Free Finding Chris Evans: The 9-1-1 Edition by Erin Nicholas

me up behind the windmill.”
    They’d made out for a few minutes while mini-golfing too. By hole six, she simply hadn’t been able to keep from kissing him any longer. Of course, her thumb wasn’t a problem with the mini-golf because he’d said he’d never played before and asked if they could partner up. Since she couldn’t grip the club, he’d done most of the actual swinging, pretending to really suck, while she’d given him instructions.
    Britt appreciated that he was willing to act like an idiot for her. But she also suspected her mother didn’t believe that Chris had never golfed before—or, even if he hadn’t, that he actually needed her helping him with it. But she’d caught her mom smiling at Britt and Chris together, and she knew her mom thought they were cute…and in love.
    Her heart clenched slightly. She did not like lying to her mother. No, she hadn’t said that she and Chris were serious, but she knew her mom was thinking they were acting plenty serious. And Britt couldn’t help but hope that maybe they were on their way to serious for real.
    “It’s your fault I’ve been walking around here hard as nails,” he fake-griped.
    “You actually started it.”
    He’d kissed her first. He’d carried the cake into the kitchen and then backed her up against the fridge and told her that he’d forever get hard just seeing chocolate cake frosting.
    “It was the smell of caramel corn on top of the cake frosting on top of you.”
    “What did I do?” she asked. She wanted to keep doing it.
    “Just being you.”
    Damn, and then there were those sweet moments. She looked back at him. She really wanted this to be on the way to serious. “If you get horny because of caramel corn, you’re going to be very uncomfortable around here, you know.”
    He moved in beside her, which was a very tight fit in the tube, pressing a kiss to the side of her neck. “I can deal with it. I love this place.”
    Britt felt her heart expand in her chest. He loved the Fun Zone. She had not been expecting that.
    After a mind-blowing orgasm in bed, in her shower and against her dresser that morning, she’d almost hoped the Zone trip would be a huge flop. Chris was…awesome. She loved his take-charge attitude at work. She loved how commanding and in control he was. He was an excellent EMT and she admired him professionally. She also found him cute and charming when away from work—or so she’d learned watching him frost a cake, of all things. And then the sex…she was quite simply ruined. She never wanted to have sex with anyone but Chris Evans ever again.
    So she’d been almost hoping that he’d be a huge stick-in-the-mud. She’d hoped that he’d be absolutely no fun and would ruin her mother’s birthday party.
    But none of that had happened. At all. He’d not only been sweet to her mother, he hadn’t let her brothers intimidate him, and he’d humored her nieces and nephews during all the games and activities.
    And most all, he was having fun. And making the day even more fun for her. He’d thrown himself into the games and activities. And he’d laughed. Genuinely smiled and laughed all day. Britt wanted to take her clothes off just hearing the sound of his laughter.
    In addition, he’d been protective and caring all day without feeling clingy or overdoing it. No one had a clue she was hurt. They just thought she’d finally found the perfect man.
    And saying goodbye to that man at the end of the weekend and going back to being co-workers was going to hurt more than her stupid thumb ever would.
    That thought brought her down and she’d been struggling to ignore it ever since it had occurred to her. Somewhere around an hour into the party.
    “Not everyone gets lucky the way you have around here,” she said of his love for the Zone.
    He grinned at that. “You might be surprised. There are lots of hidden corners around here.”
    He had a point.
    “But,” he added. “I’m honestly having a good time. Even