Release Blitz: Some Sort of Love by Melanie Harlow
Title: Some Sort of Love
Series: Happy Crazy Love #3
Author: Melanie Harlow
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 9, 2016
On the surface, I have it all—a career I adore, a loving family,
the Nixon metabolism but not the Nixon ears, and a salary that
supports my lavish taste in designer shoes, fine wine, and lacy
lingerie…but I have no one to share it with.
Until the
day I run into him—my one night stand from college with the cocky
smile, let’s-get-out-of-here eyes, and dirty, dirty mouth.
Levi
Brooks is six feet four inches of hot bearded fantasy. A sexy single
dad with broad shoulders, strong hands, and a fantastically
big…heart. (I mean, it’s massive. And generous. And it pumps so
hard… um. Sorry. Lost my place.)
But he lives for his
son, and he's keeping me at a distance because he thinks I deserve
someone better—a man who can give me more time, more attention,
more of himself. He doesn’t believe he could ever be enough.
But
he's wrong.
He’s everything.
“So.” I glanced out the windows to the patio. “You want to
go back out there?”
“Not really,” she said.
“You
want to get out of here?”
She grinned. “Yeah. I
do.”
I watched her rush up the stairs to get her
things, and as soon as she was out of sight, I adjusted myself in my
pants. My dick had jumped to life the second she said yeah, I
do, as if the question had been you want to get naked and
fuck? rather than something much less suggestive. Not that I
didn’t want to get naked and fuck—hopefully I’d last a little
longer than I had in the broom closet eleven years ago—but I didn’t
want to make her feel like that’s what I expected. She wasn’t a
horny nineteen-year-old college student anymore; she was a doctor,
for fuck’s sake. She was beautiful and smart and mature and
sophisticated, and a woman like her did not want some Neanderthal who
probably needed a haircut and a new pair of shoes to throw her up
against a wall for a five-minute fuck.
A woman like that
deserved attention all night long. She deserved someone who would
undress her slowly and delight in each new inch of her skin as it was
revealed. Someone who would run his hands all over her body and find
out where she liked to be touched, how she liked to be touched, what
she wanted to hear whispered to her in the dark. Someone who would
wrap those gloriously long legs around his neck and use his tongue
until she begged for his cock, then use his cock until she begged for
mercy.
Fuck. I could be that guy.
Except I couldn’t be. Not tonight. Because I wasn’t a horny
college student anymore either—I was just a horny single dad who
didn’t have the luxury of taking a woman home and lavishing all my
time and attention on her the way I wanted to.
As soon
as I had the thought, I felt guilty. Scotty was the love of my life
and always would be, and whenever I felt the slightest bit resentful
about something I couldn’t do because of him, that resentment was
immediately crushed by shame. He didn’t ask to be born wired
differently, into a terrible relationship, to a mother who would
decide she couldn’t handle being a parent, to a father who wasn’t
prepared for any of it. He was completely innocent, and he needed me
to be a better man.
Running a hand through my hair, I
exhaled and wondered if I should ask Jillian for a raincheck on a
night when Scotty’s usual sitter could be there. If he woke up
again and I wasn’t home yet, he might never get back to sleep. We’d
be up all night, tomorrow would be miserable, and the whole start to
the week would be off.
But she was so beautiful.
And I hadn’t been this attracted to someone in so long.
“Fuck,”
I muttered, checking my watch. What was the right thing to do? If she
were a different sort of woman, if her brother-in-law weren’t my
friend and client, if we lived three states apart…if any number of
circumstances were changed, I’d grab her hand, drag her out to my
car, and spend the next thirty minutes fucking her brains out in the
back seat. It would feel so good to take control that way, to lose
control that way, to release some of this fucking tension. But was
that fair to her?
My phone buzzed in my
pocket.
“Hello?”
“He’s up again.”
Monica’s voice was strained, and in the background I heard the
familiar keening of a nighttime meltdown. My chest hurt, the way it
always did when Scotty was upset.
“Shit. OK, I’m on
my way. Twenty minutes, OK? Thirty at the most.”
“OK.”
“Tell
him he can play on his iPad.”
“That’ll just rile
him up more. He’s tired. He needs to go to sleep.”
I
clenched my fist. “Just do it, OK? It will help calm him until I
get there.”
As I ended the call, I heard footsteps
above, and then Jillian appeared at the top of the stairs carrying a
small suitcase. I watched her descend, the tightness in my chest
growing. Also the tightness in my pants. “Hey.”
“Hey,”
she said, her face concerned as she reached the ground and saw my
expression. She set down the suitcase. “What’s up?”
Sighing,
I put my phone back in my pocket. “I have to get home. Scotty woke
up and he’s upset.”
“Oh.” She tried to hide it,
but I saw the disappointment in her eyes.
“I’m
really sorry. I’ll make it up to you, I promise.”
“That’s
OK. I understand.”
“Can I call you?”
“Of
course.” She smiled, and her lips looked so soft and inviting, I
took a step closer.
If you kiss her, it will be that
much harder to leave.
I knew it was the truth, but I
couldn’t help myself. One kiss. Just one. And then I’ll go.
I moved even closer and took her head in my hands.
The
curve of her smile deepened. “What are you doing?”
“I’m
thinking about kissing you.”
“Stop thinking.”
I
lowered my lips to hers and let them rest there, fully intending the
kiss to be short and sweet, just a goodnight.
But I
couldn’t break it off. I wanted more—I wanted to taste her.
Slanting my head, I changed the angle of the kiss, teasing her mouth
open with mine, slipping my tongue between her lips. A little sigh
escaped her, and my dick jumped to life again.
You have
to go, you have to go, you have to go.
But her hands
were moving up my chest and my fingers were sliding into her soft
brown hair and I could smell something sweet and citrusy on her skin
and it mingled with the taste of whiskey on my tongue and oh God, I
wanted my tongue everywhere on her body. I wanted make her come with
it just so I could hear that little sigh again and again and again.
And I wanted to feel my hands in her hair just like this while she
got on her knees and took my cock between her lips, looking up at me
with those big blue eyes…
Groaning, I forced myself to
take my lips off her before I completely lost my senses. “God, I
wish I could stay,” I said, resting my forehead against hers. “I
wish a lot of things.”
“I know.” She played with
my tie again. “I wish I was taking this tie off you, not
straightening it.”
“What a coincidence, that’s one
of my wishes too.”
She laughed and kissed me quickly. “Another time, maybe. You
better go.”
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Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her
history with the naughty bits left in. When she's not writing or
reading, she gets her kicks from TV series like VEEP, Game of
Thrones, House of Cards, and Homeland. She occasionally runs three
miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak.
Melanie
is the author of the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series,
and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts
her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit,
MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.
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