“Having a body this hot and a brilliant brain on top of it should be illegal,” he said, his hands working fast to ditch the cover-up and untie her silk robe. His gaze drank her in. “You are certainly intimidating, Sarah Lewis,” he said, massaging her bare breasts.

She was intimidating? He was the one built like a god. He was the athletic one. The one good with his hands…in all kinds of ways. The charming and charismatic one. On top of that, he was an amazing father and driven to make a great life for himself and his daughter.

If anyone should be intimidated, it was her.

“I feel like I’m punching above my weight here,” she said, her hands caressing the tight six-pack and the broad, muscular shoulders. If someone had told teenage Sarah that one day she’d be lying naked on a bed with an equally naked Wes Sharrun, she’d never have believed it.

This went further than just a teenage fantasy come to life. This was the most unexpected thing she could have predicted five weeks ago arriving in Blue Moon Bay, grieving the loss of her grandmother and conflicted over the future of the inn.

He stared at her as though she’d lost her mind. “I’m just a small-town blue-collar worker trying to keep his head above water.”

He was so much more than he gave himself credit for. Her feelings for him years ago were based on how cute he was, how nice, how popular and good at sports. He was the polar opposite of her, and she’d been intrigued by him. Now, her resurfacing feelings were based on so much more.

She flipped their position so that she was on top. In control. And then lowered her body toward him, inching her ass farther down his body, until she could feel his erect cock between her legs. He closed his eyes, and a low moan escaped him as she slowly grinded her hips back and forth over him.

It took almost nothing for her to get wet. Turning him on was proving to be a major turn-on for her. In the boardroom, online, at work, lost in a computer program, she knew what she was doing…but outside of that, in real life, she often felt like a fish out of water. Never quite good enough, never having just the right thing to say, not enough confidence to go after what she wanted.

But with Wes in this moment, she felt empowered in ways she never had before. He brought out a side of her that she hadn’t known existed.

With him she felt sexy and strong and confident… She wanted to feel the way he made her feel all the time.

She lowered her mouth to his and kissed him hard. Pulling back slightly, she ran her tongue along his bottom lip, capturing it with her teeth as desire welled up inside her.