Tango Love by Nicole Flockton Release Day & Giveaway
Tango
Love
By:
Nicole Flockton
Blurb
A
sexy short story about being in love with your best friend — and
discovering it takes two to tango.
Melinda
Jones has been in love with her housemate, James Brady, since he
moved in...but she has no intention of ever telling him. Except it
seems James has his own plans...and they include asking her to share
a sexy tango — then a little dirty dancing in his bed.
For
Melinda, it's the best night of her life...until she wakes up alone
the next morning. Is she destined to spend her life dancing by
herself, or will James step up to be the partner of her dreams?
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“What’s
a pretty girl like you sitting at a bar all by herself?”
That
voice. So smooth, like warm chocolate sauce sliding down your throat.
Such a shame it was the lamest pick-up line in history. That voice
deserved something so much better.
Melinda
Jones turned, a light shiver tingling down her spine as she locked
eyes with a pair of deep blue ones.
“Please
tell me you don’t use that line all the time.”
His
laughter rumbled through her soul, and gooseflesh rippled down her
arms. She was in serious trouble. The man should be locked up. No
woman was safe from his voice or his laugh. No wonder he had such a
good success rate with the opposite sex.
“Only
for you, babe, would I use a line like that. I know I’m pretty safe
from getting a swift hit in the ribs with your elbow.”
“It
just gets better and better. I’m going to dance, excuse me.”
And
with that, Melinda dumped her wine glass on the bar, slipped off the
chair and headed for the dance floor to join her friends. It was
stupid to feel so hurt but she did. James didn’t know she had
feelings for him, so she really had no reason to be angry. To him,
she was just his housemate; the girl he could joke around with and
test his pick up lines on.
The
fact that she’d fallen in love him was her problem. He was the
perfect housemate. He cooked, cleaned, ironed and listened. He even
watched chick flicks with her sometimes.
He was
the perfect guy and to him, she was just Melinda; the girl whose
house he shared. He’d never once batted an eyelid when she’d
brought guys home. In the beginning, she hadn’t batted an eyelid
when he’d done the same and bought girls home. The fact that she
hadn’t gotten laid in over six months wasn’t his issue. It was
totally hers.
The
realisation she’d fallen for him had been one Friday night when
they’d been sharing Chinese. He’d said something and she’d
looked over at him and WHAM that was when it had hit her. She’d
fallen for him.
Mooning
over a guy who wasn’t into you was the least attractive trait in a
woman. How many times had she’d told her friends that? Now it was
time to take her own advice and get over her feelings for James.
Melinda
danced with her friends. She laughed at their jokes and gave the
impression she didn’t have a care in the world.
“I’m
getting a drink!” She shouted to her friends over the incessant
thump of bass. They nodded and continued to dance.
Melinda
headed towards the bar, wishing she’d worn her favourite,
comfortable Jimmy Choos, instead of the new ones she’d bought that
day. The shoes may have had sex written all over them, but they were
pinching her toes.
She
sat down on a recently vacated bar stool and ordered a fresh glass of
white wine. Waiting for the bartender to return with it she looked
around the club. The crowd had built while she’d been dancing. The
testosterone level had risen tenfold.
As she
gazed around, her eyes stopped at a pair of broad shoulders. His
t-shirt fit him like a second skin.
Now
that was the type of distraction she was looking for. She wanted—no
needed—a body that night. Anything to take her mind off the one
body she couldn’t have. It didn’t really matter that he wasn’t
the hottest guy on the earth. At that moment Mr Heavenly Shoulders
turned in her direction and locked eyes with Melinda.
Yes
the night was definitely looking up, she thought.
Melinda
gave him her come-hither smile. The invitation she was sending his
way was very clear. The wink he gave in return told Melinda he was
interested in taking her up on her offer.
The
bartender arrived at that moment with her fresh drink. She reached
for it, bringing it slowly to her lips, all the while watching and
waiting for Mr Heavenly Shoulders to make his way to her. He’d
taken two steps when he stopped abruptly, the flirty look stripped
from his face.
He
shrugged the heavenly shoulders she’d been imagining wrapping her
arms around as if to say, “Thanks but not tonight.” He turned
back to his friends.
“What
the…?” There was no possible way she’d misread that look in his
eye.
“He
was only after one thing, you know.”
Melinda
whirled around and faced the owner of the voice. The last voice she’d
expected to hear warning her off a man. “Of course I knew exactly
what he wanted. I invited him. I wanted to have wild animal sex with
him.”
Author
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On her
very first school report her teacher said ‘Nicole likes to tell her
own stories’.
It
wasn’t until after the birth of her daughter and after having fun
on the community board of eharlequin.com that she finally decided to
take the plunge and write a book.
The
stories she writes are contemporary romances with either a medical
setting or in the boardrooms of high powered business. Nicole enjoys
taking two characters and creating unique situations for them.
Apart
from writing Nicole is busy looking after her very own hero – her
wonderfully supportive husband, and her two fabulous kids.
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