Page 63 of So That Happened

Drawing back, she waggled her eyebrows and smirked over at Connor. He gave her one of his indifferent smiles back.

Maddie looked ruffled at his cool response to her, but brushed it off quickly, looking over her shoulder for someone else to talk to. ‘Thanks for coming to support me, Josie. I’m really pleased you’re here,’ she said evenly, giving her an extra hard squeeze on the arm, then gliding away to her admirers and being swallowed back into the crowd.

‘Well, that was my sister,’ she said, giving a small shrug of her shoulder and rocking back on her heels, testing his response.

Connor nodded thoughtfully. ‘I can see why you have such an issue being related to her.’

Josie’s heart plummeted. So he had been impressed by Maddie after all; he’d just done a bang-up job of disguising it.

Connor frowned at her less than enthusiastic response to his statement and pulled her in close, wrapping his arm tightly around her middle so she could feel the hardness of his muscles against her belly.

‘I can honestly say you have absolutely no need to worry about me running off with your sister.’

She met his eyes and saw the sincerity in his gaze. Leaning forward, she planted a firm kiss on his mouth, attempting to convey through the osmosis of her touch that she really, truly believed him. When she drew away, he was smiling at her. Apparently, she’d been successful.

‘It would never work with me and Maddie, anyway,’ he said, leaning in to nuzzle the flashpoint on her neck that, when kissed, always made her lose her mind.

‘What makes you say that?’ She struggled to get the words out.

‘Because if my ego and her ego ever got together, I think the world would probably implode.’

She giggled in response, happiness making her light-headed.

Pulling back, he kissed first her cheeks, then her nose, his breath feathering over her skin.

‘You know I wouldn’t change a thing about you,’ he said, firmly kissing one side of her mouth and then the other. ‘You’re one of a kind and I love that.’

At that moment she felt it. Unique. After all those years of peeking out from under her sister’s shadow, of wishing and hoping that there was something special about her, finally here was that feeling. And it was from a totally different source than the one she’d expected. A better source. An infinitely more important one.

‘So what happens now?’ she asked, looking him dead in the eye.

‘Game of chess?’ he asked, smiling seductively.

‘I can think of something much more fun than that,’ she said, raising a suggestive eyebrow.

‘Fun sounds good,’ he said, and before she had time to react, he pulled her tight against his body, locking his arms around her back. ‘What the lady wants, the lady gets,’ he said, kissing her hard. ‘Tell me what you want,’ he whispered against her mouth.

‘Take me to bed and I’ll show you,’ she said, kissing him back.

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