July 4th - July 7th
Please join over 40 authors and bloggers as we celebrate summer with some fabulous romantic tales.
Each blog will feature a SIZZLING excerpt from one of the author's own books or from one of their favorite reads.
Here is mine from That First Kiss by J.C. Valentine!
THAT FIRST KISS
(NIGHT CALLS SERIES, book 2)
BLURB: Mercurial and charming, Tate Larson is a rising author and playboy who
has a different woman on his arm every night of the week. Focused on his
work, Tate has no plans to settle down any time soon. That is until he
meets his pretty new assistant, Piper Donovan.
Desperate to
escape the promise of backwater living, Piper ditched her Alabama
hometown and never looked back. That was almost two years ago. Now that
she is out of a job and her bank account is running on fumes, she’s
desperate to find a job, fast. She finds the break she is searching for
when she lands a position at Bookish Temptations. A little dancing and a
lot of drinks with the girls seem the perfect way to celebrate. After a
brief but explosive encounter with a man she was never supposed to see
again turns out to be the same man she will be bending over backwards to
please, her every instinct tells her to run. But when running means
leaving the life she has struggled so hard to create, Piper decides her
only option is to continue working for the devastatingly sexy Tate
Larson...even if it kills her.
Unable to deny their growing attraction, they struggle to keep their distance in a relationship that requires anything but.
EXCERPT:
“I’ll put on a pot of
coffee.”
“Nah, don’t worry about it.” Tate waved her off.
“What do you mean, don’t worry about it?” Piper stood
there holding the empty pot in one hand and a bag of fresh grounds in the
other. “Half an hour ago you were yelling at me because you ran out. Now you
don’t want any?”
“First of all,” Tate said, leaning inside the
refrigerator. Piper tried and failed not to appreciate the view. “I didn’t
yell. Second, I reserve the right to change my mind.” He selected the jug of
orange juice and began pouring a glass.
“To be clear, you were yelling,” Piper informed him. She
just couldn’t resist poking the beast.
Tate stepped closer, setting his glass on the counter.
Unsure what he was up to, Piper held her ground. She nearly sighed when he
lifted his hand to brush the back of his knuckles across her cheek. “Did I
scare you?”
For a moment, Piper got lost in the warmth of his eyes.
At his touch, her body flamed, acutely aware of his potent masculinity. It was
the second time that day he had managed to tilt her world on its axis. “I
should get home. It’s late.” She purposely ignored his question and stepped
back, putting much needed distance between them. Her shaking legs barely made
it to the front door and she was just slipping her purse over her shoulder when
Tate’s smooth voice stopped her.
“You didn’t answer my question.”
“What question was that?”
He spun her around and her eyes widened as he backed her
up against the door. He leaned forward and, bracing his hands on either side of
her head, hovered over her. “Did I scare you?” His face was so close; she felt
the whisper of his lips against hers as he spoke.
“You don’t scare me,” she said
breathlessly. Piper was shocked at the kind of responses this man could evoke
from her, how readily her body responded to him. She shouldn’t have been
responding to him at all. He made her so angry, the only thing she should be
feeling for him was hatred and resentment, but every time he looked at her a
certain way or spoke her name in a certain tone, her traitorous body melted for
him. It was humiliating.
“You look scared,” he observed, the corners of his mouth
twisting slightly.
“What are you doing?” Piper flattened herself against the
door as Tate tilted his head toward her.
“Thinking,” he said, distracted.
“About what?” Her heart pounded and she was finding it
harder to breathe.
His lips whispered across hers. “Kissing you.” He dragged
his lips down the slope of her jaw to her neck. “Tasting you.” When he reached
the curve of her shoulder his hand dipped between her legs and cupped her
throbbing mound. “Fucking you,” he whispered, placing a succulent kiss to her
heated flesh.
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