TWISTED TWOSOME
From the first day I met Racer McKay, I knew our interaction was going to be incredibly brief. First impressions really do matter and unfortunately, I didn’t make a very good one.
At the time, I didn’t think much of it. I was never going to see this man again, right?
Wrong! When I’m met with the opportunity of a lifetime, there is only one man in the state of New York who can assist me. And can you guess who it is?
But what I don’t realize is he needs me just as much as I need him. I have money he’s desperate for, and he holds the key to making my dreams come true.
So, we reluctantly join forces.
Our pranks turn from sarcastic banter, to sexual tension and lust-filled glances. Bickering matches quickly morph into slow burn moments. We’re hot, we’re cold. We push and pull. I need him, I don’t want him. We’re on the verge of combusting with an agreement dangling dangerously between us. Neither one of us can afford to lose one another and yet, we’re finding it quite hard to decipher the line that rests between love and hate.
*Twisted Twosome is a stand alone romantic comedy.
EXCERPT:
**GEORGIANA**
“So, are you ready for tonight?” Madison
asks.
The heat of the sun intensifies with the mention
of tonight. It’s beating down on
me, building up the pressure, circling me in an
inferno of what’s to come.
Tonight.
I don’t think I’ve ever been more nervous in my
entire life. Even when I was
forced to go with Danny Leshay to senior prom
because it was part of my
father’s business deal with a client. My dad buys
out a lumberyard, and in
return, I have to go with the guy’s son to prom.
Thoughts of being stabbed and
murdered on the side of the road by someone I
didn’t know terrified me.
Thanks, Dad!
“I’m prepared but so freaking nervous.” I turn on
my side and face Madison. “I
have that sinking feeling he’s going to say no.”
“How can he say no, G? You’ve run through your
presentation a million times.
I’ve seen it. You are solid with all your numbers,
with your projections; it’s an
easy yes.”
“To any other businessman, my presentation is an
easy yes, but to my dad . . . I
have this horrible feeling it’s going to be a hard
pass.”
And that’s the honest truth. He’s a good man, but
when it comes to me, I’m his
little girl, not an aspiring entrepreneur.
“You might be surprised.” Madison takes a big sip
from her drink. “He wasn’t
happy at first about you going to Northwestern and
earning your master’s in
business, but he changed his mind about that.”
I roll my eyes. “Yeah, because on paper, I’m more
appealing to one of the
‘husbands’ my dad has chosen for me. An educated
girl is a girl with goals and
motivation, one that will be able to participate
with knowledgeable
commentary in dry, pointless conversations at
charitable events. My entire life
leading to this point has been a long and
drawn-out finishing school run, and
operated by my father, preparing me for the very
moment I meet the one man I
can stand at his side, woo his clients, and be the
trophy wife I’ve been morphed
into.” I set my drink on the table between us and
rest my hands under my
cheek. “I want so much more, Madison.”
“If you had red hair and was brushing it with a
fork right now, I would think
you were the little mermaid.”
“I’m serious.” I laugh just as cursing from a
thousand men breaks up our little
conversation.
From the side of the pool where renovations for
the pool house are taking
place, the lone construction worker is holding his
finger between his jean-clad
legs.
Madison sits up and lifts her sunglasses to get a
look at the commotion. “Did
you hammer a nail into your finger over there?”
The man who’s been working on the building for a
few weekends looks up at
us. His head is covered by a backward black
baseball cap, his chest is bronze
from working many hours outside this summer, and
it’s hard not to notice the
corded muscles wrapped around his entire body,
from his chiseled stomach to
his powerful biceps. To be honest, it hasn’t been
a chore watching him these
last few weekends.
What’s-His- Name looks up and pops his finger in
his mouth, sucking on it as
his body ripples under the brightness of the
sun.
“Damn,” Madison mutters under her breath just as
the man pops his finger out
of his mouth. “Mama likes.”
Unable to hear Madison slowly discredit his
self-respect, he gruffly says, “I’m
good.” Not giving us a second thought, he shakes
his hand and turns back
toward his project.
Never having spoken to the man—I’ve only seen him
around—I cautiously say,
“You sure? Kind of looks like you’re hurt.”
Slowly he turns his head in my direction, his eyes
cutting me a look of
indignation. “I’m good, Princess. No need to set
your cocktail down to check
on me.”
Pardon me? Was that attitude?
I sit up, my legs straddling my lounge chair and
tip my sunglasses up so he can
see my dissatisfaction in his choice of words.
“It’s Georgiana, not princess.”
Picking up his hammer, he shoves it in a holster
attached to his side and says,
“Could have fooled me.”
“Oooooo,” Madison says as if she’s in grade
school. “Burned.” She sits back in
her chair, taking a sip of her drink as if she’s
preparing for the show of a
lifetime, one she might just get.
Slowly, I set my drink down and stand. I adjust
the fabric of my swimsuit
bottom so it’s covering my ass and saunter over to
the man, now sorting nails
as he casually glances in my direction.
When I stand in front of him, I watch his eyes
travel over my barely covered
frame until he meets me head-on. His staggering
height doesn’t intimidate me,
even though he towers over my petite frame. He
appears strong and powerful
with a hard set in his jaw.
“What did you say?” I ask, a hand on my hip.
Not giving me his complete attention, he says,
“You heard what I said or else
you wouldn’t be over here trying to put on a
front.”
“Put on a front?” My voice sounds a little shrill
from the accusation. “I’m not
putting on a front.”
“Yeah?” He pulls a rag from his back pocket, lifts
his hat, and wipes his brow.
His blond hair sticks up in all different
directions with beads of sweat at the tips
that aren’t covered by his hat. “So you’re not
trying to act intimidating in front
of your friend? You know, push around the hired
help to make yourself feel
better?”
“Excuse me?” Two seconds ago I was irritated, now
I’m mad. “How dare you
make such an awful accusation about me. You don’t
know a thing about me.”
“I know enough,” he answers and turns around to
nail another board for the
new siding. His incessant hammering has ensured a
headache all morning.
“Hey.” I poke his sweaty back, trying to ignore
how amazingly tight it feels
under my index finger. “I suggest if you want to
keep your job you show a little
respect.”
Whoa, can we all say it together? Georgiana,
you’re a bitch. The words felt
dirty leaving my mouth. I really don’t act like
this, like my—gulp—parents, but
I’m tired, anxious about meeting with my dad, and
irritated. It’s a cataclysmic
combination and when that happens, nothing good
comes from it. I’m about to
apologize when he starts to go off on me.
“Respect? You want to talk respect?” He spins on
his heel and holds up his
hammer. “What do you know about respect, Princess?
From where I see it, you
know nothing. Every weekend I’ve been here, you’ve
ordered people around,
watching them wait on you hand and foot,
complained about not having any
money, gossiped about every bad boob job in town,
and have yet to be pleasant
to anyone who stands an inch beneath you.” He goes
to hammer again but turns
around once more and says, “And the heels you just
had to wear out to the pool
ripped a fucking hole in my nail gun hose, giving
me no other option than to
nail these boards by hand, adding on time I can’t afford.
So, Princess, excuse
me for upsetting you, but I’m sticking with the
nickname. It fits you to a T. Oh,
and just so you know, sandals. Sandals are the
proper footwear you should be
wearing around the pool.” He rolls his eyes, turns
around, and starts hammering
another nail into the siding of the pool
house.
How dare he!
“That’s what you think I am? Some whiney brat?”
“If the unnecessary high heel fits,
Princess.”
Unsure of what to do. I stomp my foot and say,
“Well, I’m not.”
Pretty sure my reaction just solidified his
assumption.
“Tantrums don’t work on me; try your daddy.” He
continues to hammer away,
his back muscles shimmering with each
movement.
“Maybe I will. We’ll see what he has to say about
this little conversation.”
He places another nail against the board and
starts hammering. “Wouldn’t be
shocked if you did. You step on my hose, ruin my
chances of getting this
project done today, which only prolongs my time
here, cutting down on my
chance to make more money since I’m getting paid a
flat rate, and now you
want to get me fired. Sounds about right. Can’t
take the blame for anything.”
No one has ever been so disrespectful to me.
“How was I supposed to know I stepped on your
stupid hosey thing?”
“Maybe if you pay attention to people and objects
around you, you may have
noticed.”
“You’re a jerk, you know that?” He has me all
wrong, and it is really bothering
me that he pictures me as a spoiled,
inconsiderate, self-consumed brat. That’s
not who I am at all.
“How do you figure? Because the way I see it,
you’re the jerk.” His body fully
turns around to face me, challenge in his eyes,
maybe a bit of humor at the
corner of his lips as he awaits my answer.
Holding my chin high, I say, “Because, instead of
having a hissy fit like a
petulant child, you could have come over to me and
said, ‘Miss Westbrook,
sorry to bother you, but you seem to have poked a
hole in my hose.’ But instead
you decided to stew over here and then pick on me
when I was trying to see if
you were okay from your inability to hammer a nail
into a piece of wood
properly. It’s called being an adult.”
He studies me, hands on his hips, not showing any
kind of reaction. “Being an
adult, huh? And you think you’re an expert at
that?”
“I would say I’m well-versed in the topic.”
He nods, his teeth biting down on his lower lip as
his eyes flick to where
Madison is sitting. “Well-versed, interesting.
Tell me, when did adults start
eating dinosaur chicken nuggets for lunch?”
Just when I’m about to reply, Madison calls out,
“Nuggies are ready, G. Come
eat T-Rex’s arms with me. Roar!”
I shut my eyes tight, willing for this moment to
disappear, maybe praying for
the ground to swallow me whole due to Madison’s
poor timing. The infuriating
man says with a smile, “Your nuggies are
ready, Princess. Don’t want them
getting cold.”
About the Author:
Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if "It's Raining Men" starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.
Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing... enter her first novel, Caught Looking.
Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!
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