Stepbrother: Instant Spark (Stepbrother Billionaire Romance) (Stepbrother Romantic Suspense) by L.A. Pierson

forearm was a little black tattoo in the shape of a club from a deck of hearts. Charlie reached over her as he put a drink down before her and lingered for a moment longer than necessary over her shoulder in the gesture. He smelled of woody aftershave and leather. There was something incredibly erotic about that scent and Georgie found her breaths catching in her throat.
    “So, what was missing from this article?”
    “A spin.”
    “Uh-huh. What kind of spin?”
    “I haven’t decided yet.”
    “I’ve got an idea. Let me introduce you to some of the guys. Show you who we are.”
    “Alright.”
    Charlie led her over to a group of men around the snooker table and introduced them to her in turn. There were five in total and Charlie explained that they rode together in the summer and that in the winter they tended to find odd jobs wherever they found themselves.
    Georgie had been a little reluctant to relinquish her time alone with Charlie to spend it with a group of older men and their women, but, to her surprise, they were a down-to-earth and friendly crew with some incredible stories to tell about all the places they’d been and all the things they’d seen. It was so refreshing to hear stories about open roads and glorious sunsets and mountaintops, rather than the usual humdrum stories about prize chickens and baking competitions.
    She drank, she laughed and she flirted outrageously. She usually saved her coy glances and subtle suggestive movements for men she wanted to tie down, but with Charlie she found that all those little gestures were simply drawn from her almost without her consent and flirting with him was like breathing. It just happened.
    Georgie and Charlie found themselves at one point by the jukebox and Georgie took in a short, sharp breath of surprise when she felt his strong arm weave its way around her waist as she stood selecting a song. His other arm leaned on the glass of the jukebox above her head so that he was leaning over her. She could feel the warmth of his breaths on her neck and his body was pressed very close to hers. The feeling of him so close to her knocked much of that newfound confidence from her and Georgie felt herself begin to tremble with desire. She turned her face over her shoulder and was surprised when Charlie took the opportunity to catch her lips with a deep, hungry kiss that came from nowhere.
    He took her by the shoulder and spun her towards him and continued to press his lips down hard over hers. At first Georgie was too shocked to react, but then she began to respond with equal passion. All of the other voices and sounds of the bar began to fade into obscurity and all that mattered was his kiss. The sensation of his warm, rough lips parting hers made everything else fade away and Georgie felt herself becoming weak at the knees as Charlie’s fingers sunk into her hair and he pulled her lips more deeply into his kiss.
    “I…I live just around the corner...” she managed to stammer breathlessly. Charlie’s face morphed into a knowing grin and he gave her a nod.
    “What are we waiting for?”
    Georgie felt like she was living in a dream as she walked up the road with Charlie’s arm around her and knew what was coming next. It was unlike her to take strangers home, but Charlie was so different from every other guy she knew around here that she just didn’t want to miss her chance to know what it felt like to indulge in a fantasy. She opened the front door to her little ground floor apartment and headed to the kitchen to open the fridge door and wonder if she even had anything to offer him to drink.
    “Is a beer OK?”
    “Perfect.”
    She handed him a bottle and then blushed when she realized she hadn’t opened it. She handed him the bottle opener and watched him flick off the lid and begin to drink. Then his eyes began to wander around her apartment, taking in the framed broadsheet newspapers on the wall and the pile of books and magazines on the coffee