FOREVER
WITH YOU Excerpt
I cradled my drink as Cam sauntered back to the pool tables.
My mind wasn’t made up on the whole visiting them thing yet. Maybe I would.
Maybe I wouldn’t.
“Want another rum and coke?”
My lips curled up at the sound of Nick’s rich, deep voice. We’d been chatting
on and off since I plopped my butt down on the stool, and he had seemed happy
that I was there.
Total bonus points lottery with this guy.
“I’m
good, but thanks.” The last thing I wanted to be was drunk. I smiled at him,
pleased when his heavily hooded gaze dipped again. “Are you guys usually this
busy on the weekend?”
I could see that small talk was something Nick excelled at, which made sense,
considering his occupation. He was an equal opportunity charmer. Women flocked
to him at the bar. The other bartender, the girl with the pink glasses, seemed
to take it all in stride.
“Not
sure if you really call this busy, but Saturdays usually bring a larger crowd.”
He glanced down the bar before continuing. “So you went to school with them?”
he asked, jerking his chin in the direction Cam had roamed off to.
“Yeah.”
Leaning forward, I placed my elbows on the bar. “I had no idea they had
connections here. Total surprise.”
“Small
world,” he said, echoing my earlier thought. “But you’re not very close with
them.”
It
was a statement, not a question. “What makes you think that?”
“Well,
if you were, I guess you’d be over there with them. Or …”
Nick
was observant. “Or what?”
One side of his lips curled up as he folded his arms across his chest. The
movement drew my attention. I was such a visual creature. Not
that anyone would blame me right now. The black shirt he wore stretched around
well-defined biceps. “Or you’d rather spend the time with me.”
The twisty motion in my belly cranked up a notch. “Am I that transparent?”
“In the best possible way.” He picked up a bottle. “I’m glad you did stop by.
Every time the door opened last night, I looked up and hoped it was you.”
“Is that so?”
“I speak the truth.” His smile was lazy. “Did you finish unpacking?”
“Yep.”
“Were there any more rat bastard combinations?”
I laughed. “There were a few more.”
“Kind of mad I missed out on them.”
“There’s always later.” I toyed with my glass as I met and held his stare. “So,
Nick, do you have a last name?”
“Blanco,” he replied after a brief hesitation. “Do you?”
“Keith.” I grinned as he unfolded those arms. “I have another question for
you.”
Moving in, he placed his hands on the bar. “Ask away.”
“Do you have a girlfriend?” My breath caught a little when he leaned in
suddenly. Our mouths were close enough that we were breathing the same tiny
patch of oxygen. “Or a boyfriend?”
Nick didn’t bat an eyelash. “Nope to both. How about you?”
Bonus points explosion!
“None,” I said, welcoming the tingle that swirled down my spine as his breath
warmed my lips.
He tilted his head to the side, lining up his mouth with mine with just a
fraction of an inch between us. I started to feel a little flushed. “You have
plans tonight, Stephanie Keith?” he asked, voice deeper and rougher.
I shook my head as my pulse tripped all over itself in a happy little dance.
Nick’s grin spread into the kind of smile I knew left a trail of women in its
wake. “You do now.”
Praise
for FOREVER WITH YOU:
“Armentrout
packs a powerful emotional punch in her fifth Wait for You new adult
contemporary (after Fall with Me)... Armentrout tugs at the heartstrings while
delivering an intense, gripping tale.” –Publishers Weekly
“Armentrout
presents an emotional installment in her Wait for You series…[she] does it
again, presenting a fast-paced tearjerker that fans will devour.” –Booklist
And don’t
miss the previous titles in the Wait for You Series!
About
Jennifer L. Armentrout:
#
1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in
Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t
true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading,
watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with
her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.
Her
dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of
her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math.
Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and
contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen
and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been
optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned
for TV. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014
nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA.
She
also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the
name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
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