Come Monday by Mari Carr Read Free Book Online

attraction tonight—freed from his principles—had elevated to a new high. He’d never felt this way about anyone. He’d never developed an emotional attachment during his affairs, never had a woman call to his heart, his soul. Keira was a sexual innocent and that only made his involvement with her more perilous. She was a vanilla girl and he struggled with the thought of taking her out of her safe, simple world and exposing her to his.
    He closed his eyes and leaned his head against the soft cushion. He was exhausted from weeks of agitated sleep and never-ending hand jobs in his shower, attempting to relieve the tension Miss Keira Collins had wrought in his body. He recalled her kisses outside the pub as his tormented cock hardened again. He lightly rubbed the straining flesh through his pants as he remembered her staring at the desk in his office.
    It would feel cold against my cheek.
    That single comment had played over and over in his head until he thought he would die from the wanting, the needing.
    Right or wrong, he feared there would be no turning back now. He wanted Keira, and God help him if she couldn’t accept him as he was—because he had the feeling she was the one woman with the power to rip his heart out.
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    Come Monday

Chapter Four
    “You look great. Stop fidgeting.”
    “I look like you,” Keira said, tugging on the collar of the gypsy-style shirt she’d borrowed from Teagan. Her shift had run longer than she’d hoped—damn tourist season—and she hadn’t had time to go shopping for anything new to wear. Her entire wardrobe consisted of practical pants, jeans and basic tops, so she’d been forced to borrow a skirt and blouse from Teagan. Problem was, her taste and her sister’s were as dissimilar as salt and sugar.
    “You look great,” Teagan reassured again.
    Keira glanced down at the wildly colored broomstick skirt and bright purple blouse and considered calling Will to cancel.
    “Come on,” Teagan said, dragging her away from the mirror. “Let’s go wait downstairs in the pub. I can’t wait to meet this guy.”
    “You act like no one ever asks me out.”
    “Oh, I know guys ask you out, but you never say yes. I’ve gotta see the one who snagged you,” Teagan teased.
    She let her younger sister pull her down the stairs and over to the bar. She sighed when she discovered Ewan and Pop helping Tristan mix drinks and Sean bussing the tables at the pub. Teagan was right. She needed to start dating more. Her family was acting like this was frigging prom night.
    “I thought you were waiting tables on Sunday’s Side,” she said to her father and Ewan.
    “And miss meeting this guy? Not likely. Joyce and Regina have things under control for now,” Ewan replied.
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    Keira bit back a growl of frustration. “You can’t all be standing here like the Spanish Inquisition when he shows up. Just once, do you think you guys could try not to embarrass me?”
    Tristan wiped up the counter with an evil grin and she knew he was loving that everyone had gathered round. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your family meeting the guy who’s taking you out. Isn’t that how it was done in the old days, Pop?” Keira narrowed her eyes, furious with Tris for pulling Pop into this humiliating scene as well. Pop loved to harp on the old ways of doing things and Tristan’s pointed question would just get her father fired up.
    “It was customary for a man to meet the father. This young man of yours should want to meet me, Keira. It’s only polite, after all. Doesn’t he have any manners?”
    “He’s a perfect gentleman, Pop, but I’m twenty-seven. Doesn’t that seem a little old for…” She gestured to all of her siblings gathered around.
    “Did I miss him yet?” Riley asked, rushing out of the kitchen. “Freaking tourists and their special orders. Is he here?”
    Keira sighed and looked at Tristan. “Couldn’t get Killian home from Iraq?”
    “Not on such short