Sometimes outward appearances do not always
represent reality…
That’s what twenty-year old Tori discovers when
she moves in with her best friend Liv for the summer. Liv’s older brother Brady
is everything Tori knows is wrong for her, yet he invokes feelings deep in her
soul that she’s never felt with anyone else. When the two eventually succumb to
their irrefutable feelings, Tori realizes Brady’s not the same confident guy
she’s secretly loved for years. Tori desperately wants Brady to confide in her,
but he refuses to talk about the secrets that have drastically changed his
life.
Turning to the one person that always makes her
laugh, she begins spending time with Liv and Brady’s younger brother Tug. While
the two spend more and more time together, Tori wonders if her feelings for Tug
run deeper than the “just buddies” status they’ve always shared. As she begins
to explore her feelings, the conflict between brothers she’d hoped to avoid
erupts. She knows she has to choose.
When Brady finally reveals his secrets, Tori
makes her decision; one that may leave them all Irreparably Broken.
Eyes dark, he
looks right at me. It’s unnerving, but I refuse to look away. “Tori, I don’t
want you to see him again.” His voice is rigid and sends shards of anger
through me.
I bite back
hurtful words. I like our newfound friendship, but he’s pushing it. “Brady, I’m
going to pretend I didn’t hear you say that.”
“He’s
dangerous!”
“Funny.” I half
laugh. “That’s what he says about you.”
His chair
squeaks when he slides it out from under the table and stands up. He comes over
to stand close beside me. I can already sense the heightened charge in the air
with his nearness. “What did he tell you?” His tone is bitter.
“Nothing
specific. You want to tell me what’s going on between the two of you?”
He pushes off
the counter and pinches the bridge of his nose again. “I can’t.”
“Why not?” I
ask, urging him to explain.
“I just can’t,”
he answers, and his body is suddenly close to me, caging me in. His hands are
on each side of me, gripping the counter, and I have no choice but to look into
the depths of his green eyes. His hard warm body brushes against my breast and
I let out a small whimper. “He’s wrong for you, and I don’t want him touching
you,” he says brutally, his words hitting my gut like a brick.
K J Bell grew up in
California and has spent the last eight years living in Massachusetts with her
husband and three children. After years of working in
the corporate world, she took on her most rewarding job as a full time mom.
People often ask, what made
her decide to write? And the answer is…she didn’t. Writing found her. She was
inspired to write when her daughter innocently waved at people in an empty
cemetery, but didn’t know where to begin. After years of debating, she finally
put fingers to keys bringing her first novel, a paranormal romance titled The
Locket, to life.
Irreparably Broken is her
first new adult novel.
Writing is a passion she
simply can’t live without and looks forward to publishing many books in the
near future; including the second book to The Locket Story, Shadowed, and
another new adult novel, Cut too Deep.
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