Excerpt & Giveaway: Game On by Collette West
Game
On
New
York Kings # 3
By:
Collette West
Releasing
October 17th,
2014
Self-Published
Blurb
Pitching
phenom Bruce "Jilly" Gillette has a hard time talking to
women. His hulking presence of tattoos and muscles is what makes him
an intimidating closer on the mound, yet off the field, he's
painfully shy, uncomfortable in his own skin.
Desperate
to revamp his loner image, the New York Kings hold a dream date
contest, granting the lucky winner a night on the town with their
surly reliever, doing whatever it takes to force Jilly out of his
comfort zone.
Hailey
Halpert enters the contest on a whim, looking for answers as to why
her high school relationship with Jilly hit the skids. Now she’s a
popular romance author writing under a pen name, and her reappearance
in Jilly's life is no accident. It turns out that her novels are all
about the sexy players on the Kings, and Jilly has no clue that he's
about to become her new leading man.
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A
clap of thunder echoes above us and the heavens open up, pummeling us
with rain, but he doesn't stop. He keeps kissing me hard and fast. We
quickly become drenched as he brushes my sopping-wet hair away from
my neck. I feel droplets of rain fall off his face onto mine, but it
only seems to intensify the way he’s kissing me. His tongue opens
my mouth, and he eagerly explores every inch of it. I never imagined
that he'd be so good at this. I whimper again, and he wraps his good
hand around my waist, lifting me up against the building, pressing
himself against me.
I
don't even know what I'm doing as I open my legs to him. He lowers
his hand, finding the back of my knee and hooking one leg around him,
and I follow suit with the other, our wet clothes weighing heavily on
our overheated skin. This time, his hands aren't staying in those
designated 'safe' areas like they did that night on the couch, and
it's almost too much to handle.
The
only thought in my head is that I need to get him alone and continue
this somewhere where I can have him all to myself.
I
throw my head back, freeing my lips from his, needing to breathe.
He
chuckles softly. "Was that what you wanted?"
"Uh
huh," I somehow manage to respond. "Even better than
chocolate."
He
smiles, shifting my body in his arms until he's cradling me against
his chest. “What do you say we get outta here?” he asks, reading
my mind.
I
nod, and he smiles again, teasing my lips with his while walking
slowly toward the street. He raises his hand to hail a cab, and I
slide my arms around his neck, pulling him closer. He starts kissing
me deeply as the rain hits us full on. I can feel his heartbeat
pounding through his wet T-shirt that’s now clinging to his hard,
muscular body, and I sigh, knowing this has to be, hands down, the
sexiest moment of my life.
Author
Info
Collette
West grew up as somewhat of a jock-nerd hybrid. Entering the world
three weeks premature, her dad nearly missed her birth because he had
seats behind the dugout for a sold-out, highly-anticipated match-up
between two of baseball's biggest rivals. Not to be outdone, her
book-loving mom taught her how to read by the time she was three. A
love of the game coupled with an appreciation for the written word
were instilled in Collette's impressionable brain from a young age.
No wonder her characters believe in the philosophy: sports + romance
= a little slice of heaven.
Splitting
her time between the Pocono Mountains and Manhattan, Collette
indulges her inner fangirl by going to as many games as she can from
hockey to baseball and downloading every sports romance novel in
existence onto her iPad. When she's not clicking away on her laptop,
she enjoys walking her dog in Central Park, satisfying her caffeine
craving at the Starbucks on Broadway and keeping an eye out for Mr.
Right. But above all, she loves dishing with her readers. Email her
at collette_west@yahoo.com
She is
the author of NIGHT GAMES, GAME CHANGER and GAME ON.
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