Title: Reckless Hearts
(Reckless Hearts #1)
Author: Heather Van Fleet
Publication Date: February 7th, 2017
Age Category/Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Between boot camp and two TOD’s in Iraq, my buddies Max, Gavin and me have been through some serious hell. So the last thing I ever expected was to find the biggest challenge of my life back home.
My girlfriend died. I couldn’t even attend her funeral, let alone tell her goodbye or that I’m sorry I wasn’t there like I should’ve been.
But she left me a gift. The best and scariest one I could’ve ever asked for. One I didn’t think I could handle…until the day I saw her tiny blues looking up at me in that airport. Chloe.
Now here I am, raising my baby girl—with the help of my two best friends. Things couldn’t be better. Until she walked into my life.
All I wanted was a nanny. Someone to take care of my girl when I couldn’t. What I didn’t count on was Addison, the brown-eyed temptress with a body of sin, and everything I didn’t need, but suddenly wanted.
Addison
He answered
on the third ring. “Hey, Gav. You busy?”
“Not Gav.”
My face
warmed at the sound of Collin’s voice.
“You there?”
“Um, yes. But
I need to speak with Gavin, please.” Keep breathing, keep calm. You’ve got
this.
“But I need
to talk to you first.”
I clenched my
teeth. “May I talk to him, please?”
“Nope.”
I threw my
head back against the couch and groaned. “Why not?” If he was going to be short
with his answers, I would be short with my questions.
“Need to talk
to you about something first. Told you that.”
Could’ve
sworn I heard the words Needs to eat your pussy is more like it
in the background, but my mind was scrambling like the eggs I’d cooked for
breakfast.
“Shut up,
asshole,” Collin barked.
I spun a
loose string around my finger. “What did you just say to me?”
Total déjà
vu.
The wind
slapped against his speaker. “Are you driving?” I unraveled the string from my
finger and bounced my knee. “Because in the State of Illinois, it’s illegal to
drive and talk on a cell phone unless it’s hands free.”
“Damn it, no.
She’s putting that shit in her mouth.” He grumbled something else, and the
sound of baby giggles tugged on my already floppy heartstrings.
I couldn’t
help but smile as I thought about Chloe. I’d only been around her twice, but I
kind of missed the little thing.
“Not driving.
Just playin’ at the park.”
Playing at
the park. Why did the image make me grin? Collin pushing Chloe in her swing,
her little baby legs bouncing up and down as he did.
“Why are you
calling Gavin anyway?”
“None of your
business.” My smile fell. “Can you just put him on?”
“I told you I
needed to talk first.”
I rolled my
eyes. “Fine. Then talk.”
“Gonna take
you out tonight.”
Shock pulled
me into an upright position, and I stood so fast that a pile of clean towels
fell to the floor. “Um, take me out?” I scrambled to pick them up.
“Gonna
apologize. Again. Buy you food, return your sweater too. If you have plans,
then cancel them.”
“Uh, no.
Don’t think so.” At the simple thought of seeing him again, my stomach clenched
in both excitement and unease. “You’re not going to pull that in-charge
bullshit on me. And besides, what makes you think I want to see you anyway?”
“You don’t
wanna see me, sweetheart?”
I slapped my
hand over my eyes. Sweetheart? Seriously? “No. I don’t
want to see you, pumpkin. Not when you got me fired from
my job the other night with your ultimate-fight-club thing.” I blew out a quick
breath. “Besides, I just…can’t.”
“I need a
better reason.”
“Are you
serious right now?” What was with this guy and his incessant need to be an
asshole?
“Dead
serious.” He laughed. “I’ll be by your apartment at six to pick you up. Dress
casual. Gonna take you to dinner, and then we’re gonna talk. You’re going to
get a free meal and an apology. Can’t get much better than that, am I right?”
Heather Van Fleet is stay-at-home-mom turned book boyfriend connoisseur. She’s a wife to her high school sweetheart, a mom to three little girls, and in her spare time you can find her with her head buried in her Kindle, guzzling down copious amounts of coffee.
Heather graduated from Black Hawk College in 2003 with an associate degree and has been working in the publishing industry for over five years. She is represented by Stacey Donaghy of Donaghy Literary.
2 comments:
Thank you for posting about Reckless Hearts today! It means the world to me.
"Heather Van Fleet said...
Thank you for posting about Reckless Hearts today! It means the world to me."
You're welcome. <3 I love the premise, and plan on reading this one, soon. I'm sure I'll love it.
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