Title: Devil's Kiss (Sunset Cove Series #2)
Author: Ella Frank
Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance
Blurb
Derek Pearson likes to think he’s an easygoing guy. Uncomplicated, upfront, and unapologetic with what he wants. His what you see is what you get attitude is on prominent display for anyone who cares to look, and his foul mouth is right there to back it up should you miss the point.
However, what you see isn’t always what you get, and only a select few have ever glimpsed the real man under the brash exterior. Among them? Professor Jordan Devaney. Complicated, high-maintenance, and vibrant, he’s Derek’s opposite in every way. From the moment they saw each other, a love-hate relationship began. But what happens when one person wants more?
DEVIL’S KISS
Ella Frank
Copyright © 2016 Ella Frank
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THE CALL
Present Day
DEREK PEARSON PUSHED open the
door of Leighton, Finley & Associates, and stepped out on the paved
sidewalk. It was the first day of August, and if the sweltering Floridian sun
was any indication, today was going to be hotter than hell’s waiting room.
As he strolled toward the curb,
he pulled a pack of Marlboros from the pocket of his shorts and flipped open
the top. He needed a fucking cigarette after watching Daniel Finley and his
damn professor get all sappy and shit. That was gonna get old real quick if he
had to stomach their nauseating displays of I
love yous longer than the fifteen minutes he’d been in there. But he’d
known he had to make an appearance sooner or later; otherwise Danny boy
would’ve shown up asking questions. Questions he wasn’t ready to answer.
There’d been a reason he hadn’t
come around to see Finn when he first moved back from Chicago two months ago,
but it wasn’t something he was in the mood to talk about yet, even if he was
one of the two people on the planet who would get all the shit he’d been
dealing with.
Yeah…
He just wasn’t
ready to go there.
With a smoke between his lips, he
lit up, then shoved the pack back in his shorts. He was so damn antsy lately,
and for that he could thank his brother, Alan.
He walked around to the side of
his Jeep and pulled open the door. After climbing inside, he grabbed his cell
phone and stared at the dark screen, contemplating his next move.
Am
I really planning to do this?
Fuck, it seemed that he was, even when
he knew better.
If he did this, it would be
nothing more than a Band-Aid over the real problem. A shot to numb the more
painful issues he was dealing with right now. He would be slipping back into a
pattern he had pulled himself out of. An addiction he’d broken free from. But
he was also aware that if he didn’t do it, the alternative would be to spiral
out of control, and solitude was no longer helping his fucked-up nerves.
He brought the phone to his ear
and waited. The phone rang and rang, and fucking rang, until he was close to
hanging up—and then it connected.
“You free?” were the only two
words out of his mouth. He waited, not caring to pursue small talk. That wasn’t
what this was about. All he cared about in that moment was getting what he
needed.
When an affirmative came through
the phone, he hung up, tossed it on the dashboard, and brought the Jeep to
life. As he sped across town, he white-knuckled the steering wheel and didn’t
allow himself to think about the consequences of what he was about to do.
It took him less than ten minutes
to pull into the underground parking garage of The Palisades and take the
elevator up to where his drug of choice waited for him. He glanced up into the
camera in the corner of his metallic confines and stared boldly into the face
of the one who was waiting at the other end of this ride.
Yeah, he was about to fall off the
fucking wagon big time. Was about to slide back into the one place he promised
himself he wouldn’t go again. Yet as the elevator came to a halt and the doors
opened, there was no denying this was exactly what he wanted.
“I have thirty minutes,” were the
words that greeted him.
Derek walked off the elevator and
over to the naked man waiting for him. He took the haughty chin between his
thumb and forefinger and promised in a voice thick with arousal, “I only need
ten. Take me to your room, Jordan. Time’s a wasting.”
REVIEW
This is actually a surprise story since I found Ella told us that my Derek has his own story. And with that flaming, rich, snobbish, beautiful , yet generous at heart, my very own Posh, Jordan Devaney.
The tension between the two guys...OMG, so frustrating at some point that I wanted to fly to Ella to shake her and yelled at her. How could she did that to my Derek?
Gosh! It was crazy, honestly I put the book down a few times just to take a deep breath and stare at the wall (as usual), and think abot the guys.
For a genius, I think Jordan has a communication problem, and he met Derek, who has the same problem with him. I knew some people who keep fighting but need each other and keep coming back like them, afraid to admit the "L" word to their partner. So, yeah, the struggle is real, my friend.
Derek and his bitter sad life, I never thought he had that in Finn's book. Well everyone's have a secret they can't share to the world and even a person they're sleep with.
That's an issue and the main problem with Derek and Jordan.
But I'm glad Ella gave me a perfect ending and I'm a happy girl after I finished the book. And I can smell book number three is on the way. Am I right or right, Ella?
It's time to come home, Finn.
It’s been seven years since Daniel Finley left his hometown in Florida for the hustle and bustle of Chicago’s city life. Since then, he’s worked hard for his position at the prestigious law firm Leighton & Associates, even when it’s caused distance and isolation from his family and friends. But that’s all about to change.
On his thirtieth birthday, he receives the one thing he never dared hope for. Something that was promised to him years earlier—a note. One simple sentence from the man he’s never been able to forget. Six words will forever change the course of their lives. Brantley Hayes has it all. Or so he thinks. When he first made the decision to take a job down in Florida, his family thought he was crazy.
But, after years of living in the quiet beach town, he finally feels a sense of community. He’s surrounded himself with friends who are like family, has a job he loves, and owns a spectacular beachfront property that is his sanctuary. Yet he still feels unfulfilled, as if a piece of the puzzle is missing, and he knows exactly which piece it is. On an impulse, he follows through with a promise he made years earlier.
A promise to call home the one he sent away. Nothing is as simple as it seems. After years of separation, the former lovers are reunited, but Brantley wasn’t expecting to encounter the high walls now guarding Daniel’s heart. Daniel may not be the same person he was when he left, but he knows that the first step to healing is the note in his hand.
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