Release Blitz: Slip of the Tongue by Jessica Hawkins
Title: Slip of the Tongue
Author: Jessica Hawkins
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 25,
2016
Sadie Hunt isn’t perfect—but her
husband is. Nathan Hunt has her coffee waiting every morning. He
holds her hand until the last second. He worships the Manhattan
sidewalk she walks on. Until one day, he just…stops. And Sadie
finds herself in the last place she ever expected to be. Lonely in
her marriage.
When rugged and sexy Finn Cohen moves into
the apartment across the hall, he and Sadie share an immediate spark.
Finn reveals dreams for a different life. Sadie wants to save her
marriage. Their secrets should keep them apart, not ignite a
blistering affair. But while Sadie’s marriage runs colder by the
day, she and Finn burn hotter.
Her husband doesn’t
want her anymore. The man next door would give up everything to have
her.
After spending two hours outdoors
getting my headshots taken by Finn, I slide into the backseat of the
Uber with Finn, grateful to be back inside. He puts an arm around my
shoulders and draws me to him. “Cold?”
I should pull
away. Once I have it, though, his warmth is impossible to reject and
feels as necessary as breathing. “A little.”
He
squeezes me closer. Moves his hand up and down my bicep. “You’re
shivering.”
The driver looks at us in the rearview
mirror. “You guys are a cute couple.”
“Thanks,”
I say.
Finn arches an eyebrow, pleased—because she
thinks we’re together, or because I didn’t correct her? I don’t
even want to correct her. I’ve missed the look she’s giving us,
the one a woman makes when she’s more envious than jealous. I get
it all the time with Nathan. That feeling, coupled with the heater
blasting from the front seat, leaves me slightly woozy.
We’re
just like actors in a movie, I tell myself. This isn’t real. It
doesn’t count. After a few minutes, the urgency to get warm
lessens, and the door opens to another less pressing, but still basic
need. Because that’s how my arousal feels—essential. The more
it’s ignored, the fiercer it grows. I snuggle into his side. All it
takes is his hand on my upper thigh to invite an assault of graphic
fantasies. Finn shoving me down on the backseat because he can’t
control himself anymore. Thrusting his fingers under the hem of my
dress to find me ready for him. The lower half of my body aches with
sudden demands.
“Some of those photos we just took
were for me,” he whispers in my ear. He couldn’t have chosen a
worse moment to tease me. My legs are jelly-like. “Does that make
you mad?”
I check to see if the driver is paying
attention. She must know I’m married. How can something so vital
and concrete in my life be hidden? “What if I say yes?” I
ask.
“I’ll delete them. If you’re sure it doesn’t
. . . turn you on.”
I try not to pant. “Why would
it?”
“Imagining me looking at them later.”
I
turn my head. Our mouths are a breath apart. One more inch, and
they’ll touch. Again. Those lips are the color of sunburnt rock but
whisper soft. We’ve done it once. Would one more kiss hurt? I can’t
stop the image of him looking at me, my exposed, white throat on his
computer, his cock in a firm fist. It should disgust me. It makes my
panties damp instead.
“No response necessary,” he says as
the car pulls up to the curb. “I can read it on your face.”
Jessica Hawkins grew up between the
purple mountains and under the endless sun of Palm Springs,
California. She studied international business at Arizona State
University and has also lived in Costa Rica and New York City. To
her, the most intriguing fiction is forbidden, and that's what you'll
find in her stories. Currently, she resides wherever her head lands,
which is often the unexpected (but warm) keyboard of her trusty
MacBook.
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