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Chapter 36

" Emm... no thanks, " I muttered under my breath turning away from the tempting visage that was Brett.

Brett was a past temptation that didn't belong at present.  I was just glad his half brother took my house off me. I needed the cash to pay off the loan on my own apartment and buy another for mum when she  gets back from her voyage around the world.

I knew a romp in the bed with Brett would be just that and nothing more. He had no other interest in me. I was just the fish that got away thus far. Not that I was ever in the running until now. But whatever Brett's sudden fascination in me was I was not giving in. I won't be a just another notch on his belt

I laid on the bed that had sheets last occupied by Brett's half brother,  Josh and grimaced.  I doubted Brett's own sheets were any fresher. Still I had only this night to endure then I will take the bus back to town in the morning.  There really was no need to prolong the agony if being in Brett the hottie's company a moment longer than was necessary.

I had to get back and pack up anyway for that damn trip with Mark and his pa Sally to lands end no less. That would be a hardship in itself. I would require at least a day and night of total peace before embarking on that journey with my nit picking boss and now very recent fiancé.

Life could be very unfair sometimes.  I wrinkled my nose at the stale smell that floated off Josh' s pillows and dropped off finally into sleep.

But my sleep was short lived for the pounding on my door shotvme awake only a short while later.

I dragged my suddenly sleep induced fatigued body out of bed and shuffled over to open the door.

" Would you be able to talk with me for a bit," said Brett a little uncomfortably. I stared up at him blurrily my disorientated thoughts not quite catching up with the moment yet. Then comprehension dawned. I was in Brett's house standing in the guest room in the dark.

" Em sure...what about? " I asked him not moving an inch either to step out of the partly opened door or to step back and allow him in. But he wasn't having any of that. Reaching out he caught a good grip of my top and tugged at the material sending  me voluntarily crossing over the threshold. I had to go or else be left standing without any covering across my torso.

I stood within inches glaring up at him uselessly in the dark.

" We'll talk downstairs shall we? "

Then I was being casually herded towards the stairs. His heavy arm draped across my shoulders offering me no escape. I trudged down the steps beside him heavily. We gathered in the living room and I took up the only single seated recliner and left the sofa up to him. The furnishings was the same from when I was a child. When he was a child.

"I have not done anything like this before so I am just going to come out with it," he said almost warningly.  Obligingly I braced for the very worst.

The then after the longest paused he finally spoke. "I don't want you to be engaged to anyone else but me," he blurted out uncomfortably.

I gaped at him in silence uncertain I heard what he was saying. But he hadn't finished yet.

"You know I am not getting any younger Sherri. I have been thinking about settling down and ever since I met you again I couldn't help thinking that someone should be you."

I couldn't believe it. 

In all my life of not even having a boyfriend I now not only had men jumping out of bushes for me but I am getting propositioned by everyone too. But will they all end up doing a runner like Ron as well?