Release Blitz: False Start by Julianna Marley
Title: False Start
Series: The Mavericks Series #1
Author: Julianna Marley
Genre: Contemporary Sports
Romance
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Alivia Monaghan had it all: a
successful business, happy children, and her husband Jax Monaghan,
the love of her life. Until the day Jax made a choice that altered
their lives and crushed Alivia harder than a quarterback sack.
Football hero Jax Monaghan hadn’t had
it easy in life. Despite his thriving football career he always
destroyed everything beautiful he’s ever had. That was until he met
his wife, Alivia, who had taught him what love and family was all
about. But when he watches his wife fall apart due to his decisions,
he’s reminded just what he is capable of – and he makes what he
thinks is the ultimate sacrifice. Walking away.
When Jax returns home in order to be
closer to his children, he can’t help but want to be closer with
Alivia again as well. But the brutal reality of his choices keep
knocking him back to the starting line. As the past threatens them
further apart, Jax and Alivia are forced to line up together and play
for the same team. Had their entire marriage been a trick play? Or
was it simply just a false start into their happily ever after?
What they had done felt better than any
sexually charged daydream he had formulated in his head over the
course of the past year. He had looked forward to taking it slow,
steady and savoring every part of her again, but she had been too
ambitious. Too ready. And he wanted more. Immediately gaining
consciousness after their first mind-blowing round, they had taken
advantage of the large bathtub well into the early morning hours.
Quietly laughing to himself, he thought about the mess they had made
in the bathroom before both of them finally collapsed into bed. She
was worn out, no doubt, which was fine by him because he didn’t
want to move. He didn’t want to have to be forced to let her out of
his arms. Not yet. The thought that things could be different and
that he could actually make her happy again, to protect her and
shield her, had his mind running laps all morning. Was it possible
that she would let him back into her life? He had taken a huge risk
when he had left, pushing her away her away like he had, almost
losing her completely.
Liv’s eyelashes fluttered open
lightly, and she greeted him with a lazy smile, a smile that he was
proud that he had put back onto her beautiful face again.
“Hey you.” She looked up at him,
stretching before curling back into his side, her voice husky.
“Hey yourself,” he winked. Running
his fingers through her hair, they laid in comfortable silence, and
he wondered if she was replaying the last twenty-four hours inside
her head just as he was.
“I guess we have to head back to
reality, huh?” she whispered against his skin, goosebumps spreading
across his body.
“Yeah,” he resigned, wondering
exactly what that reality held for them now. “But we get to see the
munchkins,” he added, smiling at the thought of the girls.
“I miss them so much.” She looked
up at him and he hoped like hell that reality held with it the
possibility of waking up every morning with her again, just like
this.
After several close, but unsuccessful
attempts at convincing Liv for another go around in the shower before
they checked out, Jax refused to give her a towel when she stepped
out of the shower until she promised to finish what they had started
when they got home. She had been quiet while packing their bags, a
reminder not to rush her. The sex had been hard and fast, but he
needed to take things with her slow and easy. Still unable to shake
the small pang of fear that last night had been an isolated
breakthrough; that they had finally succumbed to the sexual tension
that had been suffocating both of them, but that she had no
intentions of letting him back into her life. That his words had
finally resonated with her that he, in fact, had nearly destroyed
her.
Pushing the unproductive thought aside,
he carried their bags down to the lobby before grabbing them both a
much needed coffee before reluctantly handing in their room keys to
paradise. Pulling onto the freeway towards home, he instinctively
reached for her hand, and this time she took it. Running his thumb
over her knuckles, he couldn’t have imagined two days ago, when she
couldn’t get far enough away from him inside the car, that now,
heading home, to their home, he was holding her.
Julianna Marley is fairly certain that
she was born on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line. She’s in
constant search of warmth, sunshine and water. When not writing about
all the places she yearns to be, she can be found enjoying obnoxious
amounts of coffee and getting bossed around by a four year-old.
Julianna loves romance, humor and football.
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