Tango Love
By: Nicole Flockton
Blurb
A sexy
short story about being in love with your best friend — and discovering it
takes two to tango.
Melinda Jones has been in love with her
housemate, James Brady, since he moved in...but she has no intention of ever
telling him. Except it seems James has his own plans...and they include asking
her to share a sexy tango — then a little dirty dancing in his bed.
For Melinda, it's the best night of her
life...until she wakes up alone the next morning. Is she destined to spend her
life dancing by herself, or will James step up to be the partner of her dreams?
My Review
Entertaining
Read!
3.5
stars
Hotness
factor: dirrrty dancing
The
disclaimers: I received an ARC in exchange of the honest review
This
was a short and sweet story with steamy and engaging the love scenes. But I
would have liked to know a little more about the characters and the setting. We don’t know anything about James and Melinda,
where they live (I'm thinking somewhere in Australia?) Or how old they are,
Melinda owned a house but both of their reactions were a little immature, a bit
of context would have helped to understand them more. However that I’ve enjoyed
the fact that it wasn’t a sexual discovery but about two adults spending a
night together and that was refreshing.
Excerpt
“What’s a
pretty girl like you sitting at a bar all by herself?”
That voice. So smooth, like warm chocolate sauce
sliding down your throat. Such a shame it was the lamest pick-up line in
history. That voice deserved something so much better.
Melinda Jones turned, a light shiver tingling
down her spine as she locked eyes with a pair of deep blue ones.
“Please
tell me you don’t
use that line all the time.”
His laughter rumbled through her soul, and
gooseflesh rippled down her arms. She was in serious trouble. The man should be
locked up. No woman was safe from his voice or his laugh. No wonder he had such
a good success rate with the opposite sex.
“Only
for you, babe, would I use a line like that. I know I’m pretty safe from
getting a swift hit in the ribs with your elbow.”
“It just
gets better and better. I’m
going to dance, excuse me.”
And with that, Melinda dumped her wine glass on
the bar, slipped off the chair and headed for the dance floor to join her
friends. It was stupid to feel so hurt but she did. James didn’t know she had
feelings for him, so she really had no reason to be angry. To him, she was just
his housemate; the girl he could joke around with and test his pick up lines
on.
The fact that she’d fallen in love him was her
problem. He was the perfect housemate. He cooked, cleaned, ironed and listened.
He even watched chick flicks with her sometimes.
He was the perfect guy and to him, she was just
Melinda; the girl whose house he shared. He’d never once batted an eyelid when
she’d brought guys home. In the beginning, she hadn’t batted an eyelid when
he’d done the same and bought girls home. The fact that she hadn’t gotten laid
in over six months wasn’t his issue. It was totally hers.
The realisation she’d fallen for him had been
one Friday night when they’d been sharing Chinese. He’d said something and
she’d looked over at him and WHAM that was when it had hit her. She’d fallen
for him.
Mooning over a guy who wasn’t into you was the
least attractive trait in a woman. How many times had she’d told her friends
that? Now it was time to take her own advice and get over her feelings for
James.
Melinda danced with her friends. She laughed at
their jokes and gave the impression she didn’t have a care in the world.
“I’m
getting a drink!” She
shouted to her friends over the incessant thump of bass. They nodded and
continued to dance.
Melinda headed towards the bar, wishing she’d
worn her favourite, comfortable Jimmy Choos, instead of the new ones she’d
bought that day. The shoes may have had sex written all over them, but they
were pinching her toes.
She sat down on a recently vacated bar stool and
ordered a fresh glass of white wine. Waiting for the bartender to return with
it she looked around the club. The crowd had built while she’d been dancing.
The testosterone level had risen tenfold.
As she gazed around, her eyes stopped at a pair
of broad shoulders. His t-shirt fit him like a second skin.
Now that was the type of distraction she was
looking for. She wanted—no needed—a body that night. Anything to take her mind
off the one body she couldn’t have. It didn’t really matter that he wasn’t the
hottest guy on the earth. At that moment Mr Heavenly Shoulders turned in her
direction and locked eyes with Melinda.
Yes the night was definitely looking up, she
thought.
Melinda gave him her come-hither smile. The
invitation she was sending his way was very clear. The wink he gave in return
told Melinda he was interested in taking her up on her offer.
The bartender arrived at that moment with her
fresh drink. She reached for it, bringing it slowly to her lips, all the while
watching and waiting for Mr Heavenly Shoulders to make his way to her. He’d
taken two steps when he stopped abruptly, the flirty look stripped from his
face.
He shrugged the heavenly shoulders she’d been
imagining wrapping her arms around as if to say, “Thanks
but not tonight.” He
turned back to his friends.
“What
the…?”
There was no possible way she’d
misread that look in his eye.
“He was
only after one thing, you know.”
Melinda whirled around and faced the owner of
the voice. The last voice she’d expected to hear warning her off a man. “Of
course I knew exactly what he wanted. I invited him. I wanted to have wild
animal sex with him.”
Author Info
On her very first school report her teacher said ‘Nicole likes to tell her own stories’.
It wasn’t until after the birth of her daughter and after having fun on the community board of eharlequin.com that she finally decided to take the plunge and write a book.
The stories she writes are contemporary romances with either a medical setting or in the boardrooms of high powered business. Nicole enjoys taking two characters and creating unique situations for them.
Apart from writing Nicole is busy looking after her very own hero – her wonderfully supportive husband, and her two fabulous kids.
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