Excerpt
It felt like we were the only two
people in the world, instead of inside a busy, posh restaurant.
“This is beautiful. But odd,” I said.
Graham took off his jacket and
settled into his side of the table with one arm casually slung over the top of
the booth. “Fitting.”
“Are you saying I’m odd?”
“Are we going to fight about it if I
say yes?”
“Probably.”
“Then, yes.”
My brow furrowed. “You want
to fight with me?”
Graham tugged at his tie, loosening
it. “I find it turns me on.”
I laughed. “I think you need counseling.”
“After the last few days, I believe
you may be right.”
The waitress returned with our
drinks. She set a highball glass down in
front of him and a wine glass in front of me.
Graham had ordered Hendrick’s and
tonic. “That’s an old man’s drink, gin
and tonic,” I said as I sipped my wine.
He swirled the ice around in his
glass, then brought it to his lips and looked at me over the rim before
drinking. ”Remember what arguing with me
does. You might want to look under the
table.”
My eyes widened. “You aren’t.”
He smirked and cocked an
eyebrow. “Go ahead. Put your head under. I know you’re dying to take a peek anyway.”
After we both finished our drinks,
and some of my nerves had started to calm, we finally had our first real
conversation. One that wasn’t about sex
or tongue rings.
“So how many hours do you work a day
in that big fancy office of yours?”
“I usually go in by eight and try to
leave by eight.”
“Twelve hours a day? That’s sixty hours a week.”
“Not counting weekends.”
“You work weekends, too?”
“Saturdays.”
“So your only day off is Sunday?”
“I actually sometimes work in the
evening on Sunday, too.”
“That’s nuts. When do you find time to enjoy yourself?”
“I enjoy my work.”
I scoffed. “Didn’t sound that way when I stopped in the
other day. Everyone there seems afraid
of you, and you refused to open the door.”
“I was busy.” He folded his arms over his chest.
I did the same. “So was I.
I took two trains to personally deliver that phone, you know. And you didn’t have the decency to even come
out and say thank you.”
“I didn’t know what was behind the
door waiting for me, or I would have come out.”
“A person. A person
was behind the door. One who went out of
her way for you. If I were a
sixty-year-old married woman with blue hair, you should have come out to thank
me.”
He sighed. “I’m a busy man, Soraya.”
“Yet here you are on a weeknight at
only 7PM. Shouldn’t you be working until
eight if you’re so busy?”
“I make exceptions when warranted.”
“How big of you.”
He arched an eyebrow. “You want to look under the table, don’t
you?”
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Blurb
It
started out like any other morning on the train.
Until
I became mesmerized by the guy sitting across the aisle.
He was
barking at someone on his phone like he ruled the world.
Who
did the stuck-up suit think he was…God?
Actually,
he looked like a God. That was about it.
When
his stop came, he got up suddenly and left.
So suddenly, he dropped his phone on the way out.
I
might have picked it up.
I
might have gone through all of his photos and called some of the numbers.
I
might have held onto the mystery man’s phone for days—until I finally conjured
up the courage to return it.
When I
traipsed my ass across town to his fancy company, he refused to see me.
So, I
left the phone on the empty desk outside the arrogant jerk’s office.
I
might have also left behind a dirty picture on it first though.
I
didn’t expect him to text back.
I
didn’t expect our exchanges to be hot as hell.
I
didn’t expect to fall for him—all before we even met.
The
two of us couldn’t have been any more different.
Yet,
you know what they say about opposites.
When
we finally came face to face, we found out opposites sometimes do more than
attract—we consumed each other.
Nothing could have prepared me for the ride he took me on.
And I certainly wasn’t prepared for where I’d wind up when the ride was over.
All
good things must come to an end, right?
Except our ending was one I didn't see coming.
Other books from Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward
Cocky Bastard
Meet Penelope Ward
Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall
Street Journal bestselling author. Penelope lives for reading books in the new
adult/contemporary romance genre, coffee and hanging out with her friends and
family on weekends. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 11-year-old girl
with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and a
9-year-old boy, both of whom are the lights of her life. Penelope, her husband
and kids reside in Rhode Island. She is the author of RoomHate, which hit #2 on
the New York Times Bestseller list and #1 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller
list. Her novel, Stepbrother Dearest, also spent four consecutive weeks on the
New York Times Bestseller list. Other works include the New York Times
bestseller Cocky Bastard (co-written with Vi Keeland), Sins of Sevin, My
Skylar, Jake Undone, Jake Understood and Gemini.
Stalk Her:
Other books from Penelope Ward
RoomHate
Sins of Sevin
Stepbrother Dearest
Gemini
Jake Undone (Jake #1)
My Skylar
Jake Understood (Jake #2)
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Meet Vi Keeland
Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that
occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn't
change for the world. She is an attorney and a New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, & USA Today
Bestselling author. Over the last three years, ten of her titles have appeared
on the USA Today Bestseller lists and
three on the New York Times
Bestseller lists.
Additional Books by Vi Keeland
Life on Stage series (2
standalone books)
Beat
Throb
MMA Fighter series (3
standalone books)
Worth the
Fight (MMA Fighter Series, Book One)
Worth The
Chance (MMA Fighter Series, Book Two)
Worth
Forgiving (MMA Fighter Series, Book Three)
The Cole
Series (2 book serial)
Belong to
You (Cole Series, Book One)
Made for
You (Cole Series, Book Two)
Standalone novels
The
Baller
Left
Behind (A Young Adult Novel)
First
Thing I See
