Together By Chance (#1 The Together Series) Read Online Free Page A

showered.  His hair was still damp and wild like he had just ran his fingers through it.  Dressed in a pair of light jeans, a white t shirt, barefoot he looked sexy as hell.
         She noticed now just how well shaped he was.  She stared over his backside almost gaulking at him.  From his broad shoulders down to his muscular butt and legs.  She licked her lips and then she felt herself flush.  She shook her head turning looking away.
         When she finally felt she had regained her composure she turned back around.  Connor stood on the other side of the bar staring at her.  It was then she noticed his hand rubbing Chance’s head.  Realizing Connor knew exactly what she thought she turned away again.  She couldn’t believe this.  The first time she looked at a guy in a long time and the dog told on her.
         “Are you ready?”  He asked.
         “For what?”  What was he really asking her she thought?  He couldn’t be asking what she was thinking. Cause she was definitely ready.  ‘Oh my God I have to stop thinking of him that way’.  Chancing a glance at him the smile on his face let her know that oh yeah he knew what was on her mind.  Sending Chance to lie down before the fire he motioned for her to take a chair.
         “Something to eat.  It’s done.  Well done actually.”
         “Oh, yeah.  Starving.” 
         She watched as he made her plate and sat it in front of her.  There was more salad and steak on her plate than she could eat but she wasn’t complaining.  She hadn’t realized how hungry she was until she took the first bite.  The steak was cooked in a way she had never tasted.  It was delicious.  Nothing like the way hers always turned out. Black and too tough to cut.  This steak she wanted to eat and not because she had to.  The tender meat made her mouth water for more as she slowly chewed the first bite before swallowing and tearing into it.
         Several bites later she looked up catching Connor watching her.  “What?”  Did she have something on her face she thought.
         “Nothing.  Just never seen a woman eat like you before.”
         She looked back down at her plate wondering if that was an insult and had she been eating like an animal.  “I didn’t realize.  Sorry.”  Embarrassed she kept her head down and quietly laid the knife and fork down.
         “I didn’t mean it like you took it.  I just meant it’s nice to see a woman not afraid to eat in front of a man.  That’s all I meant.  Please finish eating.”
         “Are you going to keep watching me?”
         “No.  I’m gonna finish cleaning up and then watch some TV.”  He turned clearing the stove, placing the skillet in the sink he began to wash it.
         “I thought you didn’t have cable.” 
         “I don’t, but I have DVD’s.” 
         She reached down and cut another bite.  “So how long have you lived here?”
         “A few years.”  He said as he continued to clean up.
         “What do you do for a living?”  What she really wanted to know was how he could afford to live here.
         “I write mostly.”
         “What do you write?”
         “Sports reviews, miscellaneous articles for magazines.  Wrote a couple of mystery novels which is what has paid nicely for this place.”
         “What were they about?”
         “My life.”  His back stiffened.  She could tell he was uncomfortable or bothered by that.  She didn’t feel the need to pry any further.  After all she didn’t want this to feel as if it were an interrogation.
         She took the last bite and finished her glass of wine.  She stood taking her plate and wine glass to the sink.  When he reached over to take the plate, his fingers brushed her innocently but an innocent reaction wasn’t what she had. 
         What she felt move from his body into hers was much more.  She looked up locking her