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A tantalizing idea popped into my head as my cock sprang to attention. “Well, I may never make it back,Tawny.”
She already seemed to be on board. “My parents aren’t home. I’m here alone,August.”
Something compelled me to make sure she knew how things had to be with us before we took this step. “It would be a one-night thing. You understand that, don’tyou?”
With a knowing expression, she nodded. “It would be an honor to lose my virginity to a realhero.”
Whoa,what?
“You’re a virgin?” Heat coursed through me—I’d never had a virgin before. To think that after I’d lusted after Tawny for years, I would get to pop that cherry had me onfire.
All she did was nod as she got up, taking my hand in hers before leading me into her emptyhouse.
ChapterTwo
Tawny
Not in a zillion years did I expect to look around the California Science Center in Los Angeles and find the man that I’d given my virginity to looking right at me. His hazel eyes clung to mine, much the same way the expensive-looking black suit clung to his body, which was even more muscular than it had been seven years earlier. Those chiseled features, the sharp nose, and those high cheekbones offset by lips that looked soft and inviting took my complete attention as my heart raced. My hands fisted at my sides, yearning to run them through his thick, wavy, chestnut brown hair onceagain.
My feet moved without me telling them to, carrying me to the man who’d given me so much. I’d always been drawn to him, even when we were just two neighborhood kids hanging out after school. I guess some things neverchange.
“August Harlow!” Our bodies slammed together as I threw my arms around him. He hugged me tightly, picking me up so my feet left the ground. “I thought I might never get to see youagain.”
His hold on me loosened as he placed my feet back on the floor. His hazel eyes sparkled, just the way I remembered them doing all those years ago when he’d first kissed me. “I have to say the same thing about you, Tawny Matthews.” He let me go entirely, and I felt the loss right away. Being in his arms felt like being home again. “Let me get a look at you.” His eyes roamed over my body, making me heat up inside. “You’ve grown up, haven’t you? And filled outperfectly.”
Just as my core began to pulse—August’s compliment had me wanting to jump his bones right then and there—a tug on the bottom of my sweater had me looking down. Hazel eyes shone up at me, and I ran my hand through my son’s silky chestnut hair. “Momma, who’sthat?”
“This man used to be my next-door neighbor, Calum.” I looked back at August. “I’d like you to meet AugustHarlow.”
August extended his hand, which I found to be a funny thing to do to a six-year-old. “Hi, Calum. It’s nice to meetyou.”
Calum let him shake his hand but ran his other arm around my leg, clinging to me. Then he buried his face in the side of my leg, and I rested my hand on his little shoulder. “He tends to be on the shy side until he gets to knowsomeone.”
August’s eyes met mine again. “So, you gotmarried?”
“No,” I said quickly, and didn’t offer any more information about that. “Do you live in L.A.now?”
“Yeah. And you?” August asked as he shoved his hands into the pockets of his slacks, rocking back and forth on his feet the same way he did the night he changed mylife.
“We’ve just moved here.” I watched August as he eyed my son but didn’t ask a thing about who his father was. “I left Sebastopol a few months ago, just before school started. Calum’s in first grade now. I didn’t want to make him change schools in the middle of the year once the new job I came here forstarts.”
August pulled his eyes off Calum to look at me. “And what job would thatbe?”
“I’m a nurse. I got on with Cedars-Sinai in the maternity ward. But the job doesn’t start for a few more months.” Calum’s class was moving on, and he looked back at them, then at me. “Go ahead, baby. Go with your class. I’ll catch up, don’tworry.”
“’Kay, Momma,” he said, then took off like a flash to catch up with his friends. Kyle and Jasper were a couple of little boys that he talked about nonstop each day when I picked him up fromschool.
“You’re a nurse?” August asked as his dark browsrose.
“Yeah. I worked in San Francisco after I graduated and got my RN. The drive was a real killer, an hour there and an hour back home. Mom watched Calum for me as I had to work the night shift. At Cedars, I’ll get the day shift and weekends off. Calum will be in school all day while I work, and he’ll only have to stay at daycare for a couple of hours before I get off. Things will be a lot better with the newjob.”
“Color me impressed.” He looked me over without an ounce of shame in his game. “You and I should have dinner some time. You know, catchup.”
I agreed wholeheartedly and reached out my hand. “Give me your cell and I’ll put my number in your contacts. I’d love to catch up with you, AugustHarlow.”
As I typed in my number, my mind skipped back seven years to that fatefulnight…
Alone at home with my parents in Napa Valley for the weekend, I found myself looking out my bedroom window at the full moon that night. It called me to sit outside and do a bit of moonbathing.
