ASHER (Inked Brotherhood, #1) RELEASE PARTY AND GIVEAWAY!
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ABOUT ASHER
Now eighteen, Audrey returns to her hometown for the first
time after the accident – the car crash that took her dad and scarred her for
life. She’s here to start again. Go to college and have fun. Make new friends.
Get over the past.
But the past won’t let go. Asher is here – her first kiss,
her first heartbreak. More handsome and distant than ever, he’s still the boy
who used to be her best friend. That was before he changed into someone she
hardly knows anymore – the boy who started getting into fights and gave her the
cold shoulder for years.
Asher isn’t what she needs. In fact, she hates him and
should try her best to keep away from him.
Yet her body doesn’t seem to care about how she feels, and
maybe, just maybe this time her body got it right. Not that she has much of a
choice. Asher draws her like a bright flame, and if she isn’t careful, she’ll
burn.
And that may not be such a bad thing after all...
*Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex,
and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young adult readers.*
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EXCERPT
“What do you want?” Ash asks, his voice low
and hard. Ah, there’s the anger I missed in his eyes.
“To see you.”
He sits down and looks away.
I make myself move. I step to the other end
of the sofa and sit down. I feel like I had when I played a theater part during
elementary school. Stage fright.
I will the words to come but there’s a
blank forming in my mind where my thoughts should be.
Seeing him from up close is making things
worse. My brain is too busy taking in his image, his beautiful features, his
strong body; having its usual short-circuit.
He leans forward, dangling his hands
between his denim-clad knees. His dark hair falls in his face, hiding his
expression. I can’t take my eyes off his long fingers, and the fresh, red scar
on his knuckles. Can’t help thinking he got that saving me.
“You guys want a drink?” Zane asks, and
Dakota — thankfully fully dressed again — is already heading toward the kitchen
as if she owns the place.
When neither of us say anything, Zane
shrugs and turns to follow her.
Leaving us alone in the room.
“So...” Ash raises his eyes and licks his
lips.
God, the gesture sends tingles all over my
skin. I open my mouth to speak but can’t remember what I want to say. My body
always knows how much I want Ash, even when my mind is confused.
“Your ankle seems better,” he says.
I nod, dumbly. I have to speak, tell him,
ask him... Nothing comes out of my lips. My head is an echoing empty room.
Silence stretches.
His dark brows draw together. “Well, if you
have nothing to say...” He gets up and strides across the living room, leaving
me there.
“Wait.” I shoot to my feet, almost tripping
over myself, and hurry after him. I want to say I’m sorry, but I’ve barely
touched his arm when he spins around.
Now he advances on me, his gaze furious,
and I back away, shocked. He pushes me until my back hits the wall, and then he
leans over me.
I suddenly have the full length of his
tall, muscled body pressed against me. I put my hands on his chest, pushing in
vain against his rock-hard abs, caught between giddiness and fear.
“Ash...”
“What do you want from me?” He bites each
word out, his hand coming to rest next to my head on the wall. “What is it you
want?”
“I want...” I don’t know. All I know is I
hate the anger in his eyes, hate the tension in his body, the bruises on his
face. I want to hold him. I reach up, brush my fingertips along his square jaw.
“You.”
He blinks, eyes widening.
What have I said?
You.
Oh god, I really said it.
As it sinks in, I open my mouth to fix this
— but he doesn’t give me the chance. His bigger hand catches mine, keeping it
on his cheek. Under his skin, I can feel a vein pulsing madly, his heart
pounding.
“You don’t want me,” he says, his voice
hoarse, and his gaze searches mine as if it’s a question and he’s waiting for
an answer. “I’m no good.”
Again that barely there question mark at
the end of his statement.
Or maybe I’m imagining it. I’m caught in
his beauty. I love his wolf-like eyes, silver-blue with a darker rim, shaded by
long lashes. And his lips... They’re perfect. I rise on my tiptoes to kiss
them. He’s like gravity, pulling me close.
“You should stay away,” he says, softly,
but his mouth descends on mine, sealing my lips, marking them with fire. His
tongue invades my mouth.
He tastes of lightning and dark spice. He
draws me in, and I’m lost and falling, his hard arousal a counterpoint to the
hot throb between my legs.
Closer. I want to feel him closer. My hand
drops from his chest to his hip and snakes around, pressing into the small of
his back.
Big mistake. Ash jerks back with a groan
and slams his other hand on the wall, missing my face by an inch.
What
the hell? “Ash, what—?”
“Leave,” he spits and steps back, away from
me. “You were right to hate me, Auds. Stay away.”
I watch him go, my lips burning, my heart
sinking. Like gravity, he lets me think I’m flying only to let me slam into the
ground once again.
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