Authors: Audrey Carlan

March (Calendar Girl #3) (13 page)

Mia’s journey continues in April (Calendar Girl).

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“Well hey there sweet
thang
,” were the first words out of his sexy assed mouth. Too bad the words, along with the way his eyes traced over me sent my temperate rising…and not in a good way. Mason Murphy leaned against a limo. He had aviator sunglasses, coppery brown hair and a smirk that probably melted panties of all his baseball fans. Fortunately for me, I’d been around several hotter than hot men the last few months and wasn’t impressed.

I held out my hand. He pursed his lips, pushed his glasses on top of his head gracing me with stunning green eyes. They were as dark as emeralds and just as pretty.

“What, no kiss?”

I narrowed my brows, cocked a hip and crossed my arms over one another. “Seriously? You’re going with that?”

His head shot back and he pulled his glasses off his head than proceeded to dangle the end of one side in his mouth. Again, he looked me up and down. “Feisty. I like a girl that’s a bit of a challenge.”

I closed my eyes blinked several times to see if I was still asleep from the Benadryl I’d taken on the plane. Flying always made me jittery. Nothing like what I was feeling right now though. “You’re a real piece of work aren’t you?”

His eyes opened wide and a huge grin slipped across his distractingly well sculpted face. High cheekbones, a little dent at the chin and those sparkling eyes looking wicked.

He moved close to me hung an arm around my neck and kissed the side of my temple. It took everything I had not to turn and plant one on him…a punch to the face that is.

“You’re going to remove your arm from me and back away. Have you no manners?”

Mason planted his feet in front of me and leaned close as if to whisper. “I know what you are and I’m totally okay with it. Very, very okay with it. We’re going to have some fun together.”

I pushed his chest enough to get him out of my face. “Look Mr. Murphy…”

“Mr. Murphy,” he said in a mocking tone. “Ooh, I like that.”

Sucking in a breath I clenched down on my teeth. If I bit my tongue I may have bit it straight in half with how much this guy was irritating me.

“What I was trying to say before you interrupted me was that you’ve got the wrong idea about me. I’m an escort. Meaning, I escort you to things. Provide you with companionship in a friendly manner.”

Again he got close, grabbed my hips and slammed them against his. “I can’t wait to get more friendly with you,” he rubbed his pelvis against mine. I could just barely feel the outline of something coming to life.

I sighed. Full on letting it all go and pushed him away again. “Just take my bags.”

He whistled at the driver. Yes, whistled at him. Like a fucking dog. He may as well have said, “Come here boy, good driver.” I cringed and removed myself from his grasp.

“Don’t worry baby, you’ll get into the swing of things,” he mock swung a baseball bat. I on the other hand rolled my eyes and opened the limo door crawling in. He maneuvered his long body into the spacious vehicle and clapped his hands. “Want a drink?”

I’m pretty sure I looked at him as if he’d grown a tail. “It’s not even Noon.”

He shrugged. “It is somewhere in the world,” he said followed by a saucy wink. Mason pulled out a bottle of champagne. His tongue came out and wet his full bottom lip. The space between my legs took notice instantly, twinging delightfully. I shook my head and crossed my legs. He was a bastard yet I couldn’t help that he was a good looking one. Mason Murphy was tall, probably six feet or so, had a body that could grace magazines and did, often. The muscles in his biceps bulged delectably and his quads flexed as he shoved the bottle between his legs and twisted the top off with a plop. No foam. Pretty good, I’ll give him that.

“Now sweetness, let’s get a couple things straight.”

I opened my eyes wide, my eyebrows going straight into my hairline. He handed me a glass of champagne. Even though it was barely ten in the morning I took the glass figuring I’d need something to take the edge off my annoyance.

“You were sent here to be my girlfriend. That means, in order to have my fans, prospective sponsors and the media at large believe it, you and I are going to have to get
friendly
, very quickly. And looking at you…” he licked his lips again as his eyes traced my form from my booted feet up my jean clad legs and stopped directly at my bosom. Pig. “I’m going to enjoy every fucking second of it.”

This guy was going to be challenging. He was smug, sexy as hell, irritating, sexy as hell, downright crass, sexy as hell and immature. Did I forget anything? Oh yeah, sexy as hell.

Purchase April Calendar Girl (Book 4) today!

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OOKS AND
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OON BY
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UDREY
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The Falling Series

Angel Falling

London Falling

Justice Falling

Trinity Trilogy

Body (Book 1)

Mind (Book 2)

Soul (Book 3 - Estimated Release 3/29/15)

Calendar Girl Serial

(A twelve month serial. New installments will be released every month throughout 2015)

January (Book 1)

February (Book 2)

March (Book 3)

April (Book 4 - Estimated Release 4/2015)

May (Book 5 - Estimated Release 5/2015)

June (Book 6 - Estimated Release 6/2015)

July (Book 7 - Estimated Release 7/2015)

August (Book 8 - Estimated Release 8/2015)

September (Book 9 - Estimated Release 9/2015)

October (Book 10 - Estimated Release 10/2015)

November (Book 11 - Estimated Release 11/2015)

December (Book 12 - Estimated Release 12/2015)

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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To my critique partner,
Sarah Saunders
, you’re like that old song, “If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody baby.” You remember the one? Any way, you always make me work hard and keep me on track. The characters, the story, the end result is always better because of you. Thank you.

To my editor
Ekatarina Sayanova
with
Red Quill Editing, LLC
, for knocking this out in record time, I owe you one, or two, okay possibly even three. I’m so happy I found you. My writing is getting better, even my beta readers have noticed a huge difference based on how little errors they find. You’re wonderful. Red Quill Editing, LLC is presently accepting new clients. (www.redquillediting.net)

Any author knows they aren’t worth their weight unless their story is backed by badass betas. I have the best!

Jeananna Goodall
- When I send my chapters to you completely raw, filled with errors, you continue to see through those errors to the story, the characters, and the emotion behind it. I get excited every time I finish a chapter because I know I get to send it to you! Thank you for being my biggest fan.

Ginelle Blanch
- It must be tiring to be such a bad ass. Really. No matter how small the error you find it. Blows me away every time. Even after it’s been critiqued, edited, and reviewed you still find the wonky errors in my writing. Almost as if you have a second sense. Like you know what I’m going to screw up and prevent me from sharing that side with the masses. Thank you honey.

Anita Shofner
- Every time I review your finds during the beta process I think, how the heck did I miss that! And then I look at the next error and think the same thing. Finally after the tenth one I just chalk it up to the fact that I have awesome women like you with incredible work ethic that are just talented and go with it. My stories are better because of it and I thank you.

Carol Ray
- Thank you for being a lovely pre-reader and cheering me all the way through each chapter. Love you lady!

Thank you to the ladies at
Give Me Books
and
Kylie McDermott
for spreading this book far and wide into the virtual social world! They do amazing release day blitz and are very affordable. Look them up on Facebook.

To the Audrey Carlan Street Team of wicked hot Angels, together we change the world. One book at a time. BESOS-4-LIFE lovely ladies.

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BOUT
A
UDREY
C
ARLAN

Audrey Carlan is a multiple times Amazon bestselling author. She lives in the sunny California Valley two hours away from the city, the beach, the mountains and the precious…the vineyards. She has been married to the love of her life for over a decade and has two young children that live up to their title of “Monster Madness” on daily basis. When she’s not writing wickedly hot romances, doing yoga, or sipping wine with her “soul sisters”, she can be found with her nose stuck in book or her Kindle. A hot, smutty, romantic book to be exact!

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