Always My Girl
The Shaughnessy Brothers, #3
By Samantha Chase
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Sometimes the love
that's closest to you is the hardest to see.
Quinn Shaughnessy's
two older brothers have found their true loves ... but Quinn's not about to
join that parade. Nope, as he tells his best friend Anna, there's a lot more to
life than getting tied down to one person. He's positive tomboy Anna will be on
his side - except she's inexplicably developing other interests - even dating!
Suddenly Quinn is seeing Anna in a very different light.
Quinn has been
Anna's buddy since they were both five years old. She can tell him anything -
except the one big secret she's been hiding for years - that she's fallen in
love with him. Now Anna is determined to make a life for herself that doesn't
include pining for Quinn. Falling in love with your best friend? Easy. Telling
them how you really feel? Impossible.
Quinn reached out
and tugged her away from the car before she could sit. “Dan who?”
“Dan Michaels. From
high school. Remember him?”
Quinn thought for a
moment. “Pretty boy. Played baseball with me junior year. When did you see
him?”
“Tonight. That’s
who I was with earlier. He’s looking at the Stanley’s place on the beach. The
house is like a damn showplace—like something out of a magazine!—and if I can
convince him to buy it, the commission will go a long way in giving me some
breathing space. Now with this car thing? I need it more than ever.”
“So you dressed up
for him in hopes of enticing him to buy?”
“What?” she cried
with disbelief. This time she shoved at his chest with both hands. “What is the
matter with you? What the hell have I ever done to you to make you be such a
complete ass to me?” They were both breathing hard as they glared at one
another.
Quinn cursed under
his breath and stormed back into the shop through the garage. Anna quickly
followed. It wasn’t an easy task in the dress and heels – which she cursed the
entire time. She found him in his office, throwing the rag down on the desk.
“Hey,” she snapped,
slamming the office door closed behind her. “I asked you a question. Quinn’s
blue eyes flashed with fire as he looked at her. Anna had seen that look
before, normally directed at other people. It was the first time she was on the
receiving end of it and she wasn’t sure if it scared her or just served to make
her madder.
“Oh, yeah? Well I
asked you one earlier and you didn’t answer. I guess we’re even.” Crossing his
arms over his chest, he waited her out – a smug expression on his face.
“Seriously? Are we
really going there? The whole I’m rubber, you’re glue thing? Aren’t we getting
too old for this crap?” And then the fight started to leave her. This wasn’t
getting her anywhere. The man clearly had an issue with her that he wasn’t
going to share and she was just tired of the whole thing. “You know what? Never
mind. Just…never mind,” she said wearily and turned to open the office door and
leave.
“Did you kiss him?”
he called after her and waited until she turned around and looked at him. “Did
you kiss him, too?”
Slowly Anna stepped
back into the office and looked at Quinn as if he’d lost his mind. “Are you
high or something? Kiss him? Kiss who? Could you please explain to me
what the heck you’re talking about?” She was completely confused by the turn in
the conversation. Did he think she’d kissed Jake? She hadn’t even been out on a
date in what felt like forever, so what was he even referring to?
He moved in close
and kept going until Anna’s back was against the wall. “Is that your new thing?
Just kissing guys to pass the time?” Quinn’s breathing was ragged as he looked
down into Anna’s wide eyes.
“I don’t know what
you’re talking about. I…I haven’t kissed anyone,” she said shakily as her
tongue came out to moisten her suddenly dry lips.
“You kissed me.”
Those brown eyes
got impossibly wider as she softly gasped. “No I didn’t.”
Wait…did I? Was
that not a dream the other night?
“Yeah, you did,” he
said lowly. “You fell asleep on the couch and then I carried you to bed and you
kissed me.”
She shook her head
no, unable to find her voice. But even as she tried to deny it, the image came
to her mind that she would have sworn had just been a dream. Not that she
was going to share that bit of information with Quinn.
He continued to
watch her, his eyes never leaving hers. “Yes. You. Did.”
“I…I don’t believe
you,” she stammered, wishing like hell she could just escape and die of
embarrassment.
“Let me remind
you,” he growled fiercely as he closed the distance between them so they were
pressed together from head to toe. His hand reached up and anchored itself
around her nape as his mouth crashed down on hers.
Book One:
Made For Us
Available
December 6, 2016 - Pre-Order Now!
Book 4: This Is Our Song
New York Times and USA
Today Bestseller/contemporary romance writer Samantha Chase released her
debut novel, Jordan's Return, in November 2011. Although she waited until
she was in her 40's to publish for the first time, writing has been a lifelong
passion. Her motivation to take that step was her students: teaching creative
writing to elementary age students all the way up through high school and
encouraging those students to follow their writing dreams gave Samantha the
confidence to take that step as well.
With twenty-three
titles currently to her name, she has no plans to slow down. The success of the Montgomery
Brothers series has her working on six new titles in that collection as
well as two new exciting series set to start popping up on bookshelves in 2015.
You won't find her books with the erotica or paranormal titles, all of her
works are pure contemporary romances.
When she's not
working on a new story, she spends her time reading contemporary romances,
blogging, playing way too many games of Scrabble on Facebook and spending time
with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina.
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