All Chapters of UNFINISHED BUSINESS (BACK TO YOU) : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“Lorraine really wants the circus theme,” Lana Covey said, a note of appeal in her voice.It was a tone Tessa Monroe knew well—the desperate cry of a woman who has spoiled her baby girl for so long she doesn’t know how to stop. As one of the top Event planners in Solmere, Tessa got her share of spoiled princesses and their bizarre wedding requests, but this was right up there.“A circus themed wedding is certainly unusual,” Tessa said smoothly. “You don’t get a lot of them.”“I understand that,” The mother of the bride nodded. “Hudson took Lorraine to see a touring production for their first date. They think it would be romantic to recreate the circus theme for their wedding.”“Well, I guess we can be happy he didn’t take her ice fishing for their first date.” Tessa said. The woman smiled weakly. “I suppose so.” She straightened the perfectly straight hem on her Gucci skirt. Already Tessa suspected that this ceremony was going to be one of those nightmares. The mother of the bride h

Tessa had a splitting headache the rest of the day. She knew it wasn’t only the stress of seeing David again, but the added insult to her body of skipping lunch. With no further appointments, she settled in to work on her accounts, not that there was much point in it since she couldn’t concentrate. All she could do was relive that moment when David had walked back into her life. Worse, it was clear that he, Sophie and the missing groom had all agreed to appoint him stand-in groom and assistant wedding planner, which had her hauling the large bottle of painkillers out of her emergency drawer and swallowing two of them with the water on her desk.Megan popped her head in the door at a few minutes before five and said, “Is it okay if I head out now?” She grinned. “I’ve got to get home and change for my date tonight.”“Where do you meet all these men?”“Online,” Megan said, her eyes twinkling with excitement. “It’s mad fun, you should try it.”“Online dating? It seems so desperate.”“It’s

But she remembered. Of course she remembered. When she wasn’t cursing the man for hurting her she spent more time than she should cursing him for giving her the kind of sex that she’d never found before or since. Soul-scorching, sometimes tender, sometimes dirty but always intimate. She was secretly pleased that he hadn’t found that again either. Or so he said. But then maybe that was another line in the player’s handbook. How would she know?Tessa forced herself to meet his gaze coolly. Took a deep breath and uttered the biggest lie of her life. “I don’t miss you.”She should have recalled that nothing ignited David's competitive instincts like a challenge. She saw heat flash in his eyes, anger and lust and a mix of emotions she couldn’t begin to identify. One second he stood there before her and the next he was pulling her to him, crushing his mouth against hers so fast that she couldn’t have moved away if she’d tried. She uttered a muffled protest, squirmed against him and then as

She was here on her own—and that changed everything.David wanted to tear his hands through his hair to relieve some of the pressure on his skull, but he couldn’t because she’d see, and she’d guess.Fuck.He didn't know why, but for some reason he'd thought she'd bring a date with her. A beautiful woman like Tessa Monroe, he'd been so sure that there was no way she was single, but now that he thought about it, maybe she just hadn't brought someone with her because she was technically here to work. She was the event planner after all. Something he should have thought of if he hadn't been so carried away by that kiss in her office. And what the hell was he thinking telling her that she was the sexiest woman he'd ever known? It was true, yes, but did he really have to tell her that? His common sense must have gone for a walk. The fact that she was here solo didn’t mean there wasn’t a boyfriend stashed somewhere, a new sugar daddy in the wings perhaps. That was her preference if he remem

Her chin notched upward, then she gently set down her glass before speaking again, “You don’t know me well enough to make that assessment. Not anymore,”David frowned, and with that, she turned her back on him and sailed away, her hips swaying in that unique way that'd caught his attention from the very moment he set his eyes on her years ago. She was even more beautiful now, he thought helplessly. Curvier, more confident in her womanhood, and left a swathe of admirers slack-jawed in her wake. He wracked his brain, trying to figure out if she really had a current boyfriend, and the gut-tightening rejection at the idea of her being attached made him grimace into his champagne. He sighed, set his glass down, and went after her. —---------Tessa was heading towards the far end of the grounds, her heels sinking soundlessly into the grass. She didn’t hear David until he was six feet from her.“Tess?”Her head whipped around. “Are you following me?” she asked sharply. But then she trembl