A "Friends-to-Lovers" E X C E R P T from MY SOUL TO KEEP
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“You wanna come in?”
My eyes snap to her face. Her teeth toy with her bottom lip, and she’s blinking a lot.
“I mean, you’re hungry.” She gestures to my Styrofoam container in her lap. “I don’t want you driving and trying to eat this bison burger. That’s just not safe. You could, well, you could…eat in my kitchen real quick.”
You’d think, considering that my parents eat their young, and I barely survived it, I would have evolved out of these damn qualms. But no. That dumb voice in my head is qualming away.
“Are you sure you want me to come in, Kai?”
We look at each other, and I imagine the dim parking lot lights aren’t showing Kai much more of my face than they show me of hers, but I see everything. I’m not the only one fighting the attraction between us. Kai has her reasons, and even if I don’t get them, I want to respect them.
She blows out a long breath, tips her head back, and closes her eyes before looking back at me.
“I guess that depends.” She shifts, pressing her back against the passenger door to study me closely. “Do you mean it when you say we can be friends?”
“I mean it as much as I can mean it.”
Her left eyebrow is the only thing on her face that moves, lifting just a bit.
“What does that mean?”
“It means I’m not going to lie and say I’m not still attracted to you.” I reach over and grab the small hand clenched on her knee. “But I’ll try, if it means we can get to know each other better.”
I’ve gone as far as I can with that unless she wants me to outright lie. And I guess she’s gone as far as she can, still seeing me but knowing I’m not completely feeling platonic. Maybe somewhere in the middle, there could actually be a great friendship. At this point, it’s her call. I took a step in her direction tonight. She’ll have to come the rest of the way.
She lifts my hand away and turns to reach for the passenger door handle. She stands outside for a second, leaning her head against the door and watching me watching her. Those exotic eyes have lost some of their sparkle now that we’re past midnight. The ponytail is barely hanging on, drooping around her neck, strands of dark hair escaping and brushing the pale gold of her cheeks. Her lips, maybe from all the nervous biting, are bee-stung, red and wet. If she’d let me kiss her right now, we’d never make it to her apartment.
Who am I kidding? I can’t be this girl’s friend. I’m about to call the whole thing off when she screws with my scruples again.
“Well, come on in then.”
I grab my burger and follow her into her place before she changes her mind.
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The SOUL SERIES is a friends-to-lovers music romance spanning a 3-book series that readers are calling "terribly addictive."
Once you start, you won't stop.
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(Series should be read in order.)
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Book 1, MY SOUL TO KEEP
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Book 2, DOWN TO MY SOUL
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Book 3, REFRAIN
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I just can't write about myself in third person for one more bio! I'm a wife, a mom, a writer, an advocate for families living with autism. That's me in a nutshell. Crack the nut, and you'll find a Southern girl gone Southern California who loves pizza and Diet Coke, and wishes she got to watch a lot more television. You can usually catch me up too late, on social media too much, or FINALLY putting a dent in my ever-growing TBR. I love to hear from readers at kennedyryanwrites@gmail.com.
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