BOOK
SUMMARY:
Jessica Stone has her life in perfect order until her perfectly boring
boyfriend Brett puts things in perspective. So when she receives a call to
action from her heartbroken best friend Cassie, she ditches her plans for
Winter Break in gloomy Olympic Falls and sets off to Mexico for some fun in the
sun.
Determined to use her oceanview to prep for her MCATS, she doesn't plan
to run into anyone from Olympic State, least of all the cute communications
prof she's been crushing on for a year. When he unexpectedly saves the day, the
two are thrown together in a distinctly extracurricular activity.
Roman Markson doesn’t expect to run into anyone he knows from Olympic
Falls while visiting his family in Puerto Vallarta, especially not a former
student. Although Jess Stone has a way of catching men’s attention, a
relationship with her is strictly off-limits. However, the rules feel less
strict in Mexico, so they agree to a plan: one week in paradise and nothing
more.
But avoiding each other back on campus is harder than they anticipated,
especially when they can’t stay away from one another. Neither is sure what
they have to learn—and lose—before life teaches them a lesson they’ll never
forget.
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Excerpt #5
Tugging the
knot tied at the side of my wrap dress, I let it fall open. I couldn’t see Roman’s eyes
clearly in the dark, but I did know he was suddenly very still. I made a show
of it, shrugging the dress over my shoulders and finally letting it flutter to
the sand. Thanks to the unexpectedly hedonistic side of myself I’d
discovered during my time here, I was braless. Hooking my thumbs in the band of
my panties, I called out, “Does this
answer your question?”
“Come on in. The water is warm.” I heard the smile in his voice.
“I thought we were going for a swim.” I wiggled my panties lower but didn’t take them
off.
Roman’s shirt was
over his head in a flash, revealing his perfectly lickable slab of abs. He
strode toward me and grabbed me around the waist. “Your turn.”
“I feel like you got more bang for your buck.” I raised my eyebrows suggestively as I pressed myself
against him. My body responded immediately, my skin blazing to life at his
touch. But underneath the smoldering intensity of his embrace, a delicious ache
spread through my chest. My breath hitched as a familiar rawness built in my
throat. Roman’s finger tipped my chin up so that our eyes met. We didn’t say
anything. We didn’t have to. The same happy confusion shone in his dark eyes.
But we didn’t speak
because we both felt the moments between us slipping away. We’d said a
week, but that was before—before the
irresistible connection I felt to him had shifted, evolving into something I
wasn’t prepared
for.
Something I’d never
felt before.
Suddenly
all the questions I’d had vanished along with all the reasons why I didn’t need him
in my life. At that moment he was the very air in my lungs. He was the beat of
my heart. With his finger still pressed to my chin, Roman leaned down, slanting
his lips to meet mine in a gentle kiss. The breeze brushed past us and the tide
washed over our feet and Roman Markson was kissing me for the first time.
It wasn’t my first
kiss. It wasn’t our first kiss.
But it was
the first kiss that ever mattered.
I’d gone a
thousand miles away from my life to finally discover home in the arms of
someone I had to leave tomorrow.
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