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𝙳𝙴𝙰𝙳 𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙺𝙴𝚁 (Seattle Scorpions Series Book 3) by Ruth Stilling releases on September 19th! Check out this sneak peek!
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What to expect:
🖤 Hate to Want You
🖤 Black Cat (to him)/Rottweiler
🖤 Accidental Pregnancy
🖤 Forced Proximity
🖤 He Falls First, he falls hard
🖤 Possessive Hero
🖤 Look at her and 💀
🖤 Found Family
🖤 MCs in their 30s (she’s older)
Excerpt:
“I hate you. You know that, right?”
I pick my beer up and take another sip. “No, you don’t.”
“Don’t tell me how I can and can’t feel!” Her frustration, combined with the booze, has her voice raising several octaves higher, and I notice as Jon’s head whips around from where he is making out with Felicity at the bottom of the garden like a pair of teenagers.
I set my bottle back down and run a hand through my hair. She’s still sitting forward on the chair, her arms crossed protectively over her chest. “Here’s the thing, Princess. If I don’t take charge of this situation between us and leave it all to you, then I fear we’ll never actually f*ck. And I can’t have that.” I don’t know if it’s the beers and wine I’ve had tonight, but I take a huge gamble and shift my hand to her left hip, teasing her skin through the thick, black fabric of her dress.
Her lips part at the contact, but she fights to keep her arms folded across her chest. “Go find a redhead,” she spits.
My grip tightens slightly. “You’ve got no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Mmm-hmm, I think I do.”
“Tell me, is this incessant need to always be right with everyone or just when it comes to me?”
She pins me with a glare. “You.”
I can’t wipe the shit-eating grin off my face. “Good answer.”
A long stretch of silence passes between us before I speak again. “You haven’t asked me to move my hand.”
“I hadn’t noticed it was there.”
I laugh and catch the slight lift of her lips, too.
“You were never a one-night stand to me, Katherine.”
Her brows shoot to her hairline. “I hate that name even more.”
“I don’t.”
She shakes her head and looks up into the now fully darkened sky, clearly not wanting to make eye contact. “You had your chance, and you blew it. Then you set it alight when you hooked up with that brunette three weeks ago.”
“Here’s my dilemma. Whatever I tell you happened, you won’t believe. You’ll choose your fictional version of events. Because you’re a spoiled brat like that.”
I probably shouldn’t have added the last bit. Sh*t.
She sucks on her teeth and looks at me, anger blazing in her eyes.
F*ck me, she’s hot like this.
“Then why in the world would you want to sleep with a spoiled brat?”
With my hand still on her hip, I pull her toward me. It’s only a couple of inches, but our thighs are almost touching. Leaning down to whisper in the shell of her ear, I decide to give it to her straight. I’m done playing games. “Because you aren’t a brat. Because you aren’t always right, and you know you aren’t. Because you know, deep down, I didn’t sleep with the redhead that night, and I didn’t hook up with the brunette either. Why? Because you invade my thoughts and drive me to the point of insanity. I have to have you, Princess. Trouble is, once I do, I’m not sure I’ll be able to stop. There’s not a chance in hell you’d be a one-night stand—I’ve been f*cking you in my dreams since the day you pulled on my jersey and sat yourself across my lap.”
Blurb:
She can’t stand me.
She also thinks she’s got me all worked out.
My Princess is determined to stay as far away from me as possible. Eighteen months ago, she wanted me, but now she’s convinced I’m bad news.
The thing is, an attraction like ours doesn’t just fade, and my need for her has only grown stronger no matter how many times she offers me a scowl instead of her beautiful smile.
We’ve been playing a game of cat and mouse since the day she wore my jersey, and fortunately for her, I love the chase. I love to watch the way her body reacts to mine. I’d fall to my knees in front of her if I didn’t think she’d kick me while I’m down and unearth painful memories from my past that I’ve worked to keep hidden for so long.
I’m not the only one with secrets and a hurtful past, though. The walls she’s built around her are so high that I doubt anyone can see the real Kate. But I can; I see it all. I know what makes my girl tick and what she truly wants from life. I was just waiting for a chance to prove it.
And now that it’s here, I’m going all in to make Kate Violet Monroe fall in love with me.
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