One last exclusive excerpt

Jan 30, 2022 9:33 pm

One Final Sneak Peek at I Want To Know What Love Is

Hello my romance reading friends!

It's time to share the LAST Excerpt exclusively for you from the upcoming release of I Want To Know What Love Is!

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At SQ's House

Lots of snow at my house today! A whole blizzard full! At least I got my exercise in! Yes, I spent two hours shoveling to prove that it is possible to work up a sweat in 10 degree weather!

How about you? Tell me what you're up to!

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✍️My Writing Progress

2022 so far: 54,334 words, 70% of a Novel

2022 Goal: 465,000 words, 5 Novels, 1 Novella

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What Am I Reading? This week I'm listening to Rock Hard by L.J. Shen.

How about you? Any recs for something angsty?

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Last Exclusive Excerpt!

I Want To Know What Love Is

Trope: Forbidden Love/Age Gap

Coach Amanda Lake

“We’re done, ladies. Same time and place on Wednesday.” I nod to Emily as she catches up with me at the door. “See if you can convince the rest of your teammates to show up next time.” She smiles.

“Sure will coach. Once I tell them we ran into Dylan Jones, that’ll motivate them.”

“Really?” I want to be skeptical. She gives me a look of surprise.

“Of course. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but he’s hotter than hot with those smoldering dark eyes of his and all those muscles.” I snort.

“Lots of guys have muscles.”

“True, but they don’t have that… that something.” She shrugs as we head toward the locker room.

“That swagger?”

“Sure, but more than that. He’s so… so nice. On top of being adorable and smart. He’s just…” I put my hands up because I will truly become nauseous if I hear any more.

“I get it.” I force a smile because she’s a good kid, young and pretty and a senior in college and this is her time. She deserves to have a crush on the star football player. “He’s the campus heartthrob.” Nothing I shouldn’t have guessed.

She smiles and nods and I wave as I leave her and trot to my office. I hope I have enough time to at least change out of this sweaty shirt. Not that I'm trying to dress up for my tutoring date with the campus heartthrob, but it's a small office and I don't want to smell it up.

Letting myself into the office, I close the door behind me and flip the lock in one motion then rush to the back corner of the small space where I stowed my clothes in the bottom drawer of the file cabinet. Pulling my shirt over my head I realize my bra is soaked through.

I don’t have an extra and I weigh the pros and cons of being sweaty and smelly, but trussed up versus being fresh and clean but with bouncy boobs. I decide I’m not going to do any bouncing, so going braless should work okay, so I take that off too.

I reach into the drawer and pull out my fresh shirt and stuff the sweaty clothes into a bag. Then I stand to put on my clean shirt.

The door bangs open.

“Sorry I’m late coach, I—” He stops abruptly and stares.

Shit.

Dylan fucking Jones stands on my threshold staring at my naked breasts with his mouth opened because he stopped talking mid-sentence and his eyes are wide and glassing over, but not looking away. Then he shuts the door behind him. With him on this side of it.

“What the fuck.” I unfreeze and spin around. Fuck. “I thought that door was locked.” Slipping my shirt over my head, my hands are unsteady. I tug at the shirt twice, to pull it over my now loudly protruding nipples. I can’t believe the lock didn’t work. He clears his throat.

“I’m sorry. Want me to leave?” His voice is gravelly and quiet and if I turn around and see that he has a boner I’m going to lose all hope of behaving like a professional.

What the hell is wrong with me?

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