by Lisa Wells
Kinley grabbed both of his cheeks in her hands. “Did you give her my manuscript?”
“Yes.”
She let go. Squealed. “When do you think I’ll hear back? Oh God. I should have been being nervous. And I didn’t even know I should have been being nervous. How long has she had it? Is it too late to send out pleas to the universe for some help?”
He could almost see her brain about to explode from all of the questions filtering through it at one time. “She’s had it for forty-eight hours.”
Kinley fanned herself. “Then she probably hasn’t read it yet.”
“She’s read it,” he inserted.
Her eyes rounded. “How do you know? Do you have her on speed dial? Did you ask her?”
He chuckled. This was fun. “I didn’t ask her.”
“Then how do you know? Did she tweet about it in her slush pile tweets?”
“As a matter of fact she did.”
Kinley scampered off the bed.
“Where are you going?”
“To get my Mac. I need to read what she said.”
He took a good look at her backside. God, she had a beautiful ass. “Or you could come back to bed with me, and I can tell you what she said when she called me to talk about your manuscript.”
She jumped back on the bed. Straddled him. Straddled Mr. Boner. “Spill it. What did she say?”
“She said I’m an idiot for not signing you.”
“She said that?” Kinley squealed.
“And a lot more. She told me I could tell you that she wants to represent you, and she’ll be giving you a call after our romantic weekend is over.”
“I have to wait until Monday?” She glanced down at Mr. Boner, which was up and about, then gave Ian a coy smile.
“You’re all mine until then.”
She wiggled up, grabbed his cheeks and kissed his lips. “You’re the best fiancé ever.”
Although he’d loved where she’d been straddling originally, he gave a sigh of relief. There was more to be said, and he wasn’t sure it would have been said, had she stayed in that particular spot. “I have one more confession.”
She wrinkled her nose. “What else have you done?”
“I’ve spoken to your mom and your brother. I told them the truth. And I asked them both for permission to ask for your hand in marriage.”
She started to move off him. He slid his hands down to cup the top of her ass and held her in place. “You did? What did they say?”
“They said yes—of course. How else did I get your brother to text you and distract you long enough for me to come up on stage and surprise you?”
She plopped a noisy kiss on his lips. “I knew that was too coincidental.”
“By the way, how was my singing?”
“You stunk up the joint,” she said in a nasally voice.
He grimaced. “I got the best looking girl in the room to come up on stage. I couldn’t have been that bad.”
“Have I ever told you I love a man in a cowboy hat?”
He looped his arms around her waist. “Have I ever told you I love a woman with a smart mouth and an ass made for spanking?”
She leaned back into his hands. “Do I ever get to spank you?”
“If I ever lie to you, you can spank me.”
She laughed. A soft, feminine sound. Full of confidence and sass. “Says the man who’s never been married and never had a wife ask him ‘do these jeans make my ass look fat?’”
And so that was her laugh—the one his dad warned him about. The one he told Ian to learn and commit to memory. The one that would warn him in the future to tread very carefully, because his woman was about to trump his full house with a royal flush. “Love, your ass will always look beautiful in my eyes.”
“By the way?” she said.
He raised an eyebrow and cocked his head. “What?”
“We’re going to need a new safe phrase.”
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Acknowledgments
Mark Twain once said, “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” I’d like to thank my incredible mentor, Margie Lawson, and my brilliant editor, Vanessa Mitchell, for helping me to cross out the wrong words and fill in the void with the right words.
Thank you to everyone at Entangled Publishing for breathing life into this book. It takes a village to get a book to market. I’m glad all of you are in my village.
A special thank you to author, Megan Ryder, for posting on Facebook about an opportunity to be one of the authors chosen to write a book as part of Entangled Publishing’s What Happens in Vegas continuity series. Her post started my journey to writing this book. And I’d like to thank Liz Pelletier for choosing me to be one of the authors for this series. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you to Connie W. who invited me to a Passion Parties event. An event that sparked my imagination for this story.
A huge thank you to my family for believing in me and for making excuses for me when I failed to show up at functions because I was too busy writing. I love you all to the moon and back.
I’d like to thank my agent, Tish Beaty, for validating me as a writer the day she took me on as one of her select few authors.
And most of all, thank you, for purchasing this book. I hope you fall in love with my characters as much as I did.
About the Author
Lisa Wells always knew there would come a time in her life when she’d pursue her dream career as a romance author. This is that time.
Before this moment, she’s enjoyed a rollercoaster journey called—The Middle School Counselor—Dramas, Dreams, and Destinies.
After many years of working with teenage girls, she knows when one comes in baffled because another girl hates her, the first question to ask is, “Did you steal her boyfriend?” Nine times out of ten the answer is some form of yes but…
While Lisa enjoys working with adolescents, she writes for adults. Her books contain: Sex, Scowls & Sass.
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