Information:
Title: No Flowers Required (Love Required, #2)
Author: Cari Quinn
Genre: Category – Contemporary
Length: 281 pages
ISBN: 978-1-62266-967-7
Release Date: August 2012
Imprint: Brazen
Author: Cari Quinn
Genre: Category – Contemporary
Length: 281 pages
ISBN: 978-1-62266-967-7
Release Date: August 2012
Imprint: Brazen
Blurb:
Love Required - Book Two - by Cari QuinnHe’ll give her everything she desires…except his identity.
Flower shop owner Alexa Conroy had it all before the recession hit and her customers fled to cheaper shopping grounds. Desperate to make ends meet, she sells her dream home and moves into the rundown apartments above her shop. When she spots six feet of sexy distraction—complete with muscles, piercings, and tattoos—ripping up flooring, Alexa knows the karmic windfall she’s due just landed on her doorstep.
And the attraction’s definitely not one-sided.
Dillon James, reluctant heir to the corporation about to foreclose on Alexa’s shop, is not about to jeopardize their scorching chemistry by admitting he’s not the building’s handyman. But with only weeks until her business goes under and his identity is revealed, Dillon must find a way to convince Alexa cooperation isn’t a dirty word, help her save the shop from his brother’s greed, and persuade her that he’s not the enemy…or risk losing the only woman who’s seen the real him.
Excerpt:
Alexa moved whip-fast,
slamming her hands on Dillon’s chest and him against the door before his brain
caught up. The watering can clattered onto the ground. She spared it a brief,
puzzled glance, then fisted her hands in his T-shirt and arched up, her mouth
coming closer—
Fuck it.
He fused his mouth to
hers, and dammit, it was even better than he’d expected. She didn’t yield to him
but struggled a bit, as if she was shocked he’d taken over. That made it even
hotter. He slanted his lips over hers when her startled squeak granted him access
to the warm sweetness inside. Perfect. He took full advantage of her surprise
to explore her with long, slow licks of his tongue.
Maybe his head
couldn’t compute what was happening, but his body sure could. He cupped her ass
and rocked his hips against hers, all too aware of his violent reaction to her
nearness. His dick still hadn’t recovered from their bump-and-grind in her
bathroom and apparently had no trouble asserting its readiness to play.
Recovered now, she didn’t shy away, and instead rubbed against him, her curves
sliding against him in a way that had him groaning and pulling back so hard he thunked
his head on the closed door.
He couldn’t do this.
Oh, God, he had to. She was going wild against him, and he didn’t have any defenses
against his hunger for her. Not when he wanted nothing more than this. Just
this.
“What are we doing?”
he managed as she dragged her lips down his Adam’s apple. Stars danced in his vision
and hell if he knew if they were from the head jolt or from their kiss.
She didn’t answer
him, just skated her hands down his torso and under his shirt. And what hands
they were. She seemed to be touching him everywhere. He clung to her ass as if
she was his only port in the storm, and sure enough, a bolt of lightning
sizzled overhead followed by a crack of thunder. But Alexa never paused. He’d
become her canvas and her fingers were her paintbrush. She sketched every ridge
of muscle, every line of bone. And then the column of his cock, wedged tight
into his jeans. She touched him with confidence and skill, the kind that would
soon have him driving his hands into her hair and pushing her to her knees if
she didn’t stop.
But a woman like her
wasn’t meant for a quick fuck against a door, even if that was what she acted like
she wanted. Even if he longed for her so much that he didn’t care about
anything but stealing this moment and making it theirs. He must be misreading her
signals, though he was pretty adept at picking up sexual cues. Or else he’d
sent some crazy ones of his own.
“Alexa.” Though it
took all his faculties just to get out that one word, she ignored him. Completely.
She cupped him and
nipped his jaw, her teeth offering a sharp counterpoint to her palm’s soft
touch. His shaft lurched in her hold and she let out a delighted purr.
“Lex,” he tried
again, her name ending in a moan.
“You don’t know who I
am.” He expected her to stiffen, to look up at him with those huge bluebell
eyes he’d gone a little nuts for the first time he’d looked at her. She didn’t.
“Alexa, listen to me.” He wrapped her braid
around his hand and tugged up her head, something sharp dislodging inside him
the instant their gazes clashed. In the waning light, he could just make out
the lust on her finely boned face. It transformed her somehow, changed her from
someone he should protect—from him—into a woman he needed at all costs. “You
don’t understand.”
She didn’t. Hell, at
the moment, he didn’t either. Because he didn’t feel like he was lying or
hiding anything. He wanted to strip away the barriers between them, and this
was the best way he knew how. Words were unnecessary, the language of miscommunication.
Kisses and long looks and sultry touches—that was the truth, and she was the
only one he could share it with.
Right now who he
really was didn’t matter. She knew the important stuff. He was a guy. She was a
woman. Certain areas were meant to fit together.Who even cared who his family
was? Maybe she really didn’t even hate the hardware store. Maybe she had a secret
girl-crush on it and went in there every day to fondle all the trusty hammers
and saws…
Yep, he needed help.
The kind he’d find alone by himself, far, far from distractions with anklets
and eyes as big as moons.
“You don’t
understand,” she whispered, gripping the back of his neck. She was tall for a
woman, and even in flats she could reach all the important parts with only a
modicum of stretching. “I don’t want to know who you are. I don’t care. All I
want is for you to make me come.”
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Holy...wow. That excerpt certainly has me fired up to read more. Congrats on the new release!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the name of the first book in the series?
ReplyDeletelinda@lindakage.com
Hi Amber! Thanks so much for featuring No Flowers Required today! We haven't had a chance to chat in a while, but I hope all is well with you. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Linda...thanks for stopping by! Glad you liked the excerpt. The first book in the series is No Dress Required and the next one is No Romance Required, which will be out for Christmas. :)
Thanks for featuring Cari's newest today and sharing this excerpt. Hot hot hot! Can't wait to read the rest of it :D
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What a great excerpt. I do want to read more.
ReplyDeletedebby236 at gmail dot com
Cari! I love your books. Just picked up Test Shot and can't wait to read it. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by everyone! I appreciate the comments. And Amber, yay! Thank you! I hope you enjoy it! :)
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