About Bringing Home the Bad Boy
Creativity is his drug, painting is his escape, but she'll be the addiction that brings him to his knees.
Creativity is his drug, painting is his escape, but she'll be the addiction that brings him to his knees.
Evan Downey buried a part of his soul when put the love of his life in the ground. He knows he needs to get his shit together for the sake of their son, but escaping into his art is the only way he can begin to cope with Rae's death. When the chance to move back to Evergreen Cove, one of the few places that has ever felt right to him, he knows it's a chance he has to take. For his sake, and his sons.
Charlotte Harris would give anything to have her best friend back. But if she can't have Rae, then she vows she'll at least be there to support the family Rae left behind. So when she learns that Evan is looking to move home, she does everything she can to help him and Lyon re-build their lives at the Cove. But when sparks start to fly between Charlotte and Evan it's the first glimpse of something bright and beautiful either of them has seen in far too long. And they start to wonder if fate has offered them a second chance at happiness-- if only their brave enough to take the risk and let love back into their lives.
Charlotte Harris would give anything to have her best friend back. But if she can't have Rae, then she vows she'll at least be there to support the family Rae left behind. So when she learns that Evan is looking to move home, she does everything she can to help him and Lyon re-build their lives at the Cove. But when sparks start to fly between Charlotte and Evan it's the first glimpse of something bright and beautiful either of them has seen in far too long. And they start to wonder if fate has offered them a second chance at happiness-- if only their brave enough to take the risk and let love back into their lives.
Excerpt
“Know why I moved here?” he asked, keeping his voice low.
“Know why I moved here?” he asked, keeping his voice low.
She
wrenched her eyes from his and focused on a spot over his shoulder.
“Because
you didn’t want to live in Columbus anymore.” That’s what he’d told her. That
he wanted a change. That he and Lyon had outgrown the house. And, she imagined
it’d be hard to live in the house where Rae had passed.
“But why
here?”
“Um…”
His fingers
grazed her jaw and turned her head, his palm moving to her neck where he cupped
her nape and forced her eyes to his.
Reluctantly,
she met them.
“Rae’s more
alive when you’re around, Ace.”
Her heart,
oh her heart. Kicking against her chest in a confusing, hectic rhythm.
“You bring her to life for Lyon—more than anyone else. I need him to remember her because he can’t remember her alive.” His hold stayed, his palm warming her neck, his gaze unwavering.
She tried
to separate the two feelings she was having—one that she was now talking about
Rae with Evan and two, that he was touching her while talking about Rae.
Before she
could, his lips closed over hers.
Her
thoughts short-circuited.
This wasn’t
anything like a soft peck hello. This was his lips moving over hers, slanting
over hers, warm and firm and then his mouth opened and—
Oh my gosh!
His wet,
warm tongue slid along the seam of her lips and she stopped being passive and
started kissing him back. When she would have touched her tongue to his, he
relocated it, running along her bottom lip instead and tugging with his teeth.
If she’d
been standing, her knees would have given out and dropped her right on her
butt.
And then
there was the palm on her neck, now spearing up through her hair and clutching
onto a handful of it. He held her captive, his hand fisting her hair as he
angled his mouth again. In response to the soft whimper escaping her throat, he
swept his tongue into her mouth. He tangled his tongue with hers once, twice,
and released her.
When he
pulled his mouth away, a long, satisfied sigh escaped her lips. Because that was a kiss. A kiss to rival all
other kisses.
She opened
her eyes to realize A) she’d closed her eyes and B) she’d at some point wrapped
both hands around his forearms where she was holding tight and C) Evan looked
as please as she felt.
“God damn, Ace. Your mouth.” His eyes flicked
to her lips. Lips still tingling from the rough scrape from the stubble
surrounding his.
She
concurred with that sentiment. Not that she said anything. She’d gone dumb;
completely mute.
He backed
away, but held onto her chin and tweaked it lightly with the rough pad of one thumb.
“That’s the way this is gonna go from
now on.”
Her
breathing went shallow, her thoughts went muzzy and her head blurred as her
heart palpated to the point of panic attack.
“Sorry,
Rae.”
She didn’t
mean to say it, and it had only been a whisper, but by the look twisting Evan’s
face—the angry look twisting his
face—he’d heard. And he hadn’t liked what he’d heard.
“Sorry,”
she said to him this time. “I should go.”
Unbelievably,
he leaned closer. She pulled her chin
back until she realized she likely had a double chin, then settled her head on
her neck in a more reasonable position.
Gosh. He
was making her crazy.
About Jessica Lemmon
Jessica Lemmon has always been a dreamer. At some point, she decided head-in-the-clouds thinking was childish, went out, and got herself a job . . . and then she got another one because that one was lousy. And when that one stopped being fulfilling, she went out and got another . . . and another. Soon it became apparent she'd only be truly happy doing what she loved. And since "eating potato chips" isn't a viable career, she opted to become a writer. With fire in her heart, she dusted off a book she'd started years prior, finished it, and submitted it. It may have been the worst book ever, but it didn't stop her from writing another one. Now she has several books finished, several more started, and even more marinating in her brain (which currently resides in the clouds, thankyouverymuch), and she couldn't be happier. She firmly believes God gifts us with talents for a purpose, and with His help, you can create the life you want. (While eating potato chips.)
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