A KNIGHT IN SHINING LEATHER…
IN YOUR ARMS
For Your Love #2
Shannyn Schroeder
Releasing Dec 27th, 2016
Zebra Shout
A KNIGHT IN
SHINING LEATHER…
Sean O'Malley has never tried to
hide who he is. He shows it in the motorcycle thrumming between the legs of his
tight jeans…the shaggy hair that falls in his gorgeous eyes…the wicked gleam in
his smile when he asks Emma out for a drink. Sean is a rebel, a bad boy, and a
ton of fun: exactly the kind of guy she's sworn off forever.
Emma isn't just the prim
kindergarten teacher she appears to be. And somehow Sean can tell. As soon as
he pulls up to her overheated car he knows that a fast bike and a cold beer
will fix her rotten day better than compliments or a bubble bath. Her
straitlaced exterior and her wild heart light him up. But Emma wants to escape
her past and settle down—and if her desk jockey dates don't understand where
she comes from, at least she doesn't worry about them bringing her back.
One weekend of intense connection
can't change the paths Sean and Emma have chosen. But with a little space to be
themselves together, maybe the rest of the world can wait...
Don't miss the other FOR YOUR LOVE titles!
The blast of
air-conditioning hit them as the automatic door swung open. Emma paused, looked
up and around, and turned toward the bakery. Sean followed. She kept walking,
and he stopped by the coffee cakes. A chocolate-chip cake sounded good.
“What about this?” He held
up the plastic container.
“Uh-uh. It needs to be
birthday cake.”
Sean held on to the coffee
cake but followed her to the refrigerated section. She looked at the display
for a minute before choosing one. As great as Emma seemed, she sure had some
weird quirks. She picked out a round cake with Happy Birthday written in blue handwriting. Red, yellow, and blue
icing balloons decorated the edge.
Emma said nothing. With the
cake in hand, she turned toward the register. Although she quickly offered
answers to his questions, she wasn’t like other girls he knew, who would fill
silence with any kind of pointless chatter.
“You okay?” he asked when
they got to the self-checkout.
“I will be.” She scanned
her cake, and he jumped in to scan his too before she could finish the
transaction. Then he swiped his card to pay.
“You didn’t have to buy my
cake.”
“I know I didn’t have to,
but if I have a crappy day and someone buys me a beer, that beer tastes even
better going down.”
His answer got the reaction
he’d hoped for. A smile. Emboldened by her smile, he pushed on. “So why does it
have to be birthday cake?”
She sighed and he thought
she might not answer. “Birthday cake was the one thing my mom got right when I
was a kid.”
He waited, hoping she’d
explain, because how could anyone mess up store-bought birthday cake? They
walked through the automatic door, and the heat of the afternoon swamped him.
“You met her. Even with
that brief encounter, you can probably tell Brandi is far from a stellar mom. A
lot of things were uncertain when I was little. But birthday cake was something
we could always count on. It didn’t matter where we were living or even if she
had a job, Mom made sure we had birthday cake on our birthdays.”
“It’s weird now that you
mention it. I guess I always took birthday cake for granted. In my family,
we’re all adults and we still make a trip to Blackstone’s to get a birthday
cake.”
“For me, birthday cake is
comfort.” She leaned over and bumped his shoulder as they walked. “I keep some
in my freezer because you never know when you’re going to have a bad day.”
“Seriously?”
“Well, it’s not like I buy
a cake and eat it all by myself in one sitting. It would be a waste to throw it
out, so I cut it into pieces and freeze it.”
The walk back to his house
was too quick. Sean liked Emma talking about herself. He didn’t know how he’d even
managed not to realize how much he missed having a girlfriend. Then he
remembered that every girl at some point pushed for something more than he
wanted to give. He wasn’t about to put a ring on anyone’s finger. That kind of
commitment would ruin his easygoing lifestyle.
Shannyn
Schroeder is the author of the O’Leary series, contemporary
romances centered around a large Irish-American family in Chicago and the Hot
& Nerdy series about 3 nerdy friends finding love. Her new series (For Your
Love) will release this summer with the first title Under Your Skin. When she’s
not wrangling her three kids or writing, she watches a ton of TV and loves to
bake cookies.
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