Title: Nikan Rebuilt
(Preload #3)
(Preload #3)
Author: Scarlett Cole
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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From the queen of heart-pounding, sexy, emotional
romance Scarlett Cole comes Nikan Rebuilt, the next novel in
the Preload series.
Does the past ever really stay in the past?
Nikan can never be complete. He's got a rock group
made up of the family he built for himself, more money than he knows what to do
with, and a stream of groupies falling over themselves to date him. But none of
them are her. The one regret that still plagues him, still taunts him with what he could have had.
Jenny is a survivor. Now running a group home after
overcoming life in a cult lead by her manipulative father and watching her
mother drink the poison he fed his followers, she fights to keep the light in
the eyes of every boy who walks through her doors. Far from simple young love,
Nik taught her to trust, showed her how good life could be. Before he formed
the band. Before he became a famous rockstar.
Before he destroyed it all.
A chance
meeting after years of no contact shows the connection still blazes between
them. But will they have their second chance at love? Or will the weight of
their past crush their future together?
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NIKAN REBUILT Excerpt
Copyright © 2017 Scarlett Cole
“Why didn’t you tell anybody where you were?” It
was the question that had always burned him. He knew that she didn’t have
anybody else in the world who cared that she was okay as much as he did.
Jenny stopped suddenly and turned to face him.
“Because I knew you would come and find me, and back then I knew I wasn’t
strong enough to keep you away.”
Nik’s heart stopped in his throat. The pain in
her voice cut him as deeply as any of his stab wounds had. Unable to help
himself, he placed the palm of his hand on her cheek. Her face so looked so
soft, so vulnerable and open. As much as he wanted to kiss her lips, he buried
the urge. “I’m sorry, Jenny. I can repeat that a thousand ways, and I can show you a thousand times over just
how sorry I am. I just . . .” Just what? Threw it all out of the window in a
reckless fit of hedonism?
Self-destruction.
He shut the voice off.
SELF-SABOTAGE.
This time it was even louder.
Jenny pulled away. “It’s probably best we leave
all that alone. No point picking at a healed scab.”
“I don’t want to pick at a scab or have you hate
me,” he said, sadly. “Or worse, I don’t want you to disappear on me again. I
just want to get to know you, Jenny.”
“For what purpose, Nik?” Her eyes filled with
tears, and he could feel the pain she was in. It mirrored his own. The pain
that drove him to keep holding his makeshift family together so that life had
some kind of meaning.
All out of words, he did the only thing he’d
ever relied on for comfort. He pulled her into his arms and pressed his lips to
hers, lips he’d used to watch as she sung, lips he could visualize around his
cock as she’d given him her first-ever blow job,
lips that he’d missed. They were soft and sweet, just like Jenny. Her fingers
slid into his hair, her nails trailing along his scalp in a way that never
failed to make him shiver. She remembered this. Their bodies remembered the way
they were together. So did his dick, which was pressed up against her.
He knew it was over the moment her hands slid
their way to his chest, and his heart broke all over again as she pushed him
away.
“See, this is why I can’t be around you, Nik,”
she cried. “It’s impossible to resist you. And we don’t belong together
anymore.”
Nik shook his head. “Don’t do this, Jenny. We
deserve a second chance to see what we’ve got. We are perfect together.”
“Were, Nik. We were perfect together.
Don’t you see? It’s all past tense.” Jenny turned and hurried down the street.
“Jenny. Wait.” He jogged to catch up with her.
“There was nothing past tense about that kiss, or the way you turn me on as
much as you always did. There is nothing past tense about the way the sun
catches your hair and turns it the color of a cornfield in fall. And I know you
hate star references but there is nothing past tense about the way your fucking
eyes light up your face like the Big Dipper, lights up the night-fucking-sky”
he said. “I don’t want what we were to be the sum total of everything we
ever add up to.”
The tattoo across my right hip says it all really. A Life Less Ordinary. Inked
by the amazingly talented Luke Wessman at the Wooster Street Social Club
(a.k.a. New York Ink). Why is it important? Well, it sums up my view on life.
That we should all aspire to live a life that is less boring, less predictable.
Be bold, and do something amazing. I’ve made some crazy choices. I’ve been a
car maker, a consultant, and even a senior executive at a large retailer
running strategy. Born in England, spent time in the U.S. and Japan, before
ending up in Canada were I met my own,
personal hero – all six and a half feet of him. Both of us are scorpios! Yeah, I know! Should have checked the
astrological signs earlier, but somehow it works for us. We have two amazing
kids, who I either could never part with or could easily be convinced to sell
on e-bay.
I’ve wanted to be a writer for a really
long time. Check through my office cupboards or my computer and you’ll find
half written stories and character descriptions everywhere. Now I'm getting the
chance to follow that dream.
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