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EXCERPT
Claire
Deveraux’s POV
Once we’re started on the assignment, I catch Jesse staring at me. Suddenly
self-conscious, I run my palms down each of my cheeks. “What are you looking
at? Do I have something on my face?”
“You do.” He
reaches out, grazing the back of his fingers against my cheek. “You’ve got a
little beautiful right there.”
The heat rises
because I’m not used to such direct compliments. Forbes doesn’t do romantic.
He’s too busy planning how he’ll get what he wants from me.
“You want to
kiss me, don’t you?” God, do I ever.
He’s daring—and
I love it—so I decide to return the boldness. “You have no idea how much.”
He isn’t going
to back down. I see his determination but as I recall, he warned me about that.
“I bet I have a pretty good idea since I probably want to kiss you just as
much. Maybe more.”
We’re alone—most
likely safe from being seen—but not guaranteed so it makes it so much more
exciting. The thrill of being caught by someone makes my heart pump faster. I
look into his pale blue eyes, willing him to lean forward and take the kiss I’m
prepared to give him.
“I’ll do it,”
he threatens.
“Then stop
talking about it.” I know the sure-fire way to seal the deal. “I dare you.”
Bingo. I see it
in his eyes. He’s in full-on badass mode. “I warned you I don’t back down.”
“That’s what
I’m counting on.”
I imagine him
leaning forward to steal a quick kiss but he doesn’t. He takes my hand and
leads me across the library. He looks in every direction before opening a door
and pulling me into a storage room I didn’t know existed. He shuts the door
behind us and locks it.
Oh God. What’s
he going to do?
He places his
hands around my waist and pulls me close, our faces almost touching. “Believe
me yet?”
“No. I need
more proof.”
“I was hoping
you’d say that.”
He places
sweet, soft kisses on my lips and my legs threaten to crumble beneath me. His
mouth migrates to my neck and up to my ear where he sucks my lobe. I let him because
I know the door is locked.
Nick Hawke wants his car fast and his girls faster. He blows through them quicker than his muscle car races down the drag strip in Collinsville and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s determined to avoid the devastation he has watched his father endure in the aftermath of his mother’s abandonment. He believes there is no room in his life or his heart for a relationship lasting more than one night. He seeks happiness in things that won’t let him down––fast cars, adrenaline highs, and one night stands. All of that changes when he unexpectedly runs into an old friend and is introduced to Payton Archer, the first girl he ever wanted for more than a night. There’s only one catch––she’s completely immune to him and his smooth talking ways.
Payton Archer is looking for love––the true, mad, deep kind. She’s given up on finding it, at least until she leaves for college because she’s certain that is where she’ll find the ideal guy to fit into her perfect world. Her summer plans include nothing more than three uneventful months of fun but it turns out to be anything but ordinary when Payton meets Nick Hawke, one of Jesse’s old Collinsville friends. She’s shocked by her immediate and intense attraction for “Hawke” because nothing about him is on her checklist for the perfect love. Sure, he’s hot and sexy but he comes from Collinsville and that is definitely not on her list of prerequisites. Everything about him makes Payton’s heart speed. He’s exciting and dangerous but his fast car and chance taking aren't what scares Payton the most. It’s the way Nick Hawke makes her feel every time he looks at her. Can Payton find the courage to leave the safe, shallow end of love and risk going under completely?
EXCERPT
Nick Hawke’s
POV
I lick my lips as I look at her shiny gloss,
imagining how soft and slick her mouth would be against mine. I’ve never wanted
to lean in for a kiss so badly in all my life. Being at the top of this Ferris
wheel with her couldn’t be more perfect but I can’t do it. I’m too scared.
I’m Nick Hawke—a sexpert and fearless daredevil—but
that doesn’t matter. I’m too chickenshit to kiss this girl because she’s
wonderful and perfect and different—everything I never knew I wanted—so I don’t
want to blow it by pushing too hard, too fast.
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