Falling Forever: Instalove Steamy Short romance series

By Fern Fraser

♥ One-night changes everything ♥ 

Can the protector hero and the curvy geek get out of the friend zone and into forever?

 

LIAM

Neve is my one who got away. I've wanted her killer curves and quirky personality since high school. Years later and I'm still stuck in the friend zone. 

I get a second chance when it's my job to keep her safe during an attempted bank robbery.

I'm not wasting this night. Before morning comes, I vow to make her mine.

 

NEVE

I've had a crush on Liam forever, but hot guys like him never end up with the curvy geeks like me. 

After he saves my life during a botched bank robbery, we're trapped for the night in the bank vault. Alone.

With only a deck of cards and a bottle of tequila to help pass the time. I finally have the chance to show him exactly how I feel.

One hand of strip poker at a time. 

 

Steamy short friends to lovers romance between an ex-military man turned bodyguard protector and the woman of his dreams. Low angst, high heat, no cliffhanger, with a steamy sweet happily ever after.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fern Fraser
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201332297

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

NEVE

Shit! I’m starting to think this was a bad idea. First, the cell phone in my pocket buzzes and surprises me. Then, my heel catches on a step, and I lose my balance.

The last thing I need today is to go flying down the basement steps on my ass. I may have ample padding down below, but the metal cash drawer is heavy, and if it hits me, it’s gonna hurt.

I take a moment to recover my balance and walk carefully down the rest of the steps. The stairwell that leads to the concrete and steel reinforced basement is the last place to receive phone reception.

One of the girls in the thread posted a picture of a stripper cowboy as a teaser for my friend Mandy's birthday party this weekend.

I’m not usually interested in that kind of thing, but ooft, that model is HAWT. Thickly built and dressed in only jeans and a Stetson, he has muscles layered on top of muscles. He may be waxed to within an inch of his life, but he’s delicious eye candy.

I know it’s against the rules to use my cell during work hours, but I can sneak a moment to put the cash box on the ground and tap out a response to the group. I’m not much of a rule-breaker, but I’m itching to get out of work early today and figure there’s no harm done if nobody knows.

The bank manager on duty is waiting for me, so I make it quick and keep walking. Dual control validation protocols require that a manager and a teller be present in the bank vault to prevent tampering, and we each have a different set of codes.

Once the final tasks are done, and all the bills and bond notices are locked in the safe, I can pack up my belongings and make it to my five thirty nail appointment with time to spare. The chipped polish looks trashy, and the split in my nail irritates the shit out of me. Each time I tidy my low ponytail, a loose strand catches in the split and tugs all the way to the root.

Today’s manicure is the first step toward a whole new look for me, and I’ve chosen a deep classic red, inspired by my girl crush Dita Von Teese. I’ve set up a Pinterest board and called it - Retro Pinup - because with curves like mine, the 1950s are more my jam than anything more recent. I was born in the wrong era for clothes, but with a bit of internet assistance, little by little, I’m upgrading my look.

I’ve decided that it’s time for things in my life to change. It’s time to stop hiding my quirkiness behind a conservative bank teller exterior and embrace it. I may work for a bank, but I’m no wallflower. Well, maybe a little, but you know, fake it till you make it, right?

I wonder what Liam will think of my new look. Liam looks as handsome today, dressed in his guard’s uniform, as he looked in his fatigues when he joined the army. When I think about how he rocked that uniform when he enlisted after high school, I heat up.

On the one hand, I was happy he found his purpose, but on the other hand, the light in my heart dimmed when he left, and I regret how things ended between us.

Liam returned home from active service a year ago, and while I’m sorry for the reason he returned, a selfish part of me loves having him back. It’s such a comfort to know he’s around, and I get to see him at work now, so that’s a double bonus for me.

Even though Liam owns the security firm that guards the bank, he says he prefers working at the grass roots. In order to keep an eye on things, he works one shift a week at the bank with me.

I admire a man who looks after his clients, especially if that client is me. We don’t really socialize outside of work, so I look forward to that day each week he comes in, and it’s enough for me. Well, that’s not entirely true, but it’s all I have.

It’s hard to keep my eyes off him, and I know I’m not the only one. I see the way the ladies eye him when they enter the bank. Liam’s tall and lean, and his uniform stretches tight across his broad back, while the navy khakis he wears hug his muscular thighs. He is one delicious specimen of manhood. The stripper cowboy model guy is nothing compared to Liam.

I wonder what it would feel like to rake my red-tipped talons across his back. Would he like that? If he does like it, I wonder where else he’d like me to rake my nails? Maybe across his tight balls? Or maybe underneath the head, that sweet little flap of skin that runs along the…

For god’s sake Neve, what are you doing? Stop that! Put your masturbation fantasies in the bedside drawer and forget about it. He’s not for you. Now repeat after me, Liam is your friend. Liam doesn’t want you like that. Liam had his arm around a tiny blonde in the diner the other day, and they looked cozy AF. That’s a pretty clear sign to back off before you