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Taking the Score
Tall, Dark and Texan #2
Kate Meader
Releasing February 15th, 2016
Entangled Brazen
A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint...
His office temptation is now his full-blown fantasy…
Paying down her sister’s debts has left Emma Strickland with little more than the thrift store suit on her back. And as if the suckfest couldn’t get worse, she’s forced to moonlight as a waitress to support herself and her cat. At a strip club. Her uptight, sexy-as-hell boss Brody Kane can never find out.
Texas property tycoon Brody Kane hired Emma for her spreadsheet skills, but her prim and proper demeanor sealed the deal. There’s no room in his life for a sexy distraction … and yet, he can’t stop lusting after the delicious Ms. Strickland. And then he takes an important client to a Chicago strip club and gets the worst lap dance in adult entertainment history. From Emma.
Now that he knows his office good girl has a naughty streak, Brody makes it his mission to uncover her secrets, one steamy, illicit, over-the-desk encounter at a time. But Emma is hiding more than her side job, and her final secret could end up destroying them both.
His office temptation is now his full-blown fantasy…
Paying down her sister’s debts has left Emma Strickland with little more than the thrift store suit on her back. And as if the suckfest couldn’t get worse, she’s forced to moonlight as a waitress to support herself and her cat. At a strip club. Her uptight, sexy-as-hell boss Brody Kane can never find out.
Texas property tycoon Brody Kane hired Emma for her spreadsheet skills, but her prim and proper demeanor sealed the deal. There’s no room in his life for a sexy distraction … and yet, he can’t stop lusting after the delicious Ms. Strickland. And then he takes an important client to a Chicago strip club and gets the worst lap dance in adult entertainment history. From Emma.
Now that he knows his office good girl has a naughty streak, Brody makes it his mission to uncover her secrets, one steamy, illicit, over-the-desk encounter at a time. But Emma is hiding more than her side job, and her final secret could end up destroying them both.
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“Mr. Ka—uh, Brody?” she asked
tentatively. “Are you okay?”
The sound came again, this time louder,
and now that she was close, there was no doubt that it was Brody. Only he was
definitely not hurt.
A groan disturbed the air.
Full-throated, pleasure-tinged, threading an invisible line of need to the
sensitive flesh between her thighs. A throb started up there, a sweet ache—oh
God, there he went again. A deep, shuddering moan.
She turned away from the door, moving
her back to greet the wall. Needing its support to keep her upright.
He was jerking off in the shower.
Oh. My. “Wow,” she whispered.
Acknowledging the fact tightened her
nipples painfully. The pulse between her legs beat faster and joined the rhythm
of her pounding heart. Instinctively, she moved her hand over her chest,
seeking calm, but now that she had her hand on her breast, the action had a
sensuous effect. Stroking her aching nipple produced short-term relief and a
deep-seated need for more.
She dropped her hand like her breast
was forbidden country. She couldn’t do that. Not here with her boss next door.
Her boss next door under a steamy spray
with his big, rough hand stroking that monster cock.
Leave this room now. Forget what you
heard.
Her feet seemed incapable of following
her brain’s instructions. This was ridiculous. She shook her head, giving
herself a mental shake, and stepped toward the door.
“Uh-uh-mmmm-a.”
She stilled. Surely that was her
imagination. Surely he had not just said her name. With that big hand wrapped
around that big—
“Oh, Christ, Emma.”
She slumped against the wall, boneless,
paralyzed at what she’d heard. Once might have been an accident, twice was the
stuff of fantasies. His, apparently.
Hers, definitely.
Maybe it was a different Emma. Maybe he
was fantasizing about his favorite Jane Austen novel. Right. Sure there
had been odd moments in the office when she glanced up and found him staring at
her from behind those sexy rims with an intense regard that made her sex
tighten in need. But then he would look away as if it meant nothing.
However, things had changed. Lines had
been hazed beyond recognition. She knew what he felt like inside her, how his
beautiful cock was crafted to fill her emptiness. He had made her come hard,
and last night, her dreams had been steamy and filled with him. She awoke
sweating, humping her hand, her entire body on fire with want. Now he was using
her in his fantasy. So flattering.
And arousing.
Unbearably arousing.
His next groan sounded louder, the
shower tile’s amplification conspiring to crank up her own craving. What would
he do if she walked in there, threw open the glass door, and stepped inside?
Fell to her knees and took him in her mouth?
She squeezed her thighs together,
desperate for relief. Aiming for completion without doing something so
deliberate as touching herself. Look ma, no hands!
It was useless. The ache between her
legs wouldn’t be soothed by damn Kegels. She should leave and down a quart of
ice water. Douse it over her flaming skin.
But she didn’t. She couldn’t. Instead
she pressed the heel of her hand against the part of her that begged for a
salve. Yes. Better. Just a few rubs outside the boxers she had borrowed
to ease the ache. Brody’s boxers, the thought of which merely hiked her desire.
A couple of seconds of naughty indulgence, but damn…they were damp. And no
touch had ever felt so good.
No touch but his.
Brody and Emma know how to bring burn up the pages of a book! Emma is the opposite of what Brody usually looks for in a woman. But even with her ugly second hand suits and frumpy looks, he constantly fantasizes about his PA. Emma used to be a wild child who has tried to leave the past behind and start a new life. Unfortunately, she is stuck trying to pay her little sisters debt working as a cocktail waitress in a strip bar. An evening out with a client brings Brody face to face with Emma working her first night as a lap dancer. Brody is shocked to see her there, but feels the need to find out why she's working there and to protect her. This leads to some pretty hot sex between the pair and what starts out as a temporary arrangement soon turns into something that can be forever. I fell for Brody almost from the beginning and loved the way he took care of both Emma and her not so lovable cat, Kevin. Brody's sister is a character and I hope to see her in the next book along with his friend and business partner Flynn. I missed the first book of the series, but will definitely be picking it up.
I received an ARC via NetGalley for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review, all conclusions are my own.
Originally from Ireland, Kate Meader cut her romance reader teeth on Maeve Binchy and Jilly Cooper novels, with some Mills & Boon thrown in for variety. Give her tales about brooding mill owners, oversexed equestrians, and men who can rock an apron or a fire hose, and she’s there. Now based in Chicago, she writes sexy contemporary romance with alpha heroes and strong heroines who can match their men quip for quip.
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