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Teaser #2 from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014)!
Here is teaser #2 from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014)! https://www.facebook.com/bellaandrefa...
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
After they'd cleared the dinner plates and moved into living room to dig into the delicious chocolate truffles that Rafe's fiancee Brooke had made, Ian's father Max walked in carrying a large bottle of champagne. Standing by the fire where the family dog was snoring contentedly, he said, “It's been a heck of a great year for us Sullivans. First with Rafe and Brooke getting engaged, and then Mia and Ford finding each other again.” Max gave a warm smile to the rock star who would become his son-in-law and Mia blew her father a kiss. He popped the champagne cork and poured the fizzing liquid into the glasses his wife Claudia had brought out, waiting until each of them were holding a full glass before raising his and saying, “Tonight, I'd like to make a toast to my oldest. Ian, we all missed you while you were living in London, and we're very glad you're back home.”
Ian hadn't said much all evening, but even so, Tatiana had been easily able to see just how much he enjoyed being with his family. But when he smiled at his mother and father and said, “It's good to be back,” her heart just about stopped in her chest.
Ian Sullivan had the most beautiful smile she'd ever seen.
Why, she wondered as she stared at him in helpless wonder, didn't he smile more?
The realization that his happiness already mattered so much to her had her hands shaking slightly as she reached her glass out to clink it against the others.
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
After they'd cleared the dinner plates and moved into living room to dig into the delicious chocolate truffles that Rafe's fiancee Brooke had made, Ian's father Max walked in carrying a large bottle of champagne. Standing by the fire where the family dog was snoring contentedly, he said, “It's been a heck of a great year for us Sullivans. First with Rafe and Brooke getting engaged, and then Mia and Ford finding each other again.” Max gave a warm smile to the rock star who would become his son-in-law and Mia blew her father a kiss. He popped the champagne cork and poured the fizzing liquid into the glasses his wife Claudia had brought out, waiting until each of them were holding a full glass before raising his and saying, “Tonight, I'd like to make a toast to my oldest. Ian, we all missed you while you were living in London, and we're very glad you're back home.”
Ian hadn't said much all evening, but even so, Tatiana had been easily able to see just how much he enjoyed being with his family. But when he smiled at his mother and father and said, “It's good to be back,” her heart just about stopped in her chest.
Ian Sullivan had the most beautiful smile she'd ever seen.
Why, she wondered as she stared at him in helpless wonder, didn't he smile more?
The realization that his happiness already mattered so much to her had her hands shaking slightly as she reached her glass out to clink it against the others.
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
Teaser #3 from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014)!
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
He tried to think straight. Tried to remember all the reasons why they shouldn't do this as she said, “I've never wanted anyone, or anything, as much as I want you.”
And in that moment, where it felt to Ian like everything he ever wanted was right there in front of him, how could he do anything but reach for her?
“If I kiss you,” he warned her in a voice made harsh with the inner conflict that rode him, “there's no going back tonight.” He fisted his hands in her hair so that she'd know what she was getting herself into, then roughly tilted her head back so that he could scrape his stubble across the sensitive skin of her neck.
“I don't want to go back. Not now.” She shivered against him. “Not ever.”
“I won't be gentle.” He had one last chance to try to scare her away, to do whatever he could to get her to run because he sure as hell couldn't figure out a way to let her go. “If you stay tonight, I'm going to take what I want from you, Tatiana. Everything I want. Everything you've been offering to me since the moment we met.”
But instead of running, all she said was, “Yes.” And then, again, even more emphatically, “Yes. I don't want gentle. I just want you.”
She lifted her mouth to his...and he was lost.
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
He tried to think straight. Tried to remember all the reasons why they shouldn't do this as she said, “I've never wanted anyone, or anything, as much as I want you.”
And in that moment, where it felt to Ian like everything he ever wanted was right there in front of him, how could he do anything but reach for her?
“If I kiss you,” he warned her in a voice made harsh with the inner conflict that rode him, “there's no going back tonight.” He fisted his hands in her hair so that she'd know what she was getting herself into, then roughly tilted her head back so that he could scrape his stubble across the sensitive skin of her neck.
“I don't want to go back. Not now.” She shivered against him. “Not ever.”
“I won't be gentle.” He had one last chance to try to scare her away, to do whatever he could to get her to run because he sure as hell couldn't figure out a way to let her go. “If you stay tonight, I'm going to take what I want from you, Tatiana. Everything I want. Everything you've been offering to me since the moment we met.”
But instead of running, all she said was, “Yes.” And then, again, even more emphatically, “Yes. I don't want gentle. I just want you.”
She lifted her mouth to his...and he was lost.
~ Excerpt from JUST TO BE WITH YOU (Ian Sullivan's story, coming Spring 2014), copyright 2013 by Bella Andre ~
