#SundaySnippet 3.21.2021

Recently, my indie published RomCom IT’S A TRUST THING went wide, meaning it’s now available across all digital devices. Here’s the link : IATT.

Today’s snippet is from the book.

A few “’Night, professors,” reached my ears and when I lifted my gaze to the entranceway, Charlie was standing there again, much the way he’d been before the class started: one shoulder relaxed against the doorjamb, his briefcase in one hand, his other in his pants pocket.

Lord, the man could have popped off the cover of a fashionable menswear magazine. No one should look that delectable in real life.

When the last of the students exited, he entered. My pulse rate tripled the closer he came. With a smile I can only describe as irresistible and devastatingly sensual, he leaned down once he reached the podium, those lips twitching at the corners, and said, “Looks like I’m not the only one who’s smitten with you.”

And then he pressed that gorgeous mouth right to mine.

I inhaled him as he smiled against my lips, and just like that, without a word or a notion of a warning, my heart turned over.

Was it possible to fall in love in an instant? To know the person you were with was the one; the true one? The one meant for you, destined to be yours for eternity?

In the time it took me to consider how dumb it all sounded in this day and age, I countered with the ferocity of the emotions coursing through me.

Was this love? Was this what the poets clamored on about and romance writers swore truly did exist?

I didn’t have an answer, since I’d never felt this way before. No other man had ever caused such a commotion and chaos inside my mind and heart as this one did.

The thought was terrifying, enlightening, and hopeful all at once.

But even if what I was experiencing was love it didn’t mean Charlie felt the same. Smitten wasn’t exactly an I’ll love you forevermore declaration, maybe more just a pronouncement of intent. We’d gotten past my third date rule, so the question of exploring one another on a more intimate basis was definitely on the table.

But sex didn’t equate with love, this I knew for fact.

No, my feelings were my own and since they were new and raw and unfamiliar, I didn’t want them revealed, so when he pulled back from the kiss I reverted to type.

“Are you sure you don’t teach English Lit? Because ‘smitten’ simply screams Jane Austen.”

His grin grew to a wicked cheek-wide smirk that had my insides going bonkers again.

“They’re considered classics for a reason,” he said as he reached over and grabbed my briefcase. “Come on. I’m hungry and I’ve been looking forward all day to spending some time alone with you.”

Awww. Forget flutter. My tummy muscles moved into disco dance mode.