Title: Everything I've Never Had
Author: Lynetta Halat
Cover Designer: Sarah Hansen at Okay Creations
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Celeste Hebert has always appeared to have it all, but there are many things she's never had, been forbidden from having.
One night. One song. One kiss. The perfect trifecta to unleash the floodgates of a forbidden attraction between the widow and her husband's bad boy cousin, Adrian.
Celeste endeavors to rebury the feelings that surface after this one night since her powerful family despises him. Kindred spirits, best of friends they attempt to douse their attraction; however, Adrian always seems to know exactly how to push her buttons and may prove too much to resist.
Having defied his family by making his way on his own terms, Adrian struggles to regain their acceptance. When he meets his cousin's wife and wants her for his own, he feels he's finally lived down to the title - black sheep. But, when his cousin dies unexpectedly, Adrian fights his attraction and swears to honor them both by helping her raise her boys.
Finding himself enveloped in a cocoon of love and acceptance, Adrian knows it's more than just physical attraction. However, unforeseen events threaten to destroy those he now holds dear and his newfound peace.
Will the ties that bind them be their undoing?
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Adrian runs his hands
up my arms and shoulders until they grasp both sides of my neck to tilt my head
back so that I'm staring straight into his arctic blue eyes. I immediately
start trembling, and it's not with fear. "Celeste, I'm begging you not to
leave here looking like that. You look gorgeous, babe, but I can't sit here all
night wondering who's hitting on you, who's imagining moving that scrap of fabric
over to get a glimpse at what is..."
"What is
what?" I breathe heavily.
"What is
underneath it all." His brow wrinkles, and I feel his hands tighten their
pleasurably painful grip. "What is underneath it all?"
"Just me, Adrian,
just me," I breathe. "That's all."
"So everything
then. Just like I thought." He removes one of his hands to run it up the
back of my thigh. My eyes widen and I swallow hard.
"That's not a
good idea," I whisper. His hand wraps all the way around my thigh, his
fingertips coming to rest along the crease of my left cheek. My thigh pulses
with fire.
"Why not?"
His fingertips tease back and forth a little. Even though it’s a light touch,
it feels like his calloused fingertips mark me.
"Why not? Look at
us. We can't even have a civil conversation for everything that has passed
between us, and you want to further complicate it. What you're doing will
further complicate matters."
His hand stills. He
exhales loudly and lets his head drop on my chest. "You do this to me. I
don't act like this. That day in the park, watching you cross and uncross your
legs. Throwing your hair over your shoulder. Laughing without a care in the
world. Cheering me on like it was your favorite thing to do! It killed me.
Killed me. I've never wanted a woman the way I want you. Never."
His words rain down on
me like fiery drops of lust. I close my eyes and rewrite that memory. I thought
he was just being an ass, but his unexpected anger was because he was yearning
for me. I bite my lip, open my eyes, and shake my head. "It's just because
you can't have me, Adrian. I'm nothing special."
"Oh, baby, you
have no idea." He runs his nose up my throat, scenting me as he goes. I
lean my neck back, giving him more access even as my brain screams at me to
run—not walk—out of this room. But when he says, "You're everything to
me." My head falls back even further and my eyes close again as I feel him
slant his head and attack my chin, throat, and neck with closed-mouth kisses. I
hear myself moan and give myself one more little jolt to try to spare myself
from this delicious torment that will only end in frustration.
All rights reserved.
Copyright Lynetta Halat 2013.
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For as long as she can remember, Lynetta Halat has lived to read and has written countless stories and plays since she was a young girl. A teacher by day and an avid reader and closet writer by night, she has always dreamt of penning books that people could connect with and remember; and her first novel, Every Rose, was the perfect catalyst to launch her into the world of publishing. Her love of the English language prompted her to attain her master's degree in English from Old Dominion University in Virginia. A self-proclaimed "Coast Girl," she lived in Mississippi with her adorable husband, two amazing sons, and two loveable dogs. She is currently at work on her third book.
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