Dare To Love Series: Hot Dare (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Avery Flynn Page A

Circumstances don ’ t make the man.” She held up her glass. “To your pops.”
    “To Pops.” He picked up his glass and clinked her's with his empty one. “And to you, Angie Diaz. I don ’ t think even Pops could have gotten me out on that stage. We make a good team.”
    They did. They could. The possibility was too much to consider. “I need to go.”
    “Stay.” He took her glass and placed it with his on the table.
    “That ’ s not a good idea.” Which is exactly why she should be getting up and walking out the door instead of basking in the easy goodness of his fingers resting against the small of her back.
    Colt tipped his head closer, resting his forehead against hers. “Why?”
    “I know how this story ends.” Her voice shook. “I ’ ve heard it often enough from the other girls in the Thunder front office.”
    He brushed a kiss against her temple. “How does it go?”
    Hardening herself against his soft seduction, she gritted her teeth and forced herself to remember Shonda ’ s and Patrice ’ s and Mandi ’ s faces as they ’ d recounted their stories of heartbreak. They were always the same.
    “Girl meets football player. Girl falls for football player. Football player dumps girl. Girl drowns her sorrows in cheap wine and double-fudge ice cream. Entire front office knows and girl becomes fodder for gossip instead of key candidate for promotion.”
    Feather-light, he trailed his fingers up the side of her thigh, over her hip and to the small of her waist. The rest of her body disappeared. The only thing she could feel was burning desire he left in his wake.
    “And did any of those stories involve me?” His continued his journey up the outside of her arm and over her shoulder.
    “No.” God, even forming the single word was too much for her.
    “Sounds to me like you ’ re judging a book by the other ones on the shelf next to it.” He buried his fingers in her thick hair and tipped her face up so she had to look at him.
    Want, need and something more darkened his blue eyes with such intensity that she should have turned to ash under his gaze.
    “I can rationalize Vegas as an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience. I can ’ t rationalize a second time.” And she was beginning to doubt she ’ d survive it.
    “You don ’ t have to rationalize what you want, Angie.” He kissed her, soft and insistent. “You just have to go for it.” Another kiss, this one harder, as if he was at the point of no return. “And you want me just as much as I want you.”
    She pushed against his chest lightly until he eased back. The need to see his face right now and gauge the fallout superseded everything else. “Don ’ t make me regret this.”
    “That is something I ’ d never do.” He picked up her hand off his chest and kissed the center of her palm. “Stay.”
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Six
     
    Draft night hadn ’ t been as nerve-racking as waiting for Angie ’ s answer. Uncertainty wasn ’ t an emotion Colt was used to feeling. He couldn ’ t remember a time when he hadn ’ t been sure that sheer determination and talent would get him wherever he wanted to go. But with Angie it was different.
    He didn ’ t understand why—didn ’ t care. All he knew was that she mattered. This moment mattered.
    “I ’ ll stay,” she said. “But you better make it worth my while.”
    Now that was a challenge he ’ d accept without a second thought. “No doubt about it.”
    He scooped her up in his arms, stood and rotated her curvy body so she could wrap her legs around his middle. The move brought her right in line with his hard cock and she undulated against him. She felt so good in his arms, the way her ass filled his hands and the press of her full tits against his chest—as though she belonged here like this with him. Her hips twitched, rubbing her hot pussy against him. They were both clothed, but there was no convincing his cock of