The Best Man for the Job

The Best Man for the Job By Lucy King

The wedding guest from her past…

For Celia Forrester, Marcus Black—her brother’s best friend—was always totally off-limits. Especially after The Night That Nearly Happened. It was years ago, but Celia remembers it for all the worst reasons! But now, Marcus is back in the picture—he’s the best man at her brother’s wedding and more gorgeous than ever!

It’s all kinds of inappropriate, but giving in to temptation looks like the best way for Celia to get Marcus out of her system. But their one night comes with consequences. And this time, it won’t be fifteen years until they have to face them…but nine months!



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THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB



The problem was, right now she wasn’t feeling in the slightest bit sensible or levelheaded. She was feeling reckless. Wild. Weirdly out of control.

All because of Marcus, because she wanted him. God, she wanted him. Had for years, but had always thought it was one-sided. Now, though, she knew it wasn’t, and she could feel the attraction burning between them, fierce, mutual and utterly irresistible.

It had been so long since she’d had sex. Even longer since she’d had good sex. And with the amount of practice he’d had he’d be very good at it, she was sure.

“Well?” he said, the tension radiating off him suggesting that he was finding it as hard to cling to his self-control as she was.

“You know those scruples of yours?” she said, her voice weirdly low and husky.

“What about them?”

“Do they include anything concerning friends’ younger sisters now?”

“Nope.”

“Good,” she said as fire licked through the blood in her veins and her heart thundered wildly. “Then how about we finish what we started?”



Dear Reader,

One of my favorite fictional relationships is that of Much Ado About Nothing’s Beatrice and Benedick. Ah, the “merry war” with its wicked banter, sharp wit and biting disdain that hides something so much more… What’s not to love?

So what do you get when you throw together an uptight workaholic who can’t stand gorgeous laid-back charmers, and a gorgeous laid-back charmer who can’t stand uptight workaholics? Animosity! And when there’s enough chemistry to blow up a science lab? Sparks! Throw in a botched attempt at seduction when they were in their teens and fifteen years of denial, and it turns into a whole lot of fun.

Well, maybe not for Marcus and Cecelia, perhaps, *evil laugh*, but definitely for me to write, and, I hope, for you to read!

x Lucy