A SEAL’s Courage
Military Match #1
JM Stewart
July 11, 2017
A sizzling new series about three friends looking for love-and the sexy SEALs who are ready to fulfill their craziest fantasies.
He's a man on a mission.
Navy SEAL Trent Lawson isn't a man to back down from a challenge. Ever since he opened his eyes in that army hospital to learn the men from his unit were gone, Trent has been determined to live life in their honor. Even if that means facing his most terrifying mission yet…dating.
She's done playing games.
Lauren Hayes has standards. In fact, she's got an entire list of them. There's only ever been one man to come close to making the cut-Trent Lawson. Except her best friend's too-sexy-for-his-own-good brother is strictly off-limits.
When Trent and Lauren find themselves matched up by a dating service, the chemistry between them is nothing short of explosive. They both know getting involved is a huge mistake, but life is too short to walk away from something this good.
“Then be my first.”
Lauren drew a deep breath and pressed herself into his arms, sliding her hands
up his back. “It’s not like I’m asking you to do me right here and now. It can
happen at whatever pace you need it to.”
He cupped her chin in
his palm, brow furrowed, gaze intense. “You’re okay with that?”
She lifted onto her
toes, trying to close the space between them. “I’m okay with that. If it makes
you feel better to put a label on this, consider us friends with benefits. When
it stops being mutually satisfying, it ends.”
She’d just have to be
sure to keep her head in the right place, so that her heart didn’t get broken
in the end. This was a fling with a sexy guy, no more, no less.
He let out an agonized
groan and brushed his mouth over hers, so lightly she shivered. “God, I can’t
resist you anymore. I have a few requests.”
Her heart hammered in
giddy anticipation. She hadn’t expected him to accept. That he had sent myriad
thoughts flying through her mind, all of which settled low in her belly.
“Okay.”
He pulled back. For a
moment his gaze dropped as his fingers idly stroked her shoulder, like he
couldn’t help but touch her. “You can’t tell Mandy.”
Lauren rolled her eyes.
“Trent, she’s my best friend.”
“Yeah, but she’s my sister. The last thing I need is her
privy to the intimate details of my prowess in the bedroom.” He brushed his
nose against hers, amusement glinting in his eyes. “I recall overhearing a
conversation about size once.”
Heat rushed into her
face, but Lauren couldn’t contain her grin. She recalled that exact
conversation. They hadn’t discussed him, exactly, but she remembered distinctly
wondering.
“All right. On this
I’ll concede, because you have a point.” She rubbed a circle over his chest.
“What else?”
“I want to put a time
limit on this. A month. When it’s over, we go back to being just friends.” His
hands looped around her waist, pulling her flush against him. Heat flared in
his eyes. “I also think we should ease into this. So my last request is no
sex.”
Lauren dropped her
forehead to his shoulder with an exasperated sigh. “I’m never going to lose my
virginity that way.”
He chuckled and hooked
two fingers beneath her chin, tilting her gaze back to his. His eyes blazed at
her. “At least not right away. I’m proposing we do everything else first.
Because I was thinking…you want the full experience, right?”
She shrugged. He had
her there. “I guess.”
“And that includes
things like kissing. Touching.” He leaned down, his voice lowering to a husky
rumble against her mouth. “Tasting.”
A hot little shudder
moved through her as her mind filled with the possibilities: his rough hands
closing around her breasts, fingers sliding into her panties, stroking her sex.
His warm mouth buried
between her thighs.
“I like that idea. Doing it all. How ’bout,
since you stayed last night, instead of lunch today, we start with dinner
tomorrow night?” She pinned him with a direct stare and arched a brow,
attempting to look fierce, but one corner of her mouth twitched, betraying her.
“You still owe me a date.”
Trent and Lauren have an interesting relationship, even before they become lovers. Their friendship made things slightly more complicated than if they had been complete strangers matched by the dating service. They start out slow even though he only gives them a month as a couple, but their chemistry is too strong for that to last very long. They may have both agreed that this was a friends with benefits thing, but for Lauren, her childhood crush has seem to never gone away and she is soon longing for more. Unfortunately Trent doesn't think he can the one for her and is afraid to lose her friendship. Like most friends who become lovers, going back to only being friends is not easy, especially when when he can't stand the thought of her being with someone else. I liked them as a couple and I really liked that everyone around them could see they were meant for each other. Lauren's friends are great and I am eagerly anticipating the next book after reading a preview at the end of this one. Overall a good friends to lovers romance with the added bonus of hot SEALs.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book. I was not compensated for this review, all conclusions are my own.
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J.M. Stewart is a coffee and chocolate addict who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two sons and two very spoiled dogs. She's a hopeless romantic who believes everybody should have their happily ever after and has been devouring romance novels for as long as she can remember. Writing them has become her obsession.
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