Courting Innocence
Even Nice Girls Have Needs.Erin starts using matchmaker Luxxor Limited, not realizing that the company is truly an escort service. She meets a series of hunky men, but the dates are disappointing. She wants a man that will awaken her senses, challenge her thoughts, and rev up her body. But she gets more than she bargained for when Luxxor sets her up with another client, lawyer Colton King. Her big brother’s best friend.Erin has always lusted for Colt. Dark, muscled, and brooding, he was her first teenage crush. Now he’s her favourite fevered fantasy. He’s just never taken notice of her before. She has his attention now.Colton is horrified when he learns the scandalous game Erin has been playing with Luxxor’s escorts. He orders her to stop, but things go a bit too far … and become a bit too sexy … Soon Colt is escorting Erin straight to his bed.Years ago, her family forbade him to touch her. How will he defend himself when they learn how impure his thoughts are for their innocent, loving daughter? The one who’s grown up into the sweetest, naughtiest, little temptress.
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Contents
October 23, 7.00 a.m., 55 degrees.
It was going to be a beautiful autumn day, even if she wasn’t getting married.
Erin blew out a breath that beat across her lips. She eyed her bedroom door. The forecast predicted sunshine and moderate temperatures. The leaves on the trees outside would be blazing with colour. Now, she just had to face it.
‘Eye of the tiger.’
She’d been dreading this day for a month – ever since the whole thing had been called off. Once she had powered through the next 24 hours, she could finally move on. To what, she had no clue, but she was bound and determined to find out.
She was even excited about the possibilities.
Fluffing her damp hair, she headed for the kitchen. Quiet sounds met her ears the moment she stepped out into the hallway. Jason and Sienna must already be up. Her roommate and her boyfriend had spent the night here, and Erin knew why. They hadn’t wanted her to be alone.
She sighed. She was so tired of people tiptoeing around her. Maybe that would end after today, too.
She turned into the kitchen with a ‘good morning’ on her lips.
All she got out was a ‘guhhhh’.
Her eyes sprang open in surprise. No wonder she’d heard only soft sounds and no talking. Her friends’ mouths were currently involved in something infinitely more pleasurable.
Heat streaked through Erin unexpectedly. That was one more thing that wouldn’t be happening today.
Her wedding night.
Her toes curled in embarrassment, but she couldn’t stop watching. Jason had Sienna trapped against the kitchen counter. The kiss they were sharing was hot, with Sienna arching back until her head nearly bumped against the cabinets. Jason had his hand shoved under the tank top of her pyjamas and was playing with her breast intimately. Sienna wasn’t being shy either. She had one hand in Jason’s hair and another wrapped around…
‘Oh, my,’ Erin squeaked.
The two sprang apart as if she’d just pulled a fire alarm.
‘Erin!’
‘Shit!’
Jason bumped into a chair, and Sienna knocked her purse off the counter. It went flying and hit the floor with a resounding thud, sending its contents everywhere.
‘I’m sorry,’ Erin gasped. She turned to leave, but bumped into the wall.
‘No, no.’ Jason was fast. He caught her wrist and stopped her. ‘My bad. I shouldn’t have started anything.’
‘We weren’t thinking,’ Sienna said in a rush. She straightened her clothes and ran a hand through her hair. Gathering it together, she looked around for her ponytail holder. She spotted it on the counter by her hip, but Jason got to it first. He put it in his pocket and pulled his girlfriend close again.
‘Erin doesn’t want us celibate,’ he said firmly.
‘No!’ Erin agreed.
‘But it’s –’
‘The day she was supposed to get married’ hung in the air like a sagging balloon.
Erin rolled her eyes. And there it was. She didn’t want anyone’s pity. She was over the humiliation and past the anger. She was even past the surprise. ‘I don’t want you guys to stop your lives, just because my plans were derailed.’
‘Are you sure?’ Sienna said cautiously. ‘It doesn’t bother you?’
‘She’s positive,’ Jason said.
Erin choked back a laugh. He wasn’t about to stop having sex on her account.
And they shouldn’t. It didn’t bother her…not that much. Her gaze took in how close they still stood together. There hadn’t just been sparks when she’d walked in the doorway, there had been fire. She could still feel it low in her belly.
Forcibly, she uncurled her toes.
‘It’s just this new apartment,’ she said. ‘I didn’t hear you two in here.’
