I nod, knowing I’ll need it too. “Yes, please. Our flight leaves right after closing here, and we’ll be on a time change on the West Coast.”
I’m flying with Colton overnight to his next series of games in California. It will be the first three days I’ve taken off from the restaurant since its opening, but I’m excited for the road trip with my fiancé. Even if he’ll be playing two games in the course of seventy-two hours, it will give me time to go over every final detail with our wedding planner.
And have my dress fitted again.
I sigh, dreaming about the resort in Ojai we booked for our wedding weekend. Nestled on a cliff overlooking the ocean, serene and out of the way of any business. The day would be a small collection of people who meant the most to us.
Colton told me that he wanted me to have whatever I wanted. I’d told him that I could have gotten married in a flour sack for all I cared. The only thing that meant a damn was that I was getting to marry that giant, handsome man.
And okay, the fact that I was wearing a stunning Carolina Herrera wedding dress didn’t hurt either.
I’d spent a good portion of this year planning our wedding, but not obsessing over every detail. No, I cherished picking out the decor, writing my vows, and especially taste testing the food. The day would be a complete representation of us … complete with the replica Michael Jordan jersey groom’s cake that I was surprising Colton with.
At one point in my life, being one of the privileged meant almost everything. It was the way I measured my worth, a world that held mystery, status and wealth was the basis for how I operated. And even though both the man I loved and I were now in career paths where we were recognized fairly often, or written about in the papers, I’d grown to pretty much ignore, and even shun, the popularity and praise.
Meeting Colton, and experiencing the things we had gone through together in the last four years, had changed me. Yes, I was still a little cynical and a lot sarcastic, but I was no longer that wild thing I once was. I knew now that needing someone didn’t mean being dependent on them. I could still have my interests and freedom, and at the same time be completely in love with a man and want to spend my life with him.
And that was how our life was going to be. Just like magnets, we could be opposites. One of us could be on one side of the country winning a basketball game, while the other was barking orders late into the night in a five-star kitchen.
But at the end of the day, we were always pulled right back together. Two sides of the same object, attracted to each other by the mutual love we shared.
About the Author
Author of romance novels such as Red Card and Privileged, Carrie Aarons writes sexy, swoony and sarcastic characters who won't get out of her head until she puts them down on a page.
Carrie has wanted to be an author since the first time she opened a book, and still can’t fathom that she gets to live her dream each and every day.
When she isn't in a writing coma, Carrie spends time Netflix-binging with her husband, snuggling her newborn daughter, and chasing her Black Lab through the dog parks of New Jersey.
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Also by Carrie Aarons
Privileged
In a world of wealth and power, the rules of love and war are nothing as they seem.
Nora Randolph never wanted a life of luxury. But when her mother falls in love with the heir to the British throne, their small-town lives are uprooted and every little girl’s fantasy becomes her reality. All too quickly, she learns the dangers of running in circles with the world’s elite, especially when she attracts the attention of Winston Academy’s resident golden boy.
Asher Frederick has known nothing but favor and fortune. The son of London’s most influential family, his future has been written in stone since infancy. But a tragic childhood loss redirects his course, and revenge has been boiling in his blood for years. When innocent and unaware Nora lands in his path, it’s as if the universe hands him the ammunition to finally drag his enemy through the mud.
But as his plan for vengeance gets more twisted, so do his feelings for Nora. And as her immersion into the upper crust dives deeper, she struggles to keep the secret she’s been guarding for eighteen years.
Heavy lies the crown, and when the ultimate betrayal blindsides her, will either of them survive the consequences that come crashing down on their heads?
Ghost in His Eyes
He was as magnetic as a deadly hurricane to the shore.
Carson Cole was my first love. The boy I'd shared my whole self with.
He was the man who'd taken the other part of my soul and drowned it in the sea we'd grown up in.
And now he's back. Ten years later, and the demons of our past are still haunting every breath trapped between us.
She was as wild as the horses who owned the beach highways we drove down.
Blake Sayer was the beautiful daredevil who had me wrapped around her finger from the time we were seven.
Until a horrible accident stole every piece of joy from her life.
Ten years later, she's a shell of the girl she once was, and it's all my fault. The whispers of our history shackle her to the island I left behind.
Just like lost years and unspoken words, love had slipped from our fingers like grains of sand. We’d barely made it out alive last time, was it even possible to reconstruct the shattered pieces of us?
All the Frogs in Manhattan
You know how Cinderella had the whole glass slipper, pumpkin carriage, fairy godmother thing?
Yeah…with foot-destroying stilettos, Uber, and a Twitter horoscope, my life is far from a happily ever after.
In fact, instead of Prince Charming, I end up dating every slimy, scaly, brainless frog in the kingdom of Manhattan. And by frog, I mean all of the stereotypical bad guys that Mom and Lifetime movies warned you about.
The meathead player.
The mommy's boy.
The namedropper.
The cheapskate.
If they suck at relationships, I’ve probably kissed those cold, clammy lips in the hopes of finding love. Until one day, when one man with commitment issues offers to help me find the Romeo to my Juliet.
But what happens when the frog, who was never supposed to turn into a prince, kisses you at midnight? Ok fine, he propositioned me for some afternoon delight after brunch, but not everything can be straight out of a fairytale.
Red Card
She spent five years planning a future that will never exist. He spent five years trying to erase a past he can’t forget.
London is Leah Watson’s fresh start. When she secures the perfect internship during her study abroad semester, with an infamous celebrity public relations firm, she is determined to forge her own path - one that is nothing like her life back in Oklahoma. That plan is tested when British football’s bad boy, Killian Ramsey, decides that she's the one he wants and he's playing for keeps.
Will she put her future on hold — again — for the type of man she swore she'd stay away from?
Killian is one bloody good football player. After a tragedy shattered his entire world, the cocky and arrogant face he puts on for the media is a complete lie. When he meets Leah, his heart starts to beat for the first time in years. But when the feelings get too real, his perfectly constructed facade starts to slip.
Will he risk it all to be with her — taking whatever penalties are thrown his way — or will he play it safe?
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