Sneak Peek
All For This
(Here and Now #3)
by
Lexi Ryan
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
**ALL FOR THIS is book three in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and it’s intended to be read after LOST IN ME and FALL TO YOU.**
~ Synopsis ~
What if you would never remember the day you made the most important decision of your life?
That’s what they’re telling me about the day of my accident—the day I put on Max’s ring and chose him over Nate. I’m counting on the wisdom behind a decision I don’t remember making.
Max is amazing—sexy, sweet, and kind. I was starting to believe happily-ever-after might be in my future after all. Then the unthinkable happened and my world imploded. If I’m going to make this work with Max, I need my missing memories, or at least answers from about those five days before my accident.
But what does my future hold if those answers aren’t anything like I imagined?
The following excerpt from ALL FOR THIS by its very nature
contains spoilers for the first two books in the Here and Now series, LOST IN
ME and FALL TO YOU. If you hate spoilers and haven’t read the first two books,
I recommend you don’t read any further.
~ Excerpt ~
Max
“How
are you holding up? Did it go okay with Nate last night?”
She
stiffens at his name. “He asked me to move to LA.”
Of
course he did. “And what did you say?”
She
blinks at me. “I’m not leaving New Hope. This is my home.”
“He
wanted more than for you to move to LA.” I take a step closer. I need to touch
her. I wonder if she knows she’s pulling away from me, if she can feel it like
I can. It’s as if we’re connected by a thousand little threads like those in a
woven rug and they’ve been breaking one at a time since the moment Nate came
back into town. With every breath, I feel another thread snap. “He wanted you.”
She
shrugs. “I’m already taken.”
I
draw in a deep breath. She lifts her hand to my face and skims her fingers
along my jaw.
I
groan softly and slide my hand into her hair as I lower my mouth to hers. She’s
soft and sweet, and I need more of her.
Taking
a fistful of her skirt, I yank her dress up around her waist and find the
cotton of her panties. She gasps, and I rub her through the fabric as her
fingers curl into my back. My lips find her neck and the skin in the sensitive
juncture of neck and shoulder.
“Max,”
she says. But it’s not the normal breathy, needy whispering of my name. The
word is a warning. A yield sign. “Max.”
My
hand stills and I pull back to look into her eyes. I’m blindsided by the
apology I see there. “Let’s move in together.”
“What?”
She blinks at me. If she’s thinking I have the world’s worst timing with
important proposals, she’s not wrong.
“We
could rent out our apartments and use the money to rent a little place
together. Someplace without those stairs that scare the living shit out of me
every time I think of you climbing them. Someplace we can make our own.” I take
her hand and squeeze. “You didn’t want to move in together last spring because
you knew your mom would flip if you lived with a guy before marriage, but we’re
not trying to maintain appearances anymore, are we?” She looks at the floor,
and I tilt her chin back up so her eyes meet mine. “I could give two shits
about appearances. I want to wake up with you in my arms, Hanna. I want to know
I’m going to be right there when you need me, every time you need me. You and
Claire are all that matter in my world. I want everything that matters to be
what I come home to every night.”
“I’m
sorry.” She steps back. “I just can’t. I’m too confused right now.”
My
lungs burn as I fill them—it hurts to breathe in a world where Hanna isn’t
mine.
“I
know it’s not fair. And I want a future with you, but…”
“But
you can’t stop thinking about him.”
“I
can’t move in with you right now,” she says softly. “That wouldn’t be fair to
either of us. It’s not that simple.”
“You
keep saying that.”
I
swallow back the rest of what I want to say right along with my anger,
frustration, and the betrayal I’ve never allowed myself to feel. While I was
waiting for her to take my ring, she was with another man, and I was never
allowed to be angry because that man died and she needed to grieve.
I
drag a hand through my hair and look at the ceiling. “Was it that simple when
you made love to him?”
“Can
we not do this?”
Torment
is etched across her face, and I can’t stand to know I’m the one who put it
there. I pull her against my chest.
“I
won’t rush you, but remember something for me,” I whisper into her hair. “You
put on my ring.”
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~ About the Author ~
Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I’m not writing, I get to hang out with my husband and two kids–a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I’m feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I’m really, really slow) or do yoga. Don’t worry, I’m always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.
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Thanks so much for sharing this sneak peek of ALL FOR THIS. I'm so excited to share the final book of Hanna's story!
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