Falling For Him (Fortunate Book 3)

Falling For Him - Released September 20th 2015 

Ivy Banners has just returned home to Fortune with her tail tucked firmly between her legs. Her career has been put on hold (indefinitely), her family think it's the perfect time for her to settle down with a husband and a baby (to her horror) and her relationship status is less than ideal (okay, she's heartbroken).

Nash Peeters is one of her oldest friends. He's the boy who shoved worms down her pants when she was a kid, the boy who helped her cause mischief when they were teenagers, the boy who taught her everything she needed to know about climbing trees and kidnapping gnomes. He's her best friend, her partner in crime, and now he's her roommate too. Oh, and he's also very, very heartbroken. So when Nash suggests the two of them share a no strings night of hot rebound sex, it seems like the perfect solution.

What could go wrong with that?

Because Ivy and Nash, they're too awesome to let a little thing like sex ruin their friendship. They're not going to fall for each other, they're not going to develop feelings for each other and make things weird between them. No way, not them. Until. . .until they do.

Turns out falling in love. . .it's kind of unavoidable.

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Excerpt from Chapter 7 

 “Catch!” I shout, and then I run at Nash and jump. Landing in his arms, I wrap my legs around his waist as he spins us around and around, cackling.

He comes to a stop, his chest heaving up and down. “Aw man, I'm all out of breath.”

I grin down at him. “You're getting old.”

“Evil little Ivy.” He smiles up at me, so tenderly.

I become aware then of how hard I'm breathing, of how hard he is breathing, and I'm no longer sure it has anything to do with all the running. We keep looking at each other, and things just. . .they just change. Suddenly nothing seems so funny anymore. Our smiles fade away, and the look in his eyes is replaced by something. . .intense. He lets me slide down his body, his hands moving from my thighs to my butt and eventually stopping on my waist when my feet touch the ground. Something crackles in the air between us, something that wasn't there before. I feel lost, like the rain fell so hard that the water rose above our heads and now I'm swimming inside it, but I have no idea which direction is up.

We stand close together, too close together. So close that I can feel every hard inch of his body against my own. This is definitely the point that I should move away. It's past the point that I should move away. His hands are still gripping my waist tightly, holding me to him. My fingers, resting on his shoulders, twitch as a bolt of energy thrums through them.

His hands slip beneath my coat, beneath my top, and I gasp as his cold fingers touch my skin. The noise draws his attention to my lips, and his gaze grows heated. My lips, they throb as he studies them, as if he's committing them to memory.

I need. . .I need. . .something. I need him.

“Ivy,” he murmurs, and my eyes drop to his mouth. To that full bottom lip, slightly thicker than the top even when it's not swollen. To the tiny, barely visible white scar at the corner of his mouth from where he fell off his bike when he was eleven, before we were even friends. I want to touch that scar, to see how it feels beneath my lips. The force of my need sends a jolt of electricity rushing straight through my body.

Like he's in a trance, one of Nash's hands comes up to brush the damp strands of hair back from my face. I blink, because a simple gesture like that shouldn't make my stomach clench but it does. He swallows, as if he's just as affected by this. . .this thing between us as I am. Raindrops cling to his dark eyelashes. They drip from the edge of his hat and trickle over the tiny, permanent bump in his nose that he got defending me. I want to follow them, each and every one, as they discover his body and trace every inch of him.

I can't move. I couldn't move right now if I was struck by lightening and set on fire.

Our faces have drawn closer together. I can feel the heat of his breath of my lips. It's warm, such a contrast to the frigid air everywhere else.

And then it hits me like a slap to the face. I want him. This is Nash, my best friend, my oldest protector, my long term partner in crime. This is Nash, and I want him more than I can even understand.

Falling For Him Playlist

Here's the playlist that I included at the end of Falling For Him. Most of my explanations don't make a lick of sense, but here they are anyway 

Stupid Thing by Nickel

The song Nash and Ivy are dancing too when they're getting all shmexy

Fancy by Iggy Azalea

The more upbeat song they dance to

Lie A Little Better by Lucy Hale

I'm so into Lucy Hale's music. This one seems kind of obvious, but I had to throw it in there for when Nash and Ivy are into it but trying to deny it.

Wonder by Lauren Aquilina

I just thought I'd throw this one in there for when Ivy and Nash were 17. Super cute

Simplethings by Miguel

No reason. I just love this song and listened to it a lot while writing Falling For Him so I thought I'd throw it in here

I'm A Mess by Ed Sheeran

This one's for when the two of them are all conflicted about the fact that they have feelings for one another

Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran

Ivy realizing she has feelings for Nash, then this was kind of what was playing in my head when I was writing the scene where they sleep together but don't get all down and sexy

Wicked Game by Gemma Hayes

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way – Ivy is in love with Nash

Give Me Love by Ed Sheeran

Nash misses Ivy. Can you tell I love Ed Sheeran? Lol! That's the last one, I promise. For now. Mwahaha

About You Now (Slow Version) by Sugababes

Nash FINALLY realizes he loves Ivy and wants her back

Find Love by Stepdad

A nice, upbeat song for the end of the story

Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

This one didn't have anything to do with the story, but while I was writing it my lil' sprog was so frigging obsessed with the song that she played it over and over and over and over. . . So yeah, this song was on a lot while I was writing Falling For Him