Changing all the Rules

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Authors: Fran Lee
chest, it should have hurt. But it didn’t. It felt right. It felt safe and warm and oh, so damn right!
    He lifted his mouth from hers after a breathless moment, and his eyes searched her face for some sign that she returned his feelings. She sobbed and clung to him, pressing her face against his shoulder, breathing in the hot, delicious scent of him. “Say it,” he whispered against her hair. “Say it. You want to say it. Let me start it for you… ‘I love…’” his voice was rough as he paused to let her finish his sentence.
    She shoved away and climbed to her feet, shaking her head. “It’s impossible, Josh! It’s impossible to love two men. It just isn’t…normal…”
    He reached for her hand, but she moved away, forcing him to rise to his feet to pull her back against his chest, wrapping his arms about her and pressing his lips into the side of her throat from behind. “Okay. So I know you still love Harry. I know you still care about him. But for Christ’s sake, Hale, isn’t there some small bit of love in your heart for me, too?”
    A sob tore from her as she twisted around in his embrace and wrapped her arms around his lean, hard ribs, her tears wetting his shirt. “God, Josh…I must be sick to feel like this. I must be some sort of sick woman to want both of you. It’s wrong!” she wailed.
    “Shhh…no it isn’t, Hale…” His whispered words warmed her forehead as he gathered her closer. “It’s not as unusual as you think, and you aren’t sick. You need both of us. Harry gives you things I can’t. But I give you things Harry can’t. Has he ever given you what I just gave you tonight, Hale? Honestly? Tell me…”
    She stood in the warm, safe circle of strong arms, and knew he was right. Harry was a beautiful, sexy man, but their lovemaking over the duration of their marriage had been sadly lacking. For the first time in ten years, Haley felt like a woman, a completely satisfied, fulfilled woman.
    But it had been as much her fault as it had been Harry’s. She could see that now. If she’d been as open with Harry as she’d been with Josh tonight, they might have been better together. She had to give Harry the chance to be what she had always dreamed he was. She owed that to him.
    The thought of Harry learning about tonight was like a knife digging into her heart. Yet the thought of leaving Josh was the same. She cried herself out against Josh’s delicious chest, and when she was drained, she just leaned into him and let him hold her. For just a few minutes more. Before she had to walk out that door and tell him she was choosing Harry—again.
    * * * * *
    Haley climbed out of her car a little after midnight, feeling tired, sore and unbelievably sated from her time with Josh. Sated and wondering if it had really happened. Had she really just spent three hot hours in the arms of a man who had made her feel cherished…adored…and more satisfied than she’d been in her entire life?
    He’d made her feel things she’d never felt. With exquisite skill, Josh had given her more orgasms than she normally had in a month—and she had walked away from him. She couldn’t admit that she cared so much for another man.
    It just wasn’t right.
    Had she failed Harry by not being able to relax and respond the way she had tonight with Josh? Had she created the situation she was in with her marriage because she’d been cold toward the man who adored her? Oh yes…she knew Harry had adored her. Had. Maybe he still would. Maybe she could give him more encouragement. Oh, what the fuck? She loved Harry! You didn’t just give up on a man you loved.
    Josh had shown her things about herself that she would never have believed. He’d shown her how a man made love to a woman with no reservations…no fears…and no embarrassment. She had enjoyed things with Josh she had never even considered with Harry. But what if she could tempt her staid husband into trying some of the marvelous things Josh had done

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