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He turned his head while I withdrew my hand, so his lips grazed the inside of my wrist. For a fraction of a second I stopped breathing.
“What are you doing here?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.
“Eating pho with a friend.” Suddenly the space between the doors felt much too small, and I was sure at any moment the glass was going to start fogging up. The look he was giving me was decidedly not friendly.
“What are you really doing here?”
His smile was gone now, replaced by something moodier, more uncertain. The heat of his stare still simmered below the surface, but this wasn’t clear-cut lust. I didn’t know what this was.
“I keep having this dream, Tallulah. At first I thought it was just a nice dream. I thought it was because I missed you. But see, I’ve had this same dream almost every night for a month now, and I’m starting to think maybe…maybe it’s not just a dream.”
“W-what’s the dream?”
He took my hand in his, lifting my fingers to his lips, where he gently but oh-so-intentionally bit the pad of my thumb. “It starts with you and me in a hotel room.”
“That sounds like a good dream.” I swallowed hard.
“And it ends with you saying something I don’t think I was supposed to hear.”
My throat was dry, and I pulled my hand away from him, fumbling with the keys in my pocket, hoping I could get my door unlocked before my hands started shaking too hard.
I opened the door into the lobby and held it ajar for him.
Imelda said I couldn’t talk about it, and that was fine. I couldn’t change what hadn’t happened.
That didn’t mean we couldn’t make new memories, though.
“You should probably come upstairs.”
Thanks for reading Driving Rain! I hope you enjoyed Tallulah’s ongoing adventures. Look for Tallulah, Cade, and Leo to return again in book three, Highway to Hail in early 2018.
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· Can’t wait to start another Sierra Dean book? Keep reading for a sample chapter of Bayou Blues, and get caught up on Genie’s story before Black-Hearted Devil releases this summer.
Bayou Blues – Genie McQueen Book 1
When your sister has saved the world, you have a lot to live up to.
Genie McQueen thought she’d seen it all after helping her big sister Secret stop the Apocalypse. The dead walked, New York City burned, and things nearly went to hell in a hand basket. After it was all over, the world knew about vampires and werewolves, and Genie’s life would never be the same.
But now, three years later, someone doesn’t want werewolves or any supernatural creatures to live alongside humans. A new anti-werewolf church with a charismatic leader and a cult-like following has declared open season on Genie’s whole species. When a member of her pack is kidnapped, she decides it’s time to stop going with the flow and to step up and fight for her people.
Tagging along for the ride is a handsome troublemaker, Wilder Shaw, a pack outsider who just wants to save his brother, but will leave Genie’s head spinning in the process.
Equally troubling are the ghosts of her past she can’t quite shake, the nightmarish figures who haunt her even when she’s wide awake, and a dark magic inside her she hasn’t yet learned to tame.
Things are about to get messy in the bayou.
Chapter One
Hunt.
Hard earth sped by beneath my feet, but I barely felt it. The exhilaration of running made it seem as if I were flying, and there was nothing under me but wind and joy. The night air was alive with scents, and while the scenery blurred past me too fast to see, I was picking up the story of my environment with every inhale.
