We Are Us, an all-new, suspenseful
and emotional second chance love story from Tara Leigh is available now!
I fell in love with a
beautiful, broken boy.
His whispered words of love
were the sweetest of lies.
He gave me his heart and
destroyed mine.
I am his.
I fell in love with the
beautiful man who broke me.
His boldly spoken vow was the
cruelest of cages.
He gave me his name and
destroyed my soul.
He is mine.
The boy I once loved is now a
man.
The man I once loved is now
gone.
We are us.
I have been called many
things.
Victim. Survivor. Daughter.
Sister. Wife.
Now I am called something
else.
Murderer.
Believe it or not, this is our love story.
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Excerpt:
“Close your eyes.”
I slant a curious look at
Gavin, taking in his kiss-swollen lips and flushed skin, his untamable mop of
hair and the blaze of excitement lighting up the blue of his corneas.
Gavin squeezes my hand
reassuringly as I do what he’s asked, then slowly walks me the remaining few
steps toward our cave. Without vision, my other senses are heightened. The cry
of birds sounds closer, like they are perched just overhead instead of on
branches thirty or forty feet above. The bite of the breeze on my skin is
sharper, each gust sending a chill racing along already sensitive nerve
endings. The smell of ripe earth and rich evergreen and the clean, bracing
scent of Gavin himself is downright intoxicating, my head swimming as I pull
breaths deep into my lungs.
Most of all, the moonstone
pendant laying against my collarbone is making my chest tingle, my heart
fluttering against my ribcage.
“Okay, open them.”
I do, immediately gasping in
surprise at what Gavin’s done to our little cave. There are candles burning and
scattered rose petals—no, poppy
petals—and a basket filled with drinks and snacks. A pile of blankets and
pillows.
“You did all this for me?” I
ask, my voice sounding whispery and weird.
I feel whispery and weird.
I’ve never had a birthday
like this. I’ve never even imagined a
birthday like this. First the necklace and now, seeing the lengths Gavin has
gone for me…
Beneath the surface of my
skin, I’m a chaotic mess of emotions. I don’t know what to say, how to act.
This is uncharted territory for me.
“Of course,” he says, as if
it’s nothing. But it’s not nothing. It’s everything.
Before I dissolve into a
teary puddle, Gavin reaches into his pocket and pulls out a deck of cards. “You
taught me how to play gin rummy—how about I teach you to play poker?”
A strangled laugh leaves my
throat. “I think that’s fair.”
We sit down and Gavin spends
a few minutes going over the basics of the game before dealing out the cards.
It’s not as easy as gin rummy, but I get the hang of it after a few rounds.
And when Gavin lifts a
mischievous brow and asks, “Want to make things interesting?” I know exactly
what he’s doing. Not just poker. Strip poker.
That’s when I realize just
how much planning has gone into tonight. Beyond buying me an expensive present.
Beyond pimping out our cave. Gavin found a way to make my first time—our first
time—a mix of old and new. An experience evoking our past and celebrating our
future.
I’ve imagined the night Gavin
and I would finally go all the way a
million times. But I’d only focused on the physical aspects. Would it hurt?
Will there be blood? What if I do it wrong?
It never crossed my mind that
he would take such care with… everything.
But, of course, it should
have.
Gavin Cross is one of a kind.
And he’s mine.
About Tara
Leigh
Tara Leigh is a multi-published author of steamy
contemporary romance. To keep in touch, click here!
http://bit.ly/TaraLeighNwsltr. A former banker on Wall Street, she graduated
from Washington University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, but
she much prefers spending her days with fictional boyfriends than analyzing
financial spreadsheets. Tara currently lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut
with her husband, children, and fur-baby, Pixie.
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