Excerpt Reveal: Lost in Rewind by Tali Alexander
Tears pool in my eyes as I realize I’ve
traveled millions of miles away and Sara has at last opened the door
and is standing there, observing me. My heart is lodged in my throat
as our eyes lock on each other, completely paralyzing me. Time stands
still while everything between us evaporates into memory dust. My
tears spill over as my wretched heart attempts to say the words my
brain continuously denies. Please don’t leave me. We promised.
Don’t marry him. Give us a chance. Don’t do this to me again. I
don’t want to live without you. I love you. My mind is bombarded
all at once, and yet I’m a fucking mute—a speechless, soundless,
wordless fool.
“Sara,” I manage to lament on the
verge of more tears.
“Jeffery,” she replies, closing
her eyes to break the spell she cast.
I watch her mere inches away from me,
and just like a memory of some long forgotten dream, I know what will
happen next. It’s as if no time has passed, it’s as if we didn’t
break each other our whole life, and it’s as if nothing else
matters but her and me.
I was going to wait, I was going to be
respectful, I was going to let her invite me into her space to
finally talk, like adults, like parents, but I can’t wait any
longer. I walk in uninvited and invade her space as I take all the
air in the room with me. Can she see the pain leak out of my eyes and
the resolve in my stare? She stumbles backward and gasps in shock at
my forwardness. She knows I won’t be held at bay any longer—I’ve
waited for almost fifteen years to un-pause our story, and now that
my heart is in full control it turned my brain off, because I don’t
care what’s right or wrong. I’m here to take back what fate
promised me all along.
I feel her before I even touch her. My
hands and body come at her all at once. I pull her flush against me,
and turn us both to the left—as if part of some well rehearsed
dance—and usher us into the open powder room. Once we’re in the
dark, windowless room, I shut the door with a bang, quickly locking
it. My heart explodes in its cage, my limbs tremble as I hold her
near, and everything turns to red. I can’t think as I try to
breathe and not pass out with her clutched against my heart. Is this
really happening?
She attempts unsuccessfully to say
something, but it’s no use, both of our brains negate to function.
My body hasn’t come to terms with reality, and her touch and scent
are overwhelming … but she still feels like home.
“Don’t tell me to stop, don’t
push me away, you don’t have to say anything, and please, for the
love of our children, just listen to me,” I beg nervously with my
eyes and words while the automatic lights slowly come on,
illuminating her petrified stare.
She vehemently shakes her head and
looks away from me. I feel like the wolf luring in a lamb, but I’m
the one who’s been lost in her spell.
“I love you. Look at me. I love you
so much, Sara. I’m sorry for everything I made you live through.
I’m sorry I can’t stop loving you. You don’t need to talk,
baby, just look at me and listen to what I have to say, please,” I
continue while I loosen the hold I have around her tiny waist and
lower her to rest on the marble vanity, positioning myself as close
as possible between her legs.
I’m suddenly aware she’s wearing
nothing but a man’s white T-shirt around her overheated, trembling
body, and as I look down, I feel the flush of her skin rise and
spread under my touch. I slide my hands up her bare legs, spreading
feelings to places I know I have no right to try and communicate with
anymore. I haven’t seen her or touched her like this in over two
years, and being this close to her, breathing the same air as her
inside this little powder room, only makes me want us back a million
times more.
I look down at my hands placed on her
thighs; I’m trembling, too. I tear my gaze back to her eyes as she
breathlessly watches me in shock, waiting for me to make the next
move. I want to kiss you, taste you. I’m starved for you.
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Inside every story lies more than one
truth.
“Come, boy, I will give you a
reading…show me your hands.”
Jeffery Rossi wants to be a man of
logic but finds himself basing his life’s decisions on a prophecy
delivered at the hands of an old gypsy fortune teller. The death of
his beloved wife coupled with the loss of what he thought would be
his carefully crafted future, have spun him onto a path of
self-destruction.
“Three children will come from you—a
king and two queens.”
Jeff believed he knew how his future
would unravel, but he’s about to get a lesson in how the Universe
works. Fate should not be left to the interpretation of mere mortals.
Interfere and suffer, surrender… and let the fates help you find
your destiny.
“No matter what you do, no matter how
far away you run, what’s written in the stars cannot be undone.”
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Tali Alexander is a
Jill-of-all-trades—married mother of three, doctor of pharmacy by
day and romance novelist by night. Tali has fulfilled her passion of
writing with her debut romance novel LOVE IN REWIND (first book in
the Audio Fools trilogy). Since its debut, fans have embraced the
unconventional love story of Emily and Louis Bruel making LOVE IN
REWIND #1 on Amazon Kindle charts (September 2014). With an
increasing demand from her fan base for the next installment, Tali
has recently released the next story in the Audio Fools trilogy…LIES
IN REWIND, out now!!!
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