One Night With Her Best Friend
joy.
    She
couldn’t think of anything to say that would come close to answering what she’d
heard from him. So she just whispered, “I love you, Aaron.”
    It
must have been the right thing to say. He looked downward in his characteristic
way, and when he lifted his head, he was smiling—pure and absolute. “Good.
Because I love you too.”
    They
lay in each other’s arms for a minute, not needing to say anything. He was warm
and strong and tense with emotion. He was hers.
    She
felt a brief flicker in her happiness as she started to reflect on how he must
have felt all this time, with her constantly treating him as if he wasn’t
worthy of being desired this way.
    She
was about to get upset about it when he said curtly, “Stop it.”
    “What?”
She blinked at him in confusion.
    “Stop
it. Stop brooding. You’re not allowed to beat yourself up about it.”
    “But—”
    “No
‘buts’. Just stop it.”
    His
grumpy objection actually made her feel better, but she frowned at him anyway.
“Wow. Give a man a little sex, and he turns immediately from a nice guy into a
bossy jackass.”
    He
chuckled warmly.  “Just think how bossy I’ll be after we’ve had a couple of
decades of sex.”
    “I
think I can probably handle it. I’m good at managing bossy jackasses.”
    “Good,”
he murmured against her lips, “Because I’m afraid you’re stuck with me.”
    They
kissed more deeply. Then the embrace became even deeper. A few minutes later,
when she was crying out on a taken breath as he pleasured her with his mouth,
her eyes happened to land on the clock next to her bed.
    It
wasn’t even eight o’clock in the morning yet.
    It
might have been a miracle or just the normal workings of an inexplicable
universe, but her world had completely reshaped itself.
    All
in one night.

 
     
     
     
    About the Author
     
    Noelle handwrote her
first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she
hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and
currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any book she
can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
    She
loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of
her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and
focus on writing contemporary romances. For more information, please check out
her website: noelle-adams.com

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