Only For Tonight, page 1
only for tonight
natasha madison
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contents
Family Tree
Dedication
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
Epilogue One
Jaxon’s Parent’s story
Ariella’s Parents Story
Acknowledgments
About Natasha Madison
Also by Natasha Madison
family tree
Hockey Series
SOMETHING SO SERIES
Something So Right
Parker & Cooper Stone
Matthew (Something So Perfect)
Allison (Something So Irresistible)
Zara (This Is Crazy)
Zoe (This Is Wild)
Justin (This Is Forever)
Something So Perfect
Matthew Grant & Karrie Cooley
Cooper (Only One Regret)
Frances (Only One Love)
Vivienne (Made For You)
Chase (Made For Me)
Something So Irresistible
Allison Grant & Max Horton
Michael (Only One Mistake)
Alexandria (Only One Forever)
Something So Unscripted
Denise Horton & Zack Morrow
Jack
Joshua
Elizabeth (Holiday Unscripted)
THIS IS SERIES
This Is Crazy
Zara Stone & Evan Richards
Zoey (Meant For Love)
Stone (Meant For Stone)
This Is Wild
Zoe Stone & Viktor Petrov
Matthew (Mine To Take)
Zara (Meant For Gabriel)
Lexi
This Is Love
Vivienne Paradis & Mark Dimitris
Karrie
Stefano (Mine to Promise)
Angelica
This Is Forever
Caroline Woods & Justin Stone
Dylan Stone (Formerly Woods) (Only One Forever)
Christopher (Meant For Her)
Gabriella (Made For Romeo)
Abigail (Made For Us)
ONLY ONE SERIES
Only One Kiss
Candace Richards & Ralph Weber
Ariella (Only For Tonight)
Brookes
Callie
Only One Chance
Layla Paterson & Miller Adams
Clarke
Only One Night
Evelyn & Manning Stevenson
Jaxon
Victoria
Kiera
Only One Touch
Becca & Nico Harrison
Phoenix
Dallas
Only One Regret
Erika & Cooper Grant
Emma
Mia
Parker
Felicia
Leo
Matthew
Only One Mistake
Jillian & Michael
Jamieson
Bianca
Bailey
Only One Love
Frances Grant & Brad Wilson
Stella
Lawson
Only One Forever
Dylan Stone & Alex Horton
Maddox
Maverick
Maya
James
MADE FOR SERIES
Made For Me
Julia & Chase Grant
Made For You
Vivienne Grant & Xavier Montgomery
Made For Us
Abigail Stone & Tristan Weise
Penelope
Payton
Made For Romeo
Romeo Beckett & Gabriella Stone
MEANT FOR SERIES
Meant For Stone
Stone Richards & Ryleigh Beckett
Aspyn
Dalia
Declan
Meant For Her
Christopher Stone & Dakota
Luna
Rain
Meant For Love
Nash Griffin & Zoey Petrov
Easton
Evander
Meant For Gabriel
Gabriel McIntyre & Zara Petrov
Colson
Callum
Cecilia
Southern Wedding Family Tree
Mine To Have
Travis & Harlow
Charlotte
Theo
Mine To Hold
Shelby & Ace
Arya
Mine To Cherish
Clarabella & Luke
Zander
Mine To Love
Presley & Bennett
Cadence
Charleigh
Violet
Mine To Take
Sofia and Matty Petrov
Reed Cooper (R.C.)
Ruby
Mine To Promise
Stefano Dimitris & Addison
Avery
Addison
Mine To Honor
Levi & Eva
Cici
Mine To Keep
Grace & Caine
Meadow
SOUTHERN TREE
Southern Family tree
Billy and Charlotte
(Mother and father to Kallie and Casey)
Southern Chance
Kallie & Jacob McIntyre
Ethan (Savannah Son)
Amelia (Southern Secrets)
Travis
Southern Comfort
Olivia & Casey Barnes
Quinn (Southern Heat)
Reed (Southern Sunshine)
Harlow (Mine to Have)
Southern Storm
Savannah & Beau Huntington
Ethan McIntyre (Jacob’s son)
Chelsea (Southern Heart)
Toby
Keith
Southern Sunrise
Emily & Ethan McIntyre
Gabriel (Meant For Gabriel)
Aubrey
Southern Heart
Chelsea Huntington & Mayson Carey
Tucker
Southern Heat
Willow & Quinn Barnes
Grace (Mine To Keep)
Charlie (Shattered Dreams)
Southern Secrets
Amelia McIntyre & Asher
JB Normand
Southern Sunshine
Hazel & Reed Barnes
Sofia (Mine To Take)
Kaine
Denver
Dream Series
Shattered Dreams
Autumn & Charlie Barnes
Landon William
Casey
Anabelle
Forbidden Dreams
Harmony & Brady Thatcher
Wyatt
Whitney
Buried Dreams
Everleigh & Brock Casey
Saige
Bax
Brantley
Skye
Stolen Dreams
Lilah & Emmett Clarkson
Lucy
Lacey
Logan
Forgotten Dreams
Sierra & Caleb Jensen
Chloe
about only for tonight
Ariella
The last time I saw him, I’d just turned eighteen.
Six years later we’re face-to-face again.
Neither of us wanted the night to end.
The next morning, we made a pact.
Each of us going our separ ate ways.
Until two pink lines changed everything.
Jaxon
Life was going my way.
Hockey. Family. All of it.
Until…I saw her.
She was different now.
One thing led to another and we got carried away.
It was supposed to be one night.
Our secret.
Then she’s at my door with news that rocks my world.
I’m going to be a dad.
dedication
To everyone who takes that leap of faith no matter how scary it can be.
You are the real superhero in your story!
one
Jaxon
I slip my leg through the dress pants and repeat the action with the other leg before tucking in the white button-down dress shirt. The tailor-made shirt fits perfectly, just like the blue suit I’m wearing tonight. Grabbing the brown belt, I weave it through the belt loops circling my waist and buckle it in the middle. I look in the mirror, making sure it’s centered, and run my hands through my short, dark-brown hair before moving back to the bedroom, grabbing the bottle of cologne and spraying one shot on the left and another on the right.
I turn the bathroom light off before heading over to the long bench right in front of the king-size bed. My phone rings from the middle of the bed, where I tossed it before I stepped into the shower. Looking down, I see it’s my father calling. Instead of answering it, I press the red button declining the call before grabbing one of the brown shoes and slipping my foot into it.
“Jaxon,” my father yells from down the hall, probably just walking out of his bedroom, “are you almost ready?” The voice gets closer and closer to my door before I hear the knock. “Are you decent?”
I shake my head as I snatch up the second shoe. “Dad, we literally showered at the arena three hours ago, together!” I shout as I tie the laces to the second shoe before he sticks his head into the room. “I’m naked,” I joke with him as I look up at him and finish tying my shoe.
He ignores my joke. “Oh good, you’re dressed.” He pushes the door the rest of the way open before coming in and standing there with his hands on his hips, wearing a black suit with a black button-down shirt. I definitely got my build from my father. He’s six-five and I’m just a touch shorter than him, which is good since we both play the position of defense. His build is broad shouldered, which I also got from him, but he’s thicker in the waist where I’m leaner.
“Did you really call me from inside the house?” I get up before reaching down and grabbing my suit jacket. “You yell at Victoria all the time when she does the same thing.” I mention my younger sister, who we nickname Tori.
His eyes glare at me and I have to bite the inside of my lip to not burst out laughing at him. “That is only because she calls me to bring her a glass of water because she says the kitchen is too far away.” His dark blue eyes say he hates it, but his soft tone says he would do anything for her because she was his first girl. Kiera, on the other hand, who is actually the baby of the family at sixteen, gets away with everything. But then again, I broke them in for Victoria and Kiera. Only then Victoria drove them up the wall from the time she started walking. The more you told her no, the more she was like “yeah, okay, I’m going to do that anyway.”
“You were the one who begged her not to move away for school, so you have no one but yourself to blame.” I raise my eyebrows.
“I didn’t think she would actually do it. She wanted to spread her wings.” He looks over his shoulder to make sure that it’s just the two of us. When the time came around to pick a school, she said she wanted to stay local for my parents. However, I think she really wanted to stay local because she was treated like a queen here and didn’t have to do anything for herself. She is about to graduate from the university in the spring and has zero plans of moving out at any time. I seriously think my parents will move out of this house before she does.
“Why would she leave?” I pull the cuffs out of my jacket before walking over to my dresser and grabbing one of the cuff links, putting one in before grabbing the other one. My parents gave me these for Christmas one year. They have my initials engraved on them and I only use them for special occasions. I figure tonight is one. “She has all her bills paid for. She made her bedroom a suite with a sitting area. She comes and goes as she pleases; her food is cooked for her. She has everything she needs, and she doesn’t have to do anything because her father does it for her.” I tilt my head to the side when I grab my watch and place it on my wrist. The silver Rolex was a gift my parents got me the day I got drafted into the NHL. Even though I've gotten myself quite a few watches over the years, this is the one I usually wear.
“She’s practically still a baby,” my father says. “Only reason you moved out was because you were drafted by Minnesota.” I don’t say anything because he’s not wrong, although I don’t think I would have lived at home during college.
“Manning,” my stepmother, Evelyn, shouts his name from the hallway, “the car is here!” He walks over to the doorway and looks out. A smile on his face already as soon as he sees her. They got together when I was eight, from what my biological mother said, he cheated on her with Evelyn. The truth was my father tried to get a divorce for years and she threatened him each and every time, with me as the bargaining chip. She even took me away from him once for a couple of weeks when he sent her divorce papers the first time. I think I was six. I don’t remember much of it.
Most of my young childhood memories aren’t the fondest, with my father being on the road half the time and my mother doing whatever she wanted when he was gone. The only time she gave a shit about me was when my father was in the room. It’s safe to say my father was the parent I bonded with the most. He was the one I would long for when he was away. The minute I knew he was in town I felt happier and more at ease in the house. Don’t get me wrong, my mother never mistreated me. It was more like she tossed me to the side and practically ignored me and pretended I didn’t exist when he wasn’t here.
That all changed when Evelyn came into the picture. She cared for me like I was her own, and worried about me just as much as my father did. Especially when the visits with my mother would come up and I would be angry that I had to go. It lasted, I want to say, over a year, my mother would have me when my father was travelling with his team. Only taking me to piss him off. As I got older, the visits with my mom became fewer and farther in between, until I just stopped going altogether. The only reason she wanted to force me to go with her was because the second I stopped going regularly, her child support got decreased, so she would drag my father into court to make sure it stayed the same. For that to happen meant I had to be with her when it was her turn.
