Happy Saturday! Hot and sunny here, so my kids invented a new game: put the sprinkler under the trampoline. We spent the morning shopping for new bathing suits, and now they’re out there enjoying their water fun.
There are five more weeks in my book tour, and you can check out any of the links below on their respective dates to enter the giveaway. In this snippet, Renee has gone to do other things, and Adam is left with a handful of…interesting condoms he thinks he has no use for. (Those are all real, by the way, including the ones with former US Presidents and ruler markings.) He’s decided to pay the health center a return visit.
By the time Adam reached the health center, he’d made up his mind not to be swayed by Mr. Dark and Handsome. Adam was an effective communicator—that was his job. Not since middle school had he been at such a loss for how to speak to another human being. The only reason he’d ever been rendered silent, his mouth opening and closing like a fish, had been his eighth grade English teacher. Ms. Figueroa had been the single most gorgeous woman he’d ever seen, and the combination of puberty hormonal overload and awkward, geeky middle schooler had left him incapable of anything but sitting in class staring dreamily at her. No matter how attractive the guy in the health center was, he was not allowed to have the same effect on a grown-ass man with years’ worth of experience in the fine arts of dating and sex.
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An Act of Devotion Book Tour:
2-May: MM Good Book Reviews, Book Lovers 4Ever, My Fiction Nook, Happily Ever Chapter
9-May: Iyana Jenna, Jessie G. Books, Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews
16-May: Prism Book Alliance, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, The Novel Approach
23-May: Dawn’s Reading Nook, Three Books Over The Rainbow, Bonkers About Books
30-May: Full Moon Dreaming, Oh My Shelves, Unquietly Me
6-Jun: Alpha Book Club, Bayou Book Junkie, Inked Rainbow Reads
13-Jun: Molly Lolly, BFD Book Blog
20-Jun: Love Bytes, Sassygirl Books, Outrageous Heroes
Ah, poor Adam! The challenge to his confidence manifests! Looking forward to reading more! Which I will, since I have the book. 🙂
😀 Yeah, AJ is definitely a hit to his ego.
BTW, meant to say thank you for the lovely note along with the gift card. And the card will come in handy in this awful heat! An air conditioned shop and something cold and yummy…a welcome break from sweating, LOL.
“so my kids invented a new game: put the sprinkler under the trampoline.” — I foresee a trip to the emergency room in your future!
Ha! I suspect Mr. Dark & Handsome won’t care what effect Adam thinks he’s “allowed” to have on others. 🙂
LOL! So far, so good. We shall see.
Mr. Dark & Handsome mostly thinks Adam is a tool so far, so he’s not likely to concern himself with any effect he may or may not be having. 😀
Uh-huh. Sure, Adam. You go right on trying to convince yourself…
He’s working pretty hard at that, for sure.
Not sure who he’s trying to convince but it aint working LOL
No, it surely isn’t! LOL
A romantic crush can hit anyone without warning, no matter their age. Can’t wait to read more.
Yeah, Adam likes to be in charge of where and when these things happen. As if that were possible, LOL.
Sounds like a case of protesting too much, he sounds very capable of being swayed.
Oh, he most definitely is. 😀
Not sure he’s doing a great job convincing himself.
He’s not, LOL.
Protesting too much? *lol* Nice snippet. 🙂
Ha! Yeah, he spends a good deal of time protesting before he admits defeat. 😀
This is fun. A man who regards dating and sex as a fine art. Bring it on!?
He definitely does see them that way! He comes across as full of himself, but he genuinely cares about the people he’s with.
Love how flustered he is and how hard he’s trying to stay cool.