“Wha…what are you doing?” he finally said, and for the first time in four of the longest days of my life, I reached out, took that exquisite face of his between my hands, and smoothed my thumb over his lower lip.
“I’m sorry,” I said, and never had two words felt so right to say. “I’m so fucking sorry for everything I said to you. Everything I did. None of it was true, Angel. You were right. I was scared. I am scared, because what I feel for you is more powerful than anything I’ve ever felt in my life. And the idea that I’ve lost you, that I’ve pushed you away—”
Halo reached up and gently touched his fingertips to my lips, halting my words, and all the pain and hurt that I’d seen earlier in his eyes melted away. “You wanna be with me?”
A heavy exhale left me. “You have no fucking idea how much.”
Halo’s eyes, those beautiful, luminous eyes of his, all but glowed as his lips curved into that charming smile I loved. “Then I’m ready.”
It took me a second to realize what he was referring to, and then, without any hesitation at all, I said, “I love you, Angel. I love you more than I ever thought possible. And this week without you has been the most miserable fucking week of my life.”
Halo slid his fingers through my hair, the grin on his lips growing impossibly wider as he rested his other hand over my thumping heart. “I love you too.”
“You do?” I said as I reached for him, wrapping my arms around his waist.
“Of course I do. I’m a romantic, you cynical, jaded asshole. But if you ever pull this shit on me again—”
“I won’t.”
Halo chuckled as he wrapped both his arms around my neck and said against my mouth, “Good. Because every single person at this party is recording us right now. So I have proof of all of this.”
“Wait, there are other people in this room?”
“Mhmm. For someone who didn’t want to take this public, you aren’t doing a real good job of keeping this a secret.”
No, I wasn’t. Was I? “That’s your fault.”
“How do you figure?”
“Because it’s been too fucking long since I’ve kissed this mouth, and I’ll be damned if I wait another minute.”
As I leaned in to finally get my lips on the man smiling at me, the one who had consumed me from the moment I laid eyes on him, Halo curled his fingers in my hair, drawing me toward him. We met each other halfway, as equals, finally on the same damn page, and once his mouth met mine, I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be. I was home. It may have taken me dragging us through hell to get there, but as I tightened my arms around Halo’s waist and his mouth opened to me, I knew that now I had the angel right where I wanted him, there was no way I was ever letting go.
Thank You
Thank you for reading VIPER. We hope you enjoyed catching up with our smokin’ hot rock stars!
Make sure to join us for the final book in Halo and Viper’s journey, ANGEL, as they tackle their relationship and Fallen Angel’s fame head-on.
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Release Date: APRIL 25th, 2019
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Special Thanks
We’ve been wanting to dive into a rock star series for quite some time, and the stars finally aligned for us to bring you the guys of Fallen Angel! These sexy rockers are just getting started, so we hope you’ll continue their journey in ANGEL.
We’d like to thank the following talented humans for helping us bring VIPER to life:
Hang Le for the gorgeous Fallen Angel Series covers, banners, and teasers
Sarah Jo Chreene for some fun surprises coming your way with this series (shhh we can’t tell yet)!
Arran for an always entertaining edit
Judy’s Proofreading for being our final eyes on HALO
Charlie David for bringing these sexy men to life on audio.
A special thanks to the Naughty Brellas who named the guys of Fallen Angel!
Jay Ell (“Halo”)
Jayne John (“Viper”)
Brittany Cournoyer (“Killian”)
Vandy Marie Bauer (“Jagger”)
Sharna Morris (“Slade”)
A huge thank you to the bloggers who support our work by taking time out of their busy lives to share our releases. You’re the real rock stars. <3
Finally, if you’re reading this, we’d also like to thank YOU for picking up this copy of VIPER. We’re so grateful to be able to write these stories in our head for a living, and that is only possible with your continued support. A million thank you’s and big bear hugs.
xoxoxox,
Brooke & Ella
About Brooke Blaine
About Brooke
Brooke Blaine is a USA Today Bestselling Author of contemporary and LGBT romance that ranges from comedy to suspense to erotic. The latter has scarred her conservative Southern family for life, bless their hearts.
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Ella Frank is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite contemporary romance, Sex Addict. Her Exquisite series has been praised as “scorching hot!” and “enticingly sexy!”
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