Close to Me, a New Adult romance by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Monica Murphy, is LIVE!
Asher
Davis. My first crush.
My
first kiss.
The
boy who ripped my heart out of my chest again and again. Over and over. I let
him have it every single time.
Willingly.
We
are that toxic high school couple you hear about, the one you witness in the
hallway as they avoid each other. You laugh at them in class when they’re
forced to work together, their gazes full of hatred. We are the couple you
gossip about when they win homecoming prince and princess their sophomore year…
The
back and forth is what kills me the most. I’m not his princess, I’m the girl he
toys with when he’s bored. And he’s definitely not my prince, no matter how
badly I want him to be.
Finally
it’s our senior year and we’re months away from never having to see each other
again when disaster strikes—and brings us closer together. All it takes is one
touch, and I’m burning for Ash. Hotter than I ever have.
But
will that burn turn into a devastating fire? Or can we actually make it work
this time?
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Excerpt:
“Do friends give each other hugs?
The friends I have do. Sometimes.”
“There is no way I’m hugging you.” I
roll my eyes.
“A truce hug then? Come on.” He lets
go of the door handle and faces me fully, stretching his arms out in
invitation. “I’ll leave you alone after this, okay? I promise.”
I’m not sure if he’s the type who
keeps his promises. I’m guessing no.
This could be the last time I hug
him. This entire encounter has been weird. Confusing. We’re a mess. We would
never work, and us going ’round and ’round in circles tonight just proves that.
So what’s the harm in getting one
last hug from Ash? It’s just a hug. A brief moment of bodily contact and then
I’ll send him away. He won’t bug me again. He’ll get over his so-called
feelings for me. He’ll give his heart to someone else or even better, he’ll
discover he actually has one, and he’ll forget all about me. He’ll give it to
someone else, and he’ll finally leave me alone forever.
Why does that thought make me feel
so empty inside?
Deciding it’s do or die time, I walk
right into his hug, my arms sliding around his waist, my head resting on his
chest. I can feel the steady thump-thump of his heartbeat and I close my eyes
when his arms come around me. Slowly. Enfolding me into his body so that we’re
snug tight.
He holds me with a desperation,
almost as if he’s afraid to let me go, and when I lift my head, tilting it back
so I can stare into his eyes, I find he’s already watching me.
“Friends don’t make each other feel
like this,” he says, his voice a gravelly whisper.
The hairs on the back of my neck
rise. “Feel like what?”
“Like you could be my everything.”
My shoulders sag. “Ash—”
“Stop talking.” He presses two
fingers to my lips, silencing me. When he’s seemingly assured I won’t speak, he
lightens the pressure, gently caressing my lips. Back and forth. Making me
tingle.
Making me want him to do more than
touch my mouth.
I want him to kiss me.
“You have the sexiest lips,” he
murmurs, and the blush returns, setting my face on fire. No one has referred to
me as sexy before. “What we’re doing is fucking crazy. You know this right,
Callahan?”
I ignore his question. “How could I
be your everything when you told me you don’t know how to feel?”
“The only time I seem to feel is
when...” He presses his fingers into the corner of my mouth, so gentle, I could
almost think he never actually touched me. “I’m with you.”
Meet
Monica:
Monica
Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author
of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules
series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold
over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by
Random House/Bantam and HarperCollins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult
and contemporary romance.
She
is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen
acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A
self-confessed workaholic, when she's not writing, she's reading or hanging out
with her husband and kids. She's a firm believer in happy endings, though she
will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they
finally get that hard won HEA.
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