Read an excerpt from Just One Love by Jami Wagner
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My entire life is a lie.
He launched my salty reputation.
Yet, here I am, doing him another favor so he can get what he wants—maybe then I can dislodge him from my heart.
There’s an emptiness in my life.
Yet I have everything I need, or at least, I thought I did.
It was supposed to be a simple deal between friends. Friends? Yeah, right. I should have known we’re too volatile for that.
Excerpt
Tyler
“Holy shit, Maron. I’m starting to realize why you never told anyone about your fiancée,” Rob says from his seat across an unlit fire pit next to the volleyball nets.
I twist in my chair to see exactly what he’s talking about.
Holy hell.
Abby is heading our way with a giant grin. She’s wearing a pair of high-waisted shorts that make her legs look extra long with a soft green crop top under a blue and white jacket thing, that I honestly don’t know what its purpose is as it slips off her shoulders. Her hair is pulled back into a side braid, and she looks fucking stunning.
I can’t take my eyes of off her. Off her smile. Off the way her attention is solely on me.
By the time I pick my jaw up off the sand, I notice that I’m not the only guy staring at her. Fuck. If this is the response she gets by just wearing this outfit, I don’t even want to know how they react when they see her in a bikini.
Actually, I won’t know, because I’m pretty sure right now, right this moment, any water activities are off the schedule for me and Abby.
“Hey,” she says, grinning up at me when I meet her halfway. “What’s with the look?” she points to my face and then looks behind her.
“Nothing,” I say, and I hope to god I manage to put some other expression on my face. Anything that isn’t hinting how caveman I’m about to go.
I clear my throat. “Why’d you change?”
“Because it’s hot out and I want to be comfortable.”
“Well … you forgot the other half of your shorts” is the most genius thing I can come up with.
Abby laughs and then leans into me. Cucumber is all I can smell.
“Does my outfit bother you?’
“No,” I answer quickly. Probably too quickly. I look past her to find something else to focus on. Yes. Good. The kid wiping down the paddleboard. Great.
Abby lifts to her tiptoes, and her breath brushes across my neck as she whispers, “I think it does.”
I shake my head.
Her laughter goes straight to my groin.
“I wonder what else I can do to get you all worked up,” she says right before she heads toward the others with small skips. She grins over her shoulder, and thank god she’s far enough away that she doesn’t hear me growl.
I’m trying to maintain some self-control, but she’s making it hard. Both mentally and physically.
“Tyler, are you in on this game?” Sandy asks.
“Eh, I might sit this one out,” I say. I need to pull myself together.
“Of course he will,” Abby says. “He hates losing.” Her flirtatious tone releases a small chuckle.
“I wouldn’t lose,” I say.
She fails at not smiling as she shrugs. “I guess we’ll never know.”
“I wouldn’t.”
“If you say so.”
“Abby,” I warn.
“Tyler,” she says softly, and that does it.
“I’m in.” I hop out of my seat. “You’re going down.”
“We’ll see,” she says.
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About the Author
JAMI WAGNER was born in Wyoming. Still living in the Cowboy State, Jami and her husband are currently writing their own love story with their yellow Lab.
Jami enjoys writing Romance and published her debut novella, Date in the Dark, in 2015. Her first full-length novel, Just One Kiss, was published in October 2015 and is the first book in her Black Alcove series. The remainder in the series, Just One Night, Just One Touch, Just One Moment, and Just One Spark are available now.
Visit and connect with Jami at www.jami-wagner.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorJamiWagner, on Twitter at @Jami_Wagner, or on Instagram at @JAMIWAGNER_.
