Tempt
Me Too
By Stacy Eaton
Genre: Contemporary Romance with a touch of Suspense
Content Warning: Discussions about drug and alcohol abuse- 18+
Sara Hawthorne
is a dedicated attorney, a loyal wife, and the mother of two nineteen-year-old
girls. When her husband succumbs to cancer, Sara has to battle the grief and
also the addiction to which one of her daughters falls prey.
Maximus Tempest
is business driven—and family starved. Eager to get his estranged wife to sign
the divorce papers so he can move on with his life, he is frustrated when she
is taken to the hospital after overdosing and wants no part of her treatment.
When Sara and
Max see each other after twenty years, old feelings spring to life, but with
the whirlwind of problems that surround them, how could it possibly work?
Secrets are revealed from the grave that could threaten any future they might
have, and it will be up to Sara and Max to see if they can overcome the lies—or
if they must bury their dreams of a relationship forever.
“Dance with me,
Sara.” I threaded my fingers through hers and pulled her onto the empty dance
floor.
A few moments
after we began to dance, two more couples joined us, but I only had eyes for
Sara as I moved her slowly around the room, fighting every second not to pull
her body fully against mine.
“I can’t believe
after all this time, we meet again,” I murmured.
“It seems like a
dream, doesn’t it?” she said lightly, and a whisper of her breath fanned over
my ear.
“A dream that
has been reoccurring for way too many years.” I glanced away for a second
before I said something I shouldn’t. “I’m so sorry about your husband, Sara.”
Her smile was
sad, but her eyes remained bright. “Thank you.” She glanced around the room,
“He did an amazing job here. If I hadn’t known who did the design, I would have
been able to guess.”
I scanned around
us. “Why is that? Do all his designs look like this?”
She chuckled
delicately, “No, but the design and the colors are so similar to our house. It
was like he built this to reflect our home.”
I pursed my lips
and examined the space again. “Really? That’s interesting that he would do
that.”
She shrugged her
small shoulders, “Maybe he felt they would give the business the feel of family
and security.”
“That’s kind of
what I felt when I first saw it. He was a very talented man.”
She dropped her
chin, “Yes, he was.” She stiffened in my arms for a moment before her head
popped back up. “Max, I need to ask you a question.”
“Sure,
anything,” I replied, interested to know what would make her tense and become
so serious so quickly.
“Are you
married?” she blurted.
I choked out a
brief laugh. “Well, legally, yes, but we have been separated for almost a year,
living apart, and she’s been refusing to sign the divorce papers.” She chewed
on her bottom lip as I answered. “Is that a problem?”
“What? No, I
just didn’t want,” she paused and looked around the room as if searching for
something, “I don’t know. I guess I just needed to know if you were single.”
“Because,” I
tipped her chin up with two fingers under the soft skin, “you want me to be
single?”
Her eyes went to
my lips for a moment, and I knew she wanted to kiss me as much as I wanted to
kiss her, but this was not the place.
Before she could
answer, her daughter ran up to her and pulled her arm. “Mom, Alexis has been in
an accident! She’s at the hospital.”
Stacy Eaton began
her writing career in October of 2010 and as each year goes by, she releases
more and more novels. Stacy recently took an early retirement from law
enforcement after over fifteen years of service, with her last three in
investigations and crime scene investigation. Stacy resides in southeastern
Pennsylvania with her husband, who works in law enforcement, and her teen
daughter who is working toward her second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and
on the choral and cheerleading squads at school. She also has a son who is
currently serving in the United States Navy. Stacy is very involved in Domestic
Violence Awareness and served on the Board of Directors for her local Domestic
Violence Center for three years. She continues to volunteer with them when she
has time.
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