Excerpt #2 from Best Things in Life

May 01, 2022 5:10 pm

Exclusive Excerpt #4

Best Things In Life - a College Hockey Romance

Hello my romance reading friends--

The release day is around the corner for Nate's story, Best Things in Life and I'm excited to share the EXCLUSIVE SNIPPET BELOW. 🔥🔥🔥 Nate is the St. Paul U goalie who appears as Trey's best friend in Your Kiss is on My List.

Writing about college sports has been a gall, but this will be the last one for a while in the St. Paul U world. 💜

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At SQ's House

Three days in a row--my roll for walking a mile or more. Forced activity is necessary for my writing lifestyle, though people at the gym wouldn't recognize me if I showed up there. But walking in the fresh air beats the stuffy gym now that it's spring. Today I'm going for day 4 and 2 miles.

When we're back at the house and lazing around on our new couch watching the NEW GIANT TV--we had to go big because it beats wearing glasses--➜➜➜

my husband and I are getting into the NHL and NBA playoffs. Go Boston Celtics (congrats for sweeping the first round!) 🏀 and Boston Bruins 🏒🧡

➜➜For all the sports fans among us, what sport and team are you following right now?

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✍️My Writing Progress

2022 so far: 184,520 words, 2 Novels, .8 Novellas

2022 Goal: 480,000 words, 5 Novels, 2 Novellas

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What Am I Reading? This week I just finished listening to Tutoring the Player by Rebecca Jenshak, a college hockey romance. (Really sticking to my genre!)

➜➜Who else is an Audiobook Addict like me?

The entire Boston Brawlers Hockey Romance series is Coming to Audio - still no release date yet, but

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Best Things In Life

a Second Chance College Hockey Romance

Snippet #4

Sarina

“It was an excellent meal, Cookie.” The deep words come from behind me and brush my skin with their intimacy. I turn and Nate’s standing there larger than life, like the hero of my girlhood dreams, the star hockey player, the stud, the magnificent unselfish lover and most sadly of all, my best friend—all a whisper from the past.

“What do you want?” I say more defeat than anger in my voice, in my soul.

“Truthfully? Or is this a rhetorical question?” he says, sitting down next to me in a quick quiet move. I don’t even bother snorting or protesting and instead sigh deeply, exhausted by my emotional turmoil.

He says, “Tell me, Sarina,” his voice like the dark night, velvety and quiet, and my heart speeds up anticipating whatever he’s going to say next. “Do you ever want to turn back the clock?”

I turn and look at him then, really look at him like I haven’t allowed myself to do since I got here, since I reacted to him so violently, so full of need and want, still. What I see is the same deep dark eyes pooled with caring and longing and sultry promises.

“No.” It’s my automatic response.

“Liar.”

I turn away. But he reaches out and puts his hand on my cheek, instantly searing me, igniting desire from deep inside like I haven’t felt in so long. He turns my face so I have to meet his eyes. “Don’t tell me you don’t wish we could go back… .”

“You’re the one who wants to go back, who needs to go back in time to undo all the damage you’ve done, all the destruction of… “ I don’t want to say out loud what I’m thinking, but I don’t have to because he knows.

“Of the way we were.” His words explode in my chest and I can hardly breathe. My heart stutters and fear mixes with excitement at his touch as he slides his hand around the back of my neck. Outrage should move me now. Anger should make me shove him away, but I’m mesmerized, frozen by the war between want and good sense, longing and resentment.

Even as he lowers his head to mine, rests his forehead against mine, brushing his lips across mine, I can’t move, can’t work up the anger that’s been my friend warding off the sadness all this time since he left.

Now with him touching me, kissing me, I can only feel and revel in the shooting flames through my veins, how he makes me feel so alive, so everything. And how I haven’t felt this way since the last time he kissed me as he presses his mouth to mine, runs his tongue along the seam of my trembling lips until I open my mouth to him and he plunges in, taking everything as if it’s all still his.

Fuck. “No,” I say into his mouth, my soul weeping and my conscience shooting daggers through my gut, I shove him away. “This is wrong.”

“Because of Bigs?” His voice is derisive.

“No, because...

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