{"id":263097,"date":"2026-07-14T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/hot-to-the-touch-kate-meader\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:21:30","slug":"hot-to-the-touch-kate-meader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/hot-to-the-touch-kate-meader\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot To The Touch – Kate Meader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cNot saying you are. But after a few years of cohabitation, with a goal toward spending your lives together, he shouldn\u2019t be bleeding you dry. He earns five times as much but you\u2019re fifty- fifty? Fuck that.\u201d I move on quickly. \u201cIt sounds like you were more invested in this relationship than him. You wanted marriage and he wasn\u2019t willing to go that extra step.<\/p>\n

You wanted kids and he didn\u2019t. You\u2019re doing all the work here, and he\u2019s treating you like a roommate.\u201d For a moment I wonder if I\u2019ve said too much. No one likes to hear criticism of a venture they\u2019ve invested years of their life in, especially when it\u2019s related to the heart. Then I realize the word I\u2019ve used in my head to describe this is very apt: venture. A business arrangement. I can\u2019t believe this guy accepted the fifty-fifty expenses deal when they could have\u2014 should have\u2014ratio\u2019ed it out to something manageable.<\/p>\n

Hell, if I set up house with someone who had a lower income than me, which is likely because I\u2019m very fucking wealthy, I sure as hell wouldn\u2019t be expecting equal contributions to the household. She\u2019s turning it over in her head. \u201cI can\u2019t analyze it now. All I know is that when it came to the most important thing\u2014parenting my sister\u2019s kids\u2014 he told me that wasn\u2019t what he had in mind for his future.<\/p>\n

He said I should leave it to you and your family and go back to New York.\u201d Back to our one true fight. Should I be thanking Derek? \u201cWhich you have no intention of doing.\u201d \u201cNot a chance.\u201d The challenge I hear should piss me off. But no, it only cheers me right the fuck up. Is it possible I want Cassie to stick around and help raise these kids? What does that even look like? Because it couldn\u2019t look like this.<\/p>\n

Sitting in the kitchen, drinking wine and beer, chatting about the events of the day (even if the events involve her confiding in me about her useless boyfriend). As much as this connection appeals to me, it isn\u2019t real. It\u2019s borne of a mutual need to get through this soul-crushing time. Right?<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you guys truly finished?\u201d That\u2019s what she said when she walked in\u2014and I\u2019m strangely wishing it was true. But they\u2019ve been together for a long time. One conversation shouldn\u2019t be enough to end it. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d She rubs her eyes.<\/p>\n

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This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author\u2019s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright \u00a9 2023 by Kate Meader Cover: Lori Jackson Design Cover model and photographer: Zach M. by Wander Aguiar Editing: Kristi Yanta Proofreading: Julia Griffis ISBN: 978-1-954107-16-8 All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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. OceanofPDF.com Contents Content Warnings 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 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Kate Meader OceanofPDF.com Content Warnings This book deals with a number of sensitive topics including: death of loved ones (on page), grief, guilt, PTSD, and toxic relationships.<\/p>\n

OceanofPDF.com One Cass Who brings a hot date to a three-year-old\u2019s birthday party? At this point in my acquaintance with Sam Killian, nothing should surprise me. This is the guy who mooned the guests at his brother\u2019s wedding. Who duct taped a harmonica to the grill of his sister-in-law\u2019s car. Who changed the auto-correct in his mom\u2019s phone so every time she texted \u201cbye\u201d it changed to \u201cpenis.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know, all the frat boy classics. The man is twenty-seven with the mental age of a fourteen-year-old boy, and that\u2019s generous. No one brings a date to a kid\u2019s party, not when the date is dressed like she thinks this is a night club. But then this is Sam, who I\u2019ve known and happily avoided to the best of my ability for the last six years, ever since his brother and my sister tied the knot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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