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For Better, For Worse, For Ever?
The first look, the first touch, the first kiss… Is there anything better than the beginning of a new relationship? Not for Caitlyn March—self-confessed relationship junkie. Now she's sworn off "forever" for good. Three broken engagements make it clear that she—and her fickle heart—are not to be trusted….
Enter Dax Bainbridge—the most deliciously handsome man she has ever met! He's a man with enough oomph to make her forget her vows to steer clear of romance, but luckily his rules of engagement are simple. There's no ring on offer—all he's interested in is one unbelievably hot fling.…
- Sales Rank: #603669 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-01
- Released on: 2012-12-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Ally is a hopeless romantic. She was born into a family of romance reading women and remembers bag loads of books being passed on at family gatherings from her mother, her cousins, her aunt and even her grandmother. Now as a grown up she gets to sit at the laptop, with a title, a couple of beautiful characters in mind and wait for the fairies to take flight. Constant coffee and bowls full of M&Ms make her job that much more pleasurable! Come visit her at www.allyblake.com
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The Sand Bar, a cool little club in a tucked-away lane off Melbourne's Chapel Street, was pumping that Saturday night.
'He's cute!' said Franny, shouting to be heard.
Caitlyn played with her sparkly chandelier earrings as she stared dreamily at the buff Cutey Patootey in the T-shirt and jeans at the other end of the bar. 'Isn't he just? And for an outdoorsytype guy he actually has really nice hands. I'm sure he plays the piano.'
Franny laughed into her cocktail sending the flamingo swizzle-stick spinning. 'If he plays the piano then the doodles on the notepad beside my phone make me the next Picasso.'
Caitlyn dropped her hand to her drink and blinked at Franny. 'Meaning?'
'Only you would see husband potential in a first date.' 'I never! I—'
'You know you do!' Franny said, cutting Caitlyn off. 'You see hearts and flowers, when what you actually need is a guy who can keep you in line. Who doesn't let you get away with the crap you usually do. One who dances to the beat of his own drum, not yours.'
Caitlyn glanced back at Cutey Patootey just as he sucked in his washboard stomach as a pair of bouncy blondes swayed past. Her mouth twitched. 'Believe me, I'm not hearing wedding bells this time.'
Franny gave her a nudge, then out of the corner of her mouth said, 'But have you heard bedsprings creaking?'
Caitlyn smacked her hard on the upper arm. 'We met a week ago.'
Franny shook her head as if that was no kind of answer, which in Frannyland it wasn't.
Caitlyn, on the other hand, wasn't about to jump into bed with some random guy just because he gave her that sweet rush that came from meeting someone new. That had never been her bag. For her, the attraction was all about the delicious slow burn at the beginning of a relationship. The shy glances, and first touches and stolen kisses, and that build of delicious tension 'til they could no longer keep their hands off one another—what a thrill! So much better than the reality that always came later. So Cutey Patootey was going to have to wait.
He glanced back at the girls and grinned; big, brawny, honestly a little less erudite than she might have liked. But Franny was right; with the dimples and spiky blond hair he was ridiculously cute.
With a self-satisfied smile, Caitlyn motioned to Franny she was about to make a beeline for the ladies' room for a freshen up. She sucked in her stomach and ducked and weaved her way through the heaving Saturday night club crowd.
Once through she let out her stomach and craned her neck to see which direction the rest rooms had gone, when she turned and smacked face first into a wall.
At least it felt like a wall. That was until she reached out and grabbed it and discovered it was warm, and slightly yielding, and wearing a suit.
She tried to push off it only to find the crowd pressing at her back.
'Whoa,' she said, half laughing, half hanging on for dear life as she righted herself using the wall as her guide.
And then she looked up. And up. And up.
Dark hair, dark eyes, dark expression. Hello Handsome.
She stood staring into those dark eyes for a long time. Seconds? Minutes?
'So sorry,' she finally said, as breathless as though she'd had the air knocked from her lungs.
Then just when she decided he wasn't going to answer her back, a deep dark velvet voice said, 'Whatever for?'
She swallowed. Tried to anyway. Turned out her mouth had dried up.
Shaking her fringe from her eyes and feigning a confidence that was feeling a tad shaky right about then, she looked right into his eyes, and said, 'I don't make a habit of throwing myself into the arms of passing strangers.'
'Yet you're so good at it.'
She laughed, and her breasts pressed against him. His hard warm chest. She felt a weakening at the backs of her knees. She curled her hands tighter around his lapels.
She wished she could see his eyes better. To see if he was smiling too. The club wasn't exactly dark, but he somehow seemed to swallow the light around him.
'Okay,' she said, 'so it's a move. Not an original one. A classic, really. And I'm sticking by it.'
'Mmm. There's a reason why classics become classics,' he drawled, his rich velvety voice making her shoulders roll as though someone were running a slow finger right down her spine.
'Why's that?'
'They work.'
She could feel the beat of the music in her stomach. Or 10 the rules of engagement perhaps it was her pulse, thumping hard and fast through her centre. Unless it was his pulse. His thumping. They were pressed close enough for it to be possible.
'Caitlyn March,' she said, figuring it impolite to be quite so plastered against the man and not at least introduce herself. She unpeeled a hand to shake his.
'Dax Bainbridge.'
'Nice to meet you.'
'Likewise.'
The house lights flashed at that moment—on off on off—in time with an eighties dance hit and she finally saw his face. Gorgeous didn't even begin to cut it. It was the kind of face she'd have immediately looked away from if caught staring for fear of public drooling.
And then he smiled.
It wasn't a grin by any stretch of the imagination. But the serious cheek creased in the kind of way that set a girl's heart to racing, and the dark eyes gleamed, but it was plenty enough to make Caitlyn feel as if she'd just been clubbed over the back of the head.
Her brain became a fog. She could see the wave and sway of dancing clubbers out of the corner of her eye, and it felt as though they were moving in slow motion. The steady thump of the music pulsed in her stomach. Lower. Boom, boom, boom.
Were the two of them swaying in time with the music now? If not, it felt as if they sure as heck should be.
'Are you a dancer?' she asked. But when she felt him take a breath to answer, she got in first. 'I meant do you get your dance moves on at places like this? Not professionally, of course. I didn't mean you look like a ballerina or anything. And I'm not sure it would be physically possible to achieve head-spins in that suit.'
No response, not that she blamed him. Though his chest rumbled deliciously against hers. Was he laughing? God, she was literally having to stop herself from breathing the guy in he smelled so delicious, and he was laughing.
She knew she ought to just let him be, to back away slowly and go…wherever it was she'd been planning to go when she stumbled upon him. Where was that again? But he smelled so good, felt so solid, gave her such an array of the most delicious goose bumps, she couldn't.
Literally.
She realised then that his arms were around her. Not inappropriately in any way, shape or form. The song playing was the kind that always had half the nightclub trying to squeeze onto a dance floor three sizes too small and he was merely keeping her from smacking into any other nightclubbers. Or walls for that matter. It was a gentlemanly thing.
She was bumped, jostled, nudged closer. His arms tightened. The crowd moved away. His arm did not. And suddenly it didn't feel so gentlemanly after all.
He shifted his weight. Or maybe she'd shifted hers. Either way when the shifting stopped they were closer again. Her thighs were introduced to the hardness of his. His belt buckle got to know the dent of her belly button. Her blood rushed so hard and fast through her, her head had begun to spin.
She felt as if the floor had dropped out from under her and she was balancing on the edge. Like if the guy moved the wrong way—or more specifically the right way—she might leap into his arms, wrap her legs around him and never let go. He was so strong, so warm, he had her wondering if there was a back alley to the place. A hard, private wall up against which he and she could—
And then she remembered the guy at the bar. The guy with whom she was on a date. Whatshisname? Seriously, what was his name?
Honestly, in the end, it was less that than the fact that her toes had begun to go numb from standing on them in some kind of effort not to feel completely swamped by the man's height that she lowered shakily into her high heels, uncurled her clenched fingers from his jacket, peeled herself from his person, and took a slow and unsteady step away.
The dance song came to a halt. Something slower and softer moaned through the overworked speakers. The strobing lights disappeared and the room was lit with a soft even glow.
'Well, thanks for not letting me fall,' she said, still needing to half shout to be heard.
'Thank you for letting me not let you fall.'
She managed to laugh despite the strange tumbling inside her stomach. Then his cheek did the sexy crease thing again, and she might even have said something like, Lovely. But no. She couldn't have. That would be embarrassing along the lines of having her dress caught up in her undies.
She discreetly checked her dress. All good.
'Right.' She flapped her hands over her shoulders in the general direction of the bar. 'I'd better get back to my friend before she thinks I've been abducted by little green men. Not that she's some kind of rabid believer in UFOs, or those kinds of things. Though once, late one night, we did see something odd—'
Stop! Go! Now!
'Okay, then. Bye!' she said.
He acknowledged her with a bow of his head. A small smile. And a glint in his eyes that seemed a hell of a lot like the kind of shockingly hot attraction she was dealing very badly with herself at that very moment.
Caitlyn curtsied. Curtsied! Then stepped back, bumped into someone, spun on her heel, apologised profusely, smacked another dancer, turned to wave to Dax again so that his final impression of her wasn't her elbowing a stranger in the head, to find he was gone.
She stood a moment in the middle of the dance floor, feeling a little adrif...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Full of wit, humor, sass and sizzling chemistry.
By Harlequin Junkie Blog
I REALLY enjoyed this story; it was full of wit, humor, sass and sizzling chemistry.
Caitlyn and Dax literally bump into each other at a club and the chemistry between the two is instantaneous. Our girl Caitlyn has quite the ring collection; she is coming off yet another broken engagement of which now there are three. Caitlyn decides what she needs is an emotional Catharsis, some fun and frivolity as opposed to the whole love, emotion, feelings song and dance - In other "Sorbet sex" and Dax is the answer to her prayers, Dax, oh boy Dark, intense delicious Dax!
Caitlyn has made some mistakes in the past mistaking caring and affection for Love, she is afraid to make the same mistake with Dax, she knows that he is different from any other guy she has dated and is afraid to put her vulnerabilities to test where is he is concerned, so keeping it casual between them is clearly the way to go.
Neither of Caitlyn nor Dax are looking for love or commitment, but what starts out as a one night stand turns into casual dating which blossoms into a full-fledged love affair before the two even realize it.... But how will Dax react when he finds out Caitlyn has been engaged before...
I've been waiting the release of this book, It's been a while almost 18 months since Ally's last Presents release, yes I'm counting ;) and this book reminded me why I enjoy Ally's books so much and why she is on my must read Harlequin author list.
With witty narrative and snappy dialogues and emotive love scenes The Rules of Engagement is definitely a page turner...one I would definitely recommend.
My FAV Quote and total awwwwww moment:
"I have to see you every day. To talk to you whenever I need to. To touch you
whenever I want to. To kiss you every chance I get. To make love to you as many times a day
as humanly possible. To hold you every night for the rest of my life. And I'm willing to do
whatever it takes to make that happen. Marry you,not marry you. Give you a ring, give you an island.
Adopt a rescue llama, adopt Franny.Whatever it takes.'
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A HECK of a lot of sizzle!
By Ravenous Reader
Caitlyn: "Believe me, I'm not hearing wedding bells this time."
Franny: "But have you heard bedsprings creaking?"
From this joke at the bottom of the first page I knew I was reading the best of Ally Blake. A thoroughly modern heroine, quirky yet pained, a delicious hero, and a HECK of a lot of sizzle.
Caitlyn has left a trail of broken engagements behind her and is looking to change her approach to men: nothing serious, only casual, as she figures out where she goes wrong. Which is just fine with Dax Bainbridge, who is too busy running his family's foundation for anything else. Yet the two find that, despite their best efforts, they share more and more of themselves and find themselves falling in love.
This is a refreshing romance of our time - meeting someone in a bar, tumbling into bed despite not remembering their last name and finding it all too good for one night alone. And damn this book is hot! From their first meeting the chemistry between these characters overlays everything they do and man, there is a whole lot of chemistry going on!
Witty, charming - as one naturally expects from Ms Blake - and un-put-downable, this book is definitely one to warm up a cool night. Recommended to romance readers.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Loved it
By freesun
It was heartwarming and endearing. I find Ally Blake's stories full of life and love. Her insight to the working of relationships hard to beat. She has become one of my favorite romance authors. Where other authors embellish their stories with wealth and glamour, she fills hers with the emotions of her characters.
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