One Night With You (28 page)
Matt wondered what would have happened if he'd let that kiss go on just a few moments longer... if he'd pushed her jacket off of her slender shoulders and opened the little pearl buttons on that lacy blouse... if he'd unzipped that long flowing skirt and let it drop to the floor... if he'd stripped her down to nothing but those elegant high-buttoned boots and a rosy blush... if he'd lifted her up and lay her back on her wide, polished desk.
Would she have objected? Pushed him away and slapped his face? Or would she have clutched at his bare flesh as fervently as she'd clutched at his lapels when he kissed her? Would she have melted against him, opening her body for his possession the way she'd opened her lips to his tongue? And would he be remembering how good it had felt to be sheathed inside her heat and softness instead of wondering how it
might
feel?
The need to know was rapidly becoming an obsession.
And he couldn't afford obsessions.
And, yet, here he sat, obsessing.
Wondering.
Fantasizing.
And to hell with what it could do to his career.
No, I don't mean that,
he thought with a quick spurt of guilt. His career was all important right now. It needed his full, undivided attention. Which was why he couldn't let himself be distracted by a woman who wasn't even his type in the first place.
There was only one thing to do. He'd see her again, take her out, then take her to bed as soon as she'd let him. One night in his bed, doing everything he'd spent the last few days fantasizing about, and he'd be completely rid of his ridiculous obsession with her. Once he knew what she felt like and tasted like, once the mystery was gone, he'd be able to get her out of his mind. He hoped.
All Night Long
The Heart of the City Series
Book Three
by
Candace Schuler
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Candace Schuler is a writer with a multiple personalities. In her 20+ year career, she has written software user guides, various types of instruction manuals, marketing collateral, grant proposals, case statements, case studies, business profiles, newsletters, press releases, white papers, speeches, scripts, short stories, a cookbook—and 26 (to date) romance novels.
Candace credits her husband Joe and her love of travel with starting her career as a romance writer. It was his comments on a letter describing a trip to New Orleans that prompted her to try writing romance fiction.
She wrote her first novel
Desire's Child
by hand on 12 yellow legal pads. It was published by Harlequin Books in September, 1984 (after she typed it into a computer, of course). Her second book
A Cherished Account
was published by New American Library under the pen name Jeanette Darwin just one month later. She is also published under the name Candace Spencer.
Her books have appeared on the B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks bestseller lists and have twice been nominated by the Romance Writers of America for a RITA award in the Best Short Contemporary Romance category—in 1996 for
Passion and Scandal
and in 2003 for
Good Time Girl
.
Good Time Girl
also received the 2003 Scarlett Letter Award, presented by the Tampa Bay Romance Writers for excellence in sensual romance writing. Candace's books have also received three Reviewers' Choice Awards from Romantic Times magazine. In 1992, she was awarded the Career Achievement Award as Series Story Teller of the Year by RT.
She is currently in the process of digitizing her backlist for e-book publication.
Other stuff:
* Well and happily married to the love of her life * Mom to two 70-pound Dobermans who think they are lap dogs * Plants a garden every year in hopes of producing the perfect tomato * Bakes a to-die-for chocolate cheesecake
* Is a Big Brother Big Sister volunteer
* Buys way too many shoes
* Holds the Grant Professional Certified credential * Is a member of Novelists, Inc.
You can contact Candace through her website:
www.CandaceSchuler.com
Table of Contents
Excerpt from THE NIGHT REMEMBERS - The Heart of the City Series, Book 2
Excerpt from ALL NIGHT LONG - The Heart of the City Series, Book 3