Today
on First Kiss Friday, we welcome romance author, Bonnie Phelps, and an excerpt
from her Contemporary Romance novel, “My Sexy Veterinarian,” the second book in
“The Texas Kincaids” series.
New Release special price of $1.99 beginning on July 20!
Nate Kincaid, wants to get out of
debt and get his family off his back about his relationship status. The second
means he needs a serious girlfriend, but after the death of his fiancé, he
isn’t ready. No one knows about his nightmares—the ones that chase him into the
dark places of grief. Dealing with debt means his fledgling veterinary practice
must be successful—business before anything else. Always. Maybe a pretend
relationship would solve his second problem so he can concentrate on the first.
Full-time psychologist and
part-time model, Lauren Royall, has the perfect life. As a therapist she helps
people. As a model, her free spirit reigns. She senses his pain and wants to
help. When Nate suggests she pose as his girlfriend, she accepts on a lark. She
hadn’t counted on falling for the guy or the painful memories from her past his
situation evokes.
First Kiss Excerpt
He pulled up in front of her
house and came around his truck to let her out. Hand-in-hand they walked to her
front door. Nate slid his hands under her jacket, trailing them down her
ribcage before settling on her lower back. Pulling her tight, he wondered how
one woman could set all his nerve endings on fire simply by being in his arms.
He didn’t know, and at the moment didn’t care.
Their lips touched. He meant to
keep it sweet, but his traitorous body had other ideas. Slowly he used the tip
of his tongue to map the softness of her lips. When her lips parted to give him
access to taste the essence that was Lauren, his resistance unraveled
completely. Even while his heart raced, teasing her tongue, tasting her, she
quieted him like the fading colors of the sunrise, heralding a promise of new
beginnings. Were new beginnings even possible for him?
Her hands traced the contours of
his chest, gliding across his hard planes, leaving streams of molten lava in
their wake as they eased their way to his shoulders. Her arms circled his neck
pressing her lush breasts tightly against him, tantalizing him with the thought
of what they would feel like filling his hands.
Being wrapped in her arms was
like being caught in a vivid dream, one he didn’t want to wake from, but the
gray fog of past nightmares swirled into the frame anyway. Shapeless and
disquieting the fear lodged in his chest. The need to scurry into his
protective shell took over.
He gentled the kiss, pulling back
slowly, until their lips parted and he cupped her beautiful face in his large,
calloused hands. Slipping apart, he felt his soul follow her breath into her
body. Scared. Him. Shitless. He could lose everything—again, have to climb out
of the abyss—again, if he stayed in her arms.
“I’ll call you.” He hoped his
statement would be true. He wanted it to be true, but he heard the hollowness
of his words. He felt her smile brush his lips and the heat it sparked as she
melted against him. He was lost.
She sighed, her breath skimming
along his neck, but when she looked up mischief sparkled in her eyes. “After a
kiss like that, you’ve ruined me for other men,” she whispered, her lips pursed
at the laugh he suspected bubbled beneath the surface. “No other man can hold a
candle to that kiss. That is a kiss for the ages. If you don’t call, I’ll
probably die an old maid.”
He choked back a laugh at her
bantering. She always seemed to know what to do or say to lift the cloud of
anxiety followed him like a beast of prey. “While I can’t imagine you as an old
maid, I certainly wouldn’t want your spinsterhood on my conscience. I’ll call.
I promise.”
Nate
waited while she unlocked her door and stepped inside. When he heard the
deadbolt slide in to place, he turned and walked back to his truck still
shaking his head, but with a smile playing at the corner of his mouth.
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