Title:
Everything I Need (Nashville Nights, #3)
Author:
Stacey Mosteller
Release
Date: September 4, 2014
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~Synopsis~
SarahBeth
Pearson has made mistakes, and I might just be the biggest one of them all.
After spending months keeping secrets and lying to everyone close to us, it’s
all fallen apart and we are each left alone to pick up the pieces.
I’ve
loved SarahBeth in one form or another her entire life. The steps that brought us
closer together weren’t easy for me to take. After
letting her dictate our relationship, I’ve found myself
practically homeless and estranged from my closest friends.
Now
I’m
left trying to move on, finding a new place to live and getting everything I need
in order, while she’s trying to mend her broken
heart. There’s
just one problem…SarahBeth’s still keeping
secrets - and her secret just might change everything.
~Excerpt~
It feels like I'm at confession, getting ready to lay out
all my sins and ask what I need to do for penance, "You know my
relationship with most of my family is shit."
"Yes," she says softly, confusion evident in her
voice.
"Luckily, you haven't had much interaction with my
mother, but she's always getting into and out of trouble. Usually it's
something to do with drugs or alcohol, she's been arrested for prostitution
because she had to pay her dealer or she begs people for money because she owes
somebody. She gets mixed up with people she shouldn’t be associated
with at all. This time, the guy demanded names of people she was close to, she
gave him my name of course. Constance and Henry will never give her money, and my grandmother doesn't have much to give. Being
in my life put you in danger, and I couldn’t allow that.
Unfortunately, my fuck up of a mother gave them your name in an attempt to manipulate
me, so they're already aware of you. It also means there’s no reason for me to stay away from you, because they already know who you
are.”
I've kept my gaze locked on her face throughout the entire
explanation, watching her face grow more pale, knowing this is what I wanted to
prevent. The last thing I want is for her to be scared or upset, but being a
part of my life makes her ammunition for my mother.
"Did you not think I could handle it?" her voice
is resigned, but I can hear the anger just below the surface. "That I'd
want to be there for you...with you? We were great together, Jeremy...together
we could have handled anything."
Not wanting to explain my actions yet again, actions that
were meant to keep her safe, I say, "I just wanted to protect you..."
Before I can explain any further, she finally turns to face me, her eyes
sparking angrily as she glares at me, her temper snapping.
"Are you seriously telling me that you stayed away
from me just because your mom is a crappy person? You've made my life a living
hell for six weeks because you wanted to protect me?" She stands, almost
vibrating with fury and hurt.
As soon as she stops talking, I cut in, "Yes! It's my
job to protect you." Doesn't she get that? All of this was to protect her,
from my damn mother's bullshit touching her innocence.
"How do you know I couldn't handle it? I'd do anything
for you Jeremy!"
I stand now, struggling to explain further, because this is
the last reaction I expected from her, but she cuts me off, her voice thick with
tears. "Did it ever occur to you that I wouldn't care? That I would want
to be with you regardless? Do you really not realize how much I loved
you?"
The fact that she uses the past tense doesn't escape my
notice, and my heart clenches painfully at the thought that I've done too much
damage for us to come back from this. Before I can think about possible
repercussions, I walk over to stand in front of her, my own hand shaking
as I cup her cheek and ask, "Baby, what kind of man would I be if I didn't
want to protect you? Hurting you hurts me." Bending so I can look straight
into her eyes, I say, my voice rough with emotion, "You're the most
important thing in my world, Little Bit. The only reason I shut you out is
because I love you so fucking much. If something happened to you because of my
family, if being with me caused you to be hurt, I wouldn't be able to live with
myself. Knowing it was better for you that I stay away was the only thing
keeping me from you."
SarahBeth closes her eyes, shutting me out now, not
allowing me to see what she's feeling. "Dammit! Do you honestly think I'd
push you away if I didn't have a good fucking reason?" My voice rises with
my frustration.
Her eyes fly open, pinning me with her angry stare. Jerking
away from me, she spins around, and tries to get herself under control in a way
that's all too familiar. I can't help but smile as she faces away from me, her hands
balled into fists at her side, she’s breathing heavily as she attempts to calm herself down.
Finally, she turns back to me, but takes a step back, keeping her distance. She
thinks that putting space between us will keep me away from her, but she's
wrong. I've lived six weeks without her; I'm not going a minute longer.
"God, you make me so mad," she seethes, looking
at me in a way that makes me worry over sensitive body parts and what she might
do to them in retaliation. "I can't believe you would do that, that you
would just cut me off and take yourself out of my life without even telling me
what was going on. I just..." her voice breaks and I watch as she deflates
in front of me, no longer the angry little madam, but a sad young girl instead.
"If you only knew..."
Unable to take it anymore, the distance, the emotions, the
whole damn situation, I take the three steps necessary to take her in my arms,
refusing to let her go, even when she struggles. That might make me the worst
kind of man, but she only pushes against me for a second before relaxing,
clutching my shirt in her fists and burying her head in my chest.
~Nashville Nights series~
Everything
I Need (Nashville Nights, #3)
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~Author Bio~
She
is also a wife, mother, writer and self-professed bookwhore - not necessarily
in that order! As the mother of three growing boys, her Kindle has become her
temporary escape from the insanity of boys, dogs and her husband. Stacey can
usually be found curled up with her iPad when she's supposed to be writing or
creating endless playlists on Spotify.
~Author Social Media Links~
Website:
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Email: authorsmosteller@gmail.com
~Giveaway~
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