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In the meantime, I'm sharing an excerpt from Kola, the 4th book in the Essien Series.
"Let me do that
for you."
The sexy, masculine
voice sounded so close. So intimate. A shiver ran down her spine. She glanced
over her shoulder at the man standing beside her. Her pulse skyrocketed.
Kola. Tall, dark, and hot
in his tuxedo suit, the silk jacket stretched across wide chest and shoulders,
the trousers hugging well-toned thigh muscles.
A throbbing began
between her legs, matching the pulsing in her chest. Her gaze travelled up to
his face. He stared at her with a bemused expression. Her cheeks heated. He'd
caught her staring.
He was her cousin, for
goodness’ sake. Lusting after him could only lead to trouble. For one, she had
a fiancé. Secondly, incest was taboo. She couldn’t blame her response on
alcohol. She hadn't taken a sip yet. It must be that she'd never seen him in
such a formal outfit before. It looked too damn good on him.
"Let me," he
said. Although his voice sounded gentle, there lay something unyielding in the
tone.
A shimmer of heat
washed over her skin. She cleared her throat and said, "Of course."
As he gripped the back
of the chair, his fingers brushed hers. A shard of electricity travelled
through her and she dropped her hand.
"Here." He pulled
the chair back.
"Thanks,"
she replied and settled into the seat.
"You're welcome,"
he said and lowered his head to only inches from her face, one arm resting on
the table, the other on the chair back. With no one else close by, the stance
spoke of intimacy. Her hands trembled. For one crazy moment, she thought he
would brush his lips against her skin. She tilted her head and met his gaze.
His eyes reminded her of chocolate, and his skin of dark-roasted coffee beans.
Two food items she could never resist.
"Here you are."
The sound of someone
else's presence broke the spell on her.
Kola straightened. "You
look stunning tonight, Tari."
Before she could
respond, he walked away. Tari gave her attention to Natasha, glad for the
interruption. She didn't know what the hell just happened and she wasn't even
going to bother analysing it.
Here's the blurb
When
sassy heiress Tari Essien needs a place to escape the pressures of the hounding
press, she turns to Kola Banks, a deeply scarred ex-soldier who's also the
Essien chief of security. Kola can't offer Tari anything more than his
protection. She's family, for goodness sake, even if they share no blood ties.
It’s
a weekend of lessons for both of them. Together, they can't avoid the explosive
heat that sizzles between them, nor help pushing each others' boundaries
physically as well as emotionally.
But
when the weekend ends and Tari's life is in danger, will Kola put his body as
well as his heart in the line of fire to keep her safe?
Happy Sunday and welcome back to Sexy Snippets. This
is a fun weekly meme where we share 7 sentences from a published book
or work in progress. Feel free to join us by adding your sexy snippets
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Today's
snippet comes from Worthy, my current work-in-progress and follows on
from last week's snippet. This is a first draft and unedited. Enjoy. ***
Eyes shut; she lay there in the
ensuing silence, the only sound of her panting breaths and heartbeat slowly
returning to a normal rate. His warmth encased her as he scooped her off the
piano. She settled into his rigidity, wrapping her arms around his neck with
her head on his chest. His heart thumped steadily.
Soft lips brushed her temple
before he lowered her onto the bed. She opened her eyes. They were back in her
room, his guest room.
"Good night, Tess," he
said and turned away.
"Don't go, please," she
said quickly, not wanting the time with him to end.
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Welcome
back to Mid Week Tease, hosted by the lovely Sandra Bunino, where we
tease you with excerpts from stories we're writing or already have
published. So for
today's teaser I'm continuing from where we left off at last week's mid-week tease taken from Worthy my current WIP. This is a first draft and unedited.
I hope you enjoy it.
“We both need to get as far away as possible from
here." Anuli came over, sat beside Tessa on the edge of the bed and took
her hand. "We have two options—head north to Enugu or south to
Portharcourt. We don't know anyone in Enugu but I have a distant Uncle in PH
that we could stay with, hopefully. We talked about this already."
Her friend squeezed her hand. Tessa sucked in a deep breath
and swallowed hard before nodding. Running away would create its own problems
but anywhere else had to be better than the nightmare of a gilded cage she
currently lived in.
She closed her eyes and the horror assaulted her—hot sweaty
hands, the press of suffocating weight on top of her, the cloying body musk.
Her skin tightened as if she had thousands of ants crawling over it and her
eyes flew open.
Fighting nausea, she jumped off the bed and snatched her
back pack. "We need to go now."
Tessa rushed out of the room, not giving it another glance
as Anuli followed her. She couldn't bear to be in this house anymore. Not another night. Not another moment. She barely breathed as they raced down the stairs. The thudding of their shoes against the concrete seemed to match the thumping of heartbeats. They descended halfway when the front
door swung open. The hairs on her nape and arms lifted as she froze on the spot.
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Happy Sunday and welcome back to Sexy Snippets. This is a fun weekly meme where we share 7 sentences from a published book or work in progress. Feel free to join us by adding your sexy snippets post link HERE or check out the page on Facebook or Twitter.
Today's snippet comes from Worthy, my current work-in-progress and follows on from last week's snippet. This is a first draft and unedited. Enjoy. ***
His movements changed, the fingers
on the piano no longer delicate. The music became violent, each note
tempestuous. The vibrations intensified.
Fever erupted within her core. Body
arched. Thighs trembled. Eyelids lowered, a kaleidoscope of colour burst behind
them as her whole being trashed for moments on end.
Slowly the music faded, just as
the world righted itself around her.
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Welcome
back to Mid Week Tease, hosted by the lovely Sandra Bunino, where we
tease you with excerpts from stories we're writing or already have
published. So for
today's teaser I'm continuing from where we left off at last week's mid-week tease taken from Worthy my current WIP. This is a first draft and unedited.
I hope you enjoy it.
“Am I really doing the right thing?” Tessa asked, her tight
grip on the rucksack handle making it cut into her palm.
“Of course you are," Anuli replied with a quick glance
over her left shoulder. "We discussed this, didn’t we? You can’t go to the
police. You tried that already.”
Tessa bit the inside of her lower lip. Yes, she'd gone to
the police and no one had believed her claim. Her stomach tightened and she
struggled not to be sick as she sat on the edge of the bed. “I know we did. But
running away to Portharcourt?”
She lived in the small town of Okigwe. It was nothing more
than a dusty motorway town that happened to have a university campus on its periphery.
It wasn’t the most exciting place in the world but it was all she knew.
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Tessa bit the inside of her lower lip. Yes, she'd gone to
the police and no one had believed her claim. Her stomach tightened and she
struggled not to be sick as she sat on the edge of the bed. “I know we did. But
running away to Portharcourt?”
