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He’s ten years older. My brother’s best friend.<\/strong> HOLLAND<\/strong> IAIN<\/strong> Find Now or Never<\/i> on\u00a0GOODREADS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CHAPTER ONE<\/strong> Fuck\u00a0me\u00a0if\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0her.<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Escapist Book Blog is not responsible for this giveaway.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sweet Spot (#1)<\/strong> – (Lukas & Lia) Bad Boss (#2)<\/strong> – (Julian & Sara) Dirty Deeds (#3)<\/strong> – (Emmett & Aly) Hothead (#4) <\/strong>–\u00a0<\/strong>(Drew & Evie) Now or Never (#5)<\/strong> – (Iain & Holland) Reckless (#6) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Stella Rhys is a romance author who lives for baseball season, Irish coffees and Love Island UK.\u00a0She was born and raised in New York and when she isn’t writing, you can find her with her family and friends, scouring the city in search of her next book-inspiring adventure.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now or Never A Irresistible Series Standalone by Stella Rhys A Contemporary Romance Available now – 99\u00a2 release price! Amazon US \u00a0| \u00a0Amazon UK \u00a0| \u00a0Amazon CA \u00a0| \u00a0Amazon AU *FREE in Kindle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"Product","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[679,424,529],"class_list":["post-49311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-news","tag-irresistible","tag-release-blitz","tag-stella-rhys"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/now-or-never-ebook.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-cPl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd for the next two weeks, he gets to have me in all the ways he’s ever wanted.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe last time I saw him, he still called me kiddo.
\nBut fast forward five years, and more than a few things have changed.
\nHe’s still Iain Thorn. He’s still my brother’s best friend and the painfully sexy man I clearly never stopped wanting. But me?
\nApparently, I’ve grown up in more ways than he can resist.<\/p>\n
\nI’m going to hell for looking at her like this.
\nShe’s too young for me. Too sweet and naive.
\nShe has no idea what I would do to her.
\nBut since the day she walked back in my life in that tight little dress, I’ve felt myself caving. I said I’d never in my life get involved with Holland Maxwell.
\nBut since I’m already going to hell, I might as well make it worth it.<\/p>\n
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\nIAIN<\/p>\n
\nA single upward glance and just like that my night was screwed.
\nIn an instant, my pulse doubled, and I could feel my jaw ticking tighter and tighter under my palm as I ran my hand over my face, my eyes devouring\u00a0her\u00a0body in ways I told myself had strictly to do with the shock.
\nBecause what the hell was she doing here?
\nAnd for Christ\u2019s sake, what the hell was she wearing?
\nMy shoulders tensed under my suit and my grip tightened around the lowball of Scotch I suddenly wanted to pound like a shot, because now that I\u2019d looked up\u2014now that I\u2019d seen\u00a0her<\/em>\u2014I had a face to the match to all the filthy, vulgar shit my clients had spent the past two minutes groaning about, and it wasn\u2019t just any face.
\nIt was one I\u2019d known since she was only thirteen years old.
\n\u201cJesus\u00a0fuck. How do we trade our waitress for that Playboy bunny-lookin\u2019 thing?\u201d
\nMy jaw clenched at Watt\u2019s description.
\nIt wasn\u2019t far off. In fact, it was surprisingly fucking accurate, but still\u2014I was failing to reconcile what I was seeing with what I was remembering, because the last time I saw\u00a0her\u00a0she was a sweet, innocent little thing. This shy little girl wearing a powder blue backpack and braided pigtails\u2014who I made it my job to protect because\u00a0her\u00a0own brother had no instinct whatsoever.
\nBut now\u2026 for Christ\u2019s sake, now there was no trace of that shy little girl as she flitted from table to table in a tight little dress, holding a tray of drinks up high and arching\u00a0her\u00a0back so taut I wanted to clench my teeth out of my skull.
\n\u201cGoddamn, when she bends over in that thing\u2026\u201d Ty growled into his fist.
\n\u201cDo it again, baby. Come on,\u201d Watt willed\u00a0her, licking his grinning lips and forcing\u00a0me\u00a0to exhaust every muscle in my body to keep myself from knocking him the fuck out right there. \u201cSee the new waitress?\u201d he turned to ask\u00a0me, shaking his head and sucking a sharp breath between his teeth\u2014his way of emphasizing just how badly he wanted to\u00a0fuck\u00a0her.
\nIt made\u00a0me\u00a0picture my forearm digging into his neck as I pinned him to the wall and detailed exactly why he\u2019d never lay a finger on\u00a0her.
\nBut despite the vivid image, I managed a nod and a smirk to remain outwardly calm, casual. Sitting forward, I adjusted my onyx cufflinks, throwing in a \u201cvery nice\u201d that sounded so convincingly disinterested that Watt rolled his eyes and gave a\u00a0pfft<\/em>\u00a0before turning his hungry stare back to\u00a0her\u2014and that tiny little skirt that had\u00a0her\u00a0legs so close to naked I had to look away.
\nFucking hell.<\/em>
\nI white-knuckled my drink, silently wracking my brain for a plan while reminding myself that no agent had ever put his own clients on the injured list, so I shouldn\u2019t aim to be the first. Shane Watt and Ty Damon were two of the biggest athletes in sports. They were two of the best sluggers in baseball, two of the highest-earning contracts on my all-star roster of clients, and I really couldn\u2019t afford to kill them right now.
\nSo I opted instead to shut their fucking mouths.
\n\u201cEnough,\u201d I cut in sharply, interrupting their debate about whether or not she was wearing a goddamned push-up bra.
\nI could feel my eyes on fire, and my blood fucking boiling, but by the time my clients turned to face\u00a0me, all they saw was an easy smirk on my lips that made them grin sheepishly, because they knew this look\u2014the one I wore right before I set their asses straight.
\n\u201cGentlemen, we\u2019re here tonight to talk about the Under Armour deal, but\u00a0if\u00a0you want to waste my time drooling over some waitress, then you\u2019re welcome to find a different agent to negotiate your contract for a third of the price,\u201d I said, leaning back in my seat. \u201cBut in that case, Watt, you\u2019d have to tell your wife that the new beach house is a no-go. Is that something you\u2019re interested in?\u201d
\n\u201cNo! No, no, no,\u201d Watt laughed in a panic before socking Ty in he arm. \u201cCome on, asshole. Pay attention.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat!\u00a0Me?<\/em>\u201d
\nAnd just like that, we were back on topic.
\nBut as I returned to discussing business with my clients\u2014even with my eyes fixed directly on them\u2014I had my attention sharply trained on\u00a0her.
\nLittle Holland Maxwell.
\nMy best friend\u2019s kid sister who was clearly all grown\u00a0 up, and about to make my night a living hell.<\/p>\n
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