Book Title: Designed
Author: Alicia Renee Kline
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
Blake Snyder is an expert at bringing visions to
life. Owner of a successful interior design business, she prides herself on
creating things that are picture perfect. If only her talent extended to her
personal life.
Chris Taylor is her brother’s best friend, but more
importantly, her ex. After a messy breakup years ago, they’ve been careful to
avoid each other.
But out of sight isn’t necessarily out of mind.
Chris holds a special place for her in his heart – and a never presented
engagement ring. Blake can’t stop thinking about him – despite her frequent
attempts to replace him.
When a series of events in the present lead Blake to
confront the truth in her past, she knows that it’s time to come clean about
what really drove them apart. What she reveals is something that brings him to
his knees yet again.
It would feel good to get washed up, I reasoned as I set
to work plucking the bobby pins out of my hair.
I dropped them into a pile on the sink and turned on the shower, letting
the water heat up as I stripped off my bridesmaid’s gown. I had the hanger with me in my bag, so I
carefully placed the dress on it and hung it up on the doorknob. Most of the flowing skirt pooled on the
floor, but it was better than just throwing it into a heap.
I was also at his mercy as far as toiletries. I’d fully expected to be sleeping in my own
bed tonight, so I’d have to use what was there.
I did a mental check and found what I needed: a towel folded over the rack, his shampoo and
soap in the tiny shower stall. I’d been
in worse situations, definitely.
The water pressure left much to be desired, which I
realized as soon as I attempted to rinse said shampoo out of my mass of
hair. I was working through the strands
with my fingers, coaxing the soap out, when I heard the knock at the door.
“Blake?” he called from the other side.
“Yeah?” I said, my voice cracking.
I heard the door push open. Instinctively, I covered my breasts with my
arms, pressing my legs together as tightly as they could go. Even with the opaque shower curtain between
us, I still had this irrational fear of him walking in on me and seeing everything. Stupid, because he’d seen everything before
anyway. Idiotic, because I’d completely
bared my soul to him earlier tonight. If
there was anyone I shouldn’t be afraid of seeing me in this position, it was
this man. But yet I huddled in his
shower, naked and self-conscious.
Alicia Renee Kline
Alicia Renee
Kline has been writing for as long as she can remember. Her work has evolved
from scrawling story ideas in spiral notebooks in loopy, middle school
handwriting (complete with scribbles) to more professional looking fare via her
laptop. She is eternally grateful for the "delete" key, so that no
one can tell that she doesn't get everything right the first time.
She resides in
Northeastern Indiana with her husband, two daughters, two cats and two
hamsters. When she isn't being an author, she works full time in the insurance
industry.
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