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  SNEAKING AROUND

  By

  Chelle Pimblott

  SNEAKING AROUND

  DAN: Her brother and I have been friends, best friends since high school. He knows me better than anyone but he doesn’t know I love his sister.

  Will he think I’m good enough for her?

  MIA: He’s been a part of our lives for so long, he’s just part of our family. I’ve also had a crush on him for as long as I can remember.

  He’s only ever seen me as his best friends little sister.

  UNTIL NOW!

  I don’t know how Alex will take us being together. He’s happy now, with Ally, so hopefully he can be happy for us too?

  Thank you to my ‘book bitches’, you know who you are and I love you always. You told me to do it and I did! xx

  Special thanks to my proof reader, spellchecker, and editor. You kicked me up the arse when I needed it and then told me to keep going xx

  Thanks also have to go to my other half and the kids we created. You’ve all been supportive and celebrated with me when I finally hit submit! xx

  Sneaking Around Copyright © 2017 by Chelle Pimblott. All Rights Reserved.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

  Cover designed by Cover Creator & Chelle Pimblott

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Chelle Pimblott

  Printed in the United States of America

  First Printing: 7thb April 2018

  Chapter One

  MIA

  I’m sitting at my desk, staring off into space, day dreaming. About whom you might ask, and I might tell you……not! I’ve dated a few guys, long and short term. Most of them have been idiots and I’ve been an even bigger idiot to stay with them! After the last one, I’ve decided to stay away from the opposite sex. No, I’m not going after girls, not that that’s a bad lifestyle choice, but girls just don’t do it for me!

  Well, there is one guy. One guy that if he ever noticed me as a woman and not a little girl, I would reconsider my ban for. Oh boy! That’s who I’m wishing would come in to the office and take me away! Never gonna happen, but a girl can dream. Right?

  I’m still staring off in to space, flipping my pen around when my boss manages to sneak up and scare the crap out of me!

  “Good morning Mia. Working hard this morning, I see!” Tonya says with a smile.

  “Why yes I am Tonya, just thinking about something is all.”

  “Well, at a guess, that something is very delicious. What’s his name?”

  Tonya may be my boss but we’re also pretty good friends. It’s unusual around this place, but we get along really well. I get my work done and she’s normally happy with it and when she’s not, we work it out. She hired me because I didn’t bullshit her when she interviewed me. I told her I had no experience, but was willing to learn and that I could learn fast. It’s exactly what I’ve done and she’s taken me under her wing. That being said, I’m not telling her about Dan, I’m not telling anyone about Dan!

  “There’s no-one Tonya and you know it! Eye candy only for me right now.”

  “Uh huh … so what’s the eye candy’s name then? I know you have one, I could see the dreamy look in your eyes just now. That can only be bought on by a hunk of maleness.” Tonya laughs, loudly, causing the rest of the office to turn around and look in our direction. She doesn’t give a shit, but I do!

  “I was actually thinking about this latest book you gave me. It’s hard going, who is the author? I don’t see a name on it.”

  “Ohhh, it’s ummm, a new author. Feel free to make any notes on the transcript you want. I’ll take a look at it once you’re done.”

  With that, Tonya walks back in to her office. Strange, very strange indeed! It’s unusual for an author’s name not to be on a transcript, especially with a new author! I’m never getting out of here today if I don’t concentrate on work instead of Dan.

  DAN

  I work construction with my best friend Alex, it’s a job and it pays the bills. I’m more than happy to be working with Alex, since we’ve known each other since high school and we’re great partners, even if he is technically my boss. He’s letting me take on more of the day to day stuff now that he’s found himself a great woman, Ally. He’s had to drop his workaholic ways to spend time with her. Good for him and good for me too.

  My real passion though, is woodworking. I have my own workshop at home, I fitted out the garage with everything I need. I create tables, chairs, benches, cabinets, any shape, any size and each one is an individual piece of work. I select my clients and the pieces I want to make and most of the time, once I’ve shown them the design I draw up for them, they leave me in peace to just create. That’s the way I like it.

  Today I’m working on something special, for someone special. They’re simple shelves, but I’m putting some extra love in to them. The fronts of them are curved and slightly rough. I’m sanding the edges so that they’re beautiful and smooth but still a little edgy. We went out together, and searched for the wood, it’s not what I usually do but like I said, she’s special. I’ve known her for what feels like my entire life.

  As I’m sanding these curves, I can’t help but imagine that they’re her curves that my hands are sliding over. If only!

  MIA

  When I finally leave work, I don’t feel like going straight home. It can get lonely when you have a whole house to yourself. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the house. My brother managed to convince his girlfriend to move in with him and Ally offered me her house to rent. She didn’t want to sell and I needed a place to live after living on a friends couch for a while.

  So, instead of going home, I head over to Dan’s. On the way over, I grab us some dinner, because I’m pretty sure he’s out in his workshop and hasn’t eaten yet, as usual.

  I stand in the doorway of his workshop for a minute and just watch him. He’s in the zone and sexy as hell! Fuck! I wish I was that piece of wood he’s sanding down, his hands running all over it with care and attention! I swallow then cough, announcing my presence. I don’t want him sanding any major parts of his anatomy now do I? Yes, hands do count!

  He stops what he’s doing and looks up.

  “Hey Dan, thought I’d bring us some dinner, while I checked up on my shelves” I smile, hoping that my face isn’t red and he can’t tell what I’m actually thinking. He looks a little flustered himself but he’s the one doing physical activity, I don’t have that excuse.

  “Hey Mia. Thanks, I haven’t eaten yet so, ummm, yeah thanks.” He stumbles out and I think it’s adorable. He’s rarely at a loss for words, so when he is, I have to pick on him!

  “Are you ok there Dan? Did I scare you that much, that you can’t find your words?” I laugh.

  “Oh, you’re so very funny aren’t you sweet cheeks? You didn’t scare me, I was just in the zone and thought I was alone. You startled me is all, smartarse!” He sounds annoyed but I can see the smirk fighting to be free. “What did you bring me to eat woman?”

  “A burger and chips, man beast and don’t call me sweet cheeks!”

  He looks at me and says, “Did you bring me a milkshake too?” he’s got such a hopeful, childlike look on his face!

  “Yes Dan, I got you a chocolate m
ilkshake. Just like always.”

  His smile is worth every minute of the detour to get dinner and come here, rather than go home. He looks so damned happy, it’s hard to believe that he’s the same age as my older brother some times. I know he didn’t have a happy family life as a kid, but when small things like bringing him a burger and his favourite shake makes him this happy, it’s a damn crime!

  “So, what are you doing here sweet cheeks? Don’t get me wrong, I love the home delivery, I forget to eat when I’m out here.”

  “I didn’t feel like eating alone and I wanted to check up and see how far you’d gotten with my shelves.” He starts to speak but I hold up my hand, “Yes, I do know that you don’t like to feel like you’re being checked up on while you’re working on your creations, but I didn’t want to go home just yet, ok” I didn’t mention that after this morning, I had a real desire to see him and not my shelves! Boy, was it desire fanning the flames of need too, trust me. I tried to find any reason to catch up with Dan, especially when it’s just the two of us.

  “Well actually, what I was about to say was, I was just finishing up the last one as you walked in. I just need to give it a lick of lacquer, let it dry and I’ll be ready to bring them over and install them.” He grins around a mouthful of chips. How the hell can I find even that adorable? The fact that he said lick, has my knickers damp! Holy shit! This has to stop, I’m not asking him to do any more ‘projects’ for me. I can’t deal with it anymore.

  “Hey Mia, are you ok? You look a little flushed and slightly unsteady on your feet.” He asks as he comes over and wraps an arm around my waist, to guide me towards a chair. He really needs to stop touching me, it’s not helping with the whole ‘weak at the knees’ thing!

  I push him away, “I’m fine Dan, thanks for helping but I’m good. I’ll just sit here, eat my dinner and then I’ll leave you in peace. I know you prefer it that way.”

  “Are you sure you’re ok? You don’t have to leave you know. I can finish what I’m doing and we can go relax in the house.”

  I cannot go in to that house with him! I want to jump his bones and I can’t, so I have to go home. It was a terrible idea coming over here.

  DAN

  I can’t believe I said lick to Mia and managed to keep my tongue in my mouth! Fuck me! Then, I invite her to stay and hang out for a while. What the fuck am I thinking? I can’t do this, she’s Alex’s sister and well, she’s not actually related to me, but it’s kind of how we behave. Alex will KILL me!

  I want her to say no, she has to go home. She has this look on her face, it tells me that she’s feeling the same way I am but she doesn’t know what the fuck to do with it. God help me! She needs to go home.

  “Actually, if it’s ok with you, can I go use the bathroom ….. At the house, please?” I have a bathroom down here but if she wants to go up the house, it’s ok with me.

  “Sure, Mia, go right ahead. I’ll be there in a few minutes and we can go over the brackets you want to use for these shelves. If you want?”

  “Yeah, yeah sure Dan, we can do that, and then I’m going home, ok?”

  “Sure Mia, no worries.” Suddenly the thought of her going home, well, it just doesn’t appeal to me. I want her to stay here, with me and that’s just fucking dangerous!

  Chapter Two

  MIA

  I walk out of the workshop and up to the house. I know it almost as well as my own and Alex’s. I walk into the bathroom and close the door. I don’t like what I see when I look in the mirror, I really need to use the toilet and then get the hell out of here.

  I walk out of the bathroom, busy looking in my bag to find my keys, when I walk in to a solid wall of maleness that’s easy to recognise. Especially seeing as I’ve been dreaming about running my hands all over that body! Dan!

  “Oooomph! Are you in a hurry Mia? Trying to ditch and run huh?” He grabs the top of my arms so that I don’t fall over backwards but him touching me, well that just means my body is on high alert and while he’s looking me in the eyes like that, I’m grateful he’s holding me up because he makes me go weak in the knees. AGAIN!

  “Ahh hey Dan, I wasn’t expecting you to get to the house so quickly! I was ditching you kind of, I just remembered I have something I need to get done for work tomorrow.” He turns to walk away from me, letting go of my arms.

  “Sure, it was so important that you weren’t even going to come back out to the workshop to say goodbye ….. Mmmmm hmmmmmm. Glad to know I’m a priority to you, thanks. If nothing else, I thought we were atleast friends, Mia!”

  I don’t know how I made him angry and I can’t move my feet or speak. I don’t know what to do. If I tell him the truth, then I’m screwed and if I don’t, he’s going to think that we’re not even friends.

  “It’s ok Mia, just go. I’ll email you some pictures of the brackets and I’ll get your brother to come help me install them, that way you’ll know you’re safe AND the job gets done quickly.

  I walk over and place a hand on the back of Dan’s shoulder, he flinches, actually flinches from my touch! I leave my hand resting there lightly and say, “Dan. That’s not what I’m doing, I just, I know you hate to be interrupted when you’re working out in your workshop. I just wanted to give you the space you like. That’s all.” He turns to face me and my palm now rests over his heart. I can feel it beating, fast yet rhythmic. “I would have come and said goodbye or most likely, I would have sent you a text.”

  “Ohhh yeah a text would be fucking wonderful, friend!”

  “Why are you so angry with me? I was trying to do the right thing Dan!”

  “I’m not angry with you, I just …….. “ He shakes his head and I’m confused. “You. I just.

  Ahhh fuck it! I just wanted you to stay for a while, that’s all Mia.”

  “That’s all? You just needed some company huh? No hot dates tonight? I’m just who’s here, so I’ll do, hmmm?” Now it’s MY turn to be angry!

  “No, that’s not what I meant and you know it! I just ..”

  “You just WHAT Dan? That’s about the third time you’ve, ‘I just’ but never finished the fucking sentence! You’re driving me nuts, you know that? I can’t stay here, I have to leave, I just can’t do this anymore.” I fling my hand between us, indicating an us that doesn’t exist.

  DAN

  I shouldn’t touch her. I should let her leave but I don’t. I can’t. I grab her flailing hand and pull her to me, our chests meeting with a dull thud. I hold her hand over my rapidly beating heart. I know I shouldn’t but I do it any way. I need the touch. My other hand reaches up behind her neck and slowly, I bend her head backwards, so that I can reach her lips. Our lips aren’t touching, but they’re only a breath away, I could easy reach out my lips and kiss her. My eyes haven’t left hers and I’m watching every reaction she has to me. She hasn’t pulled away, that’s always a good sign.

  “If you tell me to stop Mia, I will and we can forget anything happened. But, if you don’t tell me to stop now, I don’t think I’ll be able to.” She takes in a deep breath, never once looking away from my eyes. “Answer me now Mia, I’ll only ask this once. Do you want me to kiss you, sweet cheeks?” God damnit, if she says no, I’m fucked!

  She takes a deep breath, holds it for a few seconds. I start to let her go, I’ve completely screwed this up and I can’t take it back. She’s my best friend’s sister and I have to see her way too often to have let it get this far.

  Before I can move away from her, she drops her bag and grabs the hand holding hers onto my chest. Her voice is husky and sure, “Dan Robson, if you don’t kiss me now, I’m going to punch you so fucking hard …..”

  That’s all the permission I need! Within a split second, my lips are on hers. Gently for just a minute and then she gasps as I pull her hips to mine. I know she can feel my hard cock rubbing against her stomach. I put my knee between her legs and rub against her. She’s warm and wet, I can feel her through my jeans. She groans and I slide my tongue in her m
outh, tangling it with hers. I can’t get enough.

  GOD! Why did I wait so fucking long? She’s like heaven! I’ve never felt this rush or need with anyone else!

  MIA

  I can’t believe this is happening. I want to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming but it would make me look like an idiot! Instead, I thread my hand through his hair and moan into his mouth! Ohhhh god! He feels so good, too good to be true honestly but screw that, I’m going with this for as long as he will.

  I push myself even closer to his body and I rub my pussy along his thigh. My leg that’s between his, rubs along his already hard cock and he growls in my mouth. I can’t help but smile against his lips. It’s nice to know that I affect him as much as he does me!

  He pulls back, just slightly and we’re both breathing hard. He rests his forehead on mine and says in husky, sexy voice, “Mia, if you don’t want this, you have to tell me now. Otherwise, you better be ready for me because I’m taking you to my bed and making you scream my fucking name to the world!” He pulls in a deep shuddering breathe and continues, “This is your last chance to get out of here. We’ll never do this again and we’ll never mention it, to anyone. IF you leave now!”

  I know he means my brother, but I don’t want to think about him right now. This is all my daydreams come to true and though I know his reputation, I can’t leave now, not when I’ve finally got him where I want him. Breathless, kissing me and ready to take me to bed!

  “Dan, take me to you room, I want to scream your name at the top of my lungs, so that the whole world can hear me as you make me come, on your tongue and your cock!”

  His entire body is shaking and I’m not sure whether it’s in barely held restraint or absolute terror at what we’re about to do. I don’t get the chance to think about it though, because he grabs my hand, spins on his heels and leads me to his bedroom.