For One Night Only: A Little Bit Cupid

By Raven McAllan

FROM POPULAR ROMANCE AUTHOR RAVEN MCALLAN

From the A Little Bit Cupid collection

For one night only. However, commitment has a habit of sneaking up on you. Then you have a choice, is it one night only or something more?

Ava Welsh has split from her toe-rag of a boyfriend and needs a partner for a wedding.

Conal Camlin has waved bye-bye to his grasping girlfriend and needs a partner for an award night.

When they literally bump into each other, they both have the same thought.

Here's someone to accompany me to a one-off event.

Neither wants commitment, just a partner for that one special thing. Could they make this one night only thing work? Of course, they'll need to spend time together, to make sure it looks real. But spending time together means you get to know each other. And when you get to know each other, you discover if you like each other.

Can they really say goodbye and thank you, and go their separate ways after each single night, or could it be the start of something more? Will Valentine's Day be the end of their no-commitment vows?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
• Release date: Feb 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781839433610

Raven McAllan

After 30 plus years in Scotland, Raven now lives near the east Yorkshire coast, with her long-suffering husband, who is used to rescuing the dinner, when she gets immersed in her writing, keeping her coffee pot warm and making sure the wine is chilled. With a new home to decorate and a garden to plan, she’s never short of things to do, but writing is always at the top of her list. Her other hobbies include walking along the coast and spotting the wildlife, reading, researching, cros stitch and trying not to drop stitches as she endeavours to knit. Being left-handed, and knitting right-handed, that’s not always easy.

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A Little Bit Cupid

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

RAVEN MCALLAN

For One Night Only

ISBN # 978-1-83943-361-0

©Copyright Raven McAllan 2020

Cover Art by Claire Siemaszkiewicz ©Copyright February 2020

Interior text design by Claire Siemaszkiewicz

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For one night only. However, commitment has a habit of sneaking up on you. Then you have a choice, is it one night only or something more?

Ava Welsh has split from her toe-rag of a boyfriend and needs a partner for a wedding.

Conal Camlin has waved bye-bye to his grasping girlfriend and needs a partner for an award night.

When they literally bump into each other, they both have the same thought.

Here’s someone to accompany me to a one-off event.

Neither wants commitment, just a partner for that one special thing. Could they make this one night only thing work? Of course, they’ll need to spend time together, to make sure it looks real. But spending time together means you get to know each other. And when you get to know each other, you discover if you like each other.

Can they really say goodbye and thank you, and go their separate ways after each single night, or could it be the start of something more? Will Valentine’s Day be the end of their no-commitment vows?

Dedication

To my own Valentine

Love you, Paul

Trademark Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:

Botox: Allergan, Inc.

Mazda: Mazda Motor Corporation

Uber: Uber Technologies, Inc.

Kindle: Amazon

Merc: Daimler AG

Jeep: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

Mulberry: Mulberrys Franchising LLC

You’re a Pink Toothbrush: Ralph Ruvin, Bob Halfin, Harold Irving, Johnny Sheridan

My Funny Valentine: Lorenz Hart

Brain of Britain: BBC

Prologue

To watch a guy you don’t know, have never seen in your life, skinny-dipping, could, Ava supposed, be construed as voyeurism.

But when you’ve come across him innocently, or almost innocently, what are you meant to do? Back away, fall over a bush and let him know he’s been seen? Or stay where you are, close your eyes and wait until he’s gone?

She sort of chose the latter. She stayed where she was, but, try as she might, Ava couldn’t command her eyes to close.

They decided they were independently acting body parts and stayed stubbornly open.

She feasted on the sight.

One body to die for with all the right bits in the proper places.

And oh my, what bits they were.

Abs to drool over, a grin to make you smile and come-to-bed eyes to make you turn into a puddle of lust.

His body glistened with water as he shook his head. Droplets splashed everywhere. One landed on what appeared to be a tiny birthmark in the shape of a heart on his ass, highlighting it.

The guy turned and water trickled down his chest to rest in the dark arrow of wiry hair that circled his cock.

Ava gulped. What a magnificent cock it was. Not that she’d seen many, but his was enough to make her salivate. Would it grow, harden then fill her mouth if she ever got the chance to taste?

Dammit, she did recognize him. His picture was everywhere, even on the side of the local bus. Tasting was not on the cards. Talk about stalking.

She was not a groupie.

It just had to be him, of course. The last person in the world to pay any attention to a skinny, hair-like-a-drainpipe blonde with a potty mouth and an opinion on everything. No yes girl, quite the opposite.

So not his type.

With those thoughts in mind, a sour taste filled her mouth, and she slowly backed away.

Instead of being a glorious moment, it became sordid.

Almost.

She still couldn’t forget his cock.

Chapter One

Five years later

Ava Welsh glanced at the elaborately decorated piece of card in her hand and fought back the desire to rip it into tiny pieces and-or cry her eyes out. Why that on top of everything else?

In the space of a week, she’d split from