Meet Becks & Haddie in SLOW BURN - the newest stand
alone in the
Driven Series by K. Bromberg!
ONE NIGHT. THAT'S ALL IT
WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.
Reeling from the sudden
loss of her sister, Haddie Montgomery has sworn off relationships. All she
wanted from Beckett Daniels was a sexy distraction to help her escape her pain
for just a little while....There weren’t supposed to be any strings attached—so
why can’t she shake the memory of that unforgettable night from her thoughts?
Or the taste of his kiss from her lips?
No matter how hard Haddie
tries to forget about him, Becks relentlessly tries to prove that she should
start living for today. But she is determined to avoid romantic commitment, and
she can always use her ex-boyfriend’s reappearance to help snuff out the slow burn within her that Becks has
sparked....
Or will fate force her to
realize that this kind of connection doesn’t come along very often and a chance
at love is worth the risk?
He bites his bottom
lip and grimaces. “Fuck!” He growls out to the trees above him and then rolls
his shoulders to dissipate some of the stress I see settling there. “Semantics
aren’t an excuse. An omission is the same as lying Haddie, but you’re missing
the point entirely. It’s not whether it was a lie or not. It’s so damn far from
that. It’s you using the sex we’ve had to numb yourself when it should do the
exact opposite. It should light your body on fire and burrow so deep under your
skin that all you think about is the next time you can have me…because fuck if
that’s not what you’ve done to me. So I call your bluff. I’ll keep calling it every
fucking day until you admit you want me, that being with me does that to you
too…but you won’t will you?” I just remain still, face impassive, body raging
with emotion beneath the surface. “You’d rather stand there and tell me you
prefer the numb, the void, the nothing, than admit you need me.”
His eyes have their own language as we stare at each
other, the power of his words bringing tears to my eyes and knocking the words
from my lips. “I was just doing what I thought was best, protecting everyone from
more hurt, more everything.” And I hate
the numb, I scream silently. I hate
it so fucking much that every time we touch you make me feel so alive I realize
how dead I’ve felt inside over the past year.
I don’t know why I don’t tell him the rest. Like if I do
then I’m just sealing my fate by Murphy’s fucking Law so I keep quiet.
“Really? That’s all you’ve got for me? Next time make sure
your eyes and your lips match up City because you’re just adding insult to
injury right now. Your refusal to answer is infuriating. Need me Haddie. Use me as your goddamn emotional punching bag or
your real one for that matter but fucking need me. I’m not some schmuck who’s
going to bolt at the first rough patch and the fact that you still don’t see
that is a crock.” He blows out a loud breath, jaw clenched, anger palpable.
“I’m so fucking pissed but I’m also so fucking mesmerized by you right now and
I don’t know what the hell to do or say. All I know is that protecting someone
from the truth is just another way of shutting them out.”
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling
author K. Bromberg is that reserved woman sitting in the corner who has you all
fooled about the wild child inside of her—the one she lets out every time her
fingertips touch the computer keyboard.
K. lives in Southern California with her
husband and three children. When she needs a break from the daily chaos of her
life, you can most likely find her on the treadmill or with Kindle in hand,
devouring the pages of a good, saucy book.
On a whim, K. Bromberg decided to try her
hand at this writing thing. Her debut novels, Driven, Fueled, and Crashed of
The Driven Trilogy were well received and went on to become multi-platform
bestsellers as well as landing on the New York Times and USA Today lists. Her other
works include a short story, UnRaveled, and a companion piece to The Driven
Trilogy titled Raced. She is currently working on three stand alone Driven
novels, Slow Burn, Sweet Ache, and Hard Beat. She also plans to release a novel
addressing the 10 year gap at the ending of Crashed in late fall 2015.
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