Valentine’s With My Best Friend’s Dad by Flora Ferrari

I haven’t told my best friend Kayley that I’ve had a crush on her dad ever since we met two years ago. Having the same class in college, curiosity got the better of me when she told me her dad was an ex-MMA fighter.

I searched him online and found that he was a ripped, huge fighter in his youth. But he looks even better today, forty-two years old and just as muscular as he used to be. Even better, his hair has turned silver and he looks even more rugged and manly. The truth is I let myself fantasize about him sometimes.

But it has to stay a fantasy. A man like Liam Larson – rich, successful, handsome – would never be interested in a naïve virgin like me.
But then Kayla asks me to come home with her for Valentine’s weekend everything changes.

At first, I think she’s just trying to rope me into singing at her Dad’s club. She’s always saying I need to be more confident with my music and get over my stage fright. I know that’s not going to happen any time soon.

Then I meet Liam and something crazy happens. It turns out he wants me just as badly as I want him. I don’t know if we’ve been shot by Cupid’s arrow or if we’re both just crazily attracted to each other. All I know is we shouldn’t be doing this. If Kayley ever found out, it would be World War three.

Yet we can’t stop. I try to fight it. I try to focus on my songwriting. He tries to focus on his work, his businesses. But this tall, muscular alpha is a man I just can’t quit, even if I’m constantly surprised that he wants me to.

He says he loves my curves. He says he loves my body. He says he loves my singing voice.
But that’s not all.
He says I belong to him, and that on Valentine’s night he’s going to claim me in the most possessive way a man can.
What if Kayley finds out? What if he discovers that I’m a virgin? What if this all blows up in our faces?

I never knew Valentine’s Day could be so complicated.