5 SMOOCHES
Synopsis
Warning: This is just the start. This doesn’t end well. And it’s going to get much worse before it ever gets better.
Cole:
I push her buttons. I want to push them in the good way. Dirty, up-against-the-wall, my-hand-in-her-pants kind of way.
But that’s not possible, because I’m dark and she’s light, and we both know it.
So I push her buttons in the bad way, making her hate me.
Hailey:
If a genie granted me three wishes, I’d ask for Cole Parker to never look at me again, that I’d forget the dark promise in his eyes, and that just once, before he vanished from my life completely, that he’d push me up against a wall and fuck me.
Then I’d go wash my mouth out with soap.
Review
“Of course, I could have sent Jason or Tag to pick her up, and I didn’t. I wanted that privilege for myself, because if I can’t have her bent over my bed, I’ll take her spitting fire at me.”
I will admit it . . . I am a cover whore. A total whore who will pick one book over another because it has a fabulous cover and a catchy title. That is what drove me to get this book and read it. I honestly had no expectations of this being great since it was an author I have never heard of before. But when I saw the cover I was like DAMN I need to read that. Thankfully this first installment in a three part serial was even better than the cover let on.
“I can see how biting him might have been a mistake. The kind of mistake that leads people to get naked against their better judgement.”
Hailey Dashford Reid comes from “that” family. The rich ones who are always in the spotlight. Hailey wishes she could be from any other family because being a part of her has only ever caused her trouble, especially since trouble is what her family seems to specialize in. Cole Parker specializes in keeping bad people looking good. Six months ago he was hired to work for the Reids when Hailey’s dad was accused of murder. Now, with her sister in the forefront of a salacious political scandal, Cole is back in Hailey’s life and she . . . is . . . pissed.
“Stolen moments, that’s all we get. But I’m done thinking that Hailey and I can’t happen. We just can’t happen in a healthy, functional way. Good news is, I do dysfunctional like a fucking pro.”
Cole Parker is a pro at overstepping his bounds and getting involved where people don’t want him. Normally cold and distant but Hailey brings out something in him that after six months of torturing himself he cannot hold in any more. What’s the problem? How about that she can’t stand him. Or, how about he works for her family cleaning up their messes when she believes they should get what is coming to him? Or what about the fact that even though she doesn’t want to want him she so totally does, if only she didn’t believe that he was COMPLETELY out of her league.
“I am a complete idiot. It’s like my panties just take themselves off as soon as Cole wanders past and whispers something filthy in my ear.”
I do not recommend reading this when you need to be quiet or if people can tell if you are blushing. This book would go from laugh out loud funny to so hot that I had to put it down and get a hold of myself in a matter of a few sentences. Cole was deviously Alpha and Hailey is no pushover. The two of them knew that getting together was only asking for trouble but just could not help themselves.
“You cut a key for yourself.”
“I gave it back”
I dig in my pocket, and pull out . . . not my key. The silver shape is too long and it’s got the wrong number of bumps. I glare at Cole, who just shrugs.
“Okay, so I didn’t give it back. But that’s the key to my apartment? Incase you ever need it.”
This story is shaping up to be fun, intense and melt your panties right off steamy. I am beyond excited to see how twisted it can get and go on this journey with these two mismatched characters.
“He might not be a good man all the time, but there’s nothing but goodness here between us.”
***arc given from Netgalley for an honest review
~miranda
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