(Take It Off #10)
Publication date: August 29th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
She’s trying to move on, but the past won’t let her go.
I fell in love once.
It was a big mistake, but the biggest mistake of all was staying with him.
He pushed me around. He cheated and treated me like trash.
I don’t feel sorry for myself, because I let him.
But no more.
I moved out. I’m saving my stripper’s salary for an education that will get me somewhere better.
But breaking the chains of a shitty past isn’t easy. He says I owe him. He says we aren’t done. I don’t care what he says anymore.
I do care about Adam.
But my history tells me I’m not the best judge of men. And the fact Adam’s been married four times tells me he probably isn’t a safe choice.
I need safe. I need better. I need out.
If the past is any indication of my future, getting out isn’t going to be easy.
I fell in love once.
It was a big mistake, but the biggest mistake of all was staying with him.
He pushed me around. He cheated and treated me like trash.
I don’t feel sorry for myself, because I let him.
But no more.
I moved out. I’m saving my stripper’s salary for an education that will get me somewhere better.
But breaking the chains of a shitty past isn’t easy. He says I owe him. He says we aren’t done. I don’t care what he says anymore.
I do care about Adam.
But my history tells me I’m not the best judge of men. And the fact Adam’s been married four times tells me he probably isn’t a safe choice.
I need safe. I need better. I need out.
If the past is any indication of my future, getting out isn’t going to be easy.
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Trashy
Excerpt
“Kiss
me.”
He
didn’t need to be told twice. In seconds he was standing to his full impressive
height and towed me up along with him. Adam released my hand and cupped my
face. His hands engulfed my jaw but he was so gentle. His eyes swept over me
like I was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen and around us sparks flew
like snowflakes in a blizzard.
Instead
of crushing his mouth to mine like I expected, like I wanted, he took his time.
His heated gaze dropped to my lips, then
back to my eyes. His fingers spasmed against my head and tightened ever
so slightly.
Slowly,
slowly he lowered his head, cupping my jaw so that I could do nothing but hold
still and wait for him to arrive.
The
anticipation of his lips on mine was almost my undoing. Everything going on
inside me head floated away. I became aware of the moment, of the quietness in
the room, of the way my body swayed wanting to get closer.
Adam’s
lips brushed over mine, a gentle caress, once, twice and then a third time. He
lifted his head just slightly and stared down at me, his thumb climbed up and
caressed my lower lip.
He
smiled softly and then joined our lips once more.
Adam
I couldn’t
decide what was harder to look at: Roxie looking shaken and soaking wet with
blood on her face, or Roxie being engulfed by my jacket.
Both sights were
practically impossible to see, for very different reasons.
When she rushed
into the Mad Hatter tonight, my eyes went right to her. I always knew when
Roxie was around. I felt her before I ever saw her. It didn’t matter if we were
in the same room or not, her presence was never lost on me.
It wasn’t every
night she came in looking like she’d fallen out of a boat in the middle the
sea. Her hair was wet and tangled, her clothes saturated and plastered to her
lithe frame, and her shoes were soaked through.
At first I
thought it might be kind of cute, until she went for the vodka. Roxie didn’t
drink on the job; she was the most professional stripper I’d ever had in this
club. So when she retrieved the vodka and downed it without a second thought, I
knew something was wrong.
And then I saw
the blood on her lip.
It made me
pissed and suspicious. I knew her ex was a loser, and my stomach tightened to
think maybe he’d gotten hold of her again. But I knew better. I knew Roxie
wasn’t back with him. I paid attention to her, more than she realized.
And yeah, maybe
I checked with Harlow every once in a while.
I wished there
was more I could do, but if she insisted it was only an accident, I would take
her at her word.
For now.
As soon as I
banked the raging protective instincts she always brought out in me, I noticed
how see-through her saturated dress was. I noticed the hard pebbles in the
middle of her fucking perfect tits. How was a man supposed to keep control of
the brain in his head and in his pants when she was walking around looking like
that?
The misery in
her eyes was my control. She was clearly having a rough night, and she was
freezing. Covering her up with my coat would not only save my cock from
embarrassing me, but also give her some comfort.
Too bad she
looked just as sexy drowning in my clothes as she did standing there wet.
Beautiful women
were part of my job. Mostly naked, gyrating women were something I saw every
single night in this club. In my twenty-five years, I’d seen a lot of hot
bodies and sexy females. Hell, I’d been married to four of them.
But it didn’t
matter because not one of those women knew how to hold my attention.
Except Roxie.
From the minute
I first saw her walk into the Mad Hatter looking for a job, I knew there was
something different about her. Something that no other woman I’d met had.
I still didn’t
know exactly what that something was, and it didn’t matter. Even unidentified,
she still completely captivated me.
Roxie
I could count on
a single hand the number of men I have kissed in my life.
It might have
well been zero though, because the minute, no,
the second, Adam’s mouth fused with mine, my past no longer mattered. Every
kiss I’d ever thought I enjoyed was proven a lie.
A rush of heat
suffused my skin, and I knew if I looked down, I would see a fine pink flush
spreading over my skin. Adam’s lips were supple and moist, a soft place to fall
while he rendered me almost incapacitated. He didn’t lift his mouth, not one
time. Instead his lips rubbed furiously over mine, creating a sort of friction
that crackled in the space around us.
Our lips glided
across each other, like they knew exactly how they fit together and the exact
moment to shift so the pleasure was intensified. Adam slid both arms around me,
crushing me against him. The hardness pressing into my center was almost
painful, but it was the kind of pain that made my crotch throb. I wound my arms
up around his neck, cupping the base of his head with my palm, and let my
tongue dart out across his perfectly seductive lips.
He growled. The
action vibrated my chest as he sucked my tongue into his mouth, stroking it and
coaxing it deeper until it brushed over the roof of his mouth.
One of his hands
slid down the small of my back and over the curve of my ass, where he filled
his hand with my flesh and squeezed like he wanted me even closer. I wanted
closer too, but there was too much between us.
I ripped my
mouth away, gasping for breath, and bit down on my swollen bottom lip. Adam’s
eyes were unfocused and heavy-lidded as he stared down at me. My pink lipstick
marred the perfect shape of his full mouth, and it totally turned me on to see
I had marked him in some way.
He swooped down
to kiss me again, and when our lips latched together, I reached between us to
fumble with the buttons on his dress shirt. I wanted to feel his skin. It
seemed like I’d waited forever for him to touch me like this, for a kiss that
totally blocked out the rest of the world. I was taking advantage while I had
the chance.
Except my hands
were shaking and my fingers kept missing their mark. How the hell was I
supposed to remove his shirt when his lips were assaulting me to the point I
couldn’t function?
I made a
frustrated sound and he swallowed it down. His chuckle floated between my lips
as he pushed my hands away and took matters into his own hands.
Those buttons
never stood a chance.
The sound of
them scattering across the hardwood on the floor barely registered as he
literally ripped the fabric off his chest. I was on him before he even had the
shirt totally pulled off his arms.
His chest was
like granite, hard and carved, bronzed, and so incredibly smooth. My fingers
slid over him like water. The silkiness of his skin made me sink my teeth into
his lower lip as if feeling him wasn’t enough and I had to taste him too. Holy
crap, he was broad. There was so much of him to explore my hands couldn’t move
fast enough. I loved the way his muscles bunched beneath his skin, the
tightness in his form, and the way when he wrapped his arms back around me, it
was like he totally surrounded me. I was completely captured by his coppered,
oversized body.
He made me feel
small, but not in a helpless way. Small in the sense the passion between us was
so big it overpowered my frame.
My hands fondled
all the way down to the waistband of his pants. My fingertips flirted with the
line between skin and clothing. Adam made a sound and ripped his mouth away to
stare down with lust-filled eyes.
----
Cambria Hebert is a bestselling novelist of more than twenty books. She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair. She currently resides in North Carolina with her children (human and furry) and her husband, who is a United States Marine.
Besides writing, Cambria loves a caramel latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching movies. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chorkie (the real boss of the house).
Cambria has written within the young adult and new adult genres, penning many paranormal and contemporary titles. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense. A few of her most recognized titles are: Text, Torch, Tryst, Masquerade, and Recalled.
Cambria Hebert owns and operates Cambria Hebert Books, LLC.
You can find out more about Cambria and her titles by visiting her website: http://www.
Email: cambriahebert@
Facebook: http://smarturl.co/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
Pinterest: https://pinterest.
GoodReads: http://www.
Besides writing, Cambria loves a caramel latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching movies. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chorkie (the real boss of the house).
Cambria has written within the young adult and new adult genres, penning many paranormal and contemporary titles. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense. A few of her most recognized titles are: Text, Torch, Tryst, Masquerade, and Recalled.
Cambria Hebert owns and operates Cambria Hebert Books, LLC.
You can find out more about Cambria and her titles by visiting her website: http://www.
Email: cambriahebert@
Facebook: http://smarturl.co/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
Pinterest: https://pinterest.
GoodReads: http://www.
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