Learning Curve (BBW Romance) Read Online Free Page B

pale
blossoms crowding the branches practically glowed in the moonlight.
“I just don’t understand. You’re a successful businessman with a
great life who likely has a body underneath that suit to match your
killer looks. Why would you go on an online dating site to find
someone when you probably have women falling all over you in real
life?”
    Pushing his fingers through his sandy hair,
Ryan sighed. “It would almost be easier if the women falling at my
feet just wanted me for my looks, Suz. At least then I could just
get myself banged up a few times and I could weed out the shallow
ones. But the thing is, they know I make a killing doing what I do,
and I can see the dollar signs in their eyes every time they look
up at me. After a while I got tired of being looked at as a
conquest, as a grand prize to be won. I told you before that I come
from a small, grassroots-type family. I’ve always dreamed of
finding a normal woman, one who isn’t afraid to be herself, who is
smart and beautiful and can make me laugh. I never wanted the money
grubbers or the models, and you’d be surprised at how often the two
go hand in hand.”
    He settled his hands on her waist then,
drawing her close. “To be honest, Susie, I really had no idea how
this online dating thing was going to go. But after meeting you,
all I’ve gotta say is that I’m so glad that I took a chance on it.”
He rested his forehead against hers, capturing her wide, green eyes
with his. “Otherwise I wouldn’t be out here, tonight, with
you.”
    Susie’s heart melted as he laid his lips
against hers. The cynic in her heart settled in quietly as his arms
tightened around her, drawing her close, and she allowed her
eyelashes to flutter shut so that she could revel in the moment. He
kissed her just as slowly and tenderly as he had in her dream at
the beach—and yet the reality was so much better than the fantasy.
Dreams were so blurry, so out of focus, but standing here, in the
park, she could feel the breeze dancing across her skin in direct
contrast to the warmth emanating from his body. She could feel his
long, strong fingers digging into her sides, his firm, yet somehow
sensual lips moving against her own, and just the hint of his
tongue gliding against the seam of her own lips.
    Ryan couldn’t believe how good she felt in
his arms. She was soft and pliant and giving, almost innocent as
she opened her mouth to him and allowed him to taste her sweetness.
He sensed somehow that she wasn’t completely inexperienced, but her
tiny hesitations told him that this wasn’t something she did very
often.
    To be honest, it had been a long time since
he’d held a woman like this. Certainly he’d made out with plenty of
the women he’d dated, and had tumbled with quite a few between the
sheets, but those woman had been cold, calculating in their efforts
to seduce him, to try and wrap him around their fingers as
effectively as they’d wrapped their hands around his cock. He’d
seen them for what they were, and had sent them packing at the
first opportunity.
    Use them and lose
them had been his philosophy. After all,
it was only fair since they had been trying to use him, wasn’t
it?
    But he knew it wouldn’t be that way with
Susie. She wasn’t the kind of girl who would treat him that way,
and she deserved better than what he had given those other woman.
And better was exactly what he would give her. Not just better, but
his best.
    As their tongues dueled, teeth lightly
scraping as they tasted each other, he felt her nails dig into his
upper arms through his suit jacket, and felt her nipples harden
through the dress he was wearing. He knew it would take very little
effort for him to slip his hand beneath the plunging neckline, to
cup one of the round, heavy breasts that had tantalized him
throughout the entire night, and knew that she probably wouldn’t
protest too much from the tiny little moans escaping her mouth. But
he sensed from her lack of self-esteem