KISS MARRY KILL by Sidney Halston
E-Original published
by Swerve
Publication Date: March
28, 2017
ISBN: 9781250132420
Price: $3.99
Description
He's been chasing a memory .
. .
It was just supposed to be a regular Thursday afternoon…and then he saw her. Sitting in seat L214, one seat over from his at the baseball game, right next to her douche of a soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. An impromptu kiss for the kiss cam, and Jax knew his life would never be the same. Five years and a tour in Afghanistan later, Jax is back stateside running his own private security firm, Iron-Clad, with his best friend. He isn't the man he used to be... but Megan isn't the sexy and sweet, though sheltered, twenty-two-year-old he left behind, either. And she's in trouble.
...but now they're on the run.
Megan Cruz has made something of herself. She’s turned her dreams of pop stardom into a reality. But when a deadly stalker breaks into her home claiming to be her number-one fan, the only person she can turn to is the boy who got away. But Jax isn’t the same carefree charmer who stole her heart, then broke it when he joined the military. This man is seductive, hard, guarded. And he'll do anything to protect what's his.
It was just supposed to be a regular Thursday afternoon…and then he saw her. Sitting in seat L214, one seat over from his at the baseball game, right next to her douche of a soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. An impromptu kiss for the kiss cam, and Jax knew his life would never be the same. Five years and a tour in Afghanistan later, Jax is back stateside running his own private security firm, Iron-Clad, with his best friend. He isn't the man he used to be... but Megan isn't the sexy and sweet, though sheltered, twenty-two-year-old he left behind, either. And she's in trouble.
...but now they're on the run.
Megan Cruz has made something of herself. She’s turned her dreams of pop stardom into a reality. But when a deadly stalker breaks into her home claiming to be her number-one fan, the only person she can turn to is the boy who got away. But Jax isn’t the same carefree charmer who stole her heart, then broke it when he joined the military. This man is seductive, hard, guarded. And he'll do anything to protect what's his.
Author Bio
USA
Today bestselling author Sidney
Halston lives her life by one simple rule: "Just Do It" - Nike. And
that's exactly what she did. After working hard as an attorney, Sidney picked
up a pen for the first time at thirty years old to begin her dream of writing.
Having never written anything other than very exciting legal briefs, she found
an outlet for her imaginative, romantic side and wrote Seeing Red. That first pen stroke sealed the deal, and
she fell in love with writing. Sidney lives in South Florida with her husband
and children. She loves her family above all else, and reading follows a close
second. When she's not writing, you can find her reading and reading and
reading. She's a reader first and a writer second. When she's not writing or
reading, her life is complete and utter chaos, trying to balance family life
with work and writing (and reading). But she wouldn't have it any other way.
Author Links
Website: www.sidneyhalston.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Sidneyhalston
Twitter: twitter.com/SidneyHalston
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Kiss Marry Kill
Excerpt: When Megan and Jax first meet
“Oh my god! Look!” She pulled on
Richard’s arm and pointed up to the screen. “We’re on the jumbotron! You have
to kiss me. It’s the kiss cam, Richard!”
She leaned over
but he swatted her away and the crowd booed.
“Richard!” she
yelled again, again pointing to the screen, hating herself for having to beg.
When he continued
to ignore her, she hunched over and looked around, embarrassed. Once the camera
was off them she leaned closer and asked, “Why did you bother coming if you
weren’t even going to watch?” Normally, she was quiet and reserved and
internalized her emotions because Cruzes didn’t show emotions. But right now
she wasn’t sad. She was pissed.
“I did it for you
because you kept saying you wanted to come. I hate baseball. You know that.”
“Actually I did
not know that.” What else didn’t she know about him? He didn’t know she hated
beer and she didn’t know he hated baseball. A day at the ballpark seemed silly
now, what they needed was freakin’ counseling!
Her parents had
been putting pressure on them to marry and Richard seemed completely on board
with the plan, although he hadn’t proposed. These days, they barely saw each
other. She was sick of it. She understood he had goals, but she wanted to be important
in his life. How delusional had she been in thinking maybe they could have fun
today, re-spark their relationship before their lives started to get even more
hectic. But instead of connected, she felt even more distant.
How many times had
she watched some boring political documentary because he wanted to watch it?
She’d done it for him without a peep, and the man couldn’t be bothered to at
least pretend he “wanted to be here.
She sat with her
arms crossed over her chest, the game effectively ruined by his sour mood. The
bobbing leg of the guy on her left was getting annoying, too. Even though he
smelled wonderful—some sort of manly cologne she’d never smelled before. A
scent very different from Richard’s exorbitantly priced Dior Sauvage that he liked
to douse himself with whenever he left his house. Lately she had been feeling
things change between them. It was an overwhelming sense of loneliness that she
couldn’t shake off. She felt silly and guilty for feeling this way with a
boyfriend at her side, so she’d shut the emotion off, ignoring it and trying to
make the best of things. But even sitting there with him, it was as if she was
alone.
When everyone
began to cheer, she forced herself to look up at the jumbotron again. “Richard!
Look!” She pointed up, wiping the scowl off her face, suddenly desperate to
prove to herself and the world that there was some spark in their relationship,
some romance. “It’s the kiss cam again. Come on, please, it’ll take two
seconds.”
Again he brushed
her off, and she fought back tears.
What an asshole!
People were
whispering and pointing all around the stadium. She groaned to herself, Oh,
God, my humiliation is being televised for the entire nation to witness.
She slid lower in
her chair and tilted the bill of her cap down. It was a harsh reality to face
in front of thousands of people, but one that struck her hard and fast like a
bucket of cold water.
This was the end.
Richard was not
only a selfish bastard, he was a selfish bastard who didn’t want her. But the
real sobering surprise was that she didn’t even care because she didn’t want
him either.
For the second time, the asshole
rejected her.
Again they were on
display and again her obtuse guy refused to kiss her. She’d elbowed him, but he
was too busy typing into his phone to pay her any mind. She looked downright
crestfallen and embarrassed in front of a maxed-out stadium, slouched down
hiding her eyes with her baseball cap.
Jax didn’t know
what came over him in the moment but something definitely did. It was probably
his fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants character or maybe the fact that she didn’t
deserve to be humiliated. No girl did. Especially not this girl.
He tapped her on
the shoulder.
She turned, her
eyes full of unshed tears.
From his
peripheral vision he could see she was still spotlighted on the jumbotron.
He was moments
away from doing something bold and inappropriate. And those big sad brown eyes,
glossy downturned lips, and pink cheeks fueled him.
Without hesitation
he cupped her face and moved in for a kiss.
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