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    Real Men Love Curves: Curvy Ever After, #1
    Real Men Love Curves: Curvy Ever After, #1
    Real Men Love Curves: Curvy Ever After, #1
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    Real Men Love Curves: Curvy Ever After, #1

    By Kat Baxter

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    Luke

    Even though Erin and I have been best friends for years, she has no idea how much I want her. No idea that her luscious curves drive me crazy, or that she stars in my every fantasy. No idea that I'm aching to get out of the friend zone. I'm smart enough to keep that shit under wraps.

    There's only one secret I guard more closely: I may want Erin's body, but I also want her heart and soul. And I want them forever. But it turns out, I'm not the only one who has a secret...
     

    Erin

    Everyone has a secret right? Mine is just more embarrassing than most. I must be the only twenty-three-year in the world who's never had an "O." I've never taken the train to O-ville … not with any of my boyfriends. Not even by myself. 

    So when Luke, aka my best friend, aka sex-on-a-stick, aka I wanna-climb-him-like-a-koala, offers to teach me how to get there, who am I argue? I'd be a fool to turn him down. I'd be even more of a fool to fall for him.
     

    Dear Reader, Real Men Love Curves is a steamy romantic short with a plus size heroine and her super-hot best friend with a guaranteed HEA.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKat Baxter
    Release dateOct 3, 2021
    ISBN9798201610678
    Real Men Love Curves: Curvy Ever After, #1

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      Real Men Love Curves - Kat Baxter

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      one

      ERIN

      I take another sip of my diet soda and rum, then set the glass on the bar.

      You’re better off without him, Chloe says. She meets my gaze and her exotic amber eyes search my face. Her tight black curls are wild surrounding her warm brown skin. She bumps her shoulder into mine. Tell me you know that.

      I know she’s right, still that little voice inside questions. Asks if I’ll ever find the right guy? Or if I should have done whatever I could to hold onto Charles.

      On paper, Charles and I made sense. We should have been the perfect couple. We were both programmers—him for an accounting company, me for a gaming app developer. We had similar backgrounds, schooling, and ambitions.

      Despite all that—despite the seventeen months together, nine of which had been living in the same damn apartment—he’d dumped me.

      Two days ago.

      On his way out of town on a business trip. Because he was done pretending he could be happy with me.

      Like I was some burden he’d been saddled with.

      Since Chloe is looking at me expectantly, waiting for me to answer her, I muster a plucky grin and pretend that Charles’s rejection hurt less than it did.

      I do know that. And on some level, I do. Of course I’m better without someone who is miserable being with me. Still…

      As if she can hear the wheels turning in my head, Chloe leans forward giving me the squint eye. What?

      Look, I know Charles and I didn’t work. If I was honest with myself, I’d known it for a while. He just … he felt like my safety school.

      Chloe raises her eyebrows. Your safety school?

      Yeah. You know, when you’re applying for college, you cover your bases. You apply to your dream school, the ones you’ll never get in to. You apply to the solid choices. And then you also apply to a couple of safety schools. In case it all goes to hell. You need a safety school. Charles felt like that.

      Chloe is frowning as she takes a sip of her drink, her expression slightly stung.

      Maybe I should have picked a different example, because Chloe did go to her safety school. Not because she didn’t get in to her dream school, but because after their parents died, her brother Sebastian went a little overboard on the protective big brother thing and he wanted her close.

      But she shakes her head, propping her elbows on the table on either side of her drink. Bullshit. You shouldn’t be with a guy who’s your safety school. You should be with a guy who’s your MIT.

      I snort. Yeah. Right.

      Like an MIT guy would ever want me.

      I don’t say this aloud though, because if there’s one thing Chloe does not put up with it’s my self-deprecating shit. Which, in all fairness is what any best friend would do. Of course she thinks I’m gorgeous, desirable, blah, blah, blah. It’s the first commandment of girl code: Thou shalt bolster your bestie’s confidence after any and all heartbreaks.

      So instead of bemoaning the lack of an attainable MIT level guy in my life (or, possibly even in the world), I bring the conversation back to the reality of my impending doom. Regardless of whether or not Charles was right for me, the bigger problem is that he should be back in town soon and I still don’t have anywhere to live.

      You can stay with me. Seb wouldn’t care. Or ask Luke. He has a spare bedroom.

      My eyes track naturally to Luke, my other best friend and owner of this bar. He’s pouring drinks and flirting with a couple of co-eds here to celebrate the end of the semester. His lazy grin does things to my body, sends shivers up and down, setting my nerve endings on fire. Which is pretty much the standard reaction every female has to Luke, so I know better than to give the tingly shivers a second thought. He glances over at me and winks.

      He is so hot, Chloe says.

      That he is. And every other woman in this bar knows it, too. He’s got his ball cap on backwards covering what I know to be slightly shaggy dark blonde hair. His worn jeans ride low on his hips and his On the Rocks black tee molds to his muscular shoulders and biceps. He’s got a white bar rag slung over one shoulder. He’s ridiculously attractive.

      And, as I am constantly reminding my hormones, he’s my best friend. As in, since high school, ride or die, always-has-my-back best friend. Which means it doesn’t matter he’s sex on a stick, I’m keeping my hands out of the man-candy jar.

      Chloe, however clearly has other

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