Free Hunks Too Hot To Touch by Marie Rochelle

radar or Shauntie might not even allow him back into her house. If she knew how much he had been thinking about her since he first laid eyes on her, it would make her more than a little hesitant of him and his motives.
    Her ability to brush off their connection continued to impress him. Her indifference must be something Shauntie had been practicing for a while, so Nash wouldn’t force his hand just yet. He was getting turned on with this tug of war between them.
    Shauntie was handling everything that he was doing to her beautifully. The longer he spent around her Nash knew Shauntie had to be more than the reserved and closed off woman she presented to him. No woman as gorgeous as her should be alone.
    “I’m talking about working on your roof right now, but it won’t stay that way for long. I want to get to know you better.”
    The second Shauntie tried to open her mouth, Nash raised his hand cutting her off. He wasn’t going to deny himself what he wanted. He had never done it in the past and he wasn’t about to start now.
    “Shauntie, how about we don’t go into this anymore. Just think about what I said. That’s all I want you to do. Think about going out with me on one date. What will it hurt? I’m going to be here for a while, so it will give you time to think about what I told you.”
    Nash wasn’t used to taking a backseat, but he sensed it was something he had to do to get past whatever was holding Shauntie away from agreeing to one date with him.
    He’d made a huge mistake by not going after Shauntie right after that asshole J.T. dumped her in front of everyone. Shauntie didn’t know that she wasn’t the first woman that asshole had used and then dumped to the side.
    The hurt look on her face had broken his heart. Shauntie was too sweet to have been dumped so cruelly by a man she should have never been with in the first place.
    Nash wanted to use this as his chance to prove that he could be the right man for her, if Shauntie only allowed him to get a little closer. She was going to let him past the security blanket wrapped around her heart like Fort Knox. She just didn’t know it yet.
    “I can’t promise you anything because we aren’t in a relationship,” Shauntie informed him with her usual dismissive attitude that he found hot as hell and made his cock as hard as granite.
    “Dr. Kane, you are correct. We aren’t, but I’m not giving up on changing that status of our relationship rather quickly,” Nash admitted then stepped away from Shauntie. He loved how her full lips opened in surprise before snapping closed.
    “You are too arrogant for your own good,” she hollered after him as he walked back towards her front door. “It’s a very ugly quality to have.”
    “For another woman it might be, but my arrogance is turning you on more and more because you can’t wait to see what I might do next,” Nash flung back at Shauntie before going out the door closing it softly behind him.

 
    Chapter Nine
     
     
    Sitting back in the booth, Shauntie tried to relax as she took a sip of her Long Island Ice Tea while waiting for Sapphire to show up for their usual Friday night girls’ night out. Since it was getting closer to the Christmas holiday, she wasn’t sure how much extra time she would have to do this with her best friends.
    She still hadn’t decided if she was going home this year to visit her parents or not. The last two years she’d been too busy with work to get out of town, but she might change her mind this year and just do it.
    After the cocky way Nash sauntered out of her house, she needed her two best friends to vent to but unfortunately Emerald got called into work, so it would be just her and Sapphire. Which wasn’t a bad thing since Sapphire was the person who dropped Nash Wentworth into her life. She had requested a qualified roofer...not a hot, sexy man who, as much as she hated it to admit it, was pushing all of her right buttons.
    But there wasn’t a chance in hell