Book Blurb:
We skipped
right over the whole fiancée thing and went straight from girlfriend to wife.
At least,
I think that’s what happened. I woke up after my brother’s Vegas wedding
reception with my luscious girlfriend in bed with me. We’re both wearing
wedding rings.
So is her
coworker, Josh.
And our
Vegas chauffeur, Geordi.
Who the
hell am I married to?
Unraveling
this mystery will be as difficult as figuring out why Amanda and I are having
panic attacks over the thought of being husband and wife.
Or,
whoever we’re actually married to.
Oh, ^%$#.
It’s true
that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, with one exception:
If she’s
my wife, we’ll make it work.
If she’s
not?
I’ll make
it happen.
Get the
9th book in Julia Kent's New York Times bestselling romantic comedy series as
Andrew and Amanda sort out their wild Vegas night...and the rest of their
lives.
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EXCERPT
#1:
“We’re
not—you don’t really—we can’t be—”
“Married?”
She
laughs, but it’s a brittle sound. “Come on. We didn’t actually have a wedding
last night.”
“We
didn’t? You’re sure?” I perk up. Great. She remembers last night. I
squeeze my eyes and try to recall something—anything—that happened after Declan
and Shannon said their goodbyes at the reception last night.
“I’m,
well, I mean...” Twisting in my arms, she looks at me with those big, wide,
trusting eyes, her left hand splayed against my bare chest, digging in where
the robe has separated. “You don’t remember what happened?”
My
voice drops with uncertainty.
Hers
goes up.
“No.”
“Quit
joking.”
“Not
joking.”
“We
both can’t remember any part of last night?”
“When
does your memory end?” I ask.
Mascara
is streaked along the corner of her eye, and any makeup she wore last night
currently resides somewhere on my skin or on the bedsheets. I can only imagine
what I look like.
Amanda,
though, is gorgeous. In my arms and looking at me with a perplexed expression,
biting her lower lip while she flips through the filing cabinets of memory in
her mind, and—
“I
don’t know.”
I
sit up. “You’re the fixer.”
“I
know! But I remember saying goodnight to Shannon, hugging Declan, and then—poof!
Nothing.”
Poof.
“That’s
when my memory ends, too,” I say, my skin beginning to crawl. “I know one
thing: we did not have a foursome.”
“And
I soooooo did not sleep with Josh. He’s gay. The man can’t handle watching a
birth video. A real-life vagina would send him into cardiac arrest.”
“I
know my heart pounds whenever I see yours,” I whisper. She gives me a reluctant
smile, in spite of her hangover.
“That
was baaaaaad,” she groans.
“All
signs point to the sex question being put to rest. Worst case, all we did was
sleep with each other,” I note.
“Worst
case? Buddy, sleeping with me is best case. Best case. Always best.”
That
was an unfortunate choice of words on my part. Before I can do damage control,
she speaks.
“What
if we are?” she hisses.
“Are
what?”
Her
eyes dart to mine.
“Married.”
EXCERPT
#3: (Sexy)
Water
is my second home. Swimming twice a week keeps me sane. Lap after lap, stroke
after stroke, I disappear into the pool at Declan’s place, the one in my
apartment building too warm for miles of swimming. You fade into nothing but
the differentiated cells of the body when you turn into a machine that reaches,
kicks, breathes—and repeats ad infinitum.
Here
in the resort's hot spring inside the spa, I reach, I kick, I breathe—and I
kiss her until I disappear into the water and Amanda, my own name fading as I
become nothing but water and love, tongue and heat, fingertips and pulse. We
kiss in the water, my arms steel bands that cage her, our bodies melting in the
humid heat of a fake rainforest that contains too much real love.
Releasing
her, I wriggle out of my wet pants, kick off my shoes, and swim away, letting
the water take me, a simple crawl speeding me to the end of the meandering
pool. Designed to look like a naturally-shaped pond, there is no true side, and
I misjudge, whacking my hand on the green-painted cement edge.
I
can’t do an underwater flip, so I pivot, returning to her, roaring up with a
few butterfly strokes designed to cover her with a giant wave of foam.
She’s
laughing when I surface, her hair covering her like wet ribbons, her mouth open
with joy, eyes wide and amused. I hope her headache’s gone. I hope her hangover
has dissolved. I hope we can capture this moment for a few more seconds and
laugh together, because it’s the first time in my life that I’ve felt like
infinite good exists in the world, and I’m only touching a tiny grain of sand
in a vast ocean of it.
“You
swim like Michael Phelps!” she gasps.
“Michael
Phelps swims like me,” I correct her.
A
fit of giggles overcomes her and I watch, cocking my head to catch her at an
odd angle, the tiny perspective change an order of magnitude in difference.
Luminous and winsome, Amanda’s eyes catch mine, darting between them, as if
she’s trying to look at me forever.
I
grab her and the brush of her breasts against my bare, wet chest takes my
breath away.
“You
have the body of a swimmer,” she says, her voice rumbling, making me groan as
she nips my earlobe.
“And
you have the body of a goddess.” I reach for her and she pulls away, giggling.
“Not
here!”
“Why
not?”
“We
can’t have sex in public!”
I
look around. “No one else is here. I own the resort.” I bridge the gap between
us and watch her react to my words. Lust and restraint fight for dominance in
those lush brown eyes, warm and tempted, her pupils big and open.
“It’s
not like we can just lock the door.”
I
walk out of the zero-gravity pool and grab the corded phone by the door. Two
sentences later, it’s done. A red light on a control panel pops on. Locked.
“Yes,”
I say, turning to her with a grin. “We can.”
It’s
good to be the king.
I
can’t get back to her fast enough, the water welcoming me, the knowledge that
we’re alone and will not be disturbed a titillating, erotic secret that makes
me so hard, I ache. She’s in my arms and I’m kissing her, bare, wet skin
dominating every second, and if I can’t get inside her soon, I’m going to die.
About the Author:
New York
Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with
an edge, and new adult books that push contemporary boundaries. From
billionaires to BBWs to rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every
book she writes, but unlike Trevor from Random Acts of Crazy, she has never
kissed a chicken. She loves to hear from her readers by email at
julia@jkentauthor.com
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