The Hookup Surprise

The Hookup Surprise Ember Kelly Copyright © 2023 by Ember Kelly All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. The Hookup Surprise To everyone around him, Sean Rusk has everything. He’s the heir to a multibillion-dollar hotel chain, late-night parties with sports stars and celebrities, a life of luxury, and his best friends, Leo and Hunter. But when he meets Lena McGrath at Hunter’s wedding, his entire world gets flipped on its head. Sean finds himself obsessed with the red-haired twin sister of his buddy’s wife, and when he gets financially involved with her family’s pub, he realizes he might have just created a deadly mix of work and pleasure. Can he keep everything together and stay professional? Or will he lose his business, the girl he is falling in love with, or worse, both? Lena McGrath has had the entire weight of the world on her shoulders for too long. She decides it’s time to do something for herself, but there’s only one problem. In order to get out from under her mother’s thumb and the confining restrictions of just being a pub waitress, she has to financially get in bed with Sean Rusk. Which is a problem, since she’s already shared a very real bed with him, and Sean isn’t hiding that he would like to repeat the experience again. Trying to balance the budding relationship with the fear of losing her family’s beloved pub, and the dream of her own restaurant, Lena must find a way to keep everything hot… or figure out which one has to go. Will she be able to keep her dream and her father’s legacy alive? Will she have to eighty-six her newfound relationship in order to do so? Or can she, for once, have it all, like her sister? Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Epilogue About the Author Also by Ember Kelly Chapter One Sean She’s been on my mind for weeks. It was beginning to be a real problem. I woke up from yet another dream about her, throwing the blankets off myself and staring down at my hardened cock in frustrated acceptance. It had been stiff as a rod for a long time, tent-poling my sheets and making it impossible to roll onto my stomach. I either needed to do something about it or just get up, resign myself to only sleeping for four hours again, and get ready for work. Lena was impossibly perfect. In every way I tended to think about her, I found that she was everything I had never known I was looking for. And more. She was gorgeous and quick-witted. She was fiery and had that long, curly red hair that drove me absolutely insane. She was Irish to the core, and something about the whole package she brought, it drove me insane. And now I was technically her boss. Sort of. The phone rang as I got out of bed, hoping a cold shower would cool me down. I really didn’t have it in me today to have to deal with fantasizing about her the entire time and not getting anything done. Too many meetings. Too many fires to put out. Of course, fires to be put out just reminded me of that red hair again, and my problems started all over. “Hello?” “Sean, hey bud.” It was Hunter, the person who got me into this mess in the first place. At least I was blaming him for it, whether rational or not. Hunter married Julia, Lena’s fraternal twin sister, and had roped me into their family business by investing in their family’s pub. Not that it took much twisting of my arm once I put eyes on Lena, but still. If he hadn’t introduced me to them, I never would have met her. “What’s going on, Hunter?” I asked. “You normally don’t call this early.” He laughed in an easygoing kind of way. It was an entirely new kind of sound to come from Hunter, who had been so wound up since I met him. Julia had done good things for him and his blood pressure, if nothing else. “Do you not remember?” he asked. “I thought your assistant would have put it on your calendar.” “Put what on my cal—,” I began. “Oh no. Ah, shit.” “There it is,” he said. “Look, I’m probably heading out in about a half hour. Julia and I are going to the mountains for the weekend and Julia wants to go shopping first. How about I meet you down at the Pepper House later? Leo said he’d make it by there around seven.” “Yeah, sure, I’ll see you there,” I said. “If I don’t catch you at McGrath’s first.” “Good luck on that,” I said. “I’m not even staying for a drink. Just meeting with Lena and Colleen and then heading out. Hurry your ass up.” I hung up and fussed at myself. Somehow, between being unable to sleep and the dreams that haunted me, I forgot what day it was. I had been operating all morning thinking it was Thursday. It wasn’t. It was the fourth Friday of the month, which meant I was due at McGrath’s with Hunter, Julia, Lena, and their mother Colleen to discuss the bar. As if I needed another reason to see Lena. Dressing quickly, I burst out of the door of my penthouse suite and nearly into the maid coming to take