My lips curve. “You haven’t even looked at the ring.”
“Because the ring doesn’t make my decision.”
“Good to know, but you’d like to see it, right?”
She laces her fingers together, and her eyes light. “Yes, please.”
I open the lid to display the three-carat diamond in the center of a spray of smaller diamonds. “It’s designed to look like sunshine because you light up every room you enter.”
She tears up. “That is really special.” She glances up at me. “And my gift isn’t so good anymore. It’s like groceries.”
“The only gift I need is you saying yes.” I take the ring out of the box and slide it on her finger. “It’s perfect.”
I scoop her up and carry her to our bedroom, where the ring is the only thing I leave on her. A long time later we lay facing each other, relaxed and dozing in and out of sleep, when she murmurs, “My gift is like underwear. Yours is perfect.”
I chuckle over the way she’s fretting because I meant what I told her. She’s perfect. She’s my gift this Christmas. She’s my light in a year of darkness.
THE END
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Readers,
Thank you so much for taking this crazy, wild ride with me. I hope you fell in love with Jax and Emma the same way I did, and I hope you felt every emotion I tried to convey in their finale. Not just their emotions, but Brody’s, Chance’s, and everyone else’s as well. The good, the bad, the sad, the ugly, and the lovely. Life doesn’t always turn out the way we think it should or anticipate, but it’s about those who steal your heart and make your world turn just by being in it—notice that thought from anywhere? :) I think similarly to some of my characters. I would love to hear what you thought of this finale and the series as a whole! Be sure to reach out: @AuthorLisaReneeJones on Facebook and @LisaReneeJones on Instagram and Twitter.
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What’s next for me? SAVAGE and more GRAYSON BENNETT! Yes, you read that correctly, Savage is getting his own trilogy, and they same Grayson Bennett you met in this series, already has his own book (Dirty Rich Betrayal), and his second book is coming early next year. Both men’s books are up for pre-order and if you turn the page, I’ve got the details on Savage and an excerpt from Grayson’s first book!
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SAVAGE’S TRILOGY!
The man. The badass. The legend. SAVAGE IS COMING ON DECEMBER 17TH!
Rick Savage, but they call him Savage and for a reason. He can make you laugh and then rip your heart out. No one knows that more than me, Jasmine Marks, the woman he left bleeding from the heart. I loved him. Lord help me, I’ve never stopped loving him.
Now, I’m engaged to another man, a brutal man I’m trapped into marrying, when to my shock, Savage returns home. Savage who I haven't heard from in years. I want to hate him. I have ever reason to hate him, but I can’t. I still love him and I fear he will save me just to leave me bleeding one last time. He stirs my desires, a dark, delicious, and dangerous man destined to hurt me and leave me. This time I’m not sure I'll survive.
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GRAYSON BENNETT’S STORY!
DIRTY RICH BETRAYAL—AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE NOW
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EXCERPT FROM
DIRTY RICH BETRAYAL
He kisses me, a quick brush of lips over lips. “I need you naked. I need to feel you next to me.” He rolls me to my back and with that “for now” in the air, he moves and resettles with his lips to my stomach and this is not an accidental connection. My heart squeezes with the certainty that he’s reminding me of how many times he told me he wanted a little girl just like me. It affects me. We had so many plans. We were best friends. We were so many things that happened so very quickly and easily, and then it was gone.
He pulls down my pants, and all too quickly my sneakers and everything else are gone. I’m naked and not just my body. I am so very naked with this man and always have been. But as for my body, I’m not alone for long. He strips away his clothes, and I lift to my elbows to admire all that sinewy, perfect muscle before he reaches down, grabs my legs and pulls me to him. The minute my backside is on the edge of the bed, he goes down on a knee. I sit up and cup his face. “Not now. Now I need—I need—”
He cups my head and pulls my mouth to his, kissing me with a long stroke of his tongue before he says, “And I need to taste you.”
“Not now. I’m not leaving. We have time. I need—you. Here with me.”
His eyes soften but he still leans in and licks my clit, and then suckles. I’m all but undone by the sensation because one thing I know and know well is how good this man is with his tongue. But he doesn’t ignore my request. He pushes off the floor, and in a heartbeat, he’s kissing me and I don’t even know how we end up in the center of the bed, our naked bodies entwined. We just are and it’s wonderful and right in ways nothing has been in so very long.
He lifts my leg to his thigh and presses his thick erection inside me, filling me in ways that go beyond our bodies; driving deep, his hand on my backside, pulling me into him, pushing into me, but then we don’t move. Then we just lay there, intimately connected, lost in the moment and each other. “Is this what you wanted?”
“Yes,” I say. “This is what I wanted.”
“I didn’t think I’d ever have you here, like this, with me again.”
“Me either,” I whisper, my fingers curling on his jaw. “Grayson,” I say for no reason other than I need his name on my lips. I need everything with this man.
He kisses me, a fast, deep, passionate kiss. “I missed the hell out of you, Mia. So fucking much. I don’t think you really understand how much.”
This moment, right here, right now, is one of our raw, honest, perfect moments that has always made his betrayal hard to accept. I need that honesty in my life and with him and I don’t even think about denying him my truth. “I missed you, too. More than you know, Grayson.”
He squeezes my backside and drives into me again. I pant with the sensations that rip through my body, my hand going to his shoulder. “Nothing was right without you,” he says. “Nothing, Mia.” He kisses me, and I sink into the connection, pressing into him, into his thrust, into the hard warmth of his entire body. Needing to be close. Needing the things that separated us not to exist.
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ALSO BY LISA RENEE JONES
THE INSIDE OUT SERIES
If I Were You
Being Me
Revealing Us
His Secrets*
Rebecca’s Lost Journals
The Master Undone*
My Hunger*
No In Between
My Control*
I Belong to You
All of Me*
THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN
Escaping Reality
Infinite Possibilities
Forsaken
Unbroken*
CARELESS WHISPERS
Denial
Demand
Surrender
WHITE LIES
Provocative
Shameless
TALL, DARK & DEADLY
Hot Secrets
Dangerous Secrets
Beneath the Secrets
WALKER SECURITY
Deep Under
Pulled Under
Falling Under
LILAH LOVE
Murder Notes
Murder Girl
Love Me Dead (July 2019)
Love Kills (October 2019)
DIRTY RICH
Dirty Rich One Night Stand
Dirty Rich Cinderella Story
Dirty Rich Obsession
Dirty Rich Betrayal
Dirty Rich Cinderella Story: Ever After
Dirty Rich One Night Stand: Two Years Later
Dirty Rich Obsession: All Mine
Dirty Rich Betrayal: Love Me Forever (May 2020)
THE FILTHY TRILOGY
The Bastard
The Princess
The Empire
THE NAKED TRILOGY
One Man
One Woman
Two Together
THE SAVAGE TRILOGY
Savage Hunger (December 2019)
Savage Burn (February 2020)
Savage Love (April 2020)
THE BRILLIANCE TRILOGY
A Reckless Note (June 2020)
A Wicked Song (August 2020)
A Sinful Encore (September 2020)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.
In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling LILAH LOVE and WHITE LIES series.
Prior to publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her on Twitter and Facebook daily.
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