Exclusive Excerpt #3 and New Character Name
Mar 28, 2021 8:54 pm
Coming Soon! HOT 🔥 college hockey 🏒 romance: Best Man on Campus - EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT #3 for you today!
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But my biggest non-book related excitement this week is MARCH MADNESS because the UConn Women's basketball 🏀team made it to the elite eight! Go Huskies. I'm a big fan and love getting together with my college friends for a game every year. Not sure if that'll happen this year, but it might... if UConn makes it to the final four. Crossing my fingers--wish us luck!
What I'm writing: Still working on Best Man on Campus which is full of deep dark juicy secrets and angst. But don't worry, there's plenty of hot hockey player🏒 steam to balance it out. And maybe a side-player or two, Kace and Vox, who could have their own stories 💞
What Am I Reading? This week I'm reading Charlie, a Texas Heat Romantic Suspense story by a remarkable author, Cree Nations, featuring a kickass heroine and plenty of steam. đź’‹
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✍️My Writing Progress
2021 so far: 169,466 words, 1.8 Novels
2021 Goal: 533,000 words, 6 Novels, 2 Novellas
Writing Music This Week:
Check out these songs that convey the emotional essence of Ben and Jazzy in Best Man on Campus, their emotional demons, pain, hope and healing.
NEW: THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole
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BROKEN TOGETHER by Casting Crowns
Bad Girlfriend by Theory of a Dead Man
Bring Me to Life by Evanesence
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BEST MAN ON CAMPUS: EXCERPT #3
Excerpt
Ben
At Wildbeast Pizza
Before I go, I head to the back corner of the bar where I find Leon.
“Let me guess,” he says to me without a hello, “You’re looking for Jazzy.”
My smile is genuine, though I’m disappointed because he doesn’t look like he has a clue. He, in fact, looks annoyed as hell.
“Good guess. Don’t suppose you know where she is?”
“Naw. When you find her…” He gives me a thoughtful look. “Give her a hug for me. I think she needs it.”
I’m afraid to ask, but I do, “What makes you think that?”
“She’s off the rails. Totally unreliable now like I haven’t seen her in two years. I don’t know what to tell you.”
He doesn’t have to tell me she’s suffering. Whatever demon she's running from is getting close and the confrontation could save her or… I don’t know what. But I know I want to be there to catch her at the bottom of that cliff.
Kace and Vox find me in the corner with Leon and I tell them I’m leaving to find Jazzy.
“Where is she?”
“I don’t know. I’ll start with checking her apartment.”
“She went to the game with Dooley, didn’t she?” Vox says.
“Yeah, how’d you know?”
“Some of the girls are talking about it, how she’s Dooley’s new protégé. He says if he can get her from the basement to the tower it’ll be the most impressive social climb ever. The little f*cker is a mad man, a social Dr. Frankenstein.”
Shaking my head because I don’t know what the f*ck Vox is talking about, he does have a point. I need to call Dooley.
“Who has Dooley’s number?” I look from Kace to Vox and even to Leon and they all shake their heads, but Vox is on his phone thumbing in a message.
“I’ll get it for you.”
“Look who’s a f*cking socialite,” Kace says. Vox pauses long enough to lift his middle finger at Kace, but the half smile on his face looks pleased. After a couple of beats he stops.
“Got you Dooley’s number.” I take out my phone and he rattles it off while I tap it in.
“Thank you.” We fist bump and I turn to Leon and Kace and nod my good-bye.
As I let myself out the back door, trotting to my Jeep, I press the call button and hold the phone to my ear, praying that Dooley picks up a call from a stranger wherever he is. And then I pray he’s with Jazzy.
Dooley doesn’t answer his f*cking phone and I yank open my car door. Strapping on my seatbelt, prepared to start with her apartment and go from there. My phone buzzes. It’s Dooley, thank f*ck.
“Dooley,” I say knowing my anxiety is showing and not giving a crap.
“Ben? Ben Weaver?” He sounds skeptical and excited, his high pitch voice piercing.
“Yeah, sorry to call you like this. I got your number—”
“No problem at all. You have my ear.”
“Is Jazzy with you?”
“I knew you were going to ask, and I’m glad. She’s here and out of control. I’m a little worried—”
“Where’s here, Dooley?”
“We’re at some townie hangout called The Bald Man’s Bar. She insisted—”
“I’ll be there in ten minutes. Do not let her leave."
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BAD MAN ON CAMPUS
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.
It's my anthem.
How did I get into this bad rap?
You have to ask?
A woman. A woman is always involved in the messiness of life. Times a million in my life.
I should be on top of the world coming off a Frozen Four college hockey championship last season, but that was before the crash and burn.
And now... the thing is, I don't care. Because she's worth every bit of the destruction of my life's ambition of an NHL hockey career.
As long as I can prevent the blood-letting of my heart and soul. As long as I don't lose her.
Again.
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Hoping you have a wonderful Sunday with your loved ones--or with your favorite romantic story! I'll be watching March Madness Women's College Basketball! 🏀
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