His Touch: Too Hot, #3

By Shaw Hart

Bianca St. Pierre has a problem. 

She's afraid of commitment. She's been trying to find her knight in shining armor.

Instead, she winds up with a stalker.

Bryson Thatcher just might be the solution.

He's wanted Bianca since the moment that he saw her and now is finally his chance to get close to her and show her that they're meant to be together.

He just needs to come up with a way to show her what she means to him. To show her that she's his everything.

When these two are together, sparks fly, but will that be enough to get both to move past their hang ups? 

 

*Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy insta-love story then this book is for you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shaw Hart
• Release date: Aug 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223588566

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

Bianca

I watch as Lincoln wraps his hand around his fiancée’s waist. Adeline smiles up at him, completely content. I’m so happy for her, for her and our other friend Aspen. They’ve both found their happily ever afters and I watch as they both cuddle further into their men. A pang of jealousy hits me and I turn away, looking around the party for the one man that I can’t seem to get off my mind.

My eyes land on him and I’m not surprised to find him already staring back at me. It seems like he always knows when I’m looking at him. Or maybe he’s just always watching me. Bryson Thatcher. He’s a 6’2" blonde hair, blue eyed, Viking hunk.

I met him two weeks ago when I called Lincoln asking for help with my stalker. There’s this guy, Brad Mikales, who used to come into the coffee shop and ask me out. I said yes once and we went on the most boring, unbearable date ever. All he did was brag about himself and how wealthy his family is. The date ended, finally, and I never called him again. The problems started when he tried to get me to go out with him again. I politely turned him down and then the politeness wore off and I told him flat out that I would never go out with him ever again. He really didn’t like that and that was when he started showing up everywhere I went. Walking down my street and staring up at my apartment at random times. I saw him take pictures of me and I’m a little afraid that he bugged my apartment.

One night, I had the worst cold and ran out in the middle of the night to get some medicine when I saw Brad following me out of the corner of my eye. I know I only live a block away but I was too scared to walk back home by myself. I remembered that Adeline’s boyfriend was in security and had called her phone but Lincoln ended up answering. I explained the situation and he had sent Bryson to walk me home.

I remember staying on the phone with Lincoln until Bryson got there. He had shown up only five minutes after I called Lincoln so he must live close. I have a nice apartment in the Upper East Side only a couple of blocks over from Adeline and Aspen’s places. It’s close to the coffee shop where both Aspen and I work. Aspen’s new husbands are both ridiculously wealthy so she doesn’t need to work there anymore but she says that she gets bored sitting at home all day.

I don’t need to work either but I don’t tell a lot of people that. My family is one of the oldest, richest, families in New York and I grew up with the proverbial silver spoon in my mouth. I had been happy like that until I turned fifteen. That was when I learned what was expected of me. My parents wanted me to graduate high school, go to an all-girls college and then marry a man of their choosing. Anything less then that would be disgracing our family's name, they said.

Ever since, I’ve been living off my wages at the coffee shop and the inheritance that my grandma left me. She had married into the family but she did it for love and she never agreed with what my parents tried to force me into. She wanted me to be happy and to have my own life so when she died, she left everything to me. That only pissed my parents off even more. I ended up using most of the inheritance to buy my apartment and to go to college at NYU.

My parents have tried everything to get me to bend to their will. Adeline and Aspen always tease me about going out on first dates but never seconds, but what they don’t know is there’s a reason for that. My parents bought the only serious boyfriend that I ever had. They offered Jonathon money to pay off his student loans if he would just encourage me to listen to my parents and then break up with me. He did it and I’ve shied away from relationships ever since, afraid to be burned like that again.

A touch on my elbow jerks me back to the present and I look up to see Flynn’s brother, Ryan, trying to get my attention. I smile at him as he comes to stand in front of me.

Bianca, right? I think we met at Aspen’s wedding.

Yeah, how’s it going, Ryan?

Pretty good. You enjoying the party?

Yeah, it’s been fun. I say with a small smile.

Suddenly, I feel him. I look to my left out of the corner of my eye and see Bryson inching his way closer to me. He’s glaring at Ryan as he crowds me, sandwiching me between his body and the wall.

He’s always doing things like this. I understand it when we’re in public and he’s trying to keep me safe from Brad, but he does it at other