Anyways, guy meets girl, they agree to make this a one night stand, but he is terrified of commitment so when he hears her use the word DATE once in a sentence he runs away scared. Melanie Harlow has expanded her writing that started out as more hot and humorous to incorporate swoon and soul in spades.

He has trust and abandonment issues that stem back from his childhood when both parents bailed on Theo and his brother at a very young age. She is selfish, bland, unconvincing as a human being and he is there to mention his dick is twitching in his pants every time he looks at her, and there you go. All of the secondary characters did their part and if you had any doubt, I Could Read Melanie Harlow All Day Long. Claire is invited to a fellow school teachers wedding and the thought of once again going without a date and sitting at the singles table is something she can’t bear. Theo had hurt her badly so I expected some grovelling and a little bit more resistance from our girl.Listen, I love my fair share of taboo romances and HUGE age gaps romances but I don't need to be inside this guy's head while he is clearly attracted to her because she looks and acts like a child. And so when her co-worker asks her if she’s coming alone (again), she lies and tells her she’s finally bringing a plus one; this time in the form of a Ryan Gosling look-a-like who’s a rock star in bed. Tall, dark and handsome suits me just fine, but the cocky grin, know-it-all attitude, and mammoth ego? So the story started out with the heroine, Claire, who was tired of being banished to the singles table at weddings, feeling judged for being single, and being hounded by everyone and their mother about whether she was dating anyone, when she would be dating anyone, why she wasn’t dating anyone, and so on… and when her friend, the latest bride-to-be, asked her if she’d be bringing a plus one to her wedding, Claire lied point blank and said yes. But if she was willing to put up with me, I’d do everything I could to make her happy, things I’d never done for anyone before.

I knew it existed because I’d read about it in books and seen it in movies and even witnessed it in real life… and I didn’t want to settle for anything less. They have an incredible connection, off the charts sexual chemistry and just the right amount of obstacles to balance the sweet with a little heartache! She’s an art teacher at an elementary school but has so much talent that she could actually become an accomplished artist, with her paintings being sold at local art galleries, but her fear of rejection holds her back.But when Claire sets up a meeting with “Fred” a few days before the wedding, he’s not at all what he looks like in the catalog. He can tell that she is a genuinely sweet person who has yet to reach her full potential because she’s afraid to take risks in her life. From the minute I dove into If You Were Mine, I was lost in words that wrapped themselves around me like my favorite blanket. This book had it all; fun times, romance, sexy times, the push-pull of a real-life relationship, and the sweetest epilogue.