, he could either move away or get closer just as easily.
“Oh, I don’t know. I'm not dizzy yet.” Not that I honestly
want to get dizzy, but we’ve gotten a little too serious. After Ethan brought
me here to have fun, I want to lighten the mood.
With his hands deep in the pockets of his leather jacket,
Ethan leans in toward me again. “I thought you didn't want me to make you
dizzy.”
I didn't think so. Yet here we are, hot breath puffing in
the cold air between us. My lips tingle as he leans close. It’s impossible to
forget the way his hands explored me so carefully before. The way his tongue
tasted me like he wanted to keep on tasting me forever.
“You remember that first time you kissed me?”
His cheeks turn a deep merlot. “Damn right I do. I remember
thinking it was the best kiss I'd ever had.”
Well now. I'm pretty sure if I wasn't sitting on something
cold and metal, I'd have just melted right into the playground gravel.
“It was the first time I’d kissed someone because I wanted
to, and not because I thought I should.” My chest feels strange when I confess
this to him. Like it’s full of butterflies or bees. Lighter but nervous. And oh
God, my heart is just bouncing every which way.
As his hair brushes my forehead, his dimple deepens and his
eyes get darker. “I’m glad you wanted to kiss me, LeeAnne. I’ve been dying to
do it again.”
Maybe…maybe I don’t have to lean on him. Maybe I could just
lean in again. Meet those wind-chapped lips halfway. That’d be okay, right?
I wrap my arms around my knees and smile. “I think I've
decided I wouldn't mind getting a little dizzy.”
His lips brush mine so fast, I’m left breathless when he
jumps from the merry-go-round to give it a spin.
“Hang on tight,” he says.
So I do.
Elisabeth Staab started hunting mutant hedgehogs back in
1842… Oops, wrong bio… Elisabeth Staab digs coffee, saucy stories, and sexy
things that go bump in the night. Once, she ate dinner in a jail and liked it.
She lives in the Washington DC area with her incredible family and does her
best to juggle life while ignoring the laundry.
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