Sunday Snippet: Crash and Burn

Whew. It's been a long week. Can't say it's been terrible, more a constant state of busy. I did manage to take care of several personal life things that I've been putting off so that's a bonus. But I've also been scattered all over the place and that makes me bananapants.

Ohio is gearing up for another weather event where we have 84 degrees today for the high and by Monday, the high will be in the low forties. The barometer hates me right now. Also planning for power outages because when the temperature shifts that much in twenty-four to forty-eight hours and thunderstorms are thrown in, things tend to happen. Wind shears, lightning strikes, flash floods that take out trees. Yeah, definitely hope for the best but prep for the worst.

Work projects have been stacked up with more coming in. I'm very happy to be busy! I finished up a proofread of a terrific nonfiction book, got through a copy edit that ended up having some possibly big consistency concerns. Set up the start of a manuscript proofread to start this week and scheduled a read through of a manuscript that I'll be doing a developmental edit on. I have a few odds and ends that I'll be working on wherever I can also.

Did not get a lot of viewing done this week. Didn't have the bandwidth and needed to focus on work projects. Also ended up having a very productive writing week.

I did finish up Foyle's War and I enjoyed rewatching. I'd forgotten how reluctant Foyle was to join the security forces.

Also caught another episode of My Life Is Murder and thoroughly enjoyed the mystery. I love Rueben letting himself get pulled into the capers.

Still need to finish Poirot from last week. I'll probably start over because I didn't get very far into the episode before I had to pause.

That's it for the life update this week. Tonight's post is from Crash and Burn, a novella that explores what happens when the main character meets the wrong brother first.

Here's the miniblurb:

Pepper Strand met the wrong brother first and when her personal feelings get in the way, she takes the easy way out. When it leads to the death of Bax's sibling, she drowns her guilt with alcohol and Bax decides to make her crawl out of the bottle and into his arms.

And a sneaky peek…

Bax barely hesitated before he agreed. "Love to." He didn't like the way she'd started slurring her words or how she looked like she could topple over at any moment.

Especially since she more or less swayed on the barstool.

Bax held out a hand. "Where're you staying?" Hopefully somewhere close.

She pointed upstairs.

At least it's convenient.

He didn't know if they'd make it up the steps. "Come on. Let me help you up." He got his shoulder under her arm and wrapped his hand around her waist. "You've had enough."

She didn't argue at all and went with him up the stairs on unsteady legs.

He paused at the top of the steps. "Which room?"

She wobbled a little. "Uh, three."

He got them to the door and tried the knob. Locked.

He propped her against the wall. "Key?" She angled her hips around and stuck her butt out, indicating he'd find it in her back pocket.

He bit back a groan when he fished the card out and she let out a lusty laugh. She had an incredible ass, and his dick fought the confines of his pants. He pushed the keycard against the lock, the mechanism released, and the door snicked open. Wrapping an arm around Pepper, he guided her inside the room.

He didn't even get across the threshold before she turned and backed him against the wall and smashed her mouth against his. Shit. As good as he remembered. And Pepper didn't do things by halves. So everything she did stuck out in his mind.

The kisses were sloppy and hot, and he wanted her with everything he had. But not like this. He needed to slow her onslaught down.

He got the door shut and cupped her face, nudging her toward the bed. "Whoa. What's the hurry? We're not in a race here."

This one is coming together in small bursts of activity. I kind of know where things are going but the characters like to veer off in different directions and I'm okay with that.

 

That's it for this week. Catch everyone on the flipside.

ML Skye