Fifteen years ago, three girls were thrown
together because their brothers were best friends. Now they're all grown up,
and their brothers are grown up too. The Tea for Two series tells their
stories. Fans of New York Times Bestselling Author, Noelle Adams, will love
this newest playful friends become lovers story featuring Carol and Patrick,
releasing January 10, 2017.
Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend
Tea For Two
Noelle Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 10, 2018
After too many years being overlooked by men, Carol is ready to take action. She wants a man, and she knows which man she wants. Her brother’s best friend, Patrick Stevenson.
Patrick is funny and brainy and the sexiest man she’s ever known, but he has never looked at her as anything except his friend’s little sister. That’s going to change.
Carol isn’t good at flirting. Or seduction. Or anything that requires putting herself out there. But she’s going to make sure Patrick sees her as a desirable woman—and one he wants for more than one night—even if it turns her whole world upside down. He already likes her a lot. He just needs to open his eyes to how good they’d be together.
After all, how stubborn can he be?
She
narrowed her eyes even more and gave him a cool glare. “You might as well just
admit it. I know exactly what happened.”
He groaned
softly. “All right. Fine. I couldn’t believe you’d be acting like… like that.”
“Like
what?”
She was
making this as hard as possible for him, and he couldn’t even blame her. “Like
you… liked me.” It sounded ridiculous, immature, but he couldn’t think of any
other way to put it.
“And you
really can’t believe that I do?”
He wanted
to be anywhere but here, put on the spot like this. He wanted to get up and
leave, somehow escape everything he was feeling.
But, if he
did, that would be it. He’d never have Carol in his life again. He might have
messed this up completely, but he wasn’t prepared to lose her for good. So he
told her the truth. “No. I really can’t.”
“Why the
hell not?”
Carol
almost never used to rough language—even something as mild as “hell.” It seemed
to emphasize how upset she really was.
“I… I don’t
even know.”
She stared
at him for a full minute. He could see her chest rise and fall with her heaving
breathing. Then she finally got up, muttering, “You’re a real idiot sometimes.
You know that, right?” She went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.
He hauled
himself to his feet and followed her. “I know I’m an idiot. I know that. But I’m
still here, trying to fix things.”
She was
staring into her open refrigerator, like she’d forgotten what she’d come here
for.
“Carol,” he
said, touching her shoulder gently. She looked so hurt and wounded. He couldn’t
believe he was important enough to her to make her feel this way.
She whirled
around to face him. “Why shouldn’t I like you?” she demanded.
He blinked.
“Because… because it seems pretty obvious that it’s just because the others
have gotten together.”
“What does
that even mean?”
“I mean
Emma and Noah got together, and then Ginny and Ryan got together. So now we’re
the only two left. I get it. I do. It would make sense for us to get paired up
in the same way. But that doesn’t mean it’s… it’s real.”
She made a
loud, throaty sound of naked frustration.
Patrick
contorted his face as he was washed with self-consciousness and confusion. “I’m
trying to be honest here.”
“I know you
are. I know you are!”
She closed
the refrigerator, having taken nothing out. “Why wouldn’t we be good together?”
“We’re totally
different. If I wasn’t the last guy left in our little group, you’d choose
someone totally different.” He knew this much for sure. He’d been rehearsing it
over and over again—for months now—reminding himself that any soft looks she’d
given him had been based on something other than real attraction.
“How do you
know that?”
“Carol,
please. I know I act stupid sometimes, but I do have a functioning mind. And
neither one of us deserves to be stuck with… whoever happens to be left.”
She gaped
at him. Literally gaped. Then her cheeks paled even more. “You think I’m… just
whoever happens to be left.”
“Not you,”
he gasped, shocked that she’d ever even imagine he felt that way. “Not you. Me. I’m
whoever is left.”
“You… you…
you…” She was panting, couldn’t even get the words out.
“Me what?”
“You idiot!”
He was
processing her uncontrolled outburst and so he wasn’t prepared for what she did
next.
What she
did was launch herself at him, grabbing his head and pulling it down into a
kiss.
Since he
wasn’t prepared, he couldn’t control his response. And he’d been wanting her
too much, for too long, and not letting himself act on that desire.
So he
didn’t stop it, even though he knew he should.
He didn’t
push her away gently and explain that it couldn’t happen.
He kissed
her back.
Copyright © 2018 Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend by
Noelle Adams
Winning Her Brother’s Best Friend
Ginny Hart loves men. And she loves dating. She just doesn't want a serious relationship. She's tried it before--with her brother's best friend, Ryan--and it's clear she's not cut out for it. So she'll keep having fun and focusing on the new tea shop she recently opened with her best friend.
That's all she needs in her life.
She definitely doesn't need Ryan, who is always hanging around and has turned into a real player. When he challenges her to prove which of them is more popular with the opposite sex, she takes him up on the bet. One month. Four Saturday nights. She'll show him she's not still holding on to old feelings. It doesn't matter if she can't seem to keep her hands off him.
She's not about to let him win.
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After too many bad decisions in romance, Emma is going on a man-fast. For the next six months, she's fasting from men. No sex. No dating. No soulful gazes. No fond memories of her first crush. She's going to spend the time focusing on her career, getting in touch with herself, and helping her two best friends with the launch of their new tea room. No men.
And that includes her brother's best friend, Noah Hart, who has just returned to their hometown.
She doesn't want Noah anyway. He might be even hotter than he was before, but he's not a nice guy anymore. He's made a fortune by acting ruthless in business, and the last thing he's looking for is small-town domestic life. He doesn't even want to be in town again, but a sick grandmother guilted him into it. Then he has nerve to not even recognize Emma when he sees her again. Maybe it's been seven years, but a decent guy would remember his best friend's little sister.
Noah is not a decent guy. Anyway, Emma is on a man-fast. And she doesn't want Noah.
Noelle handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, where she reads any book she can get her hands on and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.
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