Dreaming With A Broken Heart (Hollywood Legends Book 1) by Mary J. Williams Page A

memorable.
    “Sorry.” Garrett’s smile wasn’t the least bit
    remorseful. “I couldn’t resist.”
    “How was it?” she asked with a touch of unmasked
    anxiety in her eyes.
    “The pudding? Delicious.”
    “Oh,” Jade whispered.
    When she tried to turn away, Garrett kissed her again. His
    tongue outlined the shape of her lips, teasing — asking for entrance.
    Gradually, Jade opened her mouth. Satisfied, he ended the kiss.
    “However, the kiss?” Garrett whispered back.
    “Addictive.”
    Against his better judgment, Garrett took Jade in his arms.
    This time the kiss was no tease. Take it slow became take it all .
    Not that he forgot what Jade had been through. One indication his actions
    caused the slightest distress, he was ready to end the embrace. Before he
    formed the thought, Jade kissed him back with a passion to equal his own.
    Oh, boy , Garrett thought. Stopping now was going
    to be murder . He would stop . He sank deeper into the kiss. Soon .
    “Tell me to stop.” Garrett said the words against
    her lips.
    “No.”
    Garrett groaned when Jade wrapped her arms around his neck,
    practically crawling onto his lap. Being good would be so much easier if Jade
    didn’t taste like chocolate-coated sin. He was at his breaking point. Well,
    maybe just a little longer.
    “Jade,” Garrett sighed. “Honey, we need to
    stop. Now.”
    Summoning the last thread of his willpower, Garrett gently
    disentangled Jade’s arms, setting her back on her chair. Her moist, parted lips
    looked so inviting he almost pulled her back. The vulnerability in her eyes steeled
    his resolve. Too much, too soon was not a good idea. He wasn’t an out of
    control teenager with raging hormones. He wasn’t controlled by his erection.
    However, at this moment, it was an extremely close call.
    “You want me to help you? Trust me to know how far to
    go. How fast to go.” Garrett didn’t want there to be any
    misunderstandings. If they were going to do this, he was in charge.
    “I feel ready. Achy.”
    “Me too.” He smiled. Jade seemed surprised by his
    admission. “Men get achy too.”
    “I know,” she said. “I didn’t know they
    stopped. Especially when the woman is willing.”
    “I’m not a caveman, Jade. I won’t jump on you, grunt a
    few times, and then pass out while still on top.”
    “It hasn’t always been that bad.” Jade played with
    the edge of a crumpled paper napkin. “I’ve had lovers who made some
    effort.”
    “Spare me the details.” Garrett wasn’t in a
    sharing mood. Even if it happened before he knew Jade. “I will say, some
    effort, is the definition of damning with faint praise. Lord, save me from
    any women describing my love-making in such a manner.”
    “Take me to bed. Now. I promise I will you praise to
    the sky.”
    “Damn straight you will,” Garrett told her.
    “But not tonight.”
    “Next time?”
    Jade asked the question with such earnestness Garrett had to
    laugh. He couldn’t fault her eagerness. He planned on feeding it with patience.
    Building anticipation. For them both. She needed a gentle hand. He needed…
    Jade.
    “We’ll see how it goes,” Garrett told her.
    “Better a little at a time. Now, when can we meet again?”
     
    THE NEXT TWO weeks followed a similar pattern. Work during the
    day, Jade at night. Not every night. Sunday, Monday, Friday. Missing
    three days was his fault. Something that couldn’t be avoided. He had a job
    where people depended on him to show up on time and be productive. Movies
    didn’t make themselves. It was Garrett’s baby. Neither his crew nor his backers
    cared about what was going on in his love life.
    The paparazzi were another matter.
    You didn’t grow up in Hollywood, the child of superstar
    parents, without a healthy disdain for the tabloid press and the vultures who
    fed off of it. Still, Garrett was low on anyone’s radar. Or he always had been.
    A few pictures here and there. Never any scandal attached to him. He