so distracted with thoughts of you. It’s like you consume me no matter where you are.” He paused, seeming to contemplate something for a moment, and then a boyish grin spread across his lips. He then fumbled nervously in the pocket of the black leather jacket that was thrown over his arm. His hand stilled and he looked up at me with a look I’d never seen from him before. For a minute he just stared at me, like he was at a loss for words. It was so unlike him that I swallowed nervously. I tilted my head to the side, looking at him encouragingly, curious about what he wanted to say. Finally, leaving his hand in the pocket of his jacket, he took a deep breath and looked straight into my eyes.
“Presley, I had this all planned out, but I just can’t wait any longer. I’m sorry if this isn’t the most romantic way to do this, but really, Presley, you make me lose my mind when I’m around you.”
I looked at him in confusion, totally lost about where he was going with this conversation.
And then he did something that literally swept my breath away —he knelt down on one knee and pulled his hand out of his jacket pocket, bringing a black velvet box out with it. My eyes felt like they were popping out of my head in shock. It couldn’t be...
And then he opened the box and my hand flew up to cover my mouth. Standing ceremoniously inside was an enormous, twinkling diamond on a rose-gold band. Quite frankly, it could have been a teeny-tiny diamond and just the fact that it was a diamond at all , would have gotten the same effect from me. He took the ring from the box, never breaking eye contact. “Presley Sutton, I won’t be happy until you’re mine and mine alone. I love you and I’ve known it from the moment I met you, I just had to convince you of it. Please, make me the happiest man alive, and say you’ll marry me.”
It took me a full thirty seconds to let what he’d just said sink in. And all the while my eyes were locked onto his green ones. In the back of my mind, I was amazed that he looked so uncertain of what my answer would be. I loved him with every single piece of me. Gone were the days where I was scared to give him everything, and there was nothing in this world I wanted more than to be married to the only guy I’d ever made that exception for.
I felt the biggest smile light up my face and I threw myself into his arms again, forgetting all about the ring. I pulled back and kissed his lips before pulling away again. “Yes, Braden! Absolutely, yes, I will marry you!” Tears of pure happiness were running down my face, but I couldn’t stop smiling through them.
A look of relief crossed Braden’s face before his mouth spread into that mega-watt smile he was so famous for. “Don’t you want to put the ring on?” he asked.
I nodded, the tears of glee still blurring my vision. Braden slipped the diamond on my ring finger and then lifted my hand to kiss the place just above it.
In that moment I knew, I was absolutely, positively the luckiest girl in the world.
BOOK #2
Coming Soon!
Turn the page to read a sample of Book 1 in the vampire romance bestselling series:
The Crimson Bond
PREFACE
This was one of those pivotal points in life that people talk about; when you know that there’s no turning back and you‘ll never be the same. Experiencing death should be final, an end, but for me it was a murky integration of an end and a beginning. A month ago, I never would have imagined that I’d be willingly letting someone I love take my life, but that was exactly what I was doing. As he drank there was no pain or fear-- just complete trust and a feeling that rivaled even what we had just experienced together. Time stopped for me and I barely noticed when an all encompassing fatigue set in. I just knew that I didn’t want Alex to stop-- no matter what. And when a chill started to set in and my heart began to stutter, I wanted to get
“Presley, I had this all planned out, but I just can’t wait any longer. I’m sorry if this isn’t the most romantic way to do this, but really, Presley, you make me lose my mind when I’m around you.”
I looked at him in confusion, totally lost about where he was going with this conversation.
And then he did something that literally swept my breath away —he knelt down on one knee and pulled his hand out of his jacket pocket, bringing a black velvet box out with it. My eyes felt like they were popping out of my head in shock. It couldn’t be...
And then he opened the box and my hand flew up to cover my mouth. Standing ceremoniously inside was an enormous, twinkling diamond on a rose-gold band. Quite frankly, it could have been a teeny-tiny diamond and just the fact that it was a diamond at all , would have gotten the same effect from me. He took the ring from the box, never breaking eye contact. “Presley Sutton, I won’t be happy until you’re mine and mine alone. I love you and I’ve known it from the moment I met you, I just had to convince you of it. Please, make me the happiest man alive, and say you’ll marry me.”
It took me a full thirty seconds to let what he’d just said sink in. And all the while my eyes were locked onto his green ones. In the back of my mind, I was amazed that he looked so uncertain of what my answer would be. I loved him with every single piece of me. Gone were the days where I was scared to give him everything, and there was nothing in this world I wanted more than to be married to the only guy I’d ever made that exception for.
I felt the biggest smile light up my face and I threw myself into his arms again, forgetting all about the ring. I pulled back and kissed his lips before pulling away again. “Yes, Braden! Absolutely, yes, I will marry you!” Tears of pure happiness were running down my face, but I couldn’t stop smiling through them.
A look of relief crossed Braden’s face before his mouth spread into that mega-watt smile he was so famous for. “Don’t you want to put the ring on?” he asked.
I nodded, the tears of glee still blurring my vision. Braden slipped the diamond on my ring finger and then lifted my hand to kiss the place just above it.
In that moment I knew, I was absolutely, positively the luckiest girl in the world.
BOOK #2
Coming Soon!
Turn the page to read a sample of Book 1 in the vampire romance bestselling series:
The Crimson Bond
PREFACE
This was one of those pivotal points in life that people talk about; when you know that there’s no turning back and you‘ll never be the same. Experiencing death should be final, an end, but for me it was a murky integration of an end and a beginning. A month ago, I never would have imagined that I’d be willingly letting someone I love take my life, but that was exactly what I was doing. As he drank there was no pain or fear-- just complete trust and a feeling that rivaled even what we had just experienced together. Time stopped for me and I barely noticed when an all encompassing fatigue set in. I just knew that I didn’t want Alex to stop-- no matter what. And when a chill started to set in and my heart began to stutter, I wanted to get
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