Excerpt & Giveaway: Commanded by Stacey Kennedy
Commanded
Club Sin # 6
Club Sin # 6
By:
Stacey Kennedy
Releasing
July 7, 2015
Blurb
Club
Sin comes alive once again in this decadent new romance from USA
Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy, perfect for fans of Fifty
Shades of Grey.
A
dedicated cop, Sawyer Quinn blows off steam by immersing himself in
his role as a Master at the hottest club in Las Vegas. But when
Sawyer goes after the perp who brutally beat his sister, he teams up
with Chloe Nash, a sexy private investigator who awakens a sweet new
need: to keep her to himself, away from the dungeon of Club Sin.
Chloe is beautiful, smart, and too innocent for the BDSM lifestyle.
Sawyer’s never wanted a woman like this before. Is her love worth
swearing off the one thing that keeps him sane?
There’s
something different about Sawyer: a commanding strength that pulls
Chloe into a vortex of heady desire. But when she learns about his
double life as a Dom, she’s shocked—and afraid she could never
complete him. Then he saves her life, and just like that, Chloe knows
she will be able to give him anything he desires. She is his—wherever
and however he wants to take her.
Excerpt
“She’s
lucky to be alive.”
Sawyer
heard his father’s statement as he took in the sight before him.
Even after a full minute of standing in the hospital room he couldn’t
process seeing his little sister, Ashlyn, lying in the bed. The harsh
scent of antiseptic in his nose, the beeping noise coming from the
monitor, and the morphine drip attached to the needle in his sister’s
hand all faded into the distance as the beaten state of her face
filled his vision.
Black
and blue bruises covered her cheekbones. Cuts and scratches spread
over every inch of creamy white skin, and stitches outlined the right
side of her mouth. Only her long brown hair remained untouched, and
that lay beneath the bandages on her head.
Consumed
with a wrath foreign to him, Sawyer inhaled a sharp breath through
his nose, controlling the desire to explode. He fisted his hands and
turned to his parents, Beth and Roger Quinn, asking the obvious:
“Where is Travis?”
“Let’s
not get ahead of ourselves, son.” His father—a few inches shorter
and slightly softer in the middle, with a full head of
salt-and-pepper hair—continued in a stony voice, “We need to wait
for Ashlyn to wake up. We can’t make assumptions about who attacked
her.”
Sawyer
heard what his father said, but the darkness rushing into his Roger’s
hazel eyes contradicted his words, a confirmation to Sawyer and what
he suspected. Travis, Ashlyn’s boyfriend of three months, had done
this to her.
His
father added, “The police are involved and are interviewing friends
and acquaintances to see if anyone knew anything or saw anything out
of the ordinary.”
“This
attack is brutal, and based on what I’ve seen, it looks personal.”
As Sawyer spoke he gestured to his beaten baby sister. “Look at
her, for Christ’s sake.” Sawyer was a cop, and he’d seen it
before. A beating like this, so intense and violent, typically
involved someone the victim knew. “We all know Travis is capable of
this and more.”
Travis
was an up-and-coming mixed martial arts fighter and had the skills to
beat someone into unconsciousness. Sawyer suspected Travis had used
steroids on more than one occasion, and he’d seen evidence of
Travis’s ’roid rage from time to time. It had never been directed
at his baby sister before, though.
A
sob ripped from Sawyer’s mother’s mouth. Noticing the pallor on
her face, he moved toward her, offering comfort. His chest
constricted as he wrapped his arms around his mom’s slender frame.
“Please don’t cry, Mom.” Nothing broke him more than to hear
her weep.
“Look
at what he’s done to her.” His mother sobbed against Sawyer’s
chest, her short curly blond hair tickling his neck as she clung to
his black T-shirt. “How could he do this?”
Anger
bit into Sawyer like a sharp blade while he examined his battered
sister. So sweet, so tiny, and so young—she had turned twenty-two
only three weeks ago. He was eleven years older, and he had always
tried to protect her. His parents hadn’t planned on having a second
child—given his mother’s endometriosis, they had thought that
conceiving again after Sawyer’s birth would have been impossible.
They were shocked when they found out about her pregnancy, but Sawyer
was overjoyed that he’d have a playmate, even if it was a much
younger sister.
“He’ll
be arrested.” Sawyer gently rubbed his mother’s back. “Don’t
doubt that.”
“How
will she recover from this? My poor baby . . .”
His
mother’s despairing voice made Sawyer vividly imagine pummeling
Travis. Sawyer rejected the thought; as a member of the police force,
sworn to serve and protect, he had to let justice be served through
the law. Having served in the military and now as a member of Las
Vegas’s SWAT team, however, he’d found that sometimes his morals
got in the way of what his heart wanted to do, and right now what his
heart wanted was to make Travis feel pain.
He
held on to his mother tightly, feeling her trembling beneath his
arms, and it made Sawyer realize just how Travis had broken into a
happy life full of happy memories. In his line of work, he often saw
people who experienced horrific childhoods. Not Sawyer and Ashlyn.
Their dad, a white-collar worker, had always exceeded the role of a
father. His mother, a stay-at-home mom, lived through her children.
Travis had brought darkness into the Quinn family.
Sawyer
wouldn’t forget that.
Author
Info
Stacey
Kennedy is the USA Today
bestselling author of the Club Sin series. Growing up, Stacey’s
mind wandered the path less traveled, and that path most often led to
love. She has always broken rules and she continues to feed off
emotion—always staying true to her heart. Those traits are now the
bones of her stories. She lives in southwestern Ontario with her
husband, who puts any of the heroes in her books to shame, and their
two young children. If she’s not on Mom duty or plugging away at a
new story, you’ll find Stacey camping in the summer, hibernating in
the winter, and obsessing over Penny
Dreadful, Game of Thrones,
and Sons of Anarchy.
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