Title:
Restoration & Forgiveness (Renovate
#2)
Author:
Mindy A.
Carter
Release Date: Jan
18, 2016
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When I ran back home, I
wasn’t prepared for the reminders of him everywhere I turned. I
certainly never expected Keegan to follow. I thought I made myself clear - we
were through. I didn’t want anything to do with him. But, he inserted
himself back into my life, and there was nothing I could do.
I pushed he pulled.
I ran and he chased me.
I cried and he wiped away the tears.
He just wouldn’t give up, and the battle my head
and my heart are waging, is one I don’t want to be a part of. You see
my head says be strong, but my heart is saying I belong to him, and always
will.
What does one do when her heart can easily forgive, yet her
head refuses to.
Can Keegan, and I restore our fairy tale, or will our story
be closed for good?
“Let’s
dance,” I tell Delaney. I’m feeling pretty good
and the music is loud. It's a perfect cover to get away from
him.
I grab Delaney's hand
and drag her to the dance floor. I don’t look back, letting
the music and alcohol course through my body as I move my hips with the
beat.
After a while, I head to the
bathroom, needing a break from the sweaty dance floor. Delaney heads back to
the bar to get us more drinks, which I’m sure I don’t need
since I already feel like I'm having a hard time walking a straight
line. Luckily all goes well in the ladies room, and I’m
able to use the facilities without help. I giggle at what an awesome
drunk I am.
I walk out with a smile on my
face when suddenly someone catches my arm and turns me around, my back against
a wall. My heart speeds up and for a split second I don’t
recognize who has grabbed me until I hear the low timbre of his
voice.
“Are you
drunk?”
I look into Keegan’s
eyes while he holds both of my arms - he's trapped me.
“Maybe a
little.”
He looks angry, and for some
reason my drunk self thinks the way he's looking at me is
hilarious.
“You need to be
careful, anyone could take advantage of you right now,
Aimee.”
“I’m not
alone I’m with Delaney.” I remind
him.
He
tilts his head as his green eyes bore into me. “Who
is also wasted.”
“Well
if it weren't for you I wouldn’t need to be here,”
I shoot back.
“If it
weren't for me you would have fallen over, the way you were stumbling
out of the bathroom, I’m surprised you didn’t wipe
out,” he growls.
“What are you, a
stalker Keegan? I don’t remember you being this creepy before, must
have picked it up from your blonde banshee.”
He looks at me confused, but
then I see his eyes turn from anger to regret.
I reach up to touch his cheek.
“Your eyes are so blue, like the ocean. Did you know you have the
most beautiful eyes on the planet?” Did I say that
out loud? Oh
shit!
He looks at me and then his
lips curve up into that panty-dropping smile, and I know if he decided to take
me here I wouldn’t protest. My head gets all foggy when he
is this close.
He must see my walls fall at
that moment, because his warm lips descend on me, and I can’t help
but pull him close as our lips meet. It’s an explosion of everything
I’ve been feeling in the last few days - anger, passion, hurt, and wanting.
We devour each other. My head is telling me to stop, but I
can’t. His power over me is too strong.
Everything else around us falls away. His warm hand slides under my shirt
shooting a tingle down my spine that feels amazing. I press into him
trying to get closer. When we come up for air, he places his forehead
against mine.
“To the
stars,” he whispers.
I pull away and I look up to
him. “The stars are too far away Keegan, no on will ever reach them.
Even if you could touch one they'd burn you to
ash.”
He releases his hold on me and
I’m free, I’m almost sober now and flee to the front of the
bar and out the door. The farther away I get from Keegan, the better.
I’m this close to forgiving him, but having been drinking, I
don’t trust myself. I can't be held responsible for
my actions right now. At least that’s what I tell myself once I step
outside and look up at the sky. Up to the twinkling stars, wishing just once I
could touch them.
Skyscrapers
& Camelot (Renovate #1)
Keegan was my world since I was
six years old. When he walked out of my life, I was certain I would never see
him again. He broke my heart, but truthfully I only have myself to blame. Now
I'm looking into his incredibly beautiful blue eyes. He came back into
my life as quickly as he left. Both of us have changed over the years, but I
can't imagine living another day without him.
My name is Aimee, and this is the story of how I lost and
found my best friend and love of my life. The journey may be tough but there is
no denying that Keegan, and I were destined to be together. He rescued me the
day we met and had always been my prince charming. One thing I'm sure
of, I'm not letting my happily ever after get away this
time.
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Mindy has
been in love with love, as long as she can remember. As a child, you could
find Mindy engrossed in fairytale books and dreaming of her
happily ever after. She was lucky enough to find her prince charming and lives
in Ohio with him and her
four precarious children.
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