Just One Night

JUST ONE NIGHT

A
New Adult Erotic Romance novella from

NY
Times and USA Today Bestseller

Caridad Pineiro

He has just one night to prove to her that
anything is possible . . .

Jason Hart,
Jase
to his friends, has just graduated college and earned
his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. It's the night of
the graduation party and she'll be there.
His best friend's
slightly older sister,
Nickie
.
Nickie
is the only woman he's really wanted for a long
time. He has just one night to make it happen.

She has just one night before the man of her
dreams leaves, maybe forever, but can she find the courage to take a chance . .
.

Nicole de Salvo has been in
love – and lust – for her little brother’s best friend for years.
 
For years she’s watched from afar and done
nothing about her attraction for Jason Hart only now their time together is
almost at an end.
 
On their last night
together will she find the courage to do something about her feelings, or will
she live with regret for the rest of her life?

Chapter 1

Nicole de Salvo stared out the train window
as every passing mile brought her closer to home . . . and to him.

It had been a hectic day with a dash down to
the Philadelphia area for her brother's and
Jase's
graduation and then a rushed trip back to New York City for an interview for a
position she wanted for her summer break from medical school.
 
An interview that couldn't
be rescheduled no matter what.

The nearly two hour train ride down to her
family's home on the Jersey Shore was long, but at least it would give her a
moment to catch her breath and prepare for seeing him again.

For seeing
Jase
, possibly for the last time.

He had looked amazing that morning in his
dress uniform, sword at his side and his second lieutenant's bars gleaming in
the morning sun.
 
The deep blue of the
uniform had made his green eyes seem aqua, like the ocean bathed with brilliant
light.
 
Tall and imposing, he had looked
every inch an officer and a warrior until he had fixed his gaze on her and
offered up the wicked little boy grin that did all kinds of things to her
insides.

She pressed a hand to her stomach to quiet
the nervous flutters as she thought about seeing him again once she arrived at
home, where her younger brother Tommy's graduation party would be in full
swing.
 
It had been tough enough seeing
Jase
that morning, knowing that with every minute that
passed their time together was fading away.

This night at the party and knowing it would
be the last one they'd share was going to be one of the hardest things she ever
did.

Driving that thought from her mind, she
glanced out the train windows and caught glimpses of the shoreline and ocean
visible from the North Jersey Coast line.

They'd all spent so much time in those
waters, her, Tommy, and his best friend Jason.
 
Jase
to his friends.

She was a friend, kind of.
 
After all, they'd grown up together and had
spent many a lazy summer along the shore.
 
But as they'd gotten older, something had changed.

The typical teasing between kids, between her
and
Jase
, had become
more flirty
.
 
Definitely full of subtle
sexiness.
 
Or at least, it had
gotten that way on his part.

She hadn't known how to handle it when an
eighteen year old
Jase
had settled that green-eyed
gaze on her, flashed
her a
not-so-innocent dimpled
grin, and heat had ignited inside her.
 
Four years later, she still didn't know how to handle him.

He was like a little brother to her, although
the annoying voice in her head shouted a big, “Hell to the no” and reminded her
that they were only two years apart in age.

Reluctantly she admitted to herself that
Jase
was definitely
not
like a little brother.
 
Not since she'd
come to understand that the weird little tingle she got whenever she saw him or
talked to him meant that there was way more to her feelings for him.

More that she had yet to explore, only time
was running out for them.

As the train chugged along on her way home,
she dragged up the memory of what he'd looked like as he'd sauntered up to her
this morning after graduation, looking every inch the hero.
 
His swimmer’s shoulders looking even broader
in his uniform.
His green eyes bright and warming as they
settled on her.
 
His smile had
been inviting as he'd leaned in and kissed her.
 
Chastely, but she'd wanted to linger and have it be more.
 
She had wanted to savor those amazing lips
before she had reined herself in.
 
She
reminded herself that she never would give in to that desire because she was
too sensible and responsible and downright boring.

She closed her eyes to hold in the
memories.
 
Allowed
herself
to imagine what it might be like to be with
Jase
.
 
To let go and explore the
temptation.

In her mind's eye, she pulled his white dress
hat off his head and tossed it to the side.
 
Skimmed her fingers through the buzz cut sandy-colored hair at the sides
of his head and the longer strands up top before cradling his head and drawing
him near for a not so simple kiss.

She covered his mouth with hers and pulled at
his bottom lip with her teeth, urging him to open for her.
 
When he did, she dipped her tongue in and
tasted him.
 
Trailed her tongue all
around and nipped at the fullness of his lips with her teeth.

His strong hands were at her waist, holding
her close.
 
Possessively hard and yet
gentle as he dragged her closer, but she shifted away because she wanted more
than just his kiss.

She trailed her hands down to his shoulders
and then
lower
to his lean waist and the shiny brass
buckle with the Marine insignia.
 
As she
undid the buckle and loosened his white belt, he snared his sword as the belt
started to drop, and gently laid them both on the ground.

“Are you sure about this?” her dream
Jase
asked as he rose to stand before her again.

“Oh, yeah, I'm sure,” her imaginary
self answered
because her real
self
lacked
the courage to take a chance with
Jase
.

He helped her open the brass buttons down the
front of his dress blues, and in her fantasy, his chest was bare beneath the
wool fabric.

His skin was
a
 
luscious
honey gold thanks to his
end-of-summer tan. He got that smooth golden color from being a lifeguard on
the beach to earn money for college and other necessities.

How many times had she snuck a peek at him up
in the stand as she'd sat under her umbrella, reading her latest romance novel?

Not that you needed a
sexy fictional alpha hero when you had your own just feet away if only you'd do
something about it
, the little voice in her head had screamed more than once during those
long lazy summers.

She forced away the annoying voice and
resumed her fantasy, running her hands down across the chiseled muscles of that
tanned chest.
 
His skin was sun-kissed
warm and slightly damp.
 
She needed a
taste and leaned forward, licked from the center of his chest to the hard
masculine nipple that she sucked, earning a soft moan from him.
 
He tasted salty like the ocean.

She smiled and moved her hands down toward
his waistband, and he helped her by undoing his pants and letting them drop.

He had gone commando (this was her fantasy
after all) and his cock was rock hard. Long, thick, and smooth beneath her hand
as she encircled him.

He groaned and his eyes fluttered close as he
said, “I like that,
Nickie
.”

“I like, too,
Jase
,”
she said and kept on stroking the length of him.
 
Loving the heat of him beneath her hand and
how his cock swelled at her caress of the sensitive head.

When he opened his eyes again, they were
dark, almost emerald-colored with his desire.
 
He leaned forward and kissed her and as the kiss grew more intense, she
opened her mouth and accepted the slide of his tongue.
 
Imagined him easing his dick inside of her
the way he was making love to her with his mouth and tongue.

She sucked in a shaky breath and circled her
index finger around the head of his cock where the first hint of his release
wet the tip.
 
She spread it all over,
earning a rough growl from him that vibrated through her body.
 
Her clit throbbed and swelled and between her
legs, she grew wet for him.

“I want to be in you,
Nickie
.
 
Now,” he whispered against her lips.

“Now,” she repeated and urgently tore her
clothes away as he sank down to the blanket spread out on the sand and lay
there, waiting for her.
 
Gloriously naked with his beautiful cock standing at attention for
her.

He held his hand out in invitation, a
hesitant look on his face, not that he needed to worry.
 
In this daydream, she wouldn't refuse his
request.

She took hold of his hand and lowered herself
until she was straddling his thighs.
 
She
poised above him and his hands gripped her hips hard and slowly urged her down
onto him.

Friction built as each thick inch of him
filled her.
 
She relished the heat and
pressure as she pushed down until he was completely buried inside her.
 
She stilled and gazed at him.
 
Felt immense power and sexiness as his eyes
drifted closed again and his head dropped back in pleasure.

“You feel amazing,
Nickie
.
So hot and wet.
Tight, fuck me, you're so tight.”

Leaning down, she splayed her hands on his
chest and stroked her thumbs across his hard masculine nipples, dragging his
eyes open.

“You're amazing,
Jase
.
 
The way you fill me.
 
The way you make me feel.
 
Touch me,
Jase
.
 
I want your hands on me,” she said, not
hesitant in her dreams about what she needed from him. About what she had
fantasized about for so long during those lazy summer days and even longer
nights as she’d laid in bed, achy and hot for him.

He grinned, displaying the dimple that made
him look so much younger. She skimmed her finger across that cute indent and he
speedily turned his head and nipped her index finger with his perfect white
teeth.

“I'd rather taste you,” he said and before
she could protest, he surged up and put his mouth on her breasts, sucking and
biting at the sensitive tips.

His mouth was heaven and she cradled his head
to her and offered up soft cries of enjoyment, but soon she couldn't just stay
there with him buried inside her.
 
She
had to move.
 
Had to satisfy the need
created by the magic of his mouth on her
breasts.

She lifted her hips, the friction of the
motion intense. Even more so as she drove back down quickly and ground her hips
against him.

His rough groans spurred her to move again
and again until her actions were wild and the sound of their bodies slapping
together filled the air together with their guttural moans of pleasure.

Inside her the tension built, ever higher
until her release shot through her and she arched her back and pushed down on
him hard, her clit and pussy throbbing and vibrating with the pleasure of her
release.

“
Jase
,” she said
softly beneath her breath.

 
“Miss?
 
Miss! We're at
Long Branch.
 
Time to change over to the
Bayhead
train,” the conductor said, a hint of irritation in
his voice.

Startled, she sucked in a rough inhalation as
reality rudely intruded and warmth flooded across her cheeks as if she had just
been discovered butt naked on the train, but she hid her embarrassment.

She offered up an apologetic smile, rose, and
hopped off onto the platform.
 
For a
moment she considered that it would be far safer to get on the next train back
to New York City.
 
But she forced herself
to cross the platform to the diesel train waiting there for the next leg of her
trip. Forced
herself
to get on board the train.

It was finally time to face both her past and
her future.

It was long past time to face
Jase
.