This Christmas, forbidden passion is sparking a fire…
and MAKING HER MELT.
Title: Making Her Melt
Author: Amber Lin
Publication date: December 11th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Publication date: December 11th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Romance
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Lia has her perfect life mapped out after college–including her long term boyfriend Chris. But that will mean leaving her best friend Ethan behind, so how can that be perfect? Lia wants them both, but when things heat up, she’ll have to choose where her true future lies.
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Ethan grit his teeth as Lia launched
into her third story about how great Chris was. And yes, Chris was smart and
funny and obviously kicking ass at the internship with a state senator. But did
she have to sound so breathless when she talked about him?
He’d brought this on himself.
Yes, of course he’d go with her,
anywhere, anytime, like he was some kind of stand-in boyfriend. Just walk and
talk and laugh with her, but don’t go home with her. No, she was going home to
Chris.
Chris, who had emailed him after the
phone call. Thx for covering.
As if they were still back in
Afghanistan, covering each other’s asses. But Lia wasn’t a shift they could
trade or a ration he could lend. She wasn’t a barrage of gunfire he could
deflect. She was Chris’s girlfriend, and Ethan needed to fucking remember that.
No matter how hot she looked with a
handful of kettle corn.
“God,” she moaned. “This is so freaking
good. Why did you never tell me this was so freaking good?”
Maybe
because you’re making sex noises, and if you keep that up, my dick’s going to
be hard. He wasn’t sure which bothered him more,
stories about Chris’s general awesomeness or Lia’s kettle corn orgasms every
time she took a bite.
Her lips would be sticky by now, coated
in caramelized sugar and salt. He’d give anything just for one lick, but she
wasn’t his to taste. She wasn’t his at all. The only thing he could do was grip
the steering wheel and glare at the dark Austin roads as he drove.
Wind whipped inside the truck cab,
coming in through the tilted rear windows where Oreo had his nose pressed to
the night air, ears flopping wildly.
“Chris thinks the senator’s going to
run,” Lia said.
Chris worked for a state senator who was
considering a run for the House of Representatives. Ethan knew he had big plans
for his representative’s career—and his own career, eventually. There would be
travel, and eventually, an apartment in DC. Lia would be gone, and Ethan would
have no reason to hang around anymore.
No reason to stay and nowhere else to
go.
“Maybe you can look for a teaching
position in Washington,” he managed to say in a normal voice.
She gave him a strange look. So maybe
not that normal. “I’m going to stay in Austin,” she said, but he didn’t believe
her. Couldn’t believe her. Chris would end up spending more time in DC,
especially once he made the inroads he wanted to. Especially when he ran for
office. And Lia would be there to support him, because that was the kind of
wife she would be.
He was suddenly grateful he hadn’t eaten
any kettle corn. He might have chucked it back up.
“Well,” he forced out. “Maybe you should
keep your options open. You can take the full time job as an aide as a
temporary thing until you and Chris figure out where you’re going to live.”
She looked annoyed now. “I already know
where I’m going to live. The same place I’m living now.”
Why the hell couldn’t he leave this
alone? But he couldn’t. It bothered him that she was acting like things would
stay the same. “You’re going to be graduating in a few weeks, Lia.”
“Thanks for the newsflash, Ethan.”
“That means I can’t meet you and Chris
on campus for lunch between classes.”
“So we’ll see each other after work,”
she said. Stubbornly.
He closed his eyes briefly before
focusing on the road again. Nothing but darkness, the trees a shadow wall
pointing toward home. Lia’s home with Chris, the place Ethan didn’t belong. All
three of them were friends, but things had already begun to change when Chris
had graduated this past spring and gone to work for the representative full
time.
“Everything will be different,” he said,
unable to say more. Unable to say, You
can’t be alone with me anymore.
Even tonight had been a mistake.
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