Chasing
Me by Jennifer Probst
March 3, 2015
New Adult Contemporary Romance
One of the “Sex on the Beach” Novellas
BOOK
SUMMARY:
Quinn and James' Story Continues in Chasing Me...
It was supposed to be a love story....
I knew she was
out of my league but I didn’t care. Looking back, I wonder if I hadn’t pursued
her, would things have turned out differently? Is it Fate that determines our
choices in life? God? Free will? Or just plain old innate selfishness?
I got her, of course.
There hadn’t been a girl I wasn’t able to seduce. Problem was she seduced me
right back, body, mind, and soul. She possessed me, tormented me, and showed me
a world that was so bright and pure I was almost blinded.
Didn’t
she know after such a drug I could never settle for less? Didn’t she realize no
matter how many times I screwed up, or broke her heart, or bent her to my will,
I’d never be able to let her go?
If I
hadn’t known such intensity existed, would it have been better for both of us?
True love, the
real kind, isn’t nice and sweet and pure. No, it’s dirty, and sinful, and
messy. It’s like ripping a chunk of flesh from your body and watching yourself
bleed out in slow, helpless intervals until you thankfully pass out.
This isn’t a love story. But it’s the only story I got.
CHASING ME by Jennifer
Probst
Prologue
excerpt:
James
It was supposed to be a love story.
Right?
Yeah, I know, I didn’t believe in
that shit. Lust? Hell, yeah. Love?
No fucking way.
Yet here I am, alone in my
apartment, on my knees, staring at a closed door. ’Cause she left me. For good
this time. And if she was smart, she’ll never take me back, because all I do is
end up hurting her and screwing up her life. She deserves better, and that’s
not me. Yet the idea of another guy putting his hands on her makes me want to
roar like the animal I am and beat the life out of him. Quinn’s always affected
me that way.
I remember the first time I saw
her.
A one-piece swimsuit covering her
slamming body, eyes dark and mysterious as she met my gaze with that haughty look
I’d get to know and adore. In that moment, I fell head over fucking heels and
never looked back.
I knew she was out of my league,
but I didn’t care. Looking back, I wonder if I hadn’t pursued her, would things
have turned out differently? Is it Fate that determines our choices in life?
God? Free will? Or just plain old innate selfishness?
I got her, of course. There
hadn’t been a girl I wasn’t able to seduce. Problem was, she seduced me right
back, body, mind, and fucking soul. She possessed me, tormented me, and showed
me a world that was so bright and pure I was almost blinded.
Quinn made me feel alive again,
reconnecting me with a part of myself I thought I’d buried years ago. She
looked right into my sorry soul and loved me anyway. Didn’t she know after such
a drug I could never settle for less? Didn’t she realize no matter how many
times I screwed up, or broke her heart, or bent her to my will, I’d never be
able to let her go?
If I hadn’t known such intensity
existed, would it have been better for both of us?
I don’t pretend to have any of
the answers. I never did. All I know is when she left me in Key West, I had to
make a choice. The week we spent together in Key West was a sliver of a
possible future, a future filled with more meaning than I’d ever had in my
pathetic twenty-four years. I could
change my life and go after her, into another dimension I had no experience
with. I could leave my friends and my shit behind and start fresh, and become
the man I wanted to be for her. A man she seemed to glimpse in my eyes, even
though I still worried day after day if that man even existed.
Now, I know he never did.
But it’s too late. I followed her
to Chicago, enrolled in art school, and swore I’d be everything she wanted. For
a while, it was as perfect as I imagined. Then, like I always do, I made a
wrong choice and watched my future and the love of my life disappear in a cloud
of smoke that choked my lungs and reminded me of my limitations.
Yeah, did you think this was a
fucking love story?
Sorry to dissuade you, but you
better go down to your local bookstore and pick some other shit up. Unless
you’re like me, and believe true love, the real kind, isn’t nice and sweet and
pure. No, it’s dirty, and sinful, and messy. It’s like ripping a chunk of flesh
from your body and watching yourself bleed out in slow, helpless intervals
until you thankfully pass out.
No. This isn’t a love story. But
it’s the only story I got.
Let’s hope the ending hasn’t been
written yet.
Author
Information
Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve
years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t
stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant,
buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and
rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again.
She makes her home in Upstate New York with the
whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will
never be truly clean.
She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall
Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She
was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon's Best
Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates
on new releases and her street team at
www.jenniferprobst.com.
Website:
www.jenniferprobst.com
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