Book: Love
Hacked
Series: Knitting
in the City #3
Author: Penny
Reid
Genre: Contemporary
Romance, Humor
Tour Organized by: Indie Sage, LLC
Sandra has difficulty removing her psychotherapist hat. Of her last 30 dates, 29 have ended the same way: the man sobbing uncontrollably. After one such disaster, Sandra--near desperation and maybe a little tipsy--gives in to a seemingly harmless encounter with her hot waiter, Alex. Argumentative, secretive, and hostile Alex may be the opposite of everything Sandra knows is right for her. But now, the girl who has spent all her life helping others change for the better, must find a way to cope with falling for someone who refuses to change at all.
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EXCERPT
His hands gripped my
waist—not my arms, which my pickled brain thought was noteworthy—and duly
steadied and unsettled me with his nearness. His proximity and touch caused a
zing—yes, a zing—from the back of my neck to my fingertips and heretofore
neglected womanly pelvic region. The heat of his hands bled through the thin
material of my dress, settled just above my hips, and this sensation paired
with the zing sobered me slightly.
I hadn’t experienced a
zing with a man—or a boy—or a man-boy—in a very, very long time.
“Well, h-hello.” I
stuttered, lifted my eyes and found his, once again, singularly focused on my
mouth. A new zing sailed southward, past my female equipment to my tiptoes.
Ah, how I missed the
zing!
We stood silent,
inches from each other, sharing the same breath.
“Three years is a long
time.” He said, his voice achingly seductive.
I frowned because I
was confused, but whispered, “Yes. And fettuccini noodles are too thick.”
He frowned, but his
attention didn’t waver from my lips. “What does that have to do with anything?”
“I don’t know. You
said three years is a long time. I thought we were sharing random opinions.”
Alex laughed—it
sounded a bit nervous, but I couldn’t be sure, and shook his head. “Sandra,
what do you say? I think it’s well past time you had a kiss.” His eyes
flickered to mine. I noted they were still guarded, wizened; but they were also
heated and every shade of licentious lapis imaginable.
In a word, delightful.
I licked my lips,
gathered a deep breath through my nose, considered the offer.
He was maybe
twenty-three; more likely he was twenty-two. That was six years younger than my
twenty-eight. The six years between twenty-two and twenty-eight was a vast minefield
of life experience and a thick forest of emotional maturity.
We were on different
emotion planets.
I was looking for the
guy. I was looking for my life partner. I wasn’t looking for a dangerous yet
delicious looking youngster waiter with a chip on his shoulder.
Then again…
Alex was manlicious in
a way that I rarely encountered. And he wanted to kiss me. And he wasn’t
crying. Triple bonus.
Okay, I thought,
psyching myself up, yes, let’s do this. Let’s go wild, just this once. Kiss the
boy. Kiss the boy and round the bases.
Look for your life partner tomorrow.
Before I lost my
nerve, I kissed him.
Zing.
It was brief, sudden;
a drive by kiss and I savored his stunned soft mouth. Then I leaned just my
head away and glanced at him. He had such a great mouth and he’d parted it
slightly in surprise.
I nodded. “Okay, just
one more.” I kissed him again, fast but with more pressure this time, planted
my lips to his and breathed in through my nose
Zing!
Then, reluctantly, I
leaned away again and immediately said, “Just one more kiss after this-”
He interrupted my
assertion by mouthlesting me; meaning, he affixed his lips to mine and kissed
me good and thorough.
ZING!
Thick, urgent tongue
invasion; biting; sucking and stroking. As he assaulted me in the best way
possible, I was vaguely aware that he’d backed me into and against the corner
of the small alcove, just under the stairs. His feet braced apart and his body
towered over mine, filled every inch of available space; his fingers dug into
my side and back in a way that felt aggressive.
I approved.
Then, abruptly, he
pulled just a centimeter away. Breathing hard he said, “One more meaning that
kiss?”
I hazily blinked my
eyes and opened my abused lips to respond; however, before I could, he pressed
me against the wall with his imposing frame, rocked against me—center to
center—and growled, “Or, this kiss?”
ZING ZING ZING!
His every day voice
was a thing of beauty; but his growly voice made me want to lick his face.
The mouthlesting moved
from misdemeanor to a felony crime against all women other than me. He employed
tongue, teeth, lips in a way that drove all thought beyond this kiss from my
mind. We existed, just the two of us, in our kiss cocoon. In that moment,
strangers though we were, I allowed him to take in a way I hadn’t known I was
capable of giving.
I’d lit the fuse and,
God bless him, he’d provided the fireworks. Life was good.
About the Author
SEX! It all started with
sex, between my parents. Personally I don’t like thinking about it, but
whatever works for you is a-ok with me. No judgment. The sex happened in
California and much of my life also occurred in that state until I moved from
the land of nuts (almonds), wine, silicon… boobs, and heavy traffic to the
southeast US. Like most writers I like to write, but let’s get back to sex.
Eventually I married and gave birth to 2 small people-children (boy-6, girl-4
as of this writing).
By day I’m a biomedical researcher with focus on rare diseases. By night
I’m a knitter, sewer, lino block carver, fabric printer, soap maker, and
general crafter. By the wee hours of the morning or when I’m intoxicated I love
to listen to the voices in my head and let them tell me stories. I hope
you enjoy their stories.
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Better, Him, Her by Carey Heywood
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Behind His Eyes - Consequences by Aleatha Romig
Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino
Behind His Lens by RS Grey
Mine to Lose, Being There by TK Rapp
Black Box by Cassia Leo
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