Getting to Her: A Sapphire Falls BONUS Novella by Erin Nicholas Page B

slow, hot friction.
    He thrust slowly a few more times—okay, only three more times— but he could only fight his body’s need so long. The instinct to take her harder and faster quickly took over and soon he was pounding into her. The pleasure and the need for more and more kept driving him and he felt his body preparing to climax too soon. But there was no slowing this train. His balls pulled tight, his gut clenched and he gritted his teeth as the hot sensations ripped through him and he emptied himself into her a moment later, groaning her name.
    The roaring in his ears and trembling in his limbs faded slowly. He tipped forward, hands on the sleeping back next to her ears, but held himself off of her, struggling for breath. When his equilibrium returned, Ty pulled out and collapsed on the sleeping bag beside her.
    He felt her comb her fingers through his hair and shift so her mouth was against his ear. “If you go after the Gold medal like that, there’s no way you won’t win.”
    He chuckled, completely exhausted, completely content.
    “I’ll take that as a best-I’ve-ever-had,” he said.
    He felt her smile against his shoulder. “Best I might ever have.”
    He let the pleasure of that statement wash over him and sleep drag him under for a few minutes. He’d rest up and then work on round two. Now that he’d taken the edge off, he could spent more time on…all of it. And he hadn’t forgotten how she’d responded to the idea of giving him a blow job.
    Twenty minutes later, he didn’t feel her shifting out from under his arm, didn’t hear her dressing, and didn’t know that she’d left. Until he awoke just after midnight.

DENVER, COLORADO

    Three and a half years ago

      “Um, dude, there’s someone here to see you.”
    Ty looked up from the glossy photos of him and the new razor he was going to be advertising in the next issue of GQ . “Who?”
    “Hailey Conner.”
    “Not funny, Bryan.” Ty turned his attention back to the photos spread out on the desk in his den. He was supposed to be picking his favorites. He kind of hated them all. He looked like an idiot grinning about a razor. Who got that happy about a razor, for God’s sake?
    “I’m not joking, man. I mean, I would joke about it. You know how much I love that your dick’s tied in a knot over her. But this time I’m not. She’s really here.”
    Ty scowled at his best friend since kindergarten. And he saw the truth in Bryan’s eyes. Hailey Conner was here. In Denver. In his house.
    He straightened. “Oh. Fuck.” He’d been expecting this. His lawyer had been handling Hailey’s requests so far, but Ty had known that wouldn’t last. That was why he’d kept doing it. Eventually she would get fed up and come to him. He’d have her face-to-face on his turf.
    He had no doubt that Hailey intended to keep it all about business. She wanted him to put his name and a bunch of money behind a new business—a bar and grill, to be exact—in Sapphire Falls where she was the mayor.
    But things between him and Hailey were personal. They always had been. And once she was here, in person, without the whole fucking town to hide behind, she’d remember that.
    “Want me to call Steve?” Bryan asked.
    Bryan wasn’t exactly Ty’s assistant. He was more like the president of Ty’s entourage. Bryan hung out and was the one who talked Ty out of doing half the stupid shit he considered. Of course, Bryan was also the one who talked him into doing the other half of the stupid shit he considered. But Bryan had his back. If Ty wanted his lawyer here for this, Bryan would call Steve and stall Hailey until Steve showed up.
    And Ty should want his lawyer here. Because God knew he had no willpower where Hailey was concerned and he did not want to invest in this new business venture. Not because it was a horrible idea. It wasn’t horrible exactly; it was just a little silly to think about putting what would essentially be a shopping mall in tiny Sapphire