Hooked!: A Contemporary, Multicultural Romance (8 page)

PREVIEW:
PART II – HOOKED!

How
can this be?!
Kammille wondered, literally shaking from head to toe. It had to be some kind
of mistake. It just had to be.

Landon
was her business partner’s ex-fiancé. The man she'd found her friend crying
over just a few days ago was the very one who'd brought her such joy into her
life. The man she was planning on building a life with. The man who'd moved to
Atlanta for her. The very one who drove her to depths of passion unlike any
other. The one she’d fallen deeply in love with. He was the love of Liza’s
life?

Why
hadn't he told her?

Why
hadn't she told her?

Questions
about everything she'd thought was true galloped through her head.

Had
Landon moved to Atlanta for her, or for Liza? Was he still in love with Liza, as
she was with him? He'd checked up on her, so he had to know that she was in
business with his ex-fiancé. There was no way he couldn’t have known it.

Had
he been in contact with her? And what possible reason could he have for not
telling Kammille about her? Why would he keep it a secret if there was nothing
between them.

Kammille
felt betrayed – on so many levels – she didn’t know where to start. It was all
too much. She grabbed for something; anything to stay upright.

A
friendship; a fast-growing, multi-million dollar business; her future and her
heart were on the line. Could she salvage any of it, or would she lose it all?

Note:
Coming this
month (May 2015).

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Preview

           
“Remorselessly ruthless …,” one article described him.

“They call him RJ,
for ‘Ruthless Jag’,” another said.

“There’s only one
word for someone who operates like that … ruthless,” yet another one revealed.

That’s who Charity
Walker was dealing with she had to remind herself as she confronted the New
York real estate tycoon about the theft of her grandmother’s brownstone.

###

Charity was
prepared for a battle with the successful real estate developer, Jag Hollander,
over her grandmother’s property. What she wasn’t prepared for was the explosive
chemistry between them … or the realization that her life would never be the
same after meeting him.

***

Excerpt

“Miss
... as you’ve so rudely interrupted my meeting, can you at least be polite
enough to tell me your name so I can address you properly?” Jag said in his
most calm, business-like voice.

“Now
you want polite to be part of the equation? Now … after you’ve taken advantage
of an old woman. Now … after you’ve stolen what it took a lifetime for her to
build. Now … after you rob me of my inheritance. Now you want polite?!” Charity
snarled at him.

The
two of them stared at each other. The vibration of the cell phone of one of the
executives seated at the table witnessing the intense exchange snapped Charity
and Jag out of their standoff.

“The
name is Charity Walker. My grandmother is Elana Marie Walker. Here’s what was
her deed,” Charity spit out, ramming a sheaf of papers dead in the center of
his chest. “Fix it! Or so help me God …” she raged, shaking in anger.

Jag
closed the few feet between them. “Excuse me for a few moments ladies and
gentlemen,” he threw over his shoulder as he manhandled Charity out of the
boardroom.

Charity
sputtered. “How dare you touch me! Let go of me you brute! I said let go of
me!” she demanded, hitting at him with her handbag.

“You’re
done giving orders and screaming accusations at me today, Ms. Walker.”

###

 “What
do you mean handcuffs?”

“I
mean I will have you arrested for trespassing, assault, slander and any number
of other charges I have a least a dozen witnesses to if you don’t cooperate.”

“You
wouldn’t?” Charity said, unable – and unwilling – to believe that he’d do such
a thing.

“Try
me,” Jag said, his demeanor as tranquil as a calm sea.

Charity
searched his face. “Why you ruthless son of a bitch!”

###

Charity
moaned her pleasure as he nipped at her lips, her neck and made his way down to
the swell of one breast. His hands traveled to her sides, past the lushness of
her hips, pulling her center to his as he ground into her. He squeezed her
softness, his mouth reclaiming hers as he unzipped her dress. He eased it all
the way down her legs, his lips following the trail of his hands.

Charity
stood before him in her three-inch, wedge hills and matching turquoise bra and
panties.

Jag
admired her luscious curves, his eyes almost closed as he fought to control his
rising tide of desire.

"I
had dreams, but they didn't do you justice. You are so much more perfect than
any image my mind could conjure up. Every part of you," he ground out,
freeing a breast with one hand as he slid her wet panties to one side with the
other.

###

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