From Best Friend to Bride

From Best Friend to Bride
Jules Bennett

MARRYING HIS/HER BEST FRIEND?Therapist Megan Richards provides her patients with expert counsel… but she can’t remedy her lifelong love for her best friend. Police Chief Cameron St. John is the perfect man—kind, thoughtful, and oh-so-sexy. Megan doesn’t want to confess her feelings and risk their closeness…even if it means finding the happiness she’s always longed for.Cameron keeps citizens safe for a living, but even he can’t protect his own heart from Megan. He’s always steadfastly been by her side, but as a buddy. Until he realizes that his feelings for her are anything but friendly–and that by declaring himself, he might lose her friendship, but gain so much more.

Cameron couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t form a damn thought with Megan’s curvy body pressed against his.

This was his best friend, yet with the way she was all but spilling out of her barely there black dress, his thoughts weren’t very friend-like at the moment.

Hadn’t he just pep-talked himself into trying to keep his thoughts out of the gutter?

“Wh-what are you doing here?” she asked.

Why was her voice all breathy and sultry?

Cameron dropped his hands, took a step back, but that didn’t help his hormones settle down. Now he was able to see just how hot she looked wearing that second-skin dress that hit her upper thigh at a very indecent level.

Jealousy ripped through him. “Where the hell are you going like that?”

The St. Johns of Stonerock: Three rebellious brothers come home to stay

From Best Friend to Bride

Jules Bennett

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Award-winning author JULES BENNETT is no stranger to romance—she met her husband when she was only fourteen. After dating through high school, the two married. He encouraged her to chase her dream of becoming an author. Jules has now published nearly thirty novels. She and her husband are living their own happily-ever-after while raising two girls. Jules loves to hear from readers through her website, www.julesbennett.com (http://www.julesbennett.com), her Facebook fan page or on Twitter.

There’s nothing like spending all of your days with your best friend. This book is dedicated to not only my best friend, but my real-life hero. Love you, Michael, and I love our very own happily ever after.

Contents

Cover (#u5dfc48c9-6398-5a78-b0ad-fc4c0471ad04)

Excerpt (#ua5870e20-c990-53cd-bf1f-505897847bc8)

Title Page (#u45ba8e86-4c18-5ca2-b6c2-1232b9e406e3)

About the Author (#uffdcc6c0-9f1a-57ad-a13f-e5b887010416)

Dedication (#u847a2ddd-9ac7-52b7-a516-f272c8f0386b)

Chapter One (#ulink_11853d9f-1a8a-50f8-b2f1-1d55a9e1b123)

Chapter Two (#ulink_261f759e-2bad-529b-bf0a-2f7866a03059)

Chapter Three (#ulink_09151e2a-7bb8-5f08-8cc0-4bef9b188fed)

Chapter Four (#ulink_2308a087-0381-55b2-a950-4b40a21ebb43)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Extract (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One (#ulink_142313aa-b032-54fc-9ee9-ae933aaae779)

“You know how to please a man.”

Megan Richards desperately wished those words coming from her best friend’s kissable lips had been said in a different context. Alas, Cameron St. John was only referring to the medium-well steak she had grilled, and not a bedroom romp.

One day she would shock them both when she declared her desire, her need for the man she’d known since kindergarten, when he’d pulled her pigtails and she’d retaliated by taking her safety scissors to his mullet. A mutual respect was instantly born, and they’d been friends since—sans pigtails and mullet.

“I figured you’d been eating enough take-out junk and needed some real food,” she told him, watching in admiration as he picked up their dinner plates and started loading her dishwasher.

Oh, yeah. His mama had raised him right, and Megan didn’t think there was a sexier sight than a domestic man...especially one with muscles that flexed so beautifully with each movement.

Since his back was turned, she soaked up the view. The man came by his rippled beauty honestly, with hours dedicated to rigorous workouts. She worked out, too—just last night she’d exercised with a box of cookies—which would be the main reason his body was so perfectly toned while hers was so perfectly dimpled and shapely.

Cameron closed the dishwasher door and gave the countertop a swift swipe with the cloth before turning to face her. With his hands resting on either side of his narrow hips, he might have looked all laid-back and casual, but the man positively reeked of alpha sexiness. His impressive height and broad shoulders never failed to send a sucker punch straight to her active hormones.