Title: Fighting Temptation
Series: Men of Honor,
#1
Author: K.C. Lynn
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 18,
2014
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*Synopsis*
Jaxson is arrogant, angry and aggressive. Yet he’s also beautiful, strong
and honorable. I unconditionally and irrevocably love every damaged part of him.
And for the boy, who didn’t believe in love, he would always and forever have mine.
-Julia Sinclair
Julia was different from anyone I’d ever met. I never thought someone so
good and genuine existed until her. The more I saw of her the more I became
addicted to her. Every time I was around her she would destroy some of the
darkness that lurked inside of me. She made the bad shit in my life seem not so
terrible. Then, before I knew it, I had fallen for a girl from another world. -Jaxson
Reid
* * *
Julia Sinclair is your typical innocent good girl with a heart of gold. At
sixteen she moved to Sunset Bay, South Carolina, to live with her Grams after losing
her mother to cancer. This is where she met some of the best friends she will ever
have and one in particular who will forever hold her
heart.
Jaxson Reid is your typical tattooed bad boy. His past and soul is as dark
as the tattoos he bares. He flies through life and girls with no attachments and no
emotions... until he met her.
One fateful night brought Julia and Jaxson together. They formed a
friendship and a bond so strong it was unbreakable. Jaxson fought the temptation of
anything more with Julia because he knew he would never be good enough for her.
When he found his control slipping he left the one girl, who meant everything to
him, to join the Navy.
But one passion-filled night has Jaxson letting go of fighting temptation
which will forever alter their relationship.
A few years later Jaxson comes home to make things right with the one
girl who’s ever meant anything to him. Except someone isn’t happy that Jaxson has
returned. Someone who thinks Julia is theirs and they will stop at nothing to make
sure it stays that way... forever.
Now Jaxson will not only fight to protect Julia but will also battle the new
and existing demons that haunt his soul.
This is a New Adult Romance and is told from both character’s pov. Due
to strong sexual content, coarse language and mature subject matter this book is
not suitable for anyone under the age of 18.
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EXCERPT #2
JULIA DISCOVERS JAXSON’S TATTOO
EXCERPT #2
JULIA DISCOVERS JAXSON’S TATTOO
JULIA
I hear the shower turn on in the hall bathroom telling me
Jaxson is awake. I decide
to get up and have one myself, I try to be quick so I can
make him breakfast when
he’s done. I’m thankful my ribs are doing better and I don’t
need to wrap them
anymore. I change into a pair of faded jean shorts and a
soft pink tank. It’s
supposed to be a scorcher the next few days. After I’m done
my hair I hear Jaxson
moving around in his room next door.
I walk out and see his door slightly a jar. I peek my head
in, “Hey what do you
want...” my words die in my throat and I suck in a sharp
painful breath at the sight
before me. Jaxson is faced away from me, shirtless, a huge
tattoo covers half of his
defined back. It’s the most beautiful angel I have ever
seen. Her detailing so
distinctive you would swear she was real. There’s a darkness
that swirls around her
but it does nothing to take away from her beauty. The whole
tattoo is dark, mostly
black and shaded, except for the angel’s eyes. Her eyes are
a bright aquamarine...the same color as mine. Although the tattoo is
massive and beautiful it does nothing to cover the horrendous scars that mark his
skin. It looks like someone whipped him or cut him... I don’t know which and I’m
not sure I want to.
My eyes roam up his back and collides with his hard gaze. My
cheeks are wet from tears and my heart pounds painfully with hurt. I can tell
he’s trying to gauge my reaction. I try to talk, to say something, but I can’t seem
to say anything, my words frozen in my throat.
I clear my throat, “I’m sorry, I... I didn’t realize you
were changing.” I close the door
and quickly make my way downstairs into the kitchen.
Leaning over the sink I put a shaking hand to my stomach
feeling like I’m going to be sick, “Oh god, oh god,” I choke out quietly, trying to
hold in my sobs. How could someone do that to him? To anyone? What does the
tattoo mean?
I snap out of my thoughts when I hear Jaxson come into the
kitchen behind me. I
quickly wipe away my tears and try to hide the fact they
were just there and start
busying myself around the kitchen.
I clear my throat, “What do you want for breakfast? I can
make eggs, pancakes...”
“Julia,” Jaxson tries interrupting me but I keep moving and
talk over him.
“I don’t have any bacon but I can make french toast or if
you like we can go into
town and eat at the diner.”
“Julia stop!” he reaches out and pulls me against him.
I don’t hide my tears anymore. I reach up on my tip-toes and
wrap my arms tightly
around his neck, “Oh my god, what did they do to you?”
He lifts me up and I wrap my legs around his waist. He walks
over and sets me on
the counter but stays between my legs as I hold him tight.
“Don’t cry for me Jules,” he whispers gruffly rubbing my
back.
“I hate that someone hurt you,” I squeeze him tighter,
wanting to take away his
pain.
“We made it out, it’s over.” When he says ‘we’ it makes me
remember he wasn’t the only one hurt. I lean back and look at him, “Were Sawyer and
Cade the other ones with you?”
He nods his head. I close my eyes and cry harder, “Are they
okay?”
Jaxson leans his forehead against mine. “Ya baby they’re
okay. We all are. We’re a little fucked up maybe, but what else is new?” He grins and
I know he’s trying to
make me laugh but there’s nothing funny about it.
“Don’t make jokes.”
His expression turns serious, “Do you understand now Julia?
Do you get why I sent
you away. I see you hurt like this and it fucking kills me.
Trust me when I say what
you would have seen in that hospital was 100 times worse
than what you just saw.”
I think about this for a moment, then nod, “Yes I
understand, but it doesn’t change
the fact that I wanted to be there for you. Yes it would
have hurt me to see you like
that but I wanted to help you, I wanted to make it better
for you.”
“After seeing the tattoo don’t you understand that you did?
The angel is you Julia,
you were always there with me in the darkness. Every time
those fuckers came in to torture us I went into my mind and I thought about you.” My
breath seizes in my lungs at his words. “I would think about your smile and your
beautiful eyes. Then I would think about the night I was buried into your warm body
and I would
completely lose myself in you. It made everything I went
through bearable, it made me fight to get the fuck out of there.”
His beautiful words are my undoing. I grab his shirt and
crush my mouth to his. It
takes him no time to come out of his stunned state and kiss
me back. The kiss is
raw and powerful as we assault each other with our mouths. I
gasp for air when he
moves his mouth from mine and trails his lips along my neck.
Pushing me to my
back on the counter he leans over me while still standing
between my legs. He pulls the top of my tank top and bra down together freeing my
breasts. He groans and latches on to my nipple with his hot mouth. Arching, I moan
and thread my fingers in his still damp hair. My body burns hot with need; I rock
my hips and whimper when I come into contact with his hard stomach. I keep
rocking frantically into him, needing any pressure to help relieve the throbbing that is
happening between my legs. Jaxson reaches between our bodies and snaps open my
button and quickly shoves his hand in my panties.
“Ah fuck!” he curses harshly, rubbing my wetness up and down
me, making me
whimper.
Once he lubes his fingers with my arousal he roughly slams
two fingers inside me.
“Ahh yes!” I grab onto his biceps, my fingers getting lost
in the grooves of his
muscles. My moans and whimpers are so loud from the
sensations taking over my
body that I don’t hear the knock on the door, not until
Jaxson tenses.
I still and listen again, praying it’s not... yup it’s my
door.
“Are you fucking serious?” Jaxson asks exasperated.
All I can do is whimper and it’s not a pleasure-filled
whimper either, it’s torturefilled.
Tears leak from my eyes because I’m throbbing painfully with
so much need.
I gasp in shock when Jaxson starts thrusting his fingers
inside of me again. I look
into his ice blue gaze that burns hot with lust. “I won’t
leave you baby but you only
have a few seconds here, so try not to be too loud.” He has
a wicked grin on his
face, and it’s so sexy that I grab his head and crush his
lips to mine again. I rock my hips into the rhythm of his fingers and my breathing speeds
up with anticipation of my climax. Jaxson lifts his mouth, “That’s it baby, let go.”
He presses down on my clit while he thrusts his fingers roughly inside me. That
was it. I come apart... a total shaking mess. Jaxson crashes his mouth to mine again,
inhaling my moans. After I’m limp and sated I notice the knocking has stopped.
All of a sudden I feel a vibrating between my legs, “Eek!” I yelp, startled.
Jaxson chuckles, “It’s just my phone.”
He pulls his hand out from my shorts and I gasp when he
takes the 2 fingers that
were inside of me and sticks them in his mouth, sucking my
wetness off of them.
He groans, his face savage, “Go to the bathroom and get
decent; it’s Cooper.” With
that he turns and walks away to answer the door.
*About K.C.*
K.C.
Lynn lives in a small town in Western Canada. She’s married and is a stay at home
mom of four: two girls and a set of twin boys. She coaches the local high school
cheerleading team and also has her own rhinestone clothing business. Her love of
romance books brought her to writing her first debut novel and she looks forward to
writing many more. When she’s not writing, or spending time with her family, she’s
reading and loves going to the movies.
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