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Bringing Home the Bad Boy by Jessica Lemmon
Released Date: January 27th 2015 by Forever
Pages: 384
Series: Second Chance #1
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
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.
-*-EXCERPT-*-
“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.
“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 THE AUTHOR-*-
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.)
Author's Links: Goodreads, Official Website, Twitter, Facebook
-*-GIVEAWAY-*-
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