Today I get to share with you an excerpt from Tracy Wolff's new release, Royal Treatment!
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“My flight leaves in a little over three hours, Garrett, and I am
going to be on it.”
“Don’t you understand? No one will believe a woman in the first
stages of a relationship goes running off to another city.”
“Maybe not in your rarified world where half of everyone’s job is
learning how to manipulate the press and the public. But in the real world
where I live, nearly everyone will believe it. People have relationships and
manage to go to work all over the world.”
I think of the months of being chained up, of sleeping sitting up
with my arms above my head while my body screamed from pain and exhaustion. “My
world’s not that rarified.”
“Dude, your world is as rarified as it gets. And you’ve got three
security guards sitting outside to make sure it stays that way.” Lola swings
her suitcase off the bed with a roll of her eyes. “And I get it. I understand
that you were raised to believe the sun rises and sets on you, and that every
time you so much as breathe it’s national news. But really. You aren’t that
special.”
Things are getting tense between us and I know I’ve got two choices.
Continue down the road to a full-blown fight that will get me nothing or try to
defuse the situation.
I settle for the latter as I raise my brows at her. “That’s not what
you were saying an hour ago.”
Surprise flickers in her eyes, then is gone as quickly as it came.
“An hour ago I was under duress,” she answers with a sniff.
I waggle my brows at her. “And here I thought you were under me.”
She snort-laughs, then slaps a hand over her mouth like she wants to
pull the sound back in. But it’s so unexpected that I kind of love it. The same
way I love that she talks in her sleep and has a star-shaped cluster of
freckles on her left hip. The same way—
And fuck. Just fuck. I really am falling
for this woman and, apparently, there’s not a damn thing I can do to keep her
from walking away in three hours. It shouldn’t matter, but it does.
I just wish I knew how I got here. Lola was supposed to be a
distraction, a fun means to the ends I’ve been working toward my entire life.
She sure as hell wasn’t supposed to be something more for me to care about.
Something more for me to lose.
What the hell am I supposed to do now?
Royal Treatment is available in ebook tomorrow!
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