Title: Shameful
Series: Shameless Trilogy, Book Two
Author: M. Malone and Nana Malone
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publish Date: June 5, 2017
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I am the thing that goes bump in
the night. I am a liar, a protector...a killer...I am Noah Blake.
And now that she knows my secret,
she hates me.
The guilt and shame I carry around
is bad enough...But seeing the distrust in her eyes, that will kill me before
my enemies do…
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Then she was kissing him again and
not with the gentle hesitancy he’d expected. She gripped his hair in both hands
and devoured, sucking on his bottom lip with a carnal growl that sent most of
his blood racing south. Noah groaned as he hardened instantly and Lucia purred
when she felt his arousal. The little vixen had the nerve to slide her legs up
and around his waist, squeezing tight and, rocking against his length.
“Lucia,” he breathed warningly.
“Yes. Did you need something?” She
batted her eyelashes innocently. It was supposed to be innocent anyway but
everything she did was sexy.
“Everything. I need everything
from you.”
Something snapped in him and he
was suddenly intensely grateful they were already on the bed. They fell back
onto the covers in a tangle of arms and legs. He couldn’t get his mouth
everywhere he wanted to at once and the urgency drove his need higher. Lucia
bucked under him when he took a big mouthful of her breast, sucking hard
through the fabric of her T-shirt.
“Need more,” he growled and then
pushed her shirt up and pulled the lacy cup of her bra down so he could get at
what he wanted.
“Yes, that feels so good,” Lucia
whispered.
Her mouth fell open as his tongue
swirled around the delicate point.
Noah couldn’t have stopped if he’d
tried. He couldn’t get enough of the taste of her skin. She whimpered his name
several times before he gave her a break. When he pulled back, her nipple was
hard and red as a cherry. Lucia’s eyes followed the movement when he licked his
lips.
“Noah! Take this off,” she
demanded.
He loved hearing the need in her
voice, and her eyes glittered when he helped her sit up and pull the shirt off.
At his first sight of her in nothing but panties and the lacy black bra, the
swells of her generous breasts overflowing the cups, he almost broke down and
begged right then and there. She was a goddess walking amongst mortals.
Oblivious to his internal thoughts, Lucia pulled at the hem of his shirt.
“I’m the only one undressed. I’m
feeling a little lonely over here.”
“We can’t have that.” Noah yanked
his T-shirt over his head and threw it on the floor.
Lucia sighed and wrapped her arms
around his neck, pulling him down into her embrace.
“I really was lonely, you know.
For so long all I’ve wanted was for you to see me. For you to let me love you
and give you the family you’ve never had. I’ll be your family, Noah. Me and,
hopefully one day, our children. You’ll never feel alone again.”
His world stopped spinning and he
pulled back to see her face. “Our kids?”
It shouldn’t have been a surprise.
He knew Lucia wanted children and a traditional family. Wasn’t that why he’d
hated watching her date so much? Because he’d known that one day she’d find
some guy, marry him and pop out a few adorable babies. It had torn him up to
imagine his Lucia round with another man’s baby.
But the idea of fathering her
children hit him like a ton of bricks. He came from the streets and had very
few memories of his own father. What the hell did he know about any of that?
He’d seen so few functional relationships that it was almost laughable to think
he could suddenly be husband and father material. Lucia needed a man who could
do both. He looked down at her all flushed and glowing with love in his bed.
What had he ever done to deserve the love of a woman like this?
You don’t deserve it, the
insidious voice in the back of his mind whispered. She has no idea what you are
truly capable of.
“Noah? What’s wrong?”
He hadn’t even realized he’d
pulled away until she spoke. Lucia crossed her arms, covering her breasts.
Noah’s mind raced as he was assaulted with images of what the future might
hold— Lucia holding a beautiful baby with his dark hair and her gray eyes.
Lucia happy for a while until she figured out that Noah would never be the man
she needed.
Lucia leaving him.
“Nothing. I need to check on
things. Stay here.” He kissed her forehead softly when she started to speak.
“I’ll be back.”
He could feel her eyes on his back
as he knelt to grab his shirt off the floor. It felt like a laser drilling a
hole through him and it only made him move faster. He needed to get away. Away
from expectations and the love shining in her eyes. He had a job to do. He
would never be the man Lucia truly deserved but he could be the protector she
needed. All this emotion was enough to make him forget what was truly
important, keeping her safe. Emotion made you soft and he couldn’t afford that.
Not with Lucia’s life on the line.
In this Series
Shame (Prequel) FREE
Shameless (book 1)
COMING SOON
Unashamed (book 3) – releasing June 26,
2017
NYT & USA Today bestselling
author M. Malone lives in the Washington, DC metro area with her husband and
their two sons. She holds a master's degree in Business from a prestigious
college that would no doubt be scandalized by how she's using her expensive
education.
Independently published, she has
sold more than 1/2 million ebooks in her two series, THE ALEXANDERS and
BLUE-COLLAR BILLIONAIRES. Since starting her indie journey in 2011 with the
runaway bestselling novella "Teasing Trent," her work has appeared on
the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists more than a dozen times.
She's now a full-time writer and
spends 99.8% of her time in her pajamas.
Nana Malone
USA Today bestselling author Nana
Malone's love of all things romance and adventure started with a tattered
romantic suspense novel she "borrowed" from her cousin.
It was a sultry summer afternoon
in Ghana, and Nana was a precocious thirteen. She's been in love with kick-butt
heroines ever since. With her overactive imagination constantly channeling her
inner Buffy, it was only a matter a time before she started creating her own
characters.
While she waits for her chance at
a job as a ninja assassin, Nana works out her drama, passion and sass with
fictional characters every bit as brazen and kick-butt as she thinks she is.
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