Chapters (34)
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- Chapter Twenty-Four
- Chapter Twenty-Five
- Chapter Twenty-Six
- Epilogue
- Excerpt from Love Defies Us
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Other Books by J.M.
I meant it when I said I have no intention of fucking her, even though my dick is not in line with it. Once again, my impulsiveness got the best of me with Gia. Something about her being into comedies made my dick hard in my designer pants.
It isn’t that bad sharing my space with her, even though I prefer my cups and plates to be on the top shelf instead of the bottom. She leaves her clothes scattered on the bathroom floor. And I think she’s using my razor to shave her legs because I found fine brown hair on the blades. Oddly, I don’t mind sharing it, and if she wanted to wear my clothes, I would let her.
Jesus, Gunner, what the hell is wrong with you?
And her perfume bottle, hair spray, and lotion clutter my side of the sink. My bathroom went from clean and manly to a hair salon.
Don’t get me started on how she leaves strays of her brown hair in the sink. She replaced a few of my expensive black Egyptian cotton towels with cheap, yellow towels from the dollar store. You have to wipe yourself five million times to get dry. She decorated the entertainment center with pink and purple candles and placed those scent things that look like decoration on the end tables. Now it smells like a Bath and Body Works store.
She’s easy to live with, and she never pries into my personal life either.
Bonus points for Gia for not acting like an overbearing chick who’s only interested in using my cock to milk money out of me.
I click the pause button as I wait for Gia to come back from the kitchen—she’s dumping our empty plates of food from Patsy’s. She eats there three times a week; I know because she’s always saying how sorry she is for using my credit card. And to take it out of her check, even though that’s why I gave it to her, to buy stuff on it for work. Gia is very humble and appreciative, which makes her ten times more beautiful.
I rub my sweaty palms against my basketball shorts. Several moments later, Gia stalks into the living room with double-chocolate-chip cookies and Rice Krispie treats on a silver tray.
“Okay, hit play,” she says, setting the treats on the metal table. The thirteenth episode plays on the screen, and she shoves two cookies into my hands. “Tell me what they taste like.” She stares at me with her doe eyes as I bite into the cookie, and it melts on my tongue like warm honey.
“It’s good,” I say between bites.
“Just good?” Her eyebrows knit together.
“It tastes awesome.”