I’ve made progress on weird things over the past week and did a lot of family stuff. I brought my daughter home from college for the summer and lost a lot of time with that, though. But she’s happy to be home and I’m glad to have her back. So I’ll get a bit more caught up over the next couple of days.
I finished the short freebie that’s going to be for the Too Close series. You have to read book 10 before you read the bonus. Have to. Major spoilery things in that if you jump ahead. But I love how it turned out and it’s long enough that it’s going to be in ebook form by the end of next week once it’s been edited.
“So…we’re assuming…what?” Kevin seemed dead set on me being the one to fuck up the situation based on how intently he was studying me. “I’m not trying to be annoying to them…just you.”
“Thanks for clarifying that.” He was so ridiculous. “It’s working.”
He flashed me a grin before throwing himself at me and wrapping his arms around my neck. “I know. You’re so sexy when you’re trying not to strangle me.”
We really needed to work on his self-preservation instincts.
And here’s another piece of book 11 Too Close to Ignore (See? It finally has a title. lol) because I’m making amazing progress on that.
“I’m not rewarding him.” Maddox didn’t believe that in the slightest, but I appreciate the attempt. “I’m hoping that…I’m hoping that making him feel loved will make getting the explanation easier.”
Oh, good one.
Not that was going to fall for it.
“You’re so sweet.” Pretending he’d just told me he loved me, I kissed his cheek and bounced away. “I do feel loved and now I’m going to show you how special you are by making fresh whipped cream for you.”
Jeremy groaned again. “For fuck’s sake.”
Ha.
Even he knew I’d won.
And since Shaw is an author that gets inspiration in random places, here’s a new cutie that I’m poking at. We’ll see what happens with him but a longer version of this will probably go up on Patreon next week if inspiration keeps flowing for it.
“I…I always see Ms. Clara. She’s…she’s my massage therapist.” The wide-eyed look I was currently getting from the awkward cutie had me wondering what was going through his head. “She’s…she’s my massage person. My…my person.”
Did he think I was confused about that?
“Ms. Clara has unfortunately decided to retire.” Because her current boytoy had gotten a new job in some weird Caribbean country I’d never heard of and she’d decided she was in love. “If you’d like, I can get you rescheduled with one of the other massage therapists.”
Somehow that had his eyes going even wider. “She…she was the only woman.”
Um, okay.
She’d also been nearly seventy, so unless he also had a thing for dirty old ladies, he hadn’t picked her out because of her looks. And since her personality was soft battle ax, he hadn’t stayed with her for the last year because of that either.
Trauma?
Lots of new words and new cuties and some other bonus chapter stuff. I’ve made good progress on the short for Lorne where he’s getting arrested. Our easily frustrated deputy has been talked into arresting Lorne and it’s so funny.
Okay, off to work on my to-do list because I didn’t have internet access most of the day and you’d be surprised at how many things that fucked up. Wish me luck getting all the words in and everything checked off my list.
Want more teasers and WIP stories from me? There will be new full WIP chapters up on Patreon soon for tiers 2 and 3!
Oh my! I feel for this new cutie already. I hope these guys keep talking to you.