Her Best Mistake (Novella) by Donna McDonald Read Free Book Online Page A

you only slept with me because you thought I was a booty call?” Lisa asked, licking her dry lips.
    Finn looked like he wanted to die rather than answer her question, but he held her gaze and nodded his head yes. Tomorrow she might be outraged at the idea that he had just this once—even if unknowingly—given in to the temptation to take advantage of a booty call. At the moment, she was just disgusted that Eric would arrange such a deceitful liaison, and the action only validated the instinct that had made her so careful with him.
    It was just hard to be sincerely outraged about Eric’s behavior or Finn’s confession when the heat of her was pressing down on evidence of Finn’s continued interest in her. God, the man beneath her was real, Lisa thought, suddenly thinking he might just be the best mistake she had ever made.
    “ Now do you want me to apologize?” Finn asked again.
    Instead of answering right away, Lisa turned her face back to his and just looked at him.
    She looked in his eyes. She tried to see Eric there, but couldn’t. There was just Finn.
    And she was interested.
    “Do you mean apologize for the booty call thing? Or sleeping with your brother’s girlfriend?” she demanded, suddenly willing to risk teasing him again.
    “We’ve already decided I’m not sorry for sleeping with the girlfriend who’s not really a girlfriend. I applied cold logic to make that decision. You don’t like him. Ergo, it’s not my fault Eric didn’t score with you,” Finn informed her, keeping his tone as firm as the rest of him.
    Lisa couldn’t help laughing at Finn’s so-called logic. It had her shifting closer and bearing down on him more. He pushed himself up a little to better fit himself between her thighs. To her, Finn looked completely unrepentant, totally male, and totally irresistible. He tightened his hold on her hips as she stared at him, and it seemed like he was waiting for something to show him the next step. She was right there with him, searching for it too. It was impossible not to like the man.
    “You don’t strike me as being the kind of guy who’s as calm about all this as you’re pretending to be,” she said dryly.
    “Oh, I’m not. Having been married, I have the good sense to realize the booty call thing may be more offensive under the circumstances,” Finn explained.
    Wanting to comfort her, maybe even reassure her, Finn ran his hands up Lisa’s arms and back down her sides before letting them rest at her waist. She sighed and relaxed under his strokes, making him want to hug her.
    “I swear on a stack of bibles that you weren’t just a convenient warm body. I’ve had plenty of opportunities for those and said no. I said yes to you because you made me want you so badly that saying no wasn’t a possibility,” Finn said.
    “So now I guess you want me to thank you for telling me the truth?” Lisa demanded, her laughing eyes softening her sarcastic tone.
    Finn smiled, his lids lowering as he pushed himself against her weight. He lifted her from his lap with each upwards thrust until she moaned and pushed down on his shoulders to hold him still.
    “Okay. I admit that not many men would have said anything. Personally, I don’t think I would have said anything myself if our positions were reversed. So I guess I don’t think you’re a bad guy, maybe just a pent-up desperate one . . . which makes me feel better in some sick, twisted way,” Lisa told him.
    Finn laughed, letting his body relax under hers, or as much as it was able to in his current condition. “Okay. I’m not bad and you’re not bad. So what do you want me to do now? I could let you go and swear never to say a word to Eric, but I’ll be damned if I come to the wedding.”
    “As I’ve said several times, it was just one date with your brother. I hardly think Eric has marriage in mind. Our sleeping together can’t have a negative impact on a relationship that wasn’t really happening in the first place,” Lisa