LAST MAN
STANDING by Kacey Hammell
Publisher:
Whispers Publishing
Blurb:
Over a decade has passed since Jaslyn
"Jazz" Vanburren had her heart broken by her high school sweetheart.
After turning thirty, Jazz finds herself remembering the past and tells herself
to leave it where it rightfully belongs—behind her. In order to do that,
she has to face the man who broke her heart. When he calls her out of the blue,
asking to see her, Jazz knows her chance has come to show him what he's been
missing.
But Jazz has another problem. Ryder Donovan—her best
friend and her boss, the man who'd always been there for her, finally tells her
like it is—he’s in love with her. Always has been and always will be.
Will Jazz hold tight to the past and the heartache
she's lived with? Or will she embrace the future with the one man who has never
let her down? Who will be the Last Man Standing beside her?
Excerpt © Kacey
Hammell
His head dipped, taking her
mouth with his, his tongue plundering her mouth before she had a chance to draw
her next breath.
Shivers rushed through her
body. Jazz’s eyes closed and she gave herself up to him. What she’d been
dreaming about for weeks didn’t even come close to the reality of his body
against hers and his mouth feeding on hers.
Even her memories didn’t come
close to the overpowering and immense feelings coursing through her at this
moment.
Her body felt alive. Wrapping
her arms around Ryder’s neck, she gave back. Their tongues tangled and battled.
Licking and nibbling one another’s mouth, angling their heads from
side-to-side, the building could have caught fire and neither would have
noticed.
Her hands ran down his back,
her fingers digging in, bringing him closer. Pressed solidly against the
window, Ryder’s body against her front, Jazz was burning alive. Images of
tearing his clothes off, pushing him to the floor, licking and biting each and
every inch of him flew through her mind.
Determined to do just that,
Jazz was surprised to hear ringing. The only things that should have been
ringing in her fantasy were their ears after they’d both found release. But
they hadn’t gotten that far yet.
Wait...
What was that ringing?
“Jazz,” Ryder pulled back,
but still dropped tiny kisses on her lips as if he couldn’t let her go. “The
damned phone. We have to…damn, you taste so good….”
Ryder’s body left hers and
Jazz looked into his eyes. Heat and desire burned, his body tight, he looked
ready to pounce at any moment.
The phone still ringing, Jazz
walked to her desk on legs that felt like rubber. She didn’t know what to
think. Her and Ryder…?
It was everything she’d
fantasized about—and feared.
She picked up the phone.
“Hello.”
“Jazz, its Max. Is Ryder
still with you? He was supposed to pick up the Utilities article from you for
tomorrow’s edition. Are you done with it?”
Jazz turned to Ryder, who
hadn’t moved a step, but continued to look at her.
“Yes, Max. He has the
article. We were just going over some…business. He’ll be right out.”
“Dammit, I forgot about the
paper.” Ryder sprung into action, picking up the discarded article off her
desk, only to stop and look at her.
“Jazz…”
“No need to explain, Ryder.
It was a momentary lapse, old memories and all that. It’s okay.”
She smiled at him, hoping he
believed the words that even she herself didn’t.
“You think that’s what it
was? Old feelings and memories?” he asked.
“How else would you explain
it?”
Down deep, Jazz wanted him to
tell her that it was physical, that he wanted her as much as she did him. But
what purpose would it really serve them? They were friends and she couldn’t
risk losing that for a few hours of passion.
“For years I’ve kept my mouth
shut, Jazz. Friendship always came first with us, right?”
Jazz was confused, unsure of
what he was trying to say. He looked like a Viking God standing there before
her, his face still flushed from their heated embrace and his stance
confrontational. He obviously had something he needed to say. What had he kept
quiet about? Her heart nearly bursting from her chest, she wasn’t sure she
wanted to have this conversation.
“Yes. Yes, our friendship is
one of the most important things in my life. What are you talking about, Ryder?”
“I thought it was foolish to
ever jeopardize our friendship by showing you how I really felt about you. Have
felt about you since the first day I saw you over a decade ago.”
“Ryder, I know you loved me
then, but what—”
“I love you now.”
Jazz closed her mouth
mid-sentence, speechless.
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