Somebody Like You: A Small Town Single Mom Romance (The Heartbreak Brothers Book 4) Carrie Elks (free reads .TXT) 📖

He ran his thumb along her bottom lip. “I don’t know,” he told her. “Does it matter? I want you, you want me. And on Saturday we both get what we want.”

She shouldn’t want him. And she definitely shouldn’t do this. Yet there was an inevitability to it. It started from the moment they met. She could fight it, try to push it away and forget all about Cam Hartson. But she’d been trying to do that for weeks, and all she’d had were sleepless nights.

“Nobody has to know,” she whispered, her hand clutching at his arm. She could feel the hard steel of his bicep flex as he held her.

“It’s nobody’s business but ours. I’m not going to tell anybody, and I’m pretty sure you won’t either.”

Running the tip of her tongue along her bottom lip, she lifted her gaze to his. Among the darkness and desire, she could see the truth there. He wasn’t playing games. He wasn’t offering her something he couldn’t give.

He wanted to give into his desire. The same way she wanted to submit to hers. It was so simple.

And so damn complicated.

“Okay,” she breathed, and a huge smile lit up his face.

“Okay?” he repeated.

“Yeah. I’ll see you on Saturday.”

He pushed himself off the wall, and the sudden rushing of air between them sent a shiver down her spine. “Until Saturday, then.”

Two tiny lines formed between her brows. “Aren’t you going to kiss me?” Because right now she really needed to feel him again. When his body was against hers everything seemed so easy.

“Nope.” He shook his head, and his eyes crinkled as he stared down at her. “I’m going to leave you wanting. If you want a kiss, be at my place by eight-thirty on Saturday.”

He turned on his heel and strode easily back down the path. Mia watched him, her mouth dry, her heart galloping like it was trying to win the Kentucky Derby.

Saturday. It was way too soon and too far away.

She had no idea how she’d make it through until then.

Chapter Fourteen

“Hey, Mia, over here!” a female voice called out as she walked up the steps of the bleachers. Josh had already run off to sit with Noah – his overnight bag already safely stowed in Noah’s mom’s car, along with his clothes for practice in the morning.

Mia looked up to see Becca Hartson waving madly at her from a bench in the middle of the stand. She was surrounded by her family. Mia recognized Cam’s twin, of course, and his gorgeous wife with a baby strapped to her chest, his head lolling as he slept. And everybody knew who Gray Hartson, their older brother was. Next to him was a pretty woman with a brunette pony tail who was swapping small children with the rock star. Maddie? Yeah, that was her name.

Next to Gray, was the youngest brother. Mia couldn’t quite remember his name, though she knew Becca had introduced him at church that Sunday.

“Tanner, stop hogging the damn popcorn,” Gray said, grabbing the bucket from him.

Well that solved her problem.

“Hi.” She shot Becca a smile as she came level with the bench they were all sitting on.

“Come and sit with me.” Becca tapped the bench next to her. “Where’s your son? Josh, is it?”

“He’s sitting with a friend. And Michael is down there with the team.”

“So you’re on your own.” Becca’s smile was huge. “Then you have to sit with us. You remember everybody, right?”

“Yeah.” Mia gave them a shy wave. “Hi.”

“Hey!” Logan’s wife said, grinning over the top of her baby’s head. “It’s good to see you again.”

“Likewise.” Putting her purse between her feet, Mia pulled her hair out of her hoodie. “What are you guys doing here?” she asked Becca, who was slurping from a huge cup of soda. “I thought you went to that Friday Night Chairs thing.”

“We thought we’d come and support Cam. And it’s kind of fun to watch Friday night football. I feel like I’m a kid again, watching my brothers get kicked to pieces on the field.” She wiggled her eyebrows at Mia. “I had to get my fun vicariously in those days.”

Mia bit down a grin as Logan and Gray hurled friendly abuse at her. They were such a nice family. It made her feel warm to watch them.

“Look, there’s Cam,” Becca said to her brothers. She stood up and waved like crazy. Cam looked up at his sister, lifting a large hand to wave back at her.

And then he spotted Mia sitting on the bench.

His head tipped to the side, as he gave her a long, speculative look. Then his gaze dipped, his eyes hooded, before he noticed the rest of his family sitting there. He shook his head, a smile ghosting his lips as one of the boys standing at the sideline whispered something in his ear.

He grabbed his phone from his pocket and quickly tapped his fingers on the screen.

The next moment, Mia’s phone vibrated in her pocket. Her breath caught, because she knew exactly who had messaged her. A sideways glance at Becca told her the younger woman was too busy playing with one of her nephews to notice Mia surreptitiously pulling her phone from her pocket to glance at the screen.

Look at you sitting on the bench surrounded by my family. What are you trying to achieve? C xx

She bit down a grin at him reflecting her words from the other day back at her. When she glanced back down at the field, he was still looking up at her.

I figured I should get to know them. You are going to ask me to marry you after we have sex, right? M

Cam laughed out loud, and looked back up at her. Damn, he was hot as hell. Wearing a pair of dark training pants and a grey sports top, she could see the outline of his chest through the elastane fabric. His shoulders looked broader than ever, his arm muscles glistening