Welcome
to another Weekend Writing Warriors with eight from LICK. My Contemporary NA
out 1st July. Here’s the quickie blurb….
Evelyn Thomas’s plans for celebrating her
twenty-first birthday in Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure as hell never meant
to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hang-over to rival the black plague, a
very attractive half-naked tattooed man beside her, and a diamond on her finger
large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all
happened.
We’re
continuing straight on from last week. If you’d like to do a catch up, the entirety
of what we’ve covered of the first chapter can be found here. Our heroine is
reflecting upon her goal for the previous night and discreetly checking out the
condom she still has tucked into the side of her bra. Meanwhile, the gorgeous
stranger hanging out with her on the bathroom floor, is sorting out some pain
killers to deal with her hangover.
The condom remained
whole and hearty. How disappointing. Or maybe not. Finally plucking up the
courage to get back on the horse, so to speak, and then not remembering it would
have been horrible.
The man handed me the
glass of water and placed two pills into my hand. He then sat back on his
haunches to watch me. He had an intensity to him that I was in no condition to
deal with.
“Thanks,”
I said, then swallowed the aspirin.
Oh ur such a tease with this ! Cant wait to read it !
ReplyDeleteWhat a wild birthday weekend. :-) I dunno, lol, was she back on the horse?? Great excerpt, Kylie!
ReplyDeleteLove the first sentence. You don't hear that every day! :)
ReplyDeleteIs that it! You are such a tease Ms Kylie Scott. :)
ReplyDeleteI loved this line: "He had an intensity to him that I was in no condition to deal with." Great!
ReplyDeletePull yourself together, Evelyn! You want to deal with him. I'm sure you do.
ReplyDeleteI think that now that he has seen her at her worse and stay to give the aspirin, she might try to actually have some conversation... or action.
ReplyDeleteOh my God...that's it?! Come on! Geesh! :O)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your 8. I think your hero is a keeper if he can deal with the aftermath of her sickness - it also helps that he can buy her diamonds large enough to anchor her hand ;)
ReplyDeleteSuch an awkward morning after.
ReplyDeleteAnd you do such a fiendishly clever job of keeping us waiting to find out MORE! Excellent excerpt, loving this story.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving this story. Can't wait till next week.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued as to what's happened, and what's going to happen next.
ReplyDeleteugh!! that was just not even close to enough Kylie!!!!
ReplyDeleteAfter those pills start working I'm betting there will be an interesting conversation. I'm still not convinced nothing happened. Maybe he had his own protection handy.
ReplyDeleteI suspect she had a much more interesting 21st B-day than she thinks. Neat #8
ReplyDeleteI'm just coming into this story but I like it A LOT so far! Too bad he's only half naked, though. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOr maybe they didn't use any since they both seem to be too out of it to remember. Eek! This story just keeps getting more baffling as it goes. Good work!
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