Sneak Peek (This is a work-in-progress and is subject to change.):
Stone
“I’m
so sorry,” she whispered frantically.
“Are you okay?”
I
rubbed the side of my temple, trying to determine the answer to her
question. I felt a lump rising, and I
closed my eyes for just a moment and breathed deeply.
“Let
me see,” she said.
I
held my palm up toward her. “I’m
fine.” I dropped my palm to my knee, not
yet rising from my stooped position.
Before
I knew what she was doing, her fingers were in my hair, her gentle touch
skimming over the spot where our heads bumped.
She was so close that I could smell the delicate fragrance on her skin,
and I found myself enticed by her.
“Oh,
my gosh!” she exclaimed. “A knot. Great.
My first day of work, and I’ve already given someone a concussion.”
I
laughed, but I didn’t move. I didn’t
know why I found her comment so amusing or why I didn’t want her to move her
hands. Slowly, I rose, catching her
slender wrists in my grasp. “I’m fine,”
I said, feeling the pulse in her wrist quicken against my fingertips. Her brilliant green eyes widened, and her
full, shimmering-pink lips parted in surprise.
“What about you?” I asked.
I
wasn’t sure if she heard my question.
She stared at me in shock as if she had just been caught making out
behind the bleachers by the principal.
“Dara?”
I asked, starting to wonder if she was the one with the concussion.
“I’m…fine,”
she said breathlessly.
I’d
been around enough girls to know when I had an effect on them. And she was definitely affected.
Dara
wasn’t the type of female I usually hung out with, but it was nice to know I
had the same effect on the goody-two-shoes that I did on the bad girls.
My
phone buzzed, and I pulled it out of my pocket, glancing at the caller’s name. Speaking of bad girls, Jessie was calling.
Dara
I
thought my heart was going to pound out of my chest. If I hadn’t still been freezing from the cold
rain that soaked my hair and clothes, sweat would’ve been trickling down my temples. The warmth from his hands was like heaven
against my icy skin, but his close proximity was dangerous to my hammering
heart. In fact, if I had to describe
Stone Hamilton in one word, it would be dangerous.
Coming in February 2013. Cover coming soon!
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