Review: Needed a little more, but it was a sexy and fun escape!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
*****3.5*****A stormy, miserable night, one available hotel room, and a smoking-hot guy who’s up for sharing…that’s got the potential for a yummy treat or for fate to work it’s magic.  Bruno and Lily were both in a bad way when it came to finding a room for the night, and when they both stumbled into the hotel hoping to snag their last room available, Lily was determined to not add another turn for the worse to her crappy situation.  Bruno, ever the gentleman, wasn’t about to watch a woman walk out into the pouring rain while he cozied up in his hotel room.  He didn’t expect giving her his room would mean an offer he couldn’t refuse, and oh how I loved the banter between these two as they hashed out the details of their arrangement.  Their instant attraction was mutual, and their mutual resistance was useless!We do get a little bit of background and side story with this novella, with Lily’s ex and some minor drama adding to the otherwise rather bland plotline that led into the love story. Despite Lily’s post-recent breakup status, her main priority was getting back home for her sister’s graduation.  This was her biggest dilemma throughout the story, as her guilt over possibly missing the event had her in tears in front of the suddenly protective Bruno.  I liked that he felt the need to comfort her even after knowing her for so little time, I mean it’s never too early in a relationship to be a gentleman!  There just wasn’t a lot of meat to the story besides this and the resistance between Lily and Bruno, but thankfully the characters are both entirely likable.As Lily and Bruno shared their evening together, the sexual tension amped up more and more as they tried to hide their lusty imaginations.  I had to laugh at Bruno’s attempts to hide his body’s reaction to her, which of course didn’t go unnoticed by Lily.  Their tryst was fun and sexy, and as the reality of their situation set in, it was bound to be a challenge no matter how it ended.The wrap-up was a little disappointing for me here; yes, it’s a short story and that means we don’t always get the full picture of the happy ever after, but it felt a bit cut off the way it was left.  I could have used an epilogue to make it feel more complete, but at least we get to see the very start of their future together.Quotes:Even though his body was screaming in protest, knowing how hard it was going to be for him to sleep just one room away from her, one door…“She’ll take two,” he heard himself say, and tried to ignore the way his cock jumped in anticipation.Down, boy. This isn’t what it seems. ~p. 18Which probably meant that he preferred to keep things mostly business-like, and that moment between them, and his erection as he left the living room earlier, just represented an inconvenient aberration.A magnificent, large, thrusting aberration.~p. 33“Tonight, I’m going to be selfish in the right way. Because, for probably the first time in my life, there’s something that I want so badly that it makes me forget everything else except for myself,” she said huskily, her lips practically caressing his cheeks now. ~p. 56