Dating the Wrong Mr. Right
by Amanda Ashby
Publication Date: June 19, 2017
Genres: Adult, Entangled: Bliss, Contemporary, Romance
Pepper Watson has lost everything–her job, her fiancé, and the future she’d so carefully planned. Now she’s back at Wishing Bridge trying to figure out her next step. Her new plan does not include the ever-so-sexy Ben Cooper. Nope. She’s getting her life back on track, and getting out of this little town as fast as possible.
Ben Cooper is doing his best to build his business and help his parents. The last thing he needs is the distraction that is Pepper Watson. She might be prickly every time he’s in her presence, but he sees another side of her. The side that has set aside her dreams to help her sisters. And then there’s the fact that kissing her is pretty much the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
He’s putting down roots. She’s running away. It’s going to take more than a wish for these two to find their happily ever after.
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“So, about the kiss. Thank you for going
along with it.”
“That’s it?” Coop growled. It wasn’t the
first time he’d encountered Pepper’s steel wall, but right now he wasn’t in the
mood. “You have a secret fiancé—”
“Ex-fiancé,” she corrected, and then a hint
of color rose to her cheeks. It was part of the enigma he’d been trying to
unravel ever since he’d known her. That she could be cold and warm at the same
time.
And that it can turn me on so much.
“Fine. You have a secret ex- fiancé.”
Not that he should be surprised. After all, she’d already achieved the first
thing on the damn plan of hers—to get out of Sunshine and back Seattle. No doubt
marrying a rich douche named Paul was number two. It shouldn’t piss him off but
it did. “And you pretended we’re a couple in front of him. Not just manhandling
me—”
“Manhandling?” He watched her nostrils are.
“Please, I held your hand and kissed you.”
“Without my consent,” Coop said, as some of
his annoyance was replaced by amusement. Pepper was clearly uncomfortable.
Baiting her was a game he’d long played since she had no idea how sexy she
looked when she was pissed off. He folded his arms and sat down, stretching out
his long legs, just like he’d done a hundred times in the past. It’s just
normally when he did it, Pepper was nowhere in the vicinity. She was off
following her dreams and forgetting about everyone she’d left behind. “I was
just innocently standing there.”
“You’re never innocent.” Pepper folded her
arms, mirroring his own. It was a dance he knew well. Bulls locked horns, he
and a Pepper locked arms. And yet there was something about the dance that was
irresistible. A switch he couldn’t help but press. For better or worse, Pepper
was the only woman who had ever made his heart pound when they spoke.
“And neither, it seems, are you. Why are you
angry? Is it because you secretly enjoyed the kiss? I certainly did.”
And some.
He’d always suspected that underneath
Pepper’s buttoned up shirts there was a re burning. Now it was confirmed. It
was also why he’d had so much trouble getting over his damn crush. Somehow he
didn’t think that the kiss was going to make it any easier.
“That’s because you’re a serial flirt who’d
probably enjoy kissing anyone,” she retorted, her checks coloring. “And I’m
annoyed because now you know about Paul, you’ll tell Bec, who will tell Emmy,
and then it will turn into drama.”
“Ah, and your image as an unflappable perfect
Seattle lawyer will be destroyed,” he said before narrowing his eyes. “Hell,
Pepper. You got engaged and didn’t even tell your sisters. Why?”
Amanda Ashby was born in Australia but now lives in New Zealand where she writes romance, young adult and middle grade books. She also works in a library, owns far too many vintage tablecloths and likes to delight her family by constantly rearranging the furniture.
She has a degree in English and Journalism from the University of Queensland and is married with two children. Her debut book was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award, and her first young adult book was listed by the New York Public Library?s Stuff for the Teen Age. Because she’s mysterious she also writes middle grade books under the name, Catherine Holt and hopes that all this writing won’t interfere with her Netflix schedule.
She also runs writing workshops and loves to speak to people about Buffy (er, she means writing). See her Website for more information.
This sounds like a good story! Thanks for sharing ☺
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