A New Year's Tuesday Tease

Happy New Year and welcome to the Tuesday Tease~!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a rockin’ New Year's Eve!

Thank you to all of you who read and reviewed SOMEONE TO LOVE!!! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that. I’m working on Morgan and Ally’s story as well (her bro and Bff) And I would love to revisit Kendall and Cruise in the future.

ETHEREAL KNIGHTS! I’ve spent the last week going over the final document and it’s almost ready to send to my editor. EVANESCENT (Book 2 of The Countenance) is my next "write to completion" project.

Here’s an extended preview of one of my favorite scenes from ETHEREAL KNIGHTS, enjoy~!

ETHEREAL KNIGHTS (Ethereal rewritten from Gage and Logan’s perspective)

(Logan and Gage are at the bowling alley when Skyla sends a text)

Where are you? I’m doing time at B’s. She’s getting busy with monkey boy. ~S

I stare at my phone a very long time. She’s at Brielle’s. I could make up some lame excuse—saddle Gage with a thousand hungry middle-graders and spend the afternoon with my dream girl.

“Is that Michelle?” he asks, taking the helm at the register as the line snakes all the way out the arcade.

“No, it’s Skyla. Do me a favor and try not to tell her too much about things. I want to do it myself.”

Gage pauses a good long time before answering. “Done.”

I text her back. Work. Want to come? I can use the help. Must be a great day to bowl. What is B doing with a monkey?

“Hey, Logan?” Gage asks while one of the customers digs through her purse for change. “Do me a favor.”

“What’s that?” I ask, glancing over his features and my stomach clenches. Of course Skyla’s going to fall for him and those tubs digging into his cheeks. What girl wouldn’t?

“Don’t do anything with her,” he says it low like an apology.

He grips onto me with that ironclad stare. He wants my balls on lockdown until we figure this out.

“All right. For now.” My phone buzzes again and I glance down at it.

Trust me, I’d much rather help u. It is the perfect day for bowling. And to answer your question, rutting. ~S

I let out a laugh and show Gage the phone before texting her back.

Rutting?! You have a way with words. You should write poetry.

Funny because I just gave that same advice to Gage not too long ago concerning Skyla. My insides pinch at the thought of them writing poems to each other and having no one but myself to blame.

I’ll save my poems for you. I promise they will not include the word rutting. Ever. ~S

Gage leans in and balks at the text.

“Rutting?” He shakes his head. “I would like to do lots of things to that body, rutting isn’t one of them.”

I shake my head before texting her back.

Rutting is my new favorite word. BTW, Gage wants me to give you a message. He very much looks forward to rutting with you.

I flash the phone at Gage so he can revel in my literary artistry. Let the poet take note.

The phone buzzes again.

Tell Gage anytime. I’m waiting and coincidentally very lonely at this very moment. ~S

“Ha!” Gage barks in my face. “Now that you mention it, I can totally see myself rutting with Skyla.”

I send a quick text trying to rectify my stupidity.

Never mind. I suddenly have a great disdain for the word rutting. You must never rut with Gage. Promise me this.

Jealousy burns through me—splits my heart a mile wide.

Will you rut with others? Turnabout is fair play. ~S

Hell fucking, No.

Promise. ~S

I replace the phone in my pocket and look up at Gage. It feels like I just stepped out of the lion’s den.

Gage gives the hint of a wicked smile before getting back to the customer in front of him.

I may be out of the lion’s den, but the self-proclaimed king of the jungle just so happens to be standing in front of me.

I need to slay the beast Gage has quickly become.

I just can’t figure out how.

Hope you enjoyed~!

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