Surrendering to Us (43 page)
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Authors: Chelsea M. Cameron
He chuckled in my ear, sending shivers racing down my spine. Ryder had finally found a job busing tables at a local restaurant, so he’d moved out this morning. Tonight was going to be our first night in our apartment with just the two of us again, and I knew both of us had more than a few plans as to what to do with our returned privacy.
“I like the sound of that, almost future Mrs. Clarke-Blythe. Or I could take your name. I could be Lucah Clarke. We’ve never really been the traditional couple, have we?” No, we certainly hadn’t. Most couples didn’t start out as a one-night stand. But tradition was boring.
“I just want you to be you. Lucah Jacob Blythe. Nobody else.” He pulled back and I raised my head from where it had rested on his chest to meet his gaze.
“You be Rory and I’ll be Lucah.” He twirled me under his arm and I giggled as I nearly crashed into Sloane where she danced nearby with Ryder.
“As long as I get to call you mine,” I said.
And now for a sneak peek at Dark Surrendering (Surrender Saga, Book Three) coming Summer 2014…
“You look stunning tonight, Sloane,” Ryder said in my ear as we waltzed. I was shocked when he asked me to dance, because he didn’t seem like the kind of guy who would know how to waltz. I’d agreed and his hand had gone around my waist to rest on my back, right where my dress had a cutout. Skin to skin.
I shivered at the touch of his warm hand as he took a step, and then another moving in perfect time to the music.
“Thank you. I didn’t know you could dance,” I said as I rested my head on his shoulder. He chuckled, his breath teasing my hair. My skin was ablaze, my heart fluttering madly like it did whenever I was near him.
“There are a lot of things you don’t know about me.” I had no response to that. It seemed like the more time I spent with him, the more questions I had. We spun and I watched Lucah dancing with Rory. He said something and she threw her head back and laughed. I was so happy for her, but that didn’t stop the jealousy monster rearing his ugly head. I punched him in the mouth and focused back on Ryder, which wasn’t hard to do. I’d taken extra special care to tailor his suit to his body, making sure it showed off his glorious arms and the expanse of his back. I couldn’t see his tattoos, but just knowing they were there made me ache in all the right places.
His fingers moved up and down my spine and he pulled me closer.
“Are you sure you don’t want me to come over?” I said. This was the second time tonight I’d offered to come over to his new place and “help him unpack.” And by “help him unpack,” I meant put his stuff in my box. Over. And over.
“Sloane,” he said, his fingers stilling on my back and his feet stopping their movement. I stumbled a little and looked up at him.
“We’ve talked about this. I used to be that guy who would… But I’m not anymore. You’re too important to me, and I don’t want to fuck this up.” He wouldn’t have minded just a few weeks ago. In fact, he’d propositioned me the very first time we met. But since his overdose, he’d changed. Not that I was unhappy about the change. That guy who I’d met when Rory and Lucah had moved was powerful and commanding and sent off every warning bell in my head.
I looked up into his clear blue eyes and I could still see that guy. The guy who’d looked at me as if he wanted to possess me. Even though his mouth was saying no, those eyes… they were saying yes.
I’m going to keep this short and sweet. It’s hard to believe that less than a year ago, Rory and Lucah didn’t exist, and now here I am with the second volume in their story completed. I couldn’t have done this without the help of: my family, my friends, my beta reader, my editor, my publicist, my fellow author friends, the fabulous book bloggers who have been SO supportive of this series and last, but not least, everyone who read and raved about the first book. I didn’t intend for this to be a series, but here we are.
The Noctalis Chronicles
Nocturnal
(Book One)
Nightmare
(Book Two)
Neither
(Book Three)
Neverend
(Book Four)
The Whisper Trilogy
Whisper
(Book One)
Fall and Rise
Deeper We Fall
(Book One)
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Faster We Burn
(Book Two)
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My Favorite Mistake
(Available from Harlequin)
Sweet Surrendering
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For Real
My Sweetest Escape
(January 28, 2014)
Chelsea M. Cameron is a YA/NA and Adult New York Times/USA Today Best Selling author from Maine. Lover of things random and ridiculous, Jane Austen/Charlotte and Emily Bronte Fangirl, red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader and world’s worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, singing in the car and tweeting. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own head. More often than not, these people turn out to be just as weird as she is.
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