Hungry for Touch

By Angelita Gill

Kimber Dawson hasn't been able to connect with any man since her accident. Something inside seems broken...and 1NightStand may be her last hope to prove she isn't the ice queen men have claimed her to be. Can one man's touch do what others couldn't? All she wants is to feel a connection. For a night, an hour, or even a moment. Anything more would be unexpected.

After his third deployment in Afghanistan, Nate Brennan is a jaded soldier who has tasted the bitter and now aches to taste the sweet. Gone too long without sexual affection, he yearns for a woman to welcome him home with open arms and no expectations beyond the morning. Anything more would be unacceptable.

Two world weary souls will realize things can get very complicated when passion is satisfied...and a new hunger takes its place.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Jan 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781613331798

Angelita Gill

Angelita loves to give her characters their happily-ever-after, but only after they’ve earned it. The charming but cynical millionaire who loves women, but would never settle for just one. The independent beauty who knows the last thing she needs is some alpha male telling her what she wants. Ha! Her romances are fun and passionate with a dash of humor and a lot of heart. Angelita loves volunteering for the arts, spending time with her own alpha hero and dancing with her friends while she tries not to spill her wine.  

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Hungry for Touch

A 1Night Stand Story

by

Angelita Gill

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2012 by Angelita Gill

ISBN: 978-1-61333-179-8

Cover art by LFD Designs

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~DEDICATION~

To the heroic soldiers I know and to those that I don't.

I'm thankful for you all.

Chapter One

A girl could get used to this.

Kimber Dawson emerged from the resort pool and made a lazy walk to her reserved deck chair. The description on the hotel’s website had sounded absolutely divine, but once she’d arrived, she’d found the Castillo Oceanside Resort even more impressive. From the inviting design of the lobby and the brick courtyard to the surrounding indigenous palmetto trees Hilton Head Island, South Carolina was a little slice of paradise on the East Coast. Everything sparked temptation, especially the award-winning spa the front desk clerk had mentioned when she’d arrived.

But she’d needed sun more than she needed a massage or facial. As a mediator for a small law firm in Atlanta all of her daytime hours were spent indoors with dark walls and somber furniture. So she’d headed downstairs to the pool to enjoy a few hours of sunbathing before she primped for her date.

Well, not exactly a date. Not when both parties’ intentions centered on sex.

She arched her back on the cushioned chaise and sighed. That wasn’t entirely true. She crossed her fingers it would be a little more than twisting sheets and clawing fingernails. Not that she hoped for a relationship—oh please, she wasn’t that young and naïve—but she hoped the experience would help…fix her. She didn’t know what else to call her inability to connect with a man on an emotional or sexual level, other than an accidental disorder.

Five years before, she had been in a car accident that had left her in a coma for two days. She’d come out okay with no permanent brain injuries, but her personality, at least according to her friends and family, had changed somehow. Sure, once she had recovered, her intelligence and strong sense of loyalty remained, still the caring young woman they knew and loved, but…something—they had insisted—was missing.

Kimber didn’t know what the something could be, or how to get it back, because all she knew was how she thought and behaved now.

Everyone, including men she dated, expected some kind of emotional response from her. Whatever she gave didn’t seem to be enough.

Others made it look easy, such as the woman across the