Title: Hawthorne's Calm
Series: Oceans #3
Author: M.A. DeOlmos
Publisher: Lock & Key Publications
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Warning!
The
highly anticipated trio is back just in time for the holidays! Engross yourself
this holiday season with the gorgeous Hawthorne men. Go ahead. You deserve to
treat yourself to some holiday cheer & a new meaning of Fa-La-La-La-La!
Synopsis
For some, life has a grand and beautifully
wicked way of handing out life's lessons. Ocean and Lawrence Hawthorne can
attest to this until they've run themselves to the ground. Yet somehow, within
those lessons that leaves them emotionally battered and scarred, comes the
birth of new hope. New life.
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Excerpt
Livie
I find myself standing next to a man that just seconds ago was the happiest I’ve seen since… well actually, I’ve never seen him this happy. Moments ago, Ocean was showing me a side of him that instantly made me fall in love with him all over again. However, right now-within seconds-that same man has become a ticking time bomb—scratch that he's more like a unhinged hand grenade with less than one second to cause mayhem!
Immediately, Law
arrives at the door after my initial set of screams for him to hurry his a*s up
and help me. Moving quickly and without hesitation, he takes a hold of Ocean’s
arms and locks them behind his back.
Looking at Law,
I see the shock and sprinkle of hate playing on his handsomely cool features
and it further confirms to me that the arrival of Ocean’s mother-pregnant
mother at that-is not a good omen for the days, weeks, or months to come.
The curious minds
of our morning guests start trickling in, hovering around us at the front door.
Finally, someone speaks. It’s Ocean, of course, more than ready to go 300Z
Gerard Butler style on his own mother.
“Who the hell
told her to show up!?” Ocean flings Law off him in one violent ripple of his
shoulders. He spins around to face the crowd behind him.
I look at the
woman still standing in the not so safe
zone as she stares at the tight and rigid back of her son. A son that is in
so much pain he cannot stand to look at her.
“Dad!” He roars
out as his father comes forth.
“Yes son.” His
father answers calmly, knowing better than all of us in the crowded foyer that
this is an extremely dangerous situation.
The pain in his
father’s eyes at the sight of a woman he once loved-and honestly probably still
loves-is breaking my heart with each passing second.
“Did you
tell her? How does she know? HOW. THE. F**K. IS. SHE. HERE?!”
A shaky voice
responds and it’s from no one standing on our side of the door.
“Ocean, son. No
one invited me. I looked you up. I wanted to—to--”
“To what
Sabrina! You wanted to show up on the happiest day of my f**king life and ruin
it to h*ll? Is that what you wanted to do? Mission-a-f**king-complished!”
As he spoke to
her with his back turned she winced at his hateful words, but I couldn’t blame
him for it. I don’t think anyone could right now. Ocean was hurt and broken
beyond repair when it came to his mother.
He forever
blamed himself for what happened to his sister. He has the guilt of having
killed her in that terrible bike accident engrained into his soul. He loved
Stormie-his beautiful twin sister-with his whole heart. When he needed his
mother the most after her death, she just up and walked away.
I would be
beyond pi**ed too if she showed up today like this...which she just did. I push
away the resurfacing thoughts of my mother’s demise before I allowed my own
emotions of guilt and abandonment to resurface and cause me to react out of my
own emotional torments. When I look away from Sabrina, my eyes too easily found
the wet shiny pieces of glass on the tile floor in front of me.
Immediately,
they held my eyes captive. The demons inside of me start rearing their ugly
heads trying to find a broken link in my still-wounded and slowly healing
armor. I was stupid for thinking they had left me, that I had won.
Apparently
they’d only taken a fucking vacation! The bastards were just giving me a break.
Layla and Dulce found their way to me taking each one of my hands in theirs.
Damn… did my face look that twisted they recognized my rising fear too?
“Ocean. I know
you’re mad at me and hate me, but I am still you’re mother.”
Uh-oh! Wrong
thing to say Sabrina.
Ocean spins
around this time to face his mother.
She did not
shrink under his hateful glare, stupid woman. “Ocean. I am still your mother. I
came here to find you so you could meet your sister when she’s born.”
Time stops as
well as Ocean’s breathing and probably his heart. He sways on his feet and I
release my hands from Layla and Dulce to support him. He grabs onto me
desperately as his body and mind fight against each other to steady himself.
I feel like
slapping the shit out of this woman. How dare she say some shit like that? I
look up at his face needing to see what's there. His eyes are locked on his
mother’s stomach. She looked about ready to pop any moment now.
“I’m having her
here in Dunlap, Ocean. Her name is going to be Stormie.”
Author Bio
My
name is Melissa De Olmos, it's quite a mouth-full but that's me. I live in
the sunny, tropical and extremely too tranquil city of Palm Bay, Florida with
my two lovely crazies’ ages six and three. I could say that writing novels has
been a passion that I've always pursued but I can't. Writing for me has always
been my own secret escape into a land of wonders, opportunities, timeless loves
and so much trouble that I sometimes wonder if I need medication for the
stories that pop into my head. I am in love--no-- I am obsessed with everything
mystical, fantasy, true to a reader’s heart, and fiction. It has been an
enormous pleasure and indescribable experience sharing my Oceans Series with
the world and I cannot wait to fill this world with more crazy for you awesome
people to devour.
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