tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24112090916063075432024-03-12T22:39:42.943-07:00The Truth About Fiction Book Blog...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709013229748104515noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411209091606307543.post-62143135294561682802015-02-02T06:26:00.002-08:002015-02-02T06:26:34.514-08:00Blog Tour - - Indebted 3- Second Debt by Pepper Winters<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.1500000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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Second Debt is the third book in the Indebted series by Pepper Winters and it is another absolutely amazing read! This plot line is so unique and I can't get enough of it. I love the fact that I truly have no idea what is going to happen! So far every book in this series has been completely engrossing and totally addictive. This books are part of a series and cannot be read as stand alones and it is a series I highly recommend! </div>
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Pepper finally shows a bit more of what makes Jethro tick, we are slowly starting to understand this dark damaged anti hero. Damaged might be an understatement for him..he's pretty darn broken but it is Nila who is helping to put him back together again. Their dynamic is intense and I love every second of their back and forth relationship. Their attraction is still steaming up the pages but the emotional side is changing for both of them. I find it so hard to write reviews for books like these because I don't want to slip and give anything a way but let me just say Nila realizes something that changes her and might just change the entire course the characters will take. Nila is one tough character and her feeling for Jethro actually make her stronger and able to survive when the old Nila probably would have crumbled. There is something very special between these two characters that is deepening with each book that passes. I can't say if they will be able to ever find a happily ever after in spite of their family feud, after all Nila is pretty much guaranteed to die but I keep hoping that Jethro will somehow get his act together and save her from this nightmare. He may be cold, broken and occasionally terrifying but somewhere underneath all that ice is a man that wants to save her but perhaps he doesn't want it enough to stand up to his awful family. He actually finally starts to share bits of pieces of himself with Nila and it is further deepening their relationship. We learn quite a bit about Jethro and his "condition" and also is relationship with his family, especially his mysterious sister. Cut is still trying to push Jethro into messing up or breaking down and Pepper starts to show us what his ultimate motives might be and well, I just hate him. Every scene he is in just makes me so angry and when poor Nila has to pay the second debt I wanted to scream in frustration at this sick, twisted family. </div>
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The ending of this book left me with my jaw hanging open in complete and total shock. I never, not in a million years, imagined that things would go down like that. I still can't believe it actually. Now I truly have absolutely no idea what is going to happen in the next book and I'm left on the edge of my seat absolutely dying to know what will happen!! Pepper Winters is a creative genius and her writing style really sucks the reader right into her stories in a way that I rarely experience and this book is just another perfect example of her talent!</div>
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Storyline: Unique, addictive</div>
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Female Characters: strong</div>
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Male Characters: damaged, mysterious</div>
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Author's Writing Style: flawless</div>
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Plot Twists: there aren't enough words for the twists in this story!</div>
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Steam Factor: smokin!</div>
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Violence: some</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two days had passed since Kestrel had granted the truth to one huge mystery. Two days in which I hadn’t been able to think of anything else.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanted to hate Jethro for duping me—for stringing me along like an idiot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But whenever my anger boiled over, needing desperately to confront him, I remembered one thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One important, vital thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’d initiated contact before he was told.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’d communicated with me almost as if it were a cry for help, rather than a plot to deceive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If this were another trick, then so help him, I’d find a way to castrate him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But, somehow, I didn’t think it was.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had a horrible feeling this was the one way that he would let me in. An avenue of truths that he felt comfortable enough to continue, because a silent written word didn’t have as much weight as a loudly spoken one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which brought me back to my vitally important conclusion:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jethro wants to be honest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He wanted to stop playing charades and show me everything he kept hidden.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He wanted to talk to someone. Perhaps, for the first time in his life, he wasn’t satisfied with the hand life dealt him and…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stop fabricating excuses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All day, I’d been coming up with theories on why he was how he was and reading too far into things that he’d done.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It could be as simple as: he’d been told to get in touch. Told to initiate contact in a way that could potentially mould me into a more submissive captive, especially if I were to believe he was on my side.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanted to believe he’d acted against his father. But no matter how much I wished it, it didn’t make it was true.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do you explain the knowing then?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I slouched against my pillows in bed. That was true. A part of me just seemed to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">know</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Call it either sheer idiocy or feminine intuition. I believed he’d texted me because I was the first outsider permitted into his world—the only one not a Hawk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brain hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we were alone, when we weren’t arguing or fighting, there was an enchanting calmness. A </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">connection</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Closing my eyes, I let my mind skip back to Kes’s unwilling promise. The way his eyes had darkened with secrets as I’d collapsed into his arms from the vertigo spell two days ago.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nila?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A crushing headache appeared from nowhere. It was the most I could do to stay present and not permit my mind to relive every text Jethro had sent to see the hidden agendas now that I knew it was him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m—I’m okay. You can let me go.” I struggled out of Kes’s embrace, my skin humming from his touch. I needed some space. I needed a world full of space to get over the treachery and lies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You didn’t know? You hadn’t guessed?” Kes crossed his arms, never taking his golden eyes from mine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I glowered. “How could I know? I thought the messages were from you!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He flinched. “Yes, that was the plan. To make you believe it was me, so he could continue on with whatever little mind games he was playing.” Leaning closer, he added, “I haven’t been privy to any of the messages he sent you or you sent him—so don’t feel like I’ve intruded on details that I shouldn’t.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anger infused my blood. “If you were both in on it—why didn’t he show you the messages? Why were you so nice to me? What does all of this mean?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kes moved away, reclining against a sapling. “I was nice because that’s just who I am. Yes, I come from a family with twisted up morals and I’m </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">loyal</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to those twisted up morals, but I also did it out of loyalty to my brother. If you’re pissed, direct it all on him. Not me.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, believe me. I’m pissed. Beyond pissed.” My hands balled as my mind filled with crazy ideas of retribution and revenge. I would make him pay.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’d cool down before you spring it on him. Best to keep it quiet. Cut doesn’t know. It was just me who knew Jet had been in touch with you before he was given the go-ahead to collect you in Milan.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I froze. “Why did he initiate conversation with me almost five weeks before he could claim me?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kes shook his head. “The day I understand my brother is the day I’ll gamble my entire inheritance on the stock market. I can’t work him out. The only thing I can do is be there for him. And I only found out ‘cause he changed pretty much around the same time he started messaging you. Something was different—we’re close. So, I saw it before the others.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brain throbbed trying to figure out just what had changed in Jethro. He’d seemed the perfect Hawk when he’d come to collect me. Cold as ice and deadly as a sword.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that I knew his secret, I had power. And I had no intention of giving that power back. Jethro had been playing me for far too long. He’d successfully screwed with my head. It was time for payback. “Don’t tell him that I know.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kes’s eyes popped wide. “Pardon?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You heard me. Don’t tell Jethro about today. Let him continue to think I’m clueless.” My heart frothed with rage and unhappiness. I was so stupid to believe I’d gotten through to him on some level. The sex between us left both of us stripped bare. Something more than family feuds and hatred existed when he slid inside me and sent both of us shattering into dust.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d let him inside me. In so many ways. It was my turn to do the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You know I can’t do that, Nila. As welcome as you are in our household, and as much as I like hanging out with you, I can’t betray Jet. Not after everything he’s been through.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pounced on the small thread of truth about my tormentor. “What has he been through, Kes? Tell me and I’ll march back to the Hall right now and tell him myself.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kes shifted uncomfortably, refusing to meet my eyes. “Slip of the tongue. Forget it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crossing my arms, I hissed, “Fine. Seeing as you’re so capable of keeping secrets, keep this one for me.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kes scowled. “Keeping my own flesh and blood’s issues hidden isn’t the same thing as helping out a Weaver.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heart raced. If Jethro hadn’t taught me how to stand up for myself, I would’ve cowered at the thought of being so pushy with a full-grown man all alone in a forest. Now, I was raging and fully intended to get my own way. “Give me two weeks. Two weeks before you tell him that I know. Do that and I’ll be forever grateful.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Especially me, seeing as my lifespan was destined to be significantly shorter than his.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Just…please, Kestrel. One favour.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It took him a while to give in. His allegiance to his brother was strong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, he huffed. “Fine. But it won’t save you from his temper when he finds out.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, I had no intention of suffering Jethro’s wrath. I had every right to deceive him after he did it to me. My revelations were safe—for now. I trusted that Kes wouldn’t say anything. I didn’t know why, but on some level I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">did</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> trust Kes—just enough to use him in my plans. And I was fully committed to tripping Jethro up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was his turn to divulge things he might not have if he’d known the truth. Hiding behind the pretence that Kite was Kes had made him softer the past few weeks. I would use that chink to make the crevice I’d been trying to form since I gave him a blowjob after hunting me down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I couldn’t think about anything else. I couldn’t focus on sketching, sewing, reading.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brain was a whirly-gig of Jethro. Kite. Jethro. Kite.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I’d had enough.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Throwing myself out of bed after another sleepless night, I wrenched back the curtains and glowered at the dismal weather.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The watery dawn did nothing to inspire either anger or contentment. The sky was grey. Fog looked like haunting ghosts, threading its ghoulish tentacles over the lower woodland of the estate. No birds chirped or sun shone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer had truly abandoned us. The bite in the air shouted ‘go back to bed where it’s warm’ but my brain had no such intention.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hadn’t relaxed for two days. I’d stared at my phone, determined to text Jethro and trip him into revealing everything he kept secret, only to stare blankly at an empty message.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that I knew it was him, my willingness to show so much had gone. Knowledge was power and he had too much of mine already. How could I dig deeper into his mystery while maintaining all of mine?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The answer—I couldn’t. And that made me incredibly nervous. To find out who he truly was, I had to show everything that made me real. And despite the emotional growth spurt I’d endured at the hands of the Hawks, I wasn’t ready to evolve again. I’d lost so much of myself already—how much was I prepared to leave behind before I became a perfect stranger?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ah!” I dug my fingers into my hair. I needed a reprieve from my racing thoughts, and I knew exactly how to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mother Nature’s sudden urge to switch seasons from summer to winter couldn’t stop my itch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed fresh air, and I needed it now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Racing around my room in the new Weaver quarters where Jethro had made me beg and come apart with his cock deep inside me, I found my black spandex shorts and highlighter pink sports bra. Pulling the clothing on, followed by my sneakers, I quickly smoothed my hair into a bun, and shot from the room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hadn’t worn my exercise gear since the morning of the Milan runway show. I’d sprinted until I’d collapsed off the treadmill at the hotel, hoping I could dispel my anxiety enough to hide my stupid nerves and prevent a vertigo spell in front of the press.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It had worked—mainly. Until Jethro arrived, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The moment when I’d set eyes upon him, I’d been done for. He’d been so dashing with his suit, tie, and diamond pin. So perfectly refined with his elegant haircut, chiselled physique, and sculptured lips. Even though his soul was dark, his body had summoned me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’d called to me, and like the stupid Weaver I was, I’d followed him blindly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, it’s his turn to follow my whims, my rules.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jogging down the corridor, my racing mind and temper eased, already reacting to the stress relief I’d sought all my life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I need him out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn’t fair. I was supposed to seduce him and make him care for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">me—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not the other way around. I wasn’t supposed to fall for my own games.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lust was as dangerous as love. Only it was worse because it had the power to make even the worst ideas seem plausible—and even recommended—when a sexual reward was given.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The moment Jethro gave in and kissed me, I’d betrayed more than just myself. I’d betrayed my entire family line and all the Weaver women who’d died before me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had feelings for him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A dangerous softness toward my would-be-killer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It has to end.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had to find a way to seduce him…to make him love me, all while I kept my heart frigid and locked away in an ice fortress.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I laughed under my breath. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You sound just like him</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I wanted to turn into the female equivalent of his glacial shell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only, ice wasn’t impervious. Ice melted and succumbed to fire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d proven that over the past month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The house breathed around me with gentle heartbeats only ancient dwellings could have. Spirits of past generations lived in its walls, revenants danced in the drapery, and figments of long forgotten lovers floated through the tapestries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A grandfather clock tick-tocked as I jogged past, showing the time at six thirty a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After being privy to the business meetings with Kes and the Black Diamonds, I knew the men never got up this early. They worked late, dealing with shipments and the transportation of stones worth more than any dress I could sew. Darkness was their asset, the sun their foe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At least I could run and be back before anyone tried to stop me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn’t want them to draw the wrong conclusion that I was trying to escape again. I blinked as I ran head first into a horrendous conclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even if you found the boundary this morning, you wouldn’t leave.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heart thumped harder at the tangled web I lived.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freedom was something I wanted more than anything. But even if I escaped the Hawks, I would only run back into the trap of pity and vertigo. I wanted more than that. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deserved </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more than that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I found the estate edge, I wouldn’t disappear. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">couldn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The passion, the intensity, the blazing ferocity of existing with enemies and plotting beneath their noses was a much worthier cause than sitting at home sewing for the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was about me. Me standing up for myself, and for a future I wanted, not a future already planned for me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was about so many twisted things.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrenched open the French doors at the end of the corridor and stumbled into the foggy dawn. Fresh air welcomed me and I found a reprieve from my scrambled thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can’t forget my ultimate plan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No matter how Jethro endeared himself to me—giving me glimpses of someone barely coping inside his wintry armor—I wasn’t going to forget my goal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not just for myself, but for the rest of my legacy. My children and their children and their children’s children would never have to go through this. I intended to be the last Weaver stolen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sucking in lungfuls of crisp air, I steeled myself in what I had to do. In order to win, I had to guard my soul. I had to play along with Jethro’s mind games and hope to God I won first.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A cool breeze whistled through the trees, sounding like haunted laments. I shivered, wishing I’d brought a jacket.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gritting my teeth against the cold, I bent over and stretched my quads. The tug and slow release of muscles was heaven after the stress of the past few days.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">run.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For fun this time, not for survival.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bouncing on the spot, I rolled my shoulders, eyeing up the sweeping lawn before me. If I went right, I’d loop around the stables. If I went left, I’d cut through the sprawling rose garden and orchards.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Down the meandering path that disappeared over the horizon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And just where do you think you’re going?” a cool voice whispered through the silver fog.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrenched to a stop, peering behind me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I thought you’d realised running wasn’t a viable option, Ms. Weaver.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His icy voice sent a strange mixture of hot and cold desire down my spine. Jethro morphed into being, seeming to solidify from the mist like a terrible poltergeist. He leaned against one of the pillars holding up the portico, crossing his arms.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heart collapsed, unable to untangle the maze of hypocrisy between us. My skin begged for his touch. My lips tingled for his. Every inch of me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">craved</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> what he could deliver.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heat. Passion. An eruption that I felt in every cell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But none of that was real.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I refused to believe in trickery any longer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mirroring his body language, I crossed my arms. “I realise </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">escaping</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> isn’t a viable option. But I’m not escaping. I’m running. Running is my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> option to escape the mess you’ve made.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His jaw clenched. “The mess </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> made?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yes.” I took a step backward as he advanced. “You’re messing me up, and I’m done playing whatever it is that you’re doing.” I sucked in courage and embraced honesty. It seemed to work around him, and I needed him to see how serious I was. How hurt I was with his deception.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’s Kite.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bastard.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baring my teeth, I said, “It seems I have a weakness for you, but I changed my mind. I don’t—”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A low growl escaped him. “A weakness? You call what happened between us a fucking weakness?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My breathing ratcheted as if I’d already run two miles. “The worst kind of weakness.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He smiled, but no mirth entered his gaze. If anything, his golden eyes were luminous with anger. “You’re the one who started it…</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nila</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I gasped at the delicious decadence of my name on his lips. The sound echoed in his mouth, shooting straight to my core.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jethro advanced again, his body trembling with barely veiled lust. “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You’re</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the one who created this problem.” His hand came up, fingers slinking through my tied-up hair, tightening around the back of my skull. “I can’t hear the name Weaver without getting fucking hard. I can’t even think of you without boiling with need.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You should never have said those two words, Ms. Weaver. I told you. We’re both fucked now.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My mind was blank, every synapse focusing on his fingers in my hair and his mouth only millimetres from mine. “What two words?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He chuckled. The sound was self-deprecating and almost morbid with dark intensity. “Kiss me.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I shivered in his hold. “You’re reminding me of what started this mess, or you’re asking me to kiss you?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask me. And I will. God, how I will.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d kiss him until I’d stripped him of his arctic armor and destroyed it, I’d lick him until I tasted his truth, and I’d bite him until I’d eaten every morsel of his soul.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d do all that so he had nowhere left to hide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stood wrapped in foggy silence. The drawn out anticipation of a kiss turned my legs to jelly. If he pressed his mouth to mine, I wouldn’t be going for my run. I would climb his body and impale myself on his cock.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fakery be damned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kite’s messages and deceit be damned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just wanted a raw connection—with this man, who made my soul whimper for wrongness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jethro’s tongue slipped between his lips, hypnotising me. Then…he let me go. “No, I’m not asking you to kiss me. I won’t ever ask anything from you.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I flinched as if he’d slapped me. “Why not?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Because I own you. Everything I want will be given, not requested.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Double shit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I should hate him. I should smite him. So, why did his every word seduce me, even while I knew his morals were chauvinistic and heartless?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forcing my body to obey, I shoved the weakness I had for him as far away as possible. My eyes trailed down his front. He wore tan jodhpurs, black riding boots, and a tweed jacket. The bulge between his legs looked heavy and far too dangerous to be legal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You’ve been riding.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A gentle gust of early morning air blew his scent directly into my nose. I inhaled, soaking my lungs in hay, horse, and all things Jethro.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He nodded, crossing his arms once again. “You run. I ride. Seems we have something else in common.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something other than being forced into this debt and finding each other irresistible, you mean?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, what’s that?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jethro stepped closer, seeming to bring shadows into the smoky light of dawn. “We both need time alone to hide from the things that chase us.” He stiffened, his eyes churning with things he refused to voice. A five o’ clock shadow decorated his strong jaw, his lips parted while his gaze was pure brimstone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swiftly, he cupped my cheek.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh, God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Electricity instantly sparked beneath his fingertips.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would I always suffer the rhapsody of his touch?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My skin smouldered; pinpricks of light, of fire, of hell, all burnished beneath his hold. I swayed, pressing my face harder into his palm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He sucked in a breath, his fingers digging harder against my cheekbone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chemistry and need to devour each other thickened with every heartbeat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One beat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two beat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stood there, frozen on the stoop of Hawksridge Hall just waiting for the other to move. The moment we did, our clothes would disintegrate and I would willingly let him drag me into a bush and fuck me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lust and tension swirled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had so many questions and doubts; so many reasons to hate and fear him. But when he touched me…</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">poof.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I no longer remembered, nor cared.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We swayed closer, drawn against our will to close the aching distance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I couldn’t breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kiss me. Please, kiss me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The moment stretched until it hummed with overwhelming possibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, it snapped.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loudly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Painfully.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shattering around our feet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You’re too fucking dangerous,” Jethro muttered, removing his touch and stepping away. Dragging his hand through his hair, he commanded, “Wait here. Don’t go anywhere.” His hands went to his jacket buttons, undoing them with nimble fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I blinked, struggling to shed myself of heavy need and focus on the true reason why I stood barely dressed in the freezing morning. “I’m not escaping. I’ll be back in forty minutes or so.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He shook his head, slipping out of his tweed and revealing a black long-sleeved jumper.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My mouth went dry. Even in clothing, I could make out every ridge of muscle in his stomach, every ripple of energy as he breathed in and out. He was designed straight from my fantasies, and I hated him for being so splendid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My core clenched, sending flutters of wetness between my legs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hadn’t seen him in two days, yet I’d panted after him as if he’d been missing my entire life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If he suspected I knew that he was Kite, he hadn’t let on. After Kes had told me the truth, I’d waited for Jethro to barge into my room and swear me to secrecy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He didn’t look at me any differently; he gave no outward sign that his lies had begun to unravel. As much as he confounded and frustrated me, I couldn’t help admiring his perfection at hiding.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m coming with you. Don’t leave.” He disappeared into the house, leaving me abandoned and covered in chills from both the morning air and his departure.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was the worst that could happen? He’d have to chase me again. My tummy coiled at the thought. I liked that idea way too much. I liked the thought of what would happen after he found me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="107px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ur1gVHmLSlyC1Xvg-pFUIh6k_LAKV_-DvlCvYKOacSKGiIdxXTSv4TM5kaL6OaFcmofxIJo02voijXvccBk17ZM0xbI6A-0ViRn6xtVdYzk4-jYg8cZ279zprEdCEq4LMg" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="177px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just thinking of Jethro sent a spasm of desire through my core.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dammit, what’s happening to me?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A daydream of Jethro slamming to his knees before me and wrenching my legs wide stole my mind. It was so vivid, so real—a trickle of need ran down my inner thigh. I gasped as I imagined his tongue lapping at my clit, his long fingers disappearing inside me—the same finger that I’d tattooed with my name.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would I come harder knowing he touched me with a finger branded by me? Or would I hold on as tight as I could and make him work for it?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh, God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed to get rid of this satanic desire. I needed to be free.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My eyes opened, latching onto the detachable showerhead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could do it myself…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heartbeat whizzed with need. I couldn’t fight the churning demand any longer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reaching upward, I unhooked the showerhead and turned the water temperature down so as not to burn myself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feeling awkward and ridiculous and a hundred times guilty for what I was about to do, I braced my back on the tiled wall and spread my legs a little. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh. My. God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My eyes rolled back as I grew bolder and pressed the stream of heavenly water harder against my pussy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water cascaded down my legs while my torso shivered from sudden cold. My nipples stiffened as I wickedly angled the jet down and down until water shot inside me. Every jet and bubble aroused sensitive flesh, sending my muscles clenching in joy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loudly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My legs trembled as my neck flopped forward and I gave myself over to the exquisite pleasure conjured by an innocuous showerhead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starbursts flashed behind my eyelids; Jethro loomed into my mind. I pictured him shrugging out of his black shirt, prowling toward me while unbuckling his belt and unzipping his trousers. I moaned again as my daydream shed his clothing and stood proud and naked before me. He grabbed his cock, pumping himself hard and firm, while his eyes feasted on what I was doing. He didn’t say a word, only watched, then crooked his finger and beckoned me closer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heartbeat exceeded recommended limits as I forced myself higher and higher, locking my knees against buckling as an orgasm brewed into being. I rocked the showerhead, biting my lip as the pressure spurted over my clit and then inside me. The rhythm I set was exactly like fucking and I daren’t overthink how I looked or how depraved I felt getting off this way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My daydream forced its way past my misgivings. My forehead furrowed as I trembled, both welcoming and fighting an orgasm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daydream Jethro crept closer, working his cock, a dangerous glint in his eyes. The moment I was within grabbing distance, he captured my waist. “I need to be inside you, Nila.” I put words into Jethro’s mouth, but it was his voice I heard in my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I moaned again, angling the showerhead harder against my clit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“How do you want it?” my fantasy whispered in my ear as he spun me around and pressed me hard against the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I swallowed hard, answering in my mind. “Fast and…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Filthy?” Daydream Jethro’s nose nuzzled the back of my ear, sending shockwaves down my spine. “I can fuck you filthy.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I couldn’t speak. But I didn’t have to. My fantasy knew exactly how I needed it. Jethro bit the back of my shoulder, spreading my legs wider with his.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Fuck me, Jethro Hawk,” I whispered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, I will. Believe me, I will.” Without further warning, he dug his fingers into my hips and slammed inside me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My fingers went numb as I slid the showerhead from clit to entrance. I cried out as water shot inside at the same time as Jethro thrust into me from behind, sliding deep and fast, stretching me deliciously painfully.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heart exploded with bliss. An orgasm squeezed every atom, getting ready to hurl me into the stratosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jethro thrust again and I rode my new friend the showerhead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, God. Yes,” I hissed, rocking harder. “Yes, yes…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A masculine cough sounded. “You continue to surprise me, Ms. Weaver; at least this time, I rather enjoy it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything crashed into awareness. My daydream shattered, fracturing by my feet like broken glass. I squealed and dropped the showerhead. It turned into a water snake, spewing water left and right, wriggling like some terrible demon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709013229748104515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411209091606307543.post-70321983230978120892015-01-23T08:56:00.001-08:002015-01-23T08:56:20.773-08:00Excerpt Reveal - - Indebted #3 - Second Debt by Pepper Winters<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.1500000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Excerpt from Second Debt by Pepper Winters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’d tried to destroy her, but serendipitously, she’d destroyed me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not the end of my feelings for her but the way of my life, my world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just thinking of Jethro sent a spasm of desire through my core.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dammit, what’s happening to me?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A daydream of Jethro slamming to his knees before me and wrenching my legs wide stole my mind. It was so vivid, so real—a trickle of need ran down my inner thigh. I gasped as I imagined his tongue lapping at my clit, his long fingers disappearing inside me—the same finger that I’d tattooed with my name.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would I come harder knowing he touched me with a finger branded by me? Or would I hold on as tight as I could and make him work for it?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My eyes opened, latching onto the detachable showerhead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could do it myself…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heartbeat whizzed with need. I couldn’t fight the churning demand any longer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reaching upward, I unhooked the showerhead and turned the water temperature down so as not to burn myself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feeling awkward and ridiculous and a hundred times guilty for what I was about to do, I braced my back on the tiled wall and spread my legs a little. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My teeth clamped on my bottom lip as the water pressure tickled my clit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh. My. God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My eyes rolled back as I grew bolder and pressed the stream of heavenly water harder against my pussy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water cascaded down my legs while my torso shivered from sudden cold. My nipples stiffened as I wickedly angled the jet down and down until water shot inside me. Every jet and bubble aroused sensitive flesh, sending my muscles clenching in joy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I moaned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loudly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My legs trembled as my neck flopped forward and I gave myself over to the exquisite pleasure conjured by an innocuous showerhead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starbursts flashed behind my eyelids; Jethro loomed into my mind. I pictured him shrugging out of his black shirt, prowling toward me while unbuckling his belt and unzipping his trousers. I moaned again as my daydream shed his clothing and stood proud and naked before me. He grabbed his cock, pumping himself hard and firm, while his eyes feasted on what I was doing. He didn’t say a word, only watched, then crooked his finger and beckoned me closer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heartbeat exceeded recommended limits as I forced myself higher and higher, locking my knees against buckling as an orgasm brewed into being. I rocked the showerhead, biting my lip as the pressure spurted over my clit and then inside me. The rhythm I set was exactly like fucking and I daren’t overthink how I looked or how depraved I felt getting off this way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My daydream forced its way past my misgivings. My forehead furrowed as I trembled, both welcoming and fighting an orgasm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daydream Jethro crept closer, working his cock, a dangerous glint in his eyes. The moment I was within grabbing distance, he captured my waist. “I need to be inside you, Nila.” I put words into Jethro’s mouth, but it was his voice I heard in my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I moaned again, angling the showerhead harder against my clit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“How do you want it?” my fantasy whispered in my ear as he spun me around and pressed me hard against the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I swallowed hard, answering in my mind. “Fast and…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Filthy?” Daydream Jethro’s nose nuzzled the back of my ear, sending shockwaves down my spine. “I can fuck you filthy.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I couldn’t speak. But I didn’t have to. My fantasy knew exactly how I needed it. Jethro bit the back of my shoulder, spreading my legs wider with his.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Fuck me, Jethro Hawk,” I whispered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, I will. Believe me, I will.” Without further warning, he dug his fingers into my hips and slammed inside me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My fingers went numb as I slid the showerhead from clit to entrance. I cried out as water shot inside at the same time as Jethro thrust into me from behind, sliding deep and fast, stretching me deliciously painfully.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I tried to play a game. I tried to wield deceit as perfectly as the Hawks. But when I thought I was winning, I wasn’t. Jethro isn’t what he seems—he’s the master of duplicity. However, I refuse to let him annihilate me further.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709013229748104515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411209091606307543.post-6195776553881232382014-11-21T05:32:00.000-08:002014-11-21T05:32:01.567-08:00Blog Tour including Review - - First Debt (Book 2 Indebted Series) by Pepper Winters<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.1500000000000001; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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Pepper Winters has given us another amazing, captivating read! First Debt is the second book in the Indebted series and cannot be read as a stand alone. I personally loved the first book but I found this one to be even better, the way the characters and plot are beginning to develop is extremely intriguing. The first book left me with a million questions and fortunately, First Debt answered some of them but of course it raised quite a few more! I will let you know that we do finally get some information about what happened between the Hawks and Weavers all those years ago and its a terrible story, still no real reason for this horrible debt inheritance but the hatred is understandable. </div>
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I love a good dark romance but I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to really see Jethro in a romantic light however this book changed my mind. In true Pepper Winters fashion there is something major going on with him that is probably going to change everything. His terrifying icy facade is hiding something and much to his surprise, Nila is cracking his frozen heart. There are so many things about him that I'm dying to know, I can't wait to find out more! Nila is quite a character, she is so different from the first book! Her character is growing, changing, adapting and becoming stronger with each passing day. This horrifying situation is allowing her to discover who she truly is and that her previous life wasn't what she actually wanted at all. She is finding freedom in captivity while finding her first true attraction to the one man she should hate. Her unwavering determination to not only survive but to win this evil game is admirable. Also we get to know Jethro's brother Kes quite a bit and he adds quite an interesting development to the story!</div>
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I think the back and forth relationship between Jethro and Nila is fascinating, their intense attraction confuses them both and threatens the entire ritualistic nature of the debt inheritance. Jethro needs to be calm, cold and ruthless while Nila needs to be subdued and submissive yet their feelings fill them with scorching hot passion that could either ruin or save them both depending on how you look at it. The heat between these two characters practically lights the pages of this book on fire and I loved every second of it! </div>
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This compelling, passionate read is filled with mystery, hot sex, crazy plot twists and revelations that leave you absolutely dying for the next book in the series, I can't wait to read more! </div>
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Storyline: Unique, riveting</div>
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Female Characters: strong</div>
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Male Characters: mysterious, confusing</div>
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Author's Writing Style: absolutely amazing!</div>
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Plot Twists: its a crazy ride!</div>
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Steam Factor: hot, hot, hot</div>
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Bend don't Break</h3>
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Skye Callahan</h3>
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<strong>Genre: Dark Erotic Romance</strong></div>
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<strong>Available November 18, 2014</strong></div>
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I thought I was done.</div>
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I couldn’t take my eyes off her as the bullet tore through me, leaving me with nothing but the hope that I had done enough to save her. The darkness tried to engulf me—to brand me as its own and drag me to my fate.</div>
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<strong>my Darkness</strong></div>
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Waking to see her tear-stained face above me was enough to make my heart stutter. I was alive and free from that place—but not from the toll it had taken on my mind and body.</div>
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My story should have ended, but one woman kept standing in the way of that. The only way I could have her was to find a way to put the darkness to rest.<br />
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Bend, Don't Break by Skye Callahan was nothing short of phenomenal! This book is James' point of view after the retreat and of course some events from the previous novel will be gone over through his eyes. It cannot be read as a stand alone, you must read Irrevocable first. I will admit I had my doubts for a moment knowing some events would overlap but Skye did an amazing job of not just retelling the same events through a different point of view. This novel did not have one bit of the redundant feel I've gotten from many authors who have tried to do a similar sequel and this is just another reason to add her to my favorite authors list! I also couldn't imagine how a sequel could ever compare to the shocking, wild and emotional journey of Irrevocable but Bend, Don't Break managed to keep me on the edge of my seat the whole time. </div>
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The case against the traffickers didn't end when the first novel ended, there were still many criminals that needed to be dealt with and the journey to healing for James and Rose was barely beginning. These two plot points made for an intriguing, suspenseful, emotional and sexy read that I couldn't put down once I started. One of the major things I loved about this novel was reading about James' emotional battles, Skye didn't make him some tough guy cop who was able to just put the retreat behind him and move on. He had quite a few issues to work through and was struggling to make sense of the world after seeing and doing such horrible things. It made me love him even more to see that vulnerability and self doubt, it made his character seem a million times more life like and relate-able. Don't even get me started on Rose.. she is by far one of the strongest, most resilient and bravest female characters I have ever encountered, she is absolutely amazing and inspirational. I can't imagine for one second experiencing the horrors she endured but I am quite sure I would be shattered where she is stronger than ever. I can't say too much about the case of trying to round up all the major players in the trafficking ring since that would give too much away but let me say WOW. There are quite a few twists and turns that I did not expect, things went deeper and were much more complex than I could have imagined! </div>
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I really feel that this novel show cased Skye's immense talent, I have not read a sequel like this in a long time. I loved getting a feel for what James was going through at the retreat since the first novel was through Rose's eyes, for obvious reasons. Again I am thrilled that there wasn't alot of just retelling the same scenes from a different view. Bend, Don't Break was so much more than I expected when I first heard it was coming out, it was jam packed with suspense, action, emotion and of course, hot sex!! I am also glad that Skye didn't make the road easy for James and Rose, they didn't get some hearts and flowers happily ever after. They met in a terrible way, had to go through horrifying events and nightmares and travel a rocky road of healing in order to even try to be together. I could probably ramble for days about how great both these novels were and how much I love Skye Callahan but I'll end this by saying just go read these books!</div>
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Storyline: Interesting, complex, captivating</div>
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Female Characters: strongest woman ever</div>
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Male Characters: sexy and tough but vulnerable</div>
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Author's Writing Style: absolutely amazing!</div>
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Plot Twists: shocking!</div>
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Laugh Factor: none</div>
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Cry Factor: nah</div>
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Steam Factor: sooo hot!!</div>
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Violence: yes, not as much as the first but some violence</div>
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“She’s fine,” Dr. Combs assured me. “But I don’t think it would be in the best interest for either of you to see each other. You put yourself in a dangerous situation with her.”<br />
<em>Put myself</em>? Last I checked I wasn’t the one to drag her into the Retreat. “I kept her alive and slightly less broken than she would have otherwise been.”<br />
“The two of you adapted to a horrible situation, found comfort in each other—”<br />
I didn’t want to hear it.<br />
<em>Stockholm Syndrome. </em><br />
I wondered if the captor could get it, too. Was I even the captor? It seemed like I’d lost control of the situation long ago.<br />
But I’d still been the one to beat her, rape her, bend her will.<br />
Just like she’d bent mine.<br />
I wanted her back so bad I couldn’t breathe. The more we talked about it, the worse it got. The harsh reality of it all forced me to face the possibility that I had to walk away if I wanted to do what was in her best interest.<br />
“How long until I can talk to Trent?” I tried again, drawing back a modicum of control by changing the course of the conversation.<br />
Dr. Combs sighed and snapped her portfolio closed. “If it’ll get you to talk, I’ll make the arrangements on one condition.”<br />
I’d already sold my soul, there weren’t many more concessions I had left to give.<br />
“I need to know you’re not going to try to reach out to Rose—or anyone else.”<br />
Did that mean there was a chance she’d see me? Or was Dr. Combs convinced I’d stalk and abduct her anyway? That was quite a laughable possibility, but some sick-as-fuck part of me considered it.<br />
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She came around the corner on hands and knees, and I saw her face visibly pale as soon as she saw the chain in my hands, but she approached anyway. Stubborn, belligerent, and brave.<br />
Three traits that’d get her killed.<br />
I dropped the chain to the floor next to the bed. “Come up here.”<br />
She paused, but finally climbed onto the bed and straddled my lap as I directed, and damned if I didn’t feel like I was losing it. The bruises from her encounter with Gabe’s buffoons were starting to set in, but she pulled back and shut herself off as I examined her.<br />
Such a degrading way to make sure nothing was broken, but if she didn’t believe my act, no one else would either. I realized the plug in her ass was probably growing even more uncomfortable with time, especially if she hadn’t experimented with them before.<br />
Not that I could ask since I wasn’t supposed to care.<br />
“Hate me all you want, Sugar,” I said, hoping to get her to walk a fine line between trust and fear where she might listen. “I’m the only ally you have.”<br />
“Ally…?” she whispered, “You’re going to hurt me.” Her eyes filled again, but she blinked it away and held back just like she had in the basement, and I couldn’t face her any longer.<br />
“I am,” I lifted her off of me, flipping her over. “Ass up.”<br />
Even though she kept up her protective walls, I saw her body visibly relax when I pulled the plug free and sat it on the side table. It was going to be hard enough for her to kneel through dinner. I hoped the threat of it might make her more compliant.<br />
The mix of vulnerability countered with her impossible stubbornness had an aphrodisiac effect on me. I had been convinced this was the only way we’d survive, but for the first time, I truly considered the effect it was going to have on both of us.<br />
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Sometimes when you can’t go back, the only way out is to descend into the darkness.</div>
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I watched him spill blood and tend my injuries. With betrayal came a revelation.</div>
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The only way out was to bring them all down or die trying.</div>
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"Not only did Irrevocable gut me, it took me on a roller coaster ride full of emotions that I usually don't experience while reading romances.... You start to hate, you start to sympathize, and you begin to fall in love in every way. Ms. Callahan has turned my world upside down with her writing. Dark, sensual, and at times overwhelming, Irrevocable will bring you on a dark journey that you will never forget." <em>Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads TOP PICK of 2014!</em></div>
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Skye Callahan was born and raised in rural Ohio and has had an insatiable love of reading and writing since she was young. Thanks to the encouragement of teachers, family, and friends, she has found her passion in immersing herself in the imaginary worlds of the characters who live in her head.</div>
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Lena is about to discover pleasure in the things she can’t control.<br />
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To get even with her roommate for dragging her to a sports bar on a Friday night, Lena begins flirting with the handsome stranger who sits at the bar next to her. Their anonymous conversation leads to a shared cab ride, but Lena’s conscience puts a damper on the evening—leaving the near-fling to become a memory. Until she finds him roaming the halls of the school where she teaches.</div>
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Eric’s only reason for returning to his hometown is to care for his recently orphaned nephew. He knew the return would involve dredging up his past with family and friends, but he didn't expect a lone girl to capture his interest and offer an escape within his new life.</div>
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Kaylyn Anderson's fascination with abandoned places and dark creatures kindled her work as a paranormal investigator. But when dreams begin to distort reality, she questions what is real and pulls away from everyone she trusts. The opportunity to investigate the Teague Hotel--a long-abandoned landmark that has always piqued her curiosity--provides a chance to redeem herself. Unraveling the hotel's secrets won't be easy, but Kaylyn soon finds herself the target of a dark entity that has been trapped in the building for decades.<br />
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I couldn’t take my eyes off her as the bullet tore through me, leaving me with nothing but the hope that I had done enough to save her. The darkness tried to engulf me—to brand me as its own and drag me to my fate.</div>
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Waking to see her tear-stained face above me was enough to make my heart stutter. I was alive and free from that place—but not from the toll it had taken on my mind and body.</div>
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My story should have ended, but one woman kept standing in the way of that. The only way I could have her was to find a way to put the darkness to rest.</div>
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Irrevocable: <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/irrevocable-skye-callahan/1119630499?ean=9781498916066" title="">Nook</a> | Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LS5PYG6" target="_blank" title="">US</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LS5PYG6" target="_blank" title="">UK</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00LS5PYG6" target="_blank" title="">CA</a>. <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00LS5PYG6" target="_blank" title="">AU</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id898303710" title="">iTunes </a>| <a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/irrevocable-3" title="">Kobo </a>| <a href="http://www.scribd.com/book/233921194/Irrevocable" title="">ScribD </a></div>
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My hands clenched at my sides twisting and curling the thin hospital sheets. “Not then.”</div>
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I tried to think about anything else, but my mind betrayed me and jumped straight to that night. My heart went into overdrive, fueling the anger that already tainted my blood and sending it to the deepest part of my brain.</div>
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That first day. It seemed like it had happened years ago, only because so much had changed since the day I’d first seen her in the basement of the Retreat.</div>
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“When? Another day—or night,” Dr. Combs continued prying.</div>
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“Second night—only because it would’ve been Ross if not me.”</div>
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I blew out a puff of air. “I got her off if that’s what you’d like to know.”</div>
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“See there,” I said, laying my arm over my eyes. “You don’t really want to hear about it any more than I want to talk about it.”</div>
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I slammed my hand down on the bed to stop her lie. “Don’t fucking give me that. I was there. There is no fucking way in hell anyone hears about the things I did without some kind of opinion. I’m the bastard, the abuser, rapist, villain, liar, thief—and I get away with it all as far as the law and any official judgment are concerned. I’d be utterly convinced that I’m guaranteed a spot in the deepest pit of Hell if I wasn’t holding on to the slim hope that the time I’ve already spent there was enough to burn away my sins—at the very least it might have burned away my soul, in which case it won’t matter much once I die because there won’t even be anything left.”</div>
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"Again, I am amazed, I read this in an afternoon, and I am so glad I had the time because I wouldn't have been able to put this down.... While this book is told from James's POV it gives another side to the first story yet, builds onto the current story and another part that you haven't been told." (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1096497610?book_show_action=false&page=1">read more...</a>)</div>
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"I just finished Bend, Don't Break and what a way to finish this story! I just loved it.... " (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1096145646?book_show_action=false&page=1">read more...</a>)</div>
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★★★★★ Beggin (Shay) from Mommys a Book Whore</div>
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"Now back on the outside, James and Rose have to figure out how to put the pieces back together in this next chapter of their lives. Loved them in Irrevocable and fell even harder for them in Bend, Don't Break." (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1101257063?book_show_action=false&page=1">read more...</a>)</div>
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"Rose and James have so much to work on recovering from their time at the Retreat, this book is filled with every emotion and it is an amazing read. I don't want to give away any part of the story but if you read Irrevocable you must read this book, it was just as good if not better." (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1104527790?book_show_action=false&page=1">read more...</a>)</div>
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"I loved this sequel. It filled in so many holes from James POV and got us to the HEA I wanted for them both. If you loved Irrevocable, this is a must read!" (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1104363248?book_show_action=false&page=1">read more...</a>)</div>
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"Speechless! This was exactly what I needed to be happy with their story...! They fight their struggles and dark past together. And at the end are exactly what I wanted them to be.... It's a must read." (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1075660070?book_show_action=false&page=1">read more...</a>)</div>
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Skye Callahan was born and raised in rural Ohio and has had an insatiable love of reading and writing since she was young. Thanks to the encouragement of teachers, family, and friends, she has found her passion in immersing herself in the imaginary worlds of the characters who live in her head.</div>
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<b>Chapter 1<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Ignorance isn’t always bliss…</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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How did I get here? Not this specific seat<br />
exactly… I mean here, in this part of my life, where I never would have<br />
considered being. I know the events that led me here—my sisters moving back, my<br />
parents’ vow renewal, and a weekend that I could have practiced better control.<br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Could have. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I won’t deny it to myself that I wanted it to<br />
happen. I won’t deny it to you either…but Simon… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, he doesn’t need to know the truth. He’d be<br />
smug and pompous…or should I say he’d be himself. Simon was right about one thing,<br />
though. He said nothing about this game would be simple, and so far, it isn’t.<br />
If it was, the game would be over by now, and I would be sitting somewhere else<br />
having breakfast instead of waiting for him to join us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Raising my coffee to my mouth, I sit here trying<br />
to ignore the pleas of Mea while we wait for everyone to get here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Please,” she asks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No.” I lean back in my seat staring at her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Please.” I watch her cup her hands and bring them<br />
up to her chest as she pleads. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here it comes…I can see the anger building, the<br />
slight twitch in her eye starting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Why not?” She drops her hands and her voice<br />
becomes louder than it was a few seconds ago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because bothering you is so much fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Because I don’t like women…and I don’t want an<br />
assistant,” I tell her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, you do want an assistant,” Lexi mumbles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“See!” Mea points to Lexi. “I’ll be so good! I<br />
follow you around anyway, and I hate women, too!” She bounces in her chair. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I know. You’re like a lost little puppy.” My face<br />
wrinkles when she starts the face. “Did you forget? You’re Josh’s assistant,” I<br />
remind her for the millionth time. “How are we going to explain why you’re<br />
suddenly mine?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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We aren’t because she has no answer to that. For<br />
months, she’s been Josh’s assistant on set. Actually, if I’m being truthful,<br />
she has years of being Josh’s assistant under her belt. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Am I using that as a scapegoat? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Umm, yes! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have to put up with her all day everyday anyway.<br />
I don’t need her as an Ass, too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m bored with Josh,” she whines, ignoring my<br />
question.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s nice…I’m sure your husband would like to<br />
know he bores you at work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Fine,” I<br />
groan, taking another mouthful of coffee. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Really?” Mea’s voice is so happy, so filled with<br />
joy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stupid question. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No,” I smirk into my mug so she can’t see me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s not that I don’t like Mea…I like her a lot,<br />
actually. She’s just so much fun to tease.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re a jerk,” Mea pouts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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See? Look at that lip. So. Much. Fun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We’ve been coming here every Sunday for weeks and<br />
every Sunday it starts out the same. Could you just tell her yes and be done<br />
with it.” Lexi’s head falls over the back of her chair. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once again, the problem isn’t her being my Ass.<br />
It’s the fact that she is already Josh’s and further more… the girl knows<br />
nothing about make-up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t<br />
know why you want to be my assistant. Like you said, it’s same thing you do<br />
now…just follow me around and look busy. Why do you need the title?” I look out<br />
the restaurant window, searching for the rest of our group. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Because when I tell people I’m your assistant, it<br />
won’t feel like a lie.” She grabs a menu to look through it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wait, what?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I…you…,” I try to think of something to say. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What a freaking jerk! She just admitted to lying<br />
to everyone about being my Ass. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Wait…this makes sense now. Every time someone<br />
mentioned giving something to my assistant, I laughed and said yeah. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dammit! Mea took total advantage of my ignorance! <o:p></o:p></div>
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“This doesn’t make us friends.” I glare at her,<br />
still trying not to laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do I get a say in anything? <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Never.” Mea smiles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I feel like that answers both my verbal and mental<br />
question. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“It doesn’t mean we’re going to be friends,<br />
either. We aren’t going to chitchat and gossip. I’m not about to play dress up<br />
and do your make-up.” I put my mug down on the table to wiggle my fingers<br />
through the air. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“So, cuddling is off the table too, then,” she<br />
asks catching me off guard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Beg your pardon…<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Why the hell would we need to cuddle?” I ask, and<br />
Lexi begins to laugh. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, say I’m stuck at your apartment because<br />
there’s so much snow outside. Does a sleepover count as all of those things?”<br />
She looks at us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pressing my lips together, I try to make sense of<br />
what she just said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Why the frig would you be at my apartment?” I<br />
question her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, why not?” She looks at me then Lexi, whose<br />
body is being jolted around by laughter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I…I honestly have no answer that you would<br />
accept,” I breathe out, exhausted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Okay. Can I ask one more question, though?” Mea<br />
beams. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Just one?” I wait for it, trying to mentally<br />
prepare myself for the next bizarre thing she might spout out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I think my eye is starting to twitch. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I need a cup. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Reaching down into my bag, I pull a few out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Eh, it depends on your answer…” She looks behind<br />
me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Fine, go ahead.” I turn to see everyone walking<br />
over to us, as I unwrap my medication.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What if that did happen?” she asks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s the same question with different words!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m going to have to make sure this girl never<br />
gets the opportunity to come over. I’ll never get her out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Then you can sleep on the couch or cuddle with<br />
Lexi.” I point to Lexi.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sweet peanut buttery goodness…you’re the only one<br />
who gets me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Sidney only cuddles when she’s drunk. Then she’ll<br />
do all those things…play with your hair and gossip, the whole nine yards. Other<br />
than that, she’s a stick in the mud,” Lexi laughs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I must attract people like this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“She’s going to make me be her friend, isn’t she?”<br />
I ask Simon when he pulls out his seat next to me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I would love to tell you that you have a choice,<br />
but I think she’s going to win this one.” He lightly pinches my cheek. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Releasing a heavy sigh, I agree.<br />
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“Thank you for<br />
not lying to me.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Damn you, Emersyn Vallis! How are you just going to leave me hanging like that... (CLIFFHANGER ALERT, CLIFFHANGER ALERT!!!) Have you ever walked into a sliding glass door because you thought it was open and it totally wasn't? How did you feel? Well, that is EXACTLY how the ending of Sacrifice left me feeling... (I still can not believe that shit happened..)</div>
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(This is the third book in the Fate Series... You MUST read Adjournment and Hanging Pawns before you pick up Sacrifice because well, for one they are both amazing and two, you are going to be hella confused if you just decide to jump into this series on the third book...) </div>
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Sacrifice returns us to Sydney and Simon's POV's and as much as I LOVED Mea and Josh in Hanging Pawns-- well, I was so stoked to get back to Syd and Simon... (Because Simon is totes my Book Boyfriend...and Sydney's snarky inner thoughts are HILARIOUS!!) Anyway, Sydney has some MAJOR revelations in this book... and thankfully, she didn't lose her shit... (I, personally, would have lost my shit..) Although she doesn't think she is strong she is.. Really fucking strong... (I love that about her... that and her snarky, hilarious inner thoughts...) </div>
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Emersyn also let's us watch Sydney and Simon fall deeper in love...(although Syd is not ready to admit it yet..) & are totally in a committed relationship but.....there are like, no titles.. gotta keep it very Sydney. She can't just be in a relationship with Simon.. That is NOT the Sydney thing to do. They also have so VERY, VERY steamy scenes... (Like holy hotness, get me a fan that was intense steamy...) There is also love in the air for another certain Chandler sister...(EEK...so cute!!)</div>
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My favorite part of this book (besides the crazy plot twist at the end) was watching Sydney and Mea's friendship grow. They were twisted together and really had no choice in the matter but.....they totally have a choice when it comes to their friendship. Emersyn managed to make Mea Sydney's perfect balance. They are both equally entertaining but in their own ways. I love how Mea practically wore Sydney down...She didn't give her much of an option even though she tried to "fight" it..friendship or continuous pestering. (But Syd really liked her the whole time... she was just being Sydney...)</div>
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There is so much in the book.. Emersyn doesn't leave any detail out. She made sure that this glorious, crazy world of Chandler and McAllister was a place her readers could escape to (and be completely entertained!!) Every character, every scene, every detail scream Emersyn. I am in love with her writing style because she writes like a friend would talk. She makes you feel included in the story she created; like Sydney and Mea are your friends, too. There are still so many answers I am dying for, still so much I want for Sydney and Simon. I can not even begin to tell you how excited I am for End Game but even more than that. I am beyond excited to see what the future holds for Emersyn and her crazy, hilarious, twisty stories... </div>
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I'm a biker, and I'm a woman, who was raised by my biker family. </div>
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Growing up an MC brat, I've known nothing but leather, booze, club whores, comradery, and bikes, my entire life. </div>
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My name is Eva "Bink" Cummings, and this is my story. </div>
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How at the ripe old age of thirty, with no husband, no kids, and being a part of a motorcycle club. Things aren't always what they appear to be. I've found out the hard way, that your life, in an instant, can be flipped upside down. And the people you know and love aren't always what they seem. </div>
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Steamy Adult romance </div>
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Warning: Contains Mature scenarios, and mass quantities of profanity. For Ages 18+ </div>
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The Diary of Bink Cummings by none other than Bink Cummings was one kick ass book. I mean, come on... She let us read her diary... She gave us an inside look on her deepest, darkest secrets. Bink let us laugh and cry with her. She let us root for her and through her writing made us fall in love with her.</div>
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I jumped off the MC bandwagon awhile back because they all started to become so repetitive but this book... this book is different. It may be because Bink is a real person, sharing some of her real experiences. When I saw the sign up for an opportunity to read and review her book I was intrigued. I mean, seriously, we all want to know what being an MC queen is really like. I know she said this book is loosely based on her life but as far as I am concerned she is one bad ass motorcycle riding, strong willed, take no bull shit chick. </div>
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I loved the bond between Bink and the brother of the Sacred Sinners. You could tell by their words and actions that they truly cared about her well being. And Bink's relationship with Big.... Well, as confusing and sexually charged as it was- there was something almost sweet about it. I can not wait to see what happens next.</div>
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I love how this book was written. It was raw and you could feel Bink's emotions spilling from the pages. I am sure that this book was a great form of therapy even though sharing her story with the world was probably the hardest thing ever. Thank you for sharing your life with us Bink. You are a rock star in my book. Now hurry up February... I need more Big.. </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">SERIES: <span style="background-color: white; color: #382110; line-height: 1.1;">Book One - Stud Mafia Series</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">AUTHORS: Elle Raven & Aimie Jennison</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Release Date: November 2nd, 2014</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Power. Greed. Revenge. Submission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One minute, she's an everyday twenty-eight year old working class office girl the next, she is being blackmailed by Sebastiano Morassi, Sydney's influential crime family boss, to settle her brother's debts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sierra knows she should never have gone to him to "save" her brother but she is captivated by him. His monstrous size, his malicious evil glare and more frightening is the scar that marks his left cheek. Never has she never met or seen anyone like him. The more time she spends with this frightening yet captivating man, the harder it becomes to want to escape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sebastiano Morassi is pure danger. So why does she crave him? He can make her tremble with fear and make her hairs stand on end but he also has a sweetness to him that tugs at her heart. Sierra soon finds herself merged into his world full of murder, revenge, and deceit.</span><br />
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Walking back into the<br />
church, I found Sebastiano on the steps in front of the altar. He looked<br />
agitated and ruthless as I observed him, toying with his rosary beads. His<br />
shirt looked like it had been haphazardly ripped open. He didn’t resemble the<br />
man I knew; a man who could be harmless, soft and so sweet at times. But deep<br />
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His eyes cut into mine as<br />
I approached him. And I could see it: the darkness that lay beneath. It only<br />
took one look from Sebastiano to make me tremble. Still, those looks of warning<br />
didn’t stop the traitorous feelings inside me. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone to<br />
him. I should have stayed away from him, but I didn’t want to. The pull was too<br />
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The Don: Sebastiano by Elle Raven and Aimie Jennison was seriously twisted and super hott!! (And I am not sure which part I enjoyed more!!) I am a sucker for anything mafia related...(Goodfellas is my favorite movie...ever!!) so I was instantly drawn to this book when I read the synopsis. Well, these ladies did not disappoint. </div>
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There were a few points in the story that I felt were a bit of a reach-- like Sierra on a whim just decides it's a grand idea to go meet with the most dangerous man in the country.. and the whole I do whatever I want when and where I want thing Sabastiano has going on (but hey, it is a fiction book...and who knows... it's the mob so I guess anything is possible) and two pretty huge plot points that could have used a bit more description (in my opinion only...I mean, they were discussed but they were HUGE so a little more information or more dialogue about the them would have not been over doing it.) </div>
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More importantly thought was what I adored about this book- the transformation of Sabastiano. I really appreciated how the authors held him true to form until the very last second. I love the whole "people can change" and "shed the darkness of your past" thing they did with his character. It was really kind of sad to see what he thought of himself until Sierra came into his life, hell even when he had her, he still thought he was unworthy of love. (Man, his daddy issues were really worthy of some couch time with Dr. Phil!!) </div>
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Sierra was another great part of this book. She is the walking, talking definition of unconditional. It was heart-warming, actually. She knew all about the life she was walking into and accepted it because she knew that it was the only way she could have the man that she loved. And she loved him no matter what the monster inside of him did because she knew he would NEVER do it to her! </div>
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This book definitely had some dark and twisty to it! I wasn't expecting that at all but it made me so very excited!!! And boy, these ladies can sure write some steamy ass sex scenes!!! After that church scene I felt like I needed confession!! Holy Wax, Batman!! </div>
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Twins born just five minutes apart, they have the perfect life… Until tragedy strikes just weeks after their eighth birthday and their father is killed by a drunk driver. Having trouble coping with the loss of her soul mate, their mother tries to find comfort in drugs and alcohol… And an abusive man with a penchant for underage girls.</div>
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I had gotten used to things over the years. Marley’s emotions always took you on a wild roller coaster ride, the ebb and flow often unexpected and sometimes tumultuous. But during those moments that things flattened out, and the ups and downs of her life were on an even keel, even if for just an instant, those were the times that I treasured. I wouldn’t trade those rare memories for anything in the world. Those were the times that I saw the real Marley…the girl that forced me to play Barbie’s with her, the girl that convinced me the mud pie she made for me was really chocolate. The way her eyes brimmed with enthusiasm and mischief at the same time, you couldn’t help but believe her, knowing that she would squeal with excitement and delight when you pretended to take a bite of her ‘chocolate’ pie.</div>
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“Remember the tree house?” she asked, bringing me back from my own memories. I could hear the lump in her throat.</div>
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“How could I forget? You hounded Dad for months to build you one.”</div>
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I nodded, finding Marley’s hand and grabbing it. “Yeah, I do.”</div>
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I felt her body tremble beside me as big, fat rain drops began to fall. “I think it would have been the best tree house on the block.”</div>
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Losing my father was hard enough when I was just eight, but having to be faced with the constant reminders of his life made it even more difficult. The worst was looking out our back window at a tree that he had begun to build a house in for Marley and me. The night that Mama had explained to us that Dad had gone to heaven and wouldn’t be coming back, I remember glancing out there and seeing Marley sitting on the lone wood plank that he had set up as the foundation of the tree house. Nearly every night that we lived in that house, we would go out there and simply lay down and look at the stars.</div>
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“This reminds me of that,” I said softly. “Of those nights in the tree house.”</div>
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“Me, too,” Marley said. “I think that’s why I like coming out here so much. It reminds me of ‘before’. It makes me feel closer to Dad. I always swore I could hear him talking to me in that tree house and, some nights when I’m out here, I can still hear him.”</div>
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She turned to face me and almost broke into tears. “That he’s proud of you. That he can’t believe how much of him he sees in you. That he’s happy you don’t let anyone or anything influence your decisions. That he’s thankful you’ve never abandoned me.</div>
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It's not a huge secret that TK Leigh is one of my favorite authors. I love everything she has published thus far but going into Heart of Marley, well, I can't lie... I was really rather nervous. The YA genre already put me outside of my comfort zone but my main concern was the really heavy issues this book dealt with. This book teetered on the cliff of my hard limits... It pushed me to a point where I felt physically sick reading it. I actually questioned if I would even be able to finish it but I pushed on. I almost feel like I did it for Marley. See, that is what TK does... She manages to capture your soul with her words until you become so emotionally invested in the story that you feel like you are living it with the characters. </div>
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There is so much I would love to tell you about Heart of Marley but I am having a hard time finding the right words. This story left me feeling inexplicably torn. I can not find another way to explain it. I absolutely loved getting the back story of Cam. I fell in love with him in The Beautiful Mess Series and even deeper in Heart of Light but learning about the events that shaped such a caring and heroic man was both eye opening and heart breaking. TK finally showed us why he always felt the need to protect both Olivia (Beautiful Mess Series) and Jolene (Heart of Light). I don't know if there has even been a more perfect man written, ever. </div>
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Marley was an amazing character. She was perfectly tragic. I couldn't help but want to save her. She was, oh man, she was so many different things. I don't want to give away too much. Just do me, TK and yourself a favor and read this book! </div>
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Once again, TK delivered an emotionally driven, beautifully written story. She pulled me in and wouldn't let me go until the end. I am not sure I have ever cried as much as I did through out Heart of Marley. This book needed to be written. This story needs to be told. I think TK Leigh should be praised for once again bringing light to a subject that needs more understanding. Forget the stigmas- find your voice and your strength! You are amazing TK!! </div>
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T.K. Leigh, otherwise known as Tracy Leigh Kellam, is the USA Today Best Selling author of the Beautiful Mess series. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, dog and three cats, all of which she has rescued (including the husband). She always had a knack for writing, but mostly in the legal field. It wasn’t until recently that she decided to try her hand at creative writing and is now addicted to creating different characters and new and unique story lines in the Contemporary Romantic Suspense genre. When she’s not planted in front of her computer, writing away, she can be found running and training for her next marathon (of which she has run over fifteen fulls and far too many halfs to recall). Unlike Olivia, the main character in her Beautiful Mess series, she has yet to qualify for the Boston Marathon.</div>
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Shattered Lives by Alexis Noelle... Let me first start off by saying job well done!!!</div>
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I could not have dreamed up a better ending for Jessie and Dam..er, Nick!!</div>
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So, Alexis picked up where she left us...with a heartbroken Jessie, grieving a loss that is almost unbearable. I mean, it was hard to even read. Alexis made sure that every emotion Jessie was feeling was felt by the readers. My heart broke with hers. I wanted to cry with her. But then something happens...Something HUGE....and the story twists in a way that made me happy and mad and really friggen scared all at the same time.</div>
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I won't say anymore about the plot but I want to tell you more about how amazing Alexis Noelle is when it comes to bringing her characters to life. I love Jessie and Nick (Or Damon or whatever the hell I am supposed to call him) and Lo... I just love her... That scene in the mall with the fountain... Bahahahahah.... Her character development is on point!! She took us on a crazy ride with these characters and you couldn't help but fall in love with each one.</div>
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The plot of this series was also well thought out. I love that the bad guys were Philadelphia based (Philly Represent!! :)) and they were ruthless... Where this installment vastly differs from Shattered Innocence, I think Alexis stayed true to her style... (And boy, do I love her style.) Shattered Lives was just suspenseful enough, just sexy enough and just heartbreaking enough to give the reader a well rounded story.</div>
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The ending....well, it was tough for me.... and once you read it you will see why but I think it was the perfect way to give Jessie and Nick the HEA they so desperately wanted. I rooted for them, even when I wasn't sure if Nick was the best choice for Jessie's sanity. Their love was magnetic and we all know that love like that doesn't come around very often. </div>
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I think I should add that since Shattered Innocence should be read before Shattered Lives so you fully understand the plot line. I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on the pure awesomeness of Jessie and Nick's love story... Thank you for a great series Alexis. You rock!!</div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Alexis Noelle lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband, three kids, and a dog. On top a writing career, she is a full-time student and a full-time mom. She loves spending time with her kids, although she has to hide the computer from them when she is writing! She love being active and being outdoors, especially if it involves any kind of shopping.</span></div>
<span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">She has always been passionate about writing. She loves to read romance books and feels like being able to lose yourself in a book is one of the more exciting aspects. The books she loves to read and write will be ones that make you feel for the characters. Ashley believes that you should have an opinion on every character in a book whether you love them, hate them, or think they are up to something.</span><br />
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When you’re raised as family, lines are drawn. So what do you do when they blur?</div>
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When you break the heart of someone you’re built to love like a sibling; over and over, driving her into the arms of someone that doesn’t deserve her?</div>
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Can you take the risk of threading the tethers that bind you as a family to be together?</div>
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I have always had a passion for storytelling, whether it be through lyrics or bed time stories with my sisters. I wanted to be an actress growing up so I could live many roles but I learned early on that my mind was too active... I would want to change the script.I would watch films and think of ways they could of improved the story if they took another direction so i thought it best that i tell my own.</div>
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My mum would always have a book in her hand when I was young and passed on her love for reading, inspiring me to venture into writing my own. I tend to have a darker edge to my writing. Not all love stories are made from light, some are created in darkness but are just as powerful and worth telling.</div>
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Jennifer Gavran is an emerging author, who's debut novel “Trust In Me” is the first novel in her erotic series “Kiss & Don't Tell”. She resides in California where she is married to the love of her life and raises their children. When not writing or reading, she enjoys baking, hunting and shooting. She volunteers in the community and in her children's classrooms when she is not writing her newest romance.</div>
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The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare by J.B. Hartnett is one of the most interesting, quirky, original, heart warming yet heart breaking books I have ever read! I'm not sure how to even review this one, it was just absolutely amazing and so unique that there aren't enough words to describe or really explain why I loved it without giving away too many details. When I first read the synopsis I thought wow that sounds really different and fun but honestly it was so much more than I expected. I'm not sure I've ever felt that many feelings while reading a book before, talk about a roller coaster ride of emotion!! I cycled between laughing and crying and going "awwww" because some parts were so sweet. The author had an unusual writing style, not every detail was immediately understood and certain facts were revealed in a surprising way. There were quite a few surprising revelations that made me feel even worse for our lovely heroine than I already did, she had some seriously tragic events in her life and each revelation made my heart break a little bit more! </div>
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Genevieve is one hell of a tough chick, if I had been in her shoes I know I would never have recovered. She turned her grief into an interesting and crazy business, some of which had truly beautiful intentions. While some of her mourning business involved doing crazy last requests some of it was helping people who didn't have any loved ones. Those ones made me bawl my eyes out, especially since she became very close to some of her older clients. I have a serious soft spot for the elderly and I sort of want to do what she did for them, no one should spent their last days, months or even years alone. This is definitely not a book to be read in public, if there weren't tears streaming down my face then there were points I was laughing out loud like a crazy person. I'll tell you though there were a lot more tears than laughs, some were happy tears though because Genevieve was just such a caring person who really helped people. Ahren was amazing as well, the author definitely killed me with their relationship, things would just be going along and then BOOM something would happen that would leave you going "did that seriously just happen?", especially in the beginning of their relationship. In the end though their love is one of the most beautiful displays of true love I have ever read. He was just as good of a person as Gen, when he was sitting with Delilah in the one chapter I was just bawling, he was so sweet. The secondary characters were equally amazing as well and really made this story stand out, Rocky is just the best friend anyone could ever have, sometimes you just need to be given a picture of a dead woman in order to realize what you've been doing with your life needs to change! Oh and Bryce, there are just no words for how much I love that old man, I laughed, I cried and I was amazed at the insight he offered when he wasn't being a crazy old perv! </div>
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Over all this book is an amazing story of grief, love, letting go of the past and learning to accept loss without losing yourself. This book made for an entertaining, emotional read but also left you with a feeling of wanting to do something for someone, at least it did for me. The author has an incredibly engaging writing style but also the ability to really pull the reader into the minds of her characters, I felt so strongly for every character in this book that it took me awhile before I could even write this review. The uniqueness of the plot in addition to the amazing writing ability has definitely made me fall in love with this book and I can't wait to check out more by J.B. Hartnett.</div>
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Storyline: Unique, interesting, amazing</div>
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Female Characters: tough with a beautiful heart</div>
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Male Characters: one of the good ones! so sweet and sexy!</div>
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Cry Factor: I had tears in my eyes for at least half this book!</div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Title:</strong> Cadence (Deception #2)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Authors:</strong> Ker Dukey & D. H. Sidebottom</span></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Genre: </span></strong><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Erotic Romance</span></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Cover Design: </span></strong><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Ker Dukey</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">He had her love. Her devotion. He destroyed her with it!<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Years I loved Faye Avery from a distance, watched my brother have something he didn't deserve. She was always too good for him. Dante had a need for control and that grew with him from childhood, infecting her to bend to his whim.<br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">When Dante abandoned her, the girl who put his future and needs before her own, I rediscovered the girl who lost herself to the heartache. She blossomed and flourished in the light of the love she deserved - until he robbed me of her. Breaking her down, dimming the essence of the woman she had become.<br />
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<span style="color: #c22121;"><strong>Ker Dukey</strong></span></h3>
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I have always had a passion for storytelling, whether it be through lyrics or bed time stories with my sisters. I wanted to be an actress growing up so I could live many roles but I learned early on that my mind was too active... I would want to change the script.I would watch films and think of ways they could of improved the story if they took another direction so i thought it best that i tell my own.</div>
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My mum would always have a book in her hand when I was young and passed on her love for reading, inspiring me to venture into writing my own. I tend to have a darker edge to my writing. Not all love stories are made from light, some are created in darkness but are just as powerful and worth telling.</div>
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When I'm not lost in the world of characters I love spending time with my family. I'm a mum and that comes first in my life but when I do get down time I love attending music concerts or reading events with my younger sister.</div>
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You can find me on Facebook where i love interacting with my readers.</div>
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I'm a biker, and I'm a woman, who was raised by my biker family. </div>
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Growing up an MC brat, I've known nothing but leather, booze, club whores, comradery, and bikes, my entire life. </div>
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How at the ripe old age of thirty, with no husband, no kids, and being a part of a motorcycle club. Things aren't always what they appear to be. I've found out the hard way, that your life, in an instant, can be flipped upside down. And the people you know and love aren't always what they seem. </div>
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Warning: Contains Mature scenarios, and mass quantities of profanity. For Ages 18+ </div>
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Author Eva ‘Bink’ Cummings was born and raised part of the Sacred Sinners MC. Upon the incessant coercion from her sacred sisters, she has begun her newest journey in life—writing. When she’s not shacked up in her home, writing at all hours of the night, Bink spends her time riding on her motorcycle, taking care of her extensive roughneck family, and cooking huge meals. Especially her infamous chocolate chip cookies.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The day I met Emily Bennett my whole world changed. Sure, we were just kids, but I was old enough to know my life would never be the same. She was my best friend. My destiny. My fate. I wasn’t wrong…I just didn’t know how twisted fate could be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the death of my mother, moving from my dark and dreary trailer park to sunny California, I was focused on one thing – finding a sister I’d only just learned existed. Falling in love with him wasn’t part of the plan. But he filled a void I never knew was possible to fill. He had to be my fate. My destiny. Until the day I finally found out who my sister was…and how twisted fate could be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He looks up and I watch his eyes take me in. Slowly. They rake over me, dropping from my eyes to my glossed lips down to my exposed shoulders. Taking his time, he follows the neckline of my simple, yet body contouring sundress, lingering when he reaches my full breasts. I’m sufficiently covered, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t aware that the dress showed off my assets well. Tight around my chest, gathering snuggly at the waist, with a scant amount of cleavage. Just enough coverage to still leave something for him to imagine. And I watch his face change as his imagination takes off running.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His eyes drift down my legs, tanned now from the eternal California sun. Momentarily he’s lost in what he sees and doesn’t even notice I’m watching him leer. Totally worth the extra effort getting ready tonight, I couldn’t be happier at the reaction I get. Eventually, his eyes make their way back up to mine and I arch one eyebrow, letting him know he’s been caught. A normal reaction might be to look embarrassed or perhaps even flustered a little. But not Zack. Instead, he flashes me a wicked grin. “You look incredible.” He’s the one doing the leering, yet I’m the one who ends up blushing.</span></div>
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Left Behind by Vi Keeland and Dylan Scott was beautiful and tragic. The main characters, Nikki and Zack are at just at the beginning of their lives and they both are experiencing things that will change them forever. Nikki has already lived through so much, has already been forced to grow up so fast. Zack had it all, including the being one of the lucky ones, meaning he knew his childhood love was it for him until one day that all changed. Life isn't meant to be easy. Sometimes it can be down right cruel but what truly matters is how you choose to react to it. Watching Nikki and Zack react to their situations is what makes this story utterly beautiful.</div>
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Vi and Dylan rocked the shit out of my emotions with Left Behind-- excuse my choice of words, but come on. I can't think of a better way to put it. (Sorry Amazon...) Reading about Nikki's upbringing and mourning with her and then Zack's....(ha! thought I was going to tell you what happened to his childhood love...right...) See, this is exactly why I typically stay far, far away from YA... for some reason I don't mind reading about adult heartbreak but a teenager, well, it makes it harder for me to deal with... Both of these kids..err, young adults, are totally relatable and I found myself praying, yes, actually praying, that they got the ending they wanted. (or the ending I wanted for them, but whatevs...it's all the same and that is what is so beautiful about my perfect literary world...) </div>
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I've read a few of Vi's books in the past and they were NOTHING like this one! lol. Don't get me wrong, they were great but just a different genre. My experience with Dylan Scot is limited to this book but I promise you, going forward when I see her name on a book, I will add it to my TBR. Kudos ladies, you did an impecible job!!! I loved every emotion grabbing second!</div>
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Authors Writing Style - - attention and emotion grabbing</div>
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Female Character - - Determined</div>
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Male Character - - Lovable</div>
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Plot Twist - - Predictable but well done</div>
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Steam Factor - - it's a YA book, ya perv... bahahahah</div>
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Cry Factor - - it was heartbreaking at times</div>
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I wasn't entirely sure why I'd accepted Brock's invitation to be his date for his sister's wedding. A wedding to a man who'd confessed that he didn't love his wife-to-be. All I knew was that I didn't belong in that world.</div>
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I was shocked when Brock asked me to move back to Philadelphia and even more so when he'd declared that he'd choose me over his family. Reed, the man I'd thought had honor had turned out to be a bastard, but the guy who everyone said was bad news was starting to look a lot like a white knight.</div>
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Publication Date : December 9, 2014</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The range of emotions I had experienced with Ronan felt like a topsy-turvy spinning roller coaster. Suddenly I was awake for the first time in what felt like years. Every fiber of my being was filled with heated desire, passion, lust and fear, and all I wanted was more… more of everything, more of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">him</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. How had I just lived these past few years only going through the motions? But, as glorious as all of this was, was I kidding myself? Could it be real? Or just a moment in time – a few days of thrilling and scary excitement rolled into one? The moment before you hit that first big drop on your favorite coaster, you fall, and then it’s over.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Writer Christy Pastore grew up in the lakeside community of Syracuse, Indiana USA writing short stories that usually involved characters who loved to travel, had a passion for fashion and were often times swept up in boy crazy crushes. Many of her first stores also dealt with coming of age situations with their best girlfriends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christy gave up reading books for several years, disillusioned with the annoying characters and predictable plot lines. Upon the recommendation of a friend, Christy picked up a much buzzed about popular romance novel which reminded her of why reading was such an enjoyable guilty pleasure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing has been a constant in Christy’s life, leading her to create a popular fashion blog, </span><a href="http://www.fashionwrapup.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fashion Wrap Up</span></a><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This endeavor allowed Christy to have the wonderful experience of working and collaborating with many talented models, designers, makeup artists and photographers in the Fashion Industry. While Pastore still writes about fashion and celebrity style in her spare time, her passion for story development, more specifically creative writing, publishing and content creation has taken her on a new journey and career path: Author.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her debut novel, Fifteen Weekends was released in May of 2014. Her next novel, Unscripted is set to release in November 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Title: ANGUISH (Jokers' Wrath MC, #3)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Release Date: October 27, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There are a lot of things in this world that are easy to escape from. Having a son you didn't ask for isn't one of them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mack is a nomad. He likes his own space and he struggles with emotion. His past is grey and his future looks about the same. That is until his ex-girlfriend dies and his son is handed over to him. A two month old baby he didn't know existed. Until now. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Desperate, he hires a nanny. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Jaylah has gotten herself into some serious trouble, so when she sees the job opening for a nanny pop up, she jumps on it. Of course she's not a nanny, but she figures she can pull it off. I mean, how hard can it be? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">She's thrown into a world of diapers, hourly feedings and a whole lot of laundry. She's also introduced to the most rugged, gorgeous man she's ever had the pleasure of meeting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The best part, he's the baby's father. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Their sexual tension is huge, but he's a hard nut to crack. She'll get in, though. She makes it her mission to break through the wall Mack has built so high around himself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Her world is about to spiral out of control, and she's taking Mack along for the ride.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Anguish</strong></em> <strong><em>(Jokers' Wrath MC, #3)</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Precarious (Jokers' Wrath MC, #1)</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Melancholy (Jokers’ Wrath MC, #2)</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“You stole my fuckin’ drugs.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The foot at my throat presses me further into the cold, scratchy pavement. I gasp, my fingers clawing at fleshy ankles. His skin doesn’t budge; my nails are too short to break the flesh that I’m so desperately scraping at. It does nothing to move him, or send him on his way. Instead, he pushes harder, cutting off more of my air supply.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“That’s not exactly how it went down,” I croak, struggling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“You were meant to deliver them; instead you fuckin’ sold them, and ran with the money.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He’s right about that. I did take the drugs and sell them. I had good reason—my boyfriend was in trouble, and I was doing anything I could to get him out of trouble. I didn’t think ahead. I didn’t realize that I’d then owe a very unhappy drug dealer money. Not my finest moment, that’s for damned sure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I had no choice . . . I was helping someone I care about.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He presses his boot down further into my throat, and my air supply narrows down to a dangerous level. My head pounds as the blood and oxygen are cut from my brain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I bet that person ain’t here helpin’ you tonight, now, are they?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">No, he’s right about that. Samuel is probably sleeping with someone else. The moment his debt was cleared, he left me. The dirty, cheap fucker left me. Now I’m dealing with the backlash. A furious drug dealer who wants his money.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Don’t I get,” I gasp, “one chance to get your money?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He glares down at me through angry grey eyes. I squirm again as my vision starts flittering in and out. Shit, I’m going to pass out and he’s probably going to kill me, or worse, drag my helpless body away to do God knows what with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I have m-m-m-money,” I croak.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I . . .” God, I’m on the edge. “I can get it. I s-s-s-swear.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He stares at me, and for each second he does, my vision swims. Then, much to my relief, he lifts his boot off and reaches down, hurling my weak body up. He pulls me close, so close that our noses touch. My knees wobble and I have to push all my focus into not falling flat on my face and giving him another chance to take me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Listen, and listen fuckin’ good. You’ve got two weeks, and trust me, that’s me bein’ fuckin’ generous. Get my money, or I come for you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Don’t try and run. You do, I’ll fuckin’ find you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I close my eyes, take a deep, burning breath and nod again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And I know . . . I just know . . . I’m in deep, deep shit.</span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.readlovelust.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/16080_284602271742394_6216621583336357739_n.jpg"><img alt="Bella Jewel" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-14781" src="http://www.readlovelust.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/16080_284602271742394_6216621583336357739_n-150x150.jpg" height="150" width="150" /></a></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Bella Jewel is an Aussie girl through and through. She spent her life in Western Australia, growing up in many different areas of the state. She now currently lives in Perth with her husband, children and mass amounts of pets. She's crazy, fun, outgoing and friendly. Writing is her passion, she started at the young age of 18 but finally got the courage up to publish, and her first novel Hell's Knights was released in August 2013.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/110324-the-mc-sinners">The MC Sinners</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/117825-criminals-of-the-ocean">Criminals of the Ocean</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/122341-rebels-on-bikes">Rebels on Bikes</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20879280-number-thirteen">Number Thirteen</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21865128-life-after-taylah">Life After Taylah</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22430842-wingman-woman">Wingman</a></div>
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Mia Ryan has learned the hard way that her choices can have horrible consequences. Taking an offer that was supposed to get her life back on track was nothing but a ploy. To keep the ones she holds dear safe, she's forced to finish what she started, without any hope of finding out why she was targeted in the first place. Though Mia has Ethan by her side, she can't seem to believe in him, especially since most of his life remains a mystery. </div>
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Ethan Fitzgerald has done everything in his power to prove to Mia that she can trust him, but it never seems to be enough to convince her to drop the last wall around her heart. With deep and dark secrets lurking around every corner, he has his own plan to keep Mia from any danger, but it may just shatter their love forever. </div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">I woke to the sound of waves crashing as my nose caught the salty scent of<br />
the ocean. I rolled over to find red rose petals scattered over the bed, with a<br />
long-stemmed one lying in the middle. Securing the sheet around me, I rested on<br />
my elbows before picking up the single rose. Ethan was on his side with his<br />
eyes on me. I twirled the rose and gave him a soft smile. He was without a<br />
shirt and propped on an elbow. His messy hair was wet with droplets of water<br />
dripping along his neck and the contours of his shoulders, before sliding down<br />
his carved chest. The sunlight pouring in from the window made his body gleam.<br />
He always aroused me instantly, but staring at him now made him seem even more<br />
God-like, and I wanted every part of him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Did you take a shower without me? That has to be a first.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ethan reached over to tuck my hair behind my ears. His hand trailed down my<br />
side to rest on mine. “I got up at sunrise to catch some waves.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“I didn’t know you surfed. I’m not surprised, since you like wakeboarding<br />
so much.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">He brought our bodies so close that our chests were nearly touching. My<br />
heart sped up as he leaned over me with his hand clamped on my hip. “I surf,<br />
but you’re wrong about boarding. I don’t like it – I love it. Surfers get<br />
really pissy if boarders ruin their ride so I don’t wakeboard when I’m on the<br />
ocean. I settle for catching waves on a different board, but I don’t love it<br />
nearly as much.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">I caught the passion in his eyes. Ethan loved doing anything on the water.<br />
My mouth twisted into an adoring grin as I stared at my magnificent boyfriend.<br />
“You taught me how to board. I suppose you can teach me how to surf, too?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Ethan chuckled. “I’d love to. I’m not sure if we’ll have time on this trip.<br />
I’ll line up another one soon. We should go to Hawaii or Australia. If you’re<br />
going to learn, you might as well learn in one of the best surfing spots on the<br />
planet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">His hand veered from my hip down to my ass where he gently pinched me.<br />
Ethan licked his luscious lips, and I saw a hunger in his eyes. I knew that<br />
look. My breaths started becoming shorter as I responded to his fingers traveling<br />
further down. Ethan hovered over me and pulled at my elbows to lay me on my<br />
back. He took the rose out of my hand and set it on the nightstand before<br />
sliding down the sheet. His lips fell to my collarbone and water dripped from<br />
his hair into my cleavage. The coolness of it sizzled with the fire inside me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“When is our first meeting today?” I stuttered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“It’s still early. We can do whatever you want for a while,” Ethan purred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">He continued to leisurely kiss his way down to my breasts while one hand<br />
wandered further down my thigh. My hand drifted between his thighs where I<br />
timidly stroked his straining erection. His lips traveled along my chest until<br />
they reached my breasts. Ethan flicked both nipples to attention before taking<br />
one and sucking frantically. I groaned when he gently bit down before letting<br />
his tongue take over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“We can go for a walk on the beach,” Ethan murmured heatedly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">I grasped under his shoulders to bring him closer to me. Once in reach, I<br />
ran my lips along the top of his pecks and returned the favor by biting down<br />
along each of his nipples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“We can go do some sightseeing,” Ethan groaned loudly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">My fingers ran across the tip of his cock before travelling down his shaft.<br />
I worked to match the speed of my lips and the hand wrapped around him. My body<br />
clenched as my ache for him grew. His lips journeyed to my neck where his<br />
tongue glided to my jaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Or we can stay here and make love,” Ethan whispered passionately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">He spread my legs even further and settled his hand inside before running several<br />
fingers in and out. They slipped along the slickness. I bit down on his top lip<br />
as he approached my mouth. I moved my tongue along the top of his before going<br />
under his chin. I licked away at the saltiness with fervor. His chest rumbled<br />
as I continued meticulously sucking along his throat. His fingers matched the<br />
pace of my lips as they slipped over my clit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">He stilled my hand around him and placed it along his back. I brought my<br />
other hand around him tightly, needing him to satisfy the inferno he had<br />
created. He entered, with every inch of him penetrating deep within me. I cried<br />
out and commanded my overly turned-on body not to let go. I ran my hands down<br />
to his ass to urge him to move again. He groaned before twisting his hips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">I brought my hips up to meet every thrust he gave. My hands scratched up<br />
his back on their way to his neck. I pulled him into me in demand for more and<br />
he drove into me harder, creating a feeling of euphoria throughout my body. I<br />
screamed out his name with each twist of his hips. He slowed down to take<br />
several drawn-out thrusts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Fuck, you feel more amazing every time,” Ethan shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hips matched his momentum as he<br />
brought us closer. He paused to roll us over to put me on top so I could take<br />
him. I rolled my hips with urgency to find a release for us both. My back<br />
arched as my hips carried along wildly. Ethan ran his hands along my sides<br />
before cupping my breasts tenderly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Ethan … God, yes …” I panted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">He sat up to bring our faces together and straddled my legs around him<br />
before driving his hips into me. My nails dug into his back as my body started<br />
to clench around him. Our thrusts sped up as our bodies strove for a climax. I<br />
tightened around him as he started to tremble. I ran my hands to his hair where<br />
I grabbed on tightly and screamed out as the ecstasy took me from the room to a<br />
far-off place. I shuddered and continued until my body found solid ground<br />
again. Ethan rested his head in my shoulder as he found his own release. He<br />
gently placed me on my back and slid out before falling next to me, his fingers<br />
scratching lightly along my belly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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M.M. Koenig.... You are on my list... After finishing that book you left me in a murderous rage! I bit my fingernails down so low they are actually throbbing! I FRIGGEN LOVED THIS BOOK!!! </div>
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Okay, so Complicated picked up exactly where Conflicted left off... And let me just say Complicated could not be a better name for this book. Everything about Mia and Ethan's life and relationship is complicated. Since this is the second book in this series I am going to assume you already know how these two came to be in each other's lives so no need to back track. Right so moving on. Now they need to figure out two things...1. If they are going to be able to move forward- like in a honest, trusting relationship. (Which seems easy enough but come on....This is Mia and Ethan we are talking about..) and 2. How the hell are they supposed to get out of the situation they are in without any further backlash? Well my fellow readers, sit back & hold on because M.M. Koenig is about to take you on a crazy ride.</div>
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So, for anyone who has read any of my reviews they know that I really try my best to give nothing about the actual story away but give my honest to God opinion of my experience with the book. Sometimes my thoughts come through as half sentences and emotional outbursts but that is only because it is what I was experiencing when I was reading. I take notes through the entire book. I highlight things that jump out at me and scribble down things that make me laugh, cry or throw my kindle. I originally posted a screen shot of my notebook but didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. This book is amazing. Fair warning it is a bit longer a does start with a slow build but when it hits it's peak there is no turning back. There were so many times I thought that there were things that the author maybe could have left out to shorten the book but then would read a scene later on and understood why she added it. The way she intertwined the characters and their pasts really amazed me. BRILLIANCE! Seriously, that is the only way I could describe it. It was pure suspense. Well, suspense and sizzling hot sex. **Ladies, get your fans because you will most definitely need something to cool you off!!** </div>
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I am going to be completely honest... I stopped with 20% left in the book and thought to myself "Self, this book is either going to have a really disappointing ending or I am in for the Mother of all Cliffhangers..." I mean, there were so many revelations, like MAJOR revelations, about Mia's past, about Micah's disappearance, about Ethan that I just couldn't see it all being answered in the 34 minutes my kindle said what left in the book. So I did what any sane person would do at 12:30 am. I reached out to M.M. because I just had to know before I went a sentence further. See, I do not ever read reviews on books I am going to read because I am scared to death I will stumble upon a spoiler and well, that is like seeing your Christmas presents before Christmas. I know what you're all thinking..."you could have just kept reading and figured it out for yourself"... but when you read the book you will understand why I needed to know right then and there what I was coming up on.</div>
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Anyway, yes, cliffhanger.. A HUGE Cliffhanger that is going to leave you feeling angry, used, alone, empty, broken and all of those other adjectives along those lines. But M.M. Koenig showed us all a bit of compassion with her Epilogue. The story may leave your heart ripped open and bleeding but the Epilogue acts as the tourniquet you need until the next book is published. </div>
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M.M.-- Seriously, This book. Actually, this series. I LOVE. Truly. The characters. Mia, Ethan, Bri, Her Boys, His Boys. There is just so much much good that found its way out of that twisted brain of yours. You left me wrecked, like a serious ball of emotion, unable to form complete thoughts. Through the laughing, nail biting and ugly crying it was your words that made me fall in love with this story and these amazing characters. I am cheering for Mia and Ethan. I hope love prevails!! Thank you for another amazing ride!! </div>
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Barringer is convinced now more than ever that he needs to find a different</div>
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set on running The Raven's Nest, a popular bar and restaurant near his ranch.</div>
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The original owner has died and Gage is waiting for it to be put up for sale.</div>
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But there is a five-foot-four, brown eyed, obstacle in his way, an obstacle</div>
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with lips made for sin and a voice made for breaking hearts. And Summer Donovan</div>
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I have been eagerly awaiting Gage by Tess Oliver since I read The Rain Shadow series and discovered my love for the oldest Barringer brother and for the author's talent! Now Gage is a stand alone and you don't have to read the Rain Shadow series but I recommend it just because it is an amazing series. I managed to wait somewhat patiently to get my hands on a copy of Gage and it was well worth it to read about the sexy pine scented logging man. He's a man's man and I LOVED it, and normally I don't give much attention to book covers but this one had me drooling. </div>
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I love Gage, he is hard working, sexy and an all around good man who is willing to come to the aide of anyone who might need him. He's just my kind of guy and he's aggressive yet attentive in bed, um yes please! He is just pure perfection in the shape of a grizzly sized man. I was thrilled to meet Summer's character, I think she was just an absolutely perfect match for Gage, sweet, gorgeous, talented, determined and feisty. She was strong too, strong enough to pick up, leave behind everyone she knew and start over far from home. Her scene with the record label boss and secretary was just absolutely perfect, the kind that left me thinking "you go girl!". As the relationship developed between the two of them there were plenty of scorching hot moments mixed up with laugh out loud scenes. I adore everything about this two amazing characters and the secondary characters were great too. I loved the friendships Summer developed with the employees at the restaurant. We also got a little more of Seth and Jericho who we met in The Rain Shadow books. I loved their teasing of Gage after he got gobsmacked by Summer, every character Tess Oliver creates is just terrific and easy to love. </div>
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Tess Michaels, bookkeeper and human calculator, keeps business at The Cathouse clearly profitable - until the numbers begin to fade. When the profit margin drops, she realizes that there is no number more final than zero.</div>
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Matt Brooks, former Army Ranger and newest member of SEALS, Inc., agrees to investigate, immediately intrigued and aroused by Tess’ numerical ability. Her uncanny love of numbers strikes a chord with his own analytical mind and he soon learns that there is a whole lot more to the sexy number-cruncher than he thought.</div>
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Swept into a whirlwind romance, the couple works diligently to discover the cause of the profit loss. Yet when Tess becomes his prime suspect, Matt must do some quick calculations of his own to prove her innocence.</div>
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<strong>Excerpt</strong></div>
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Ranger stood at the counter, his broad shoulders and muscled biceps on display. His low but rich, deep voice filled the air, traveling the distance to the table and teasing her nerve-endings. The young girl at the counter giggled and then shrugged as she snapped lids on two paper coffee cups. Tess chuckled under her breath. <em>Flirt.</em></div>
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Ranger picked up the cups and then headed toward her, his trademark cocky smirk on his handsome face. Mesmerized by the picture of pure male sauntering her direction, Tess caught a flash of something on his arm, peeking from beneath the cuff of his t-shirt. Something black that she only saw once when he made a certain movement.</div>
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She watched closely as he placed the cups on the table and then sat opposite her, curious when she didn’t see the mark again.</div>
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“Do you have a tattoo?”</div>
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Since she was fairly confident in her observation, she expected a quick admission. Instead, he raised his eyebrows.</div>
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“Were you checking me out?”</div>
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“No, I just noticed something on your arm. Either you have a major bruise, or you have a tattoo.”</div>
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“You were checking me out.”</div>
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“Okay, fine. Yes, I was checking you out.” She leaned forward and squinted at his right biceps. “Do you have a tattoo or not?”</div>
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“Do you?”</div>
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Although his avoidance somewhat irritated her, she found it extremely arousing. Two could play his game.</div>
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She leaned back in her chair, crossed her legs, and raised an eyebrow. “Wouldn’t you like to know?”</div>
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“Yes.”</div>
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“Maybe.”</div>
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“You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.”</div>
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<strong>The Cat’s Meow Playlist</strong></div>
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Livin’ On The Edge – Aerosmith</div>
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Beautiful – Christina Aguilera</div>
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Hell on Heels – Pistol Annie’s</div>
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Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard</div>
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Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns ‘N Roses</div>
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Back in Black - AC/DC</div>
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Gorilla – Bruno Mars</div>
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It’z Just What We Do – Florida Georgia Line</div>
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Angel – Theory of A Deadman</div>
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Welcome to the Jungle - Guns ‘N Roses</div>
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<strong>Guest Post</strong></div>
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Greetings from the hot and humid state of Oklahoma! My name is Mia Dymond and I write sexy contemporary romance novels with a twist of sass. I currently have fourteen novels available on retailers including iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Amazon, and Smashwords.</div>
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My most recent release is The Cat’s Meow, Book 5 in the SEALs, Inc. series. Due to popular demand, this novel is the story of Tess Michaels and Matt Brooks, the newest member of SEALs, Inc. The SEALs, Inc. team is a close-knit, kick ass and take names kind of group – and their women are just the ones to do it.</div>
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Set in the town of Diablo, Arizona, the private investigators / bodyguards / husbands / fathers have taken on a variety of adventures to eliminate a variety of villains, including an international terrorist, an ex-boyfriend stalker, an unethical attorney, a corrupt district attorney, and now a mob-connected loan shark. The SEALs have been busy; business is good.</div>
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I hope you’ll enjoy The Cat’s Meow! Happy Reading!!!</div>
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<strong>Other Books in the Seals Series</strong></div>
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<strong>Leather Lace & Rock 'N' Roll (Book 1) ~ <a href="http://amzn.to/1qEjLrM" style="color: #1b8be0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></strong></div>
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Brains before Beauty, that's Rachel Newberry's motto, especially when her quiet, orderly life is interrupted by international rock star, Jaydon Hawke. And true to her word, brains take center stage when she discovers Hawke has a lot more on his mind than beautiful music. Targeted by a madman, Rachel puts her trust in Hawke, a move that may cost both their lives.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Author:</b> CC KOEN</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Genre: </b>Contemporary Romance | New Adult</div>
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</b>What would you do to improve your life?<br />
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Twenty-one-year-old Serena Thomas is faced with a tough decision. Unable to get ahead of debt and loneliness since her grandmother’s death she finds a new job, placing the sheltered virgin in an underground escort business. She tells herself it’s just a temporary life choice, but destiny has a different plan. She meets a mysterious and gorgeous man, who happens to be her new boss. Will Serena fit in or will she be left all alone again?<br />
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Lincoln (aka: Linc) Jefferson has an unusual life. He established The Lounge, an exclusive escort club for very personal reasons. A place where the women say who, when, and what type of sex they’re willing to have. The escorts possess all the power and the money. It’s a business Linc guards at all costs. Trying to maintain the secrecy is a constant challenge and one that’s tested when he enters into a relationship with Serena. She tempts him unlike any woman, even though he’s surrounded by beauty on a daily basis. The more time they spend together the harder it is for him to keep his secrets. Will Serena stand by his side or will she abandon him?<br />
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C.C. Koen writes contemporary romance with a twist. An avid reader who enjoys mystery and suspense, her stories will never be what you expect. Determined to find adventure in her dreams and life, she enjoys skydiving, sailing and any activity that challenges her. Teacher by day, romance writer at night produce an active imagination that comes to life in her writing. Intensity is her debut novel.</div>
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Growing up poor and with a set of parents who couldn’t care less about her, Jessica </div>
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Evans was on her own. She knew she wanted better and was determined to make </div>
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Damon Shaw has just been assigned to take over the day-to-day operations of the </div>
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enrage each other at every turn. The sting of words and the temptation of seduction </div>
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When I hear Lo bang at the door again, I’m ready to kill her. Hoping she will go away I don’t make any moves to get up, then I hear the banging again. I slowly get up, throw on my shorts, and open the door. I’m ready to give her hell. Until I see Damon standing there.</div>
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He reaches down and grabs my right hand lifting it toward his face. My legs almost give out as I watch him insert each of my fingers into his mouth and suck on them.</div>
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“The phone wasn’t enough for me.” He backs me into my room, closing the door and locking it again. Damon steps forward and I’m now pressed against the door. “I can’t wait too long to bury my aching dick inside you. I do need to taste that beautiful fucking pussy, though.” He drops down in front of me, yanks my shorts down, and I step out of them quickly. His hands skim up my legs hooking his arms around the back of my knees. I almost fall from the lack of balance when he lifts them up and rests my legs on his shoulders. </div>
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His nose runs along my inner thigh and my body heats almost to the point of pain. Damon runs his tongue slowly up the length of my pussy stopping at my clit and sucking it into his mouth. I lift my arms above my head and grab onto the doorframe for support. In doing this I thrust myself toward him more and he groans in appreciation. His fingers join his mouth going to town on my already sensitive area. Before I know what hits me, my legs are starting to tremble in anticipation of my impending orgasm. When he pulls away from me, I whine in disappointment.</div>
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He untangles my legs from his shoulders, and stands up. As his arms come up, grab the hem of my shirt and lift it over my head. “How is it possible that I missed you so fucking much when I just saw you earlier.”</div>
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I smile, not knowing how to respond to his declaration of feelings. Damon takes my hand and leads me over to my bed, stopping just at the edge of it. My back is now to his front and I can feel his erection pressed against my ass through the thin shorts he has on. I reach behind me and hook my thumbs into his waistband and slowly lower them and myself to the floor. When I stand back up I do it slowly making sure to stick my ass out and trail it over his body.</div>
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His fingers grip my hips. “I would love to fucking cherish every inch of you but I want you too damn bad.” Before I can even think of a response, he pulls back and slams into me. “God damn perfect.”</div>
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5 Stars!<br />
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Holy Mother of Cliffhangers Batman!!! (Slow down Melissa, you're getting ahead of yourself!)<br />
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So... Shattered Innocence by Alexis Noelle... Where to even begin... (Alright, I am ready...)<br />
Jessica had a rough start. Her parents were addicts and she wasn't provided for the way she should have been. She always wanted a better life for herself and was willing to do whatever was necessary to get it. Even if that meant selling her ass to pay for college... (Hey, no judging. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!!)<br />
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She quickly becomes the most sought after girl for the "agency" she works for and with that learns how to turn off her emotions to survive the life she has chosen to live. Anyway, when she is faced with a new boss her world is turned up side down!<br />
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Mmmmm...Damon. Where should I start... This man just does it for me. He is the perfect balance of sex and mystery. Him and Jessica immediately butt heads but the sexual tension (Good Lawd!) is undeniable. <br />
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Add in a some super hot sex, jealousy, mystery and a cliffhanger that will leave you with the urge to yell, throw your kindle and message Alexis to beg for the next book and you got one hell of a read!!<br />
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(I'm just going to leave it there and let you ponder on that...wouldn't want to give you too much, ya know??)<br />
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As far as Alexis Noelle goes she fit a ton of good into a quick read! Shattered Innocence was the first of her books I've read but it was so well done that I am not only looking at her future releases with anticipation but I'm also interested into reading her past novels. I typically don't love cliffhangers but this one (as frustrating as it was) left me yearning for more!!! That Epilogue!! EEEK!<br />
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Anyway...Shattered Lives needs to hurry up and appear on my kindle.. That is all!<br />
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Author's Writing Style - - Wonderful<br />
Female Character - - Sassy<br />
Male Character - -Mysterious<br />
Plot Twist - -HOLY MOTHER!!<br />
Laugh Factor - - a little funny<br />
Cry Factor - - I may have cried out of frustration...<br />
Steam Factor - - Is it hot in here??<br />
Violence - - not really..</div>
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