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Passion. Mystery. It all collides in the
breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling INSIDE OUT series,
ALL OF ME.
He's rich and famous, his past dark, but
so is hers. Can they save each other? Or will the darkness tear them apart?
Excerpt from All of Me (Inside Out #6) by Lisa Renee
Jones. Copyright 2014
We say a quick
goodbye, and to my shock, the instant I push the “end” button, Chris pulls
the 911 to the
shoulder of the road, puts it in park and turns to me. “Talk to me. What just
happened?”
“You stopped to
ask me what happened?”
“Yes. I stopped
to ask what happened. Now, tell me.”
My lashes lower a
moment as I savor just how good this man is to me. I curl my fingers
on my cheek.
“Thank you for stopping, but really, there was nothing worthy of concern. Let’s
go
to the chateau.”
“After you tell
me what happened,” he orders, but the tenderness lacing the stubborn
determination of
his tone wins me over, as does his sincerity. He really cares and I am truly
not
alone anymore.
“When Katie
wanted to know if there was anyone on my side of the family to coordinate
with, it hit a
nerve. I started worrying about Ella, and thinking about my father, who I don’t
want
to come to our
wedding. I truly don’t, yet somehow, the
very fact that I don’t gives him the
power to twist me
in knots.”
Chris nods. “As
did my father to me, no matter how much of a bastard he became.
Sometimes I think
the worse he treated me, the more I wanted to win back his affection.”
I’d seen glimpses
of these feelings before now, but this is the first time he’s spoken them
aloud. “Maybe
it’s some inborn need to feel close to a parent?”
“That’s the only
conclusion I could come to when I couldn’t let him go. I still can’t. He’s
always with me,
making sure I stay just a little more fucked up.”
“If you’re fucked
up, it’s all kinds of right, Chris Merit. That charity work Tristan talked
about? You don’t
just throw money at it. You give pieces of your soul to those kids and their
families. You
make a difference and I’ll be honored to help you do it.”
He pulls my hand
to his mouth and kisses my fingers. “Let’s elope. Anyplace you want to
go. Say the word
and as far as I’m concerned we’ll go tomorrow.”
“What? No. We
decided on Katie and Mike’s place
together. And my ring isn’t even
done.”
“This isn’t about
a ring. Or Katie and Mike, or anyone else. It’s about us and I don’t want
you worried about
your father or the guest list. You know I’m not big on attention anyway.”
I lace my fingers
with his. “You’re trying to protect me and I appreciate that, but I want to
get married under
those hanging rose your mother inspired Katie to plant.”
“Don’t do this
for me, baby. I just want to spend the rest of my life with you. That’s all I
need.”
“It’s for us. You
know my father is just a hot button for me. I’ll get by it. And truth be
told, I’m a
little raw over Amber, too. That night here in Paris when I went to the club I
had this
sense I needed to
save her. I shouldn’t have listened to that feeling.”
“Don’t do that to
yourself. You barely knew her.”
“Yet, on some
level I felt her screaming for help. But I second-guessed myself and
thought it was
Rebecca and Ella influencing my feelings.”
“You were a lot
of the reason I pushed to get Amber help, Sara. It was just too little too
late. That’s on
me, not you.”
“No-”
“Yes,” he says,
stroking the hair out of my eyes, his hand staying at the back of my head.
“Now here’s
what’s going to happen. We’re going to leave this all right here and I’m going
to
drive us the
fifteen minutes we have left to get to the chateau, where we’re going to fuck
like
rabbits. Then,
we’re going to eat and fuck some more. After we sleep, we’ll set some rules
with
Katie about the
wedding so you won’t worry about it and then we’ll fuck some more. And since I
had the caretaker
that lives in the house behind the chateau stock enough food to last us a week,
we can stay in
bed for days on end. Any objections so far?”
I smile and not
just at his words, but at his rapid shift from dark Chris, to playful, sexy
Chris. “And if I
do?”
He, leans closer
to me, his breath on my ear. “I’ll just tie you to the bed.”
Yes. Please. My
list of objections begins to form.
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About the Author:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling
author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT
SERIES, and is now in development by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland) for
cable TV. In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of
Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the NY Times
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Since beginning her publishing career in
2007, Lisa has published more than 40 books translated around the world.
Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI
tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann.
Prior to publishing, Lisa owned
multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin
Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was
listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
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