[Barley Cross 01.0] Being Brooke

by Emma Hart

  That was the perfect first date or post-shopping treat.

  I put my phone down and stared at the coffee machine behind the counter. The milkshake maker was right next to it, and the chrome finish of both had the overhead lights glinting back at me.

  That was it.

  Unicorn ice-cream.

  I didn’t know of any place nearby that did it. It would draw people here to see it, and like Grandma said, it had the potential to get online attention.

  I dragged my hand down my face.

  Oh, my god.

  I had it.

  I knew what I needed to do.

  I tossed my phone to the side and ran into the kitchen. A large metal pan was empty on the shelf, so after I rinsed it, I pulled out all the ingredients I needed to made ice-cream.

  The colors I had weren’t the brightest like the photos seemed to indicate, but that didn’t matter. This was only a test. I needed to see how well I could make this work.

  After making the initial mixture, I split it into three different bowls and added the food colorings. Pink, purple, and blue. They each mixed into the white mixture, and when it was done, I took my time adding each spoonful into the pan.

  I would mix everything in a minute. It didn’t need to be perfect.

  Ten minutes passed until I’d gotten the whole mixture into the pan, complete with multi-color sprinkles. It looked like a horrid mess of color, but that only got worse when I grabbed a metal skewer. Over and over, I made a figure of eight in the mixture, drawing it all into a marble-looking pattern until the colors all mixed together except around the very edges.

  With a deep breath, I put the pan in the walk-in freezer.

  And I hoped like hell it’d worked.

  I didn’t want to think about what would happen if it didn’t.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Emma Hart is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty novels and has been translated into several different languages. She first put fingers to keys at the age of eighteen after her husband told her she read too much and should write her own.

  Four years later, she's still figuring out what he meant when he said she 'read too much.'

  She prides herself on writing smart smut that's filled with dry wit, snappy, sarcastic comebacks, but lots of heart... And sex. Sometimes, she kills people. (Disclaimer: In books. But if you bug her, she'll use your name for the victims.)

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  BOOKS BY

  EMMA HART

  Standalones:

  Blind Date

  Being Brooke

  Catching Carly

  Casanova

  Mixed Up

  Miss Fix-It

  Miss Mechanic

  The Upside to Being Single

  The Hook-Up Experiment

  The Dating Experiment

  Four Day Fling

  Best Served Cold (coming September 25th)

  The Vegas Nights series:

  Sin

  Lust

  Stripped series:

  Stripped Bare

  Stripped Down

  The Burke Brothers:

  Dirty Secret

  Dirty Past

  Dirty Lies

  Dirty Tricks

  Dirty Little Rendezvous

  The Holly Woods Files:

  Twisted Bond

  Tangled Bond

  Tethered Bond

  Tied Bond

  Twirled Bond

  Burning Bond

  Twined Bond

  By His Game series:

  Blindsided

  Sidelined

  Intercepted

  Call series:

  Late Call

  Final Call

  His Call

  Wild series:

  Wild Attraction

  Wild Temptation

  Wild Addiction

  Wild: The Complete Series

  The Game series:

  The Love Game

  Playing for Keeps

  The Right Moves

  Worth the Risk

  Memories series:

  Never Forget

  Always Remember