Excerpt
I didn’t know
what I was expecting; it was awkward enough trying to understand what
was happening between us. I had no idea what was going through his
head or where we stood after he had kissed me out on my balcony and
then crowded me in my office before the luncheon. Besides, I had made
it clear that it was bad timing for us to restart our relationship.
Too bad I couldn’t get him out of my mind for even one second.
And now his mouth
was hot and wet, his tongue was deep in my mouth, the pressure of his
body hard and soft at the same time. I moaned and sunk further into
his warmth.
“Wait,” I said,
breaking away from the kiss. I needed to get some things straight
between us before I lost myself in Shane completely. “We need to
talk about this afternoon. How much of my conversation with Ridge did
you hear?”
“Enough to know
that I’m not in this alone. You had regrets, too,” he said. “You
still want me. Just like I want you.”
I tucked my head
into his shoulder, unable to deny anything he’d said.
“No more waiting,
angel.” His fingers were at the base of my neck, his other hand
gripping my ass, pulling me in tight. “I can’t stay away from
you.”
My hand reaching
into his hair was the only assent I needed to give. He felt too good
to stop now. I had dreamt of being with him again too many times to
count.
He’d be leaving
town soon, and I’d just have to suffer the consequences.
He hitched up my
legs and my thighs easily slid around his waist. His lips were solid
and bruising; he fixed me firmly against the wall, delicious sounds
emerging from his throat.
His eyes darted
down to my breasts, which had hardened into stiff peaks, and his
shoulders became rigid. “That’s my shirt, Dee. You’ve had it
this whole time?”
I nodded, too
filled with lust to feel mortified. “I wear it every night.”
“Fuck baby,
you’ve been wearing my shirt?” he groaned. “Goddamn, I’m even
harder now.”
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Blurb
A gripping
standalone adult contemporary romance about finding yourself while
taking a second chance at your first love...
Dakota Nakos was
always the resilient, strong-willed achiever. But when her father
dies and she's entrusted with the family's casino, she feels
vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional --not exactly
the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over.
Dakota once meant
the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly he left town to train as a
U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed into a memory.
Now he's come home for her father's funeral, and one look at the girl
he left behind stirs up both memories and regrets, and reignites a
fire he feared he'd lost forever.
Dakota may be the
same driven girl she always was, but she's also changed in ways
neither could have anticipated. She's not just a young woman
searching for own identity in the Native American community in which
she was raised, but one questioning her new life outside her father's
shadow. Above all she wonders if Shane can push past her weakened
defenses to rekindle what they once had, or whether the intense blaze
between them will ultimately reduce her heart to ashes.
Author
Information
Mother, wife,
reader, dreamer. Christina lives in the Midwest with her husband and
son--her two favorite guys.
She's addicted to
lip gloss and salted caramel everything. She believes in true love
and kissing, so writing romance novels has become a dream job.
Author of the
Between Breaths series from Penguin. ALL OF YOU, BEFORE YOU BREAK,
WHISPER TO ME and PROMISE ME THIS available now. Book five in the
series, THERE YOU STAND, coming in April, 2015.
Also, her Adult
Contemporary Romance, TWO OF HEARTS is releasing on May 5th, 2015.
