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Worth the Fight #4
Sidney Halston
Released August 18th, 2015
Loveswept
Perfect
for fans of Monica Murphy and Cecy Robson, Sidney Halston’s scorching new MMA
romance proves there are no holds barred when it comes to seduction.
Growing
up an Army brat, Violet Channing could never meet her dad’s high expectations.
But in the eyes of her best friend, she could do no wrong. He even insisted
that he should be her first kiss. Now Cain Sorensen is all grown up, hardened
by years in special ops and always looking for a good fight. Tall, with
striking blue eyes and impossibly blond hair, he’s a modern-day Viking warrior.
Of course, Violet’s all grown up, too, and she’s ready to surrender to his
every command.
Cain
knows he’s bad for Violet. His work is dangerous, and his hobbies are downright
deadly. As a private mercenary and a mixed martial arts fighter, he could never
let such an innocent soul into his world. And yet his most grueling combat
training is no match for Violet’s killer curves, hot touch, and suggestive
glances. Now all of Cain’s most explosive fantasies are coming true—but once
they cross the line between friends and lovers, there’s no turning back.
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Violet
put her hands up in surrender. “Tom really did chew strange!” She stopped and
pinched the bridge of her nose. “Or was it Tim? Whatever. The point is that the
way a guy chews is a legitimate flaw. I can’t marry a man who talks and chews
at the same time, spitting little chunks of steak in my face. Ew! What if one
of those little pieces lands in my eye? I could go blind.”
“The
thought you’ve put into that exaggeration is really impressive, if not
disturbing.” Her friend threw the scarf back at Violet. “Come on. Finish
getting dressed already.”
Minutes
later, Violet was sitting cross-legged in the middle of her bed applying makeup
when JL walked in again, fully dressed to bartend at the Pier. “I was thinking
. . .”
“Oh,
no. Are you okay?”
JL
playfully smacked Violet’s shoulder before sitting down on her bed and fussing
with Violet’s hair. “Maybe the issue is Cain. Have you heard from him?” That
was not something Violet wanted to talk about, and her friend knew it, which
was why she’d brought it up. “What the hell is going on with you and Cain? And
before you say nothing, remember we’ve been friends for a long time. I know
you. We live together.
That man has you in knots, and since he left four months
ago, you’ve been a Debbie Downer. It’s depressing. You’re
depressing.”
“One
hundred and ten days. Not that I’m counting. I have absolutely no idea where
he’s at. He just vanished. But even when he was here, there was never anything
going on with us. You saw how he treated me when he bothered to speak to me. I
don’t know what I did to make him hate me. We were best friends, and then we
weren’t. Plain and simple. My issues have got nothin’ to do with him.”
“He
doesn’t say a word to anyone. I’ve been living in Tarpon Springs for years now,
and since he moved here I think I’ve heard him say ten words. So the talking
thing, it’s a nonissue. It’s got nothin’ to do with you. The jerk thing—yeah,
all you, babe. Not sure what’s up with that. He’s not exactly Mr. Friendly, but
he’s not flat-out rude to anyone except you.”
“Except
me,” she agreed.
“Why’s
that?”
“No
clue.” Violet lay back, sucked in her gut, and closed the top button of her
jeans. “He’s so surly nowadays,” she said breathlessly. “When we were growing
up he was always the quiet and introspective one, but he wasn’t the Cain I’ve
met here in town. This Cain’s a—”
“A
dick,” JL interrupted.
“Dick!
Dick!” Bird cawed.
JL
barked out a loud laugh. “I love that bird.”
Violet
rolled her eyes and ignored the parrot. “Yep. He’s not very friendly. Cain, not
Bird. Actually, both. Or neither.”
Violet shook her head. “Ugh! What I mean to
say is both Cain and Bird are not friendly.” Violet let out her breath and put
her arms out to JL, who grabbed them and pulled her up.
“But I’m so freakin’
worried about him. Mad or not, I hope he’s okay.” Violet stretched her legs and
walked over to the mirror behind her door to look at herself. Normal to large
boobs, average waist, biggish butt, and short legs. She was on the voluptuous
side of the spectrum. But she liked the way she looked, and so long as she was
healthy, she never dieted and never looked at the scale. It had taken her a lot
of years of self-loathing, but now, at twenty-eight, she loved her curvy body
and wore it proudly—her father’s opinion, God rest his soul, be damned.
She
turned halfway, looked at her backside, and smiled to herself. She had long ago
come to terms with the fact that she would never be the same size as JL—but
neither were most women. The mean girls in high school who had tormented her
and mooed at her when she walked down the hall were now cordially invited to
kiss her big behind, because she was happy with her tush just as it was and she
seriously enjoyed her cookie dough ice cream addiction.
“Looking
good, sister,” JL said. “I swear I’m going to burn your scrubs.”
“You
think John will like it?”
JL
walked up to Violet and playfully eyed her cleavage.
“Only if he’s a guy.”
Violet swatted her away and adjusted her top so that she wasn’t spilling out of
it. “Come on. You’re going to be late for your date, and I’m going to be late
for work.”
Violet
took a deep breath, grabbed her purse, and followed JL out of the house. A
glass of wine would loosen her up.
That’s what she needed in order to get rid
of the butterflies in her stomach. She wasn’t so good with dates, and blind
dates were the worst.
Sidney Halston lives her life by one
simple rule: “Just do it.” And that’s exactly what she did. At the age of
thirty, having never written anything other than a legal brief, she picked up a
pen for the first time to pursue her dream of becoming an author. That first
stroke sealed the deal, and she fell in love with writing. Halston lives in
South Florida with her husband and children.
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