All You Can Handle (Moments In Maplesville Book 5) Read Free Page B

her jeans.
    “What are you offering?” he asked.
    His hips undulated the slightest bit, his erection fitting against her backside.
    Her blood quickened, a mixture of apprehension and anticipation shooting through her veins. Sonny looked back and pulled her bottom lip between her teeth. Ian’s eyes dropped to her mouth as he released a slow breath. She turned in his arms, so that his clasped hands now rested at the small of her back.
    She looked up at Ian and was nearly singed by the heat in his eyes. There was no doubt about what he wanted.
    This was it. Decision time. The moment was hers for the taking.
    How far was she ready to take this bold new Sonny? Far enough to sleep with a complete stranger?
    No.
    She was bold, but she wasn’t that bold just yet.
    Sonny’s mouth dipped in an apologetic frown. “I think maybe we should stick to dancing.”
    In that moment she loathed herself. She hated that she’d uttered those words, but Sonny knew she would hate herself even more if she’d said anything else. Embracing this new Sonny was a gradual process. She just wasn’t there yet.
    Dammit .
    “It’s okay,” Ian whispered. “I understand.” Sonny’s eyes flew to his. He nodded. “I do,” he said.
    After her heavy flirting, a lot of other guys would have accused her of leading them on. For the barest second Sonny reconsidered, but she knew she couldn’t go through with it. What if she did have to mail off a package one of these days and ran into him at the post office? Or the grocery store? Or the dry cleaners? Talk about awkward.
    She didn’t want to introduce any drama into her life, and trying to avoid seeing her one-night stand around town would be unnecessary drama.
    She reached behind her and pulled his hands from where they rested at the small of her back. “It’s probably time for me to get out of here,” she said.
    “You sure?”
    She nodded.
    “Okay, then. I’ll walk you to your car,” he said. He must have noticed the caution that flashed in her eyes because he followed with, “I swear, I just want to walk you to your car. I won’t try anything with you.”
    Could he really be as sweet as he seemed? Maybe this didn’t have to be one night…
    Sonny tossed that idea out of her head. The one thing she was definitely not looking for was a commitment of any kind. She’d just broken free from five years of captivity. The last thing she needed was to be shackled to someone again.
    At least this way, if she did happen to run into Ian during her short stint in Maplesville, there would be none of that uncomfortable small talk that she suspected happened when virtual strangers, who just happened to know what the other looked like naked, encountered each other again. That was the one bright spot to not taking tonight any farther than they’d already taken it.
    A genuine smile lifted the corners of her mouth. “Yes,” she answered. “I’d like it very much if you were to walk me to my car.”
    Taking him by the hand, they made their way off the dance floor and through the bar’s double doors. Ian’s friends had left over an hour ago, The Hulk, whom he’d introduced as Dale, had to help the other friend, Sam, out of the bar.
    “I’m parked over there,” Sonny said, pointing towards the graveled parking lot to the right side of the building. The number of cars crowding the lot had thinned considerably since she’d first arrived. Her vintage VW Bug sat nearly hidden against the seven-foot-tall wooden fence, the branches of an oak tree on the other side of the fence reaching over to create a canopy for her car.
    “That your car?” Ian asked, speeding up his steps. He let go of her hand as he rounded her VW. “What year is this? Looks like a ’62.”
    “You know your cars,” Sonny said.
    “This is a classic. You buy it already restored, or did you have it done?”
    “It was a rusty pile of junk when I bought it,” she said.
    “No kidding?” He looked up at her. “Original