The Last Single Garrett
ONE KISSFor twelve years Tristyn Garrett ignored the near-kiss with family friend and current boss Josh Slater...until the confirmed bachelor shows up with three adorable little girls in his arms. Making him simply irresistible…TWO MONTHSBut resist she must, especially when she's trapped for the summer in an RV on the car racing circuit with the girls and the one man she can't aloow herself to have. Because he broke her heart once--she won't allow him to do it again!THREE KIDSCaring for his nieces on the road, Josh needs Tristyn. But the kiss that got away looms large in the small space...till Josh devises a plan: Kiss her and get it out of his system. With three little chaperones, what can possibly happen?
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One Kiss
For twelve years Tristyn Garrett ignored the near kiss with family friend and current boss Josh Slater...until the confirmed bachelor shows up with three adorable little girls in his arms. Making him simply irresistible...
Two Months
But resist she must, especially when sheâs trapped for the summer in an RV on the car-racing circuit with the girls and the one man she canât allow herself to have. Because he broke her heart onceâshe wonât let him do it again!
Three Kids
Caring for his nieces on the road, Josh needs Tristyn. But the kiss that got away looms large in the small space...till Josh devises a plan: kiss her again and get it out of his system. With three little chaperones, what can possibly happen?
The inadvertent contact made him groan.
Tristyn backed up. âYouâre in my space.â When Josh didnât step away, she said, âCould you please get out of my space?â
âI could...â Instead, he stepped forward, breaching the distance between them.
âTwelve years,â he murmured as he caught her chin in his hand. âItâs a long time to wonder, donât you think?â
âI guess that depends on what youâre wondering.â Her tone was neutral but he caught her breathlessness.
âThe same thing you are.â
She was trembling. Not with fear, she realized. With desire. But going down that path with Josh now would be dangerous. Still, she played along.
âAnd what is that?â she asked.
He didnât say the words. He simply brushed her lips with his.
And with that kiss, any thought of resistance fizzled away. In that moment there was only Josh. And the intoxicating sensation of his kiss.
Twelve years ago she wouldâve given anything to experience this. Twelve years ago sheâd been totally unprepared for this. Even now, she wasnât sure what to do with the desire that pulsed through her veins.
All she knew was that if she touched him now, she wouldnât be able to stop.
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BRENDA HARLEN is a former attorney who once had the privilege of appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada. The practice of law taught her a lot about the world and reinforced her determination to become a writerâbecause in fiction, she could promise a happy ending! Now she is an award-winning, national bestselling author of more than thirty titles for Mills & Boon. You can keep up-to-date with Brenda on Facebook and Twitter or through her website, www.brendaharlen.com.
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Contents
Tristyn Garrett didnât get paid to keep tabs on Josh Slater.
Though her responsibilities at Garrett/Slater Racing seemed ever growing and changing, that wasnât one of them. So when Dave Barkov came into the building for his nine-thirty meeting with her too-sexy-for-his-own-good boss, she buzzed Joshâs office. As a co-owner of the race team, Josh didnât always keep regular hours, but he was always there when he needed to be.
So why wasnât he there now?
âExcuse me for a minute,â she said to Mr. Barkov, and made her way down the hall to Joshâs office. The door was open, but the lights were off and the chair behind his desk was empty. His computer, which was always on, was flashing a reminder of the meeting with Dave Barkov, which Josh wasnât there to see.
Across the hall, her cousinâs office was also empty, but she knew that Daniel was at the wind tunnel with Ren DâAlesio and his crew chief. She had received no communication from Josh to explain his absence.
Ordinarily she wouldnât worry about where he was, what he was doing or even who he was with, but Mr. Barkov was a potential new sponsor and this tour of the facilities in Charisma, North Carolina, had been set up weeks ago. She knew because sheâd set it up, after ensuring that the date and time worked for Josh. Right now, she was silently cursing the fact that she worked for him.
Their relationship was a mostly, if not strictly, professional one. Josh had been friends with her cousin Daniel for as long as she could remember, and over the past several years, heâd become a regular fixture at family events. He was, in many ways, like another cousin to her, except that she got along really well with all her cousins and her relationship with Josh wasnât always so amicable.
At the shop, they worked well together because each was focused on the performance of their respective duties. But away from GSR, there was often an uncomfortable...friction...between them.
She blamed Josh for that friction. He seemed to enjoy saying and doing things for the sole purpose of riling her, and even aware of that fact, she couldnât always control her reactions. Her sisters liked to tease that it was sexual tension and suggested that Tristyn could alleviate the problem by getting naked with Josh, but that wasnât going to happenâno way, no how, not ever.
