In Love With Her Brother's Best Friend

It was a little over two hours into her trip, and Mia’s anxiety level was beginning to rise.It was already nightfall when the radio broadcast had been interrupted to announce a winter storm warning. Not five minutes later, the rain at the leading edge of the stormfront overtook her.The twelve-year-old Honda she’d nicknamed Gracie shimmied and shook as the winds picked up, and Mia cursed as she gripped the steering wheel harder to try to keep her little car on the roadway.“This keeps up I won’t be able to see at all,” she muttered. Her windshield wipers were already operating at maximum capacity and losing the battle with each passing minute.The green and white highway sign she could barely make out read Winters, 2 miles.Still three hours away at least, since I’m barely able to maintain forty miles an hour in this rain, she realized, and sighed. At this rate, I won’t make it to Mom’s before midnight.Mia hunched over the steering wheel, peering through the windshield as best she c

Tanner watched her sleep, unwilling to leave her side since he’d arrived at the emergency room with her in his arms. He’d only stepped out long enough for the medical staff to remove her wet clothes and get her into a gown and under some heated blankets, then he pulled up a chair and made himself comfortable to keep watch over her.At one point, she’d opened her mesmerizing emerald eyes long enough to pierce his soul with their beauty.“Thank you,” she’d whispered before she slipped into sleep again.She looks so familiar to me, but I just can’t place where I’ve seen her before, Tanner told himself again as he gazed at her shiny, coal-black hair, creamy skin, and high cheekbones. She’s gorgeous, I know that much.She sighed, then moaned softly, and Tanner immediately was overwhelmed with visions of her in his bed, making those same sweet sounds as he kissed and caressed and claimed her as his own.He flushed beet red.***Mia found herself in the middle of the strangest dream.She was

The door swung open to reveal Mia standing there with his coat buttoned up to her chin, and he grinned when he noticed that the waistband hit her mid-thigh.She spun in place, then put one hand on her hip, smiled, and asked, “How do I look?”She’s so tiny! The top of her head barely comes to my shoulder, he thought as they stared at each other. And she’s gorgeous. I wonder what she would look like in my pajama top… and nothing else…I am in such, such trouble.With effort, he broke eye contact to move to the bed and grab her suitcase and the two plastic bags that the medical staff had supplied for her wet clothing.“You look great,” he said softly. “Let’s head home.”***They rode in silence, and Tanner’s full concentration on the road conditions gave her a chance to check him out, so Mia took full advantage of the opportunity.He’s taller than I remember, she realized, her eyes surreptitiously scanning his long, lean frame. And he’s definitely got more muscles than I remembered, as w

When Tanner’s hands caressed her skin Mia’s eyelids fluttered closed, and she moaned, lost in the feel of his strong hands roaming her body.He slipped an arm underneath her and rolled her toward him to attack the fasteners that held her breasts captive in their lace confinement, then slowly slid the straps down her arms, and pulled the undergarment out of his way.“You’re magnificent,” he whispered, kissing down the side of her neck as he slid down to pay homage to the perfect breasts he’d laid bare.Mia moaned again and arched her back when his mouth made contact with the left one, digging her nails lightly into his shoulders.Then his right hand traveled down and cupped her, and her whole body shivered.Tanner chuckled, his breath on her skin fanning the flames of her want.“Like that, huh?” he whispered.“More,” she whispered back.“You know,” he murmured against her flesh, “you’re supposed to be taking it easy. Light activity only. Remember?”“I know what they said. I don’t care.

Tanner drove to the garage, parked, and pulled out his cell phone.“Don’t hang up, please,” he said when Blake answered with a snarl. “I need to talk to you.”“So talk,” Blake snapped.Tanner sighed.“I never told you about Amber,” he began."Who's Amber?"“She’s a girl I dated right before I left the Marines,” Tanner revealed. “And I fell for her. Hard. I started planning to buy a house and marry her and start a family with her. The whole nine yards. I really thought she was the one.”He heard curiosity creep into Blake’s voice.“So, what happened?”“I came home early one day, and she was in bed with another guy,” Tanner said simply. “She played me, Blake, the same way you and I used to play with girls’ hearts in high school. And it crushed me, and it made me sick to my stomach to realize that I had put others through that exact same kind of hurt.”“What did you do?”“I packed up my shit and I moved out and I haven’t looked twice at another woman since. That was almost four years ago