“Just…wow. THE JEZEBEL by Dylan Allen is simply
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Jezebel, an incredible forbidden, second chance romance by Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Dylan Allen is available
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Stone Rivers is a sin I can’t commit.
After years of playing the trophy, puppet, perfectionist,
I’ve forgotten who I am.
Until the boy from my past walks back into my life.
Handsome as sin, charming beyond belief—Stone Rivers is
temptation personified.
Our combustible chemistry shatters my resolve.
His blistering kisses remind me of everything I used to
want.
But, our present is just as messy as our past.
And reckless as it may be, I can’t let him go.
My name is Regan Wilde.
I’m a mother, a sister, a daughter.
But Stone and I?
We’re a
scandal in the making.
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Excerpt
“I’m not that boy either, I don’t
think I’ve got one foot in the grave, but relationships aren’t my thing. I used
to think you’d be mine--.”
“You did?” She asks wide eyed with
surprise.
“--when I was too young to know
better.” I finish.
“And now?”
“Now…” I turn my gaze away, a caught
off guard by the direct question. I run a hand through my hair while I pick my
words carefully. “Now, there’s some
nostalgia for the past. But 99.5% of this is just a man who is insanely
attracted to a woman who speaks his language in more ways than one. Your pussy
feels great, tastes great too. I want more of it. But I’m not going to fall in
love or anything... so, you don’t have to worry that I’ll stab your
husband.”
Her bark of laughter seems to
surprise her as much as it surprises me. “I was thinking more like
uncomfortable silences and dark glares.”
“Not my style.” I assure her.
Her lips twist. “Well, then let me speak
for myself. I don’t want to end up with my
feelings fucked. Clearly, I’m not in the best place emotionally. Maybe…we
should just play it by ear. See how we feel once we’re all alone.”
I couldn’t disagree more, but I’m not
going to pressure her about this.
“It’ll be great, either way, and I’ll
take my cues from you.” I say and I mean it. Maybe when this is over, we’ll
walk away friends again. At the very worst, she’ll be excellent company. And I
know that we don’t need sex to connect.
From our time in the bakery and that
shuttle ride, I also know that Regan
will break all sorts of rules when she thinks no one is watching. And we’re
going to have plenty of alone time in the next few days.
“I was going to leave at 9, is that
too early?” I ask.
She looks at me, her dark eyes
twinkling, her smile wider than I’ve seen it since we’ve been here. “Right now wouldn’t be too early.” She declares
and then jumps up.
“Oh my God,” she screams suddenly and
flops onto her back, clutching a pillow to her chest and kicking her legs
wildly.
“Woah!” I lurch back in surprise when
she pops back up in a flash of dark hair and gleaming white teeth.
“I’m so excited. I’ve never done
anything like this. I can’t believe it.”
“It won’t be luxurious like this. I
don’t even know where I’m staying in Balandra.”
“But it’ll be an adventure,” her
enthusiasm in unflagging.
“Do you speak Spanish?”
“A little?” She says with a nervous
grin.
“Okay. Just don’t buy anything
without me haggling for you, okay?”
“Okay. So, we’re going? Really?” Her
expression is hopeful but tinged with fear. Like she’s just been given the
chance to have something she wants desperately and she’s afraid to believe it.
It’s the most vulnerable I’ve ever seen her, and it takes my breath away.
In a flash of certainty, I know that
I’d move heaven and earth before I let that hope on her face do anything but flourish.
“Yes, really. It’ll be fun at the
very worst and at it’s very best, it will be life changing,” I say.
She laughs and rolls her eyes. “I’ll
be happy if it’s not a total disaster and I come home with all of my limbs
intact.”
“Oh, then you’re going to be
ecstatic. Because you’re going to learn things about yourself you can’t know
until you go to a place you’ve never been before.”
“Wow. You’re really good at selling
the idea of travel.”
“I’m an evangelist for it.”
She starts to dance around
Maybe living in Houston won’t be so
bad. Especially if we can find a way to keep this going.
No. I can’t let myself start thinking
like that. When I move back to Houston, it won’t matter. There, she’s so off
limits, it’s not even funny.
No, what happens here is going to
stay here.
But as I watch Regan Wilde's sexy ass
twirl around her hotel room with that horizon at her back, I get a glimpse of
another unknowable destination - one where my future and my past collide, and
then click into place.
About Dylan
Allen
Wall Street Journal and USA Today
bestselling author, Dylan Allen is a Texas girl with a serious case of
wanderlust.
A self-proclaimed happily
ever junkie, she loves creating stories where her characters chase their own
happy endings.
When she isn’t writing or reading,
eating or cooking, she and her family are planning their next adventure.
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