Under the Scrubs by Katerina Baker Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Under
the Scrubs
by
Katerina Baker
Genre:
Romantic Suspense
My
life is ordinary, steady, predictable. And I’m okay with that.
Working long shifts at the hospital is all the excitement I
need.
But
when a simple rescue-attempt goes wrong, I find myself in the arms of
an arrogant, yet sexy FBI agent.
Kai
Evans is what I’d call way out of my league. Yet, we end up dating.
Sort of. That’s if you count fast-bike escapes and kissing while
bullets fly around us as a date.
While
Kai tries to keep me safe and alive, Tyler Moore--an ex FBI agent
with a smart mouth--slithers into my life. Turns out, Kai and Taylor
have a history. The kind that can’t be erased with a simple
handshake.
Now
it’s all about settling the score between them, and Taylor has the
perfect weapon to use against Kai…
Me.
We’re
halfway there when we hear male voices. Apart from a single willow
tree with a narrow trunk and immaculate strawberry fields, there’s
nothing between the fence and the exit of the house that we came out
of. Nowhere to hide. “Play
along,” he murmurs. I
don’t have a second to blink as he swings me around, pinning me
against the tree trunk. I gasp, then all air vanishes from my lungs
as his wide chest crushes into me. I stop breathing. My heart follows
suit. This man pressing into me doesn’t feel like my ride home; his
large palms cradling my face and his ripped body covering me act like
he has the right of his possession. He
kisses me. His warm mouth covers mine, his rough stubble awakening
the nerve endings on my face I wasn’t aware existed. For a split
moment, I forget where I am. Or whom I’m kissing. My hands end up
plastered against his chest. Our tongues twist together, and I feel
his broken incisor. It’s like that first ride on a roller
coaster—exhilarating, exciting, scary, certain to make you spend
all your money on riding it over and over again until your head spins
and there’s no more air in your lungs from screaming. My
mind’s on that rollercoaster. My
response? I count to ten, willing my mind to come to its senses. Come
on, Mind. Get yourself in order. This kiss is a distraction
technique. Wait. Distraction? For whom? Mind, focus, damn it. I
only realize my eyes have been closed after Taylor releases me. I
flit them open, panic rushing through my veins. Was this whole-body
entanglement really warranted, or could we have gotten away with a
tiny lips-only smooch? What have we done? I
push against his chest. He holds onto me, warning flashing in his
expression. Remember where we are. Two
men in dark navy suits stand in front of us. The roller coaster ride
comes to a screeching halt as the operator has just realized I’m
under the height limit. “Why
are you here, Taylor?” one of them asks. His eyes sweep my bare
feet, tears in my stockings, then move up higher again. Can my
messed-up appearance be attributed to a rough, passionate lovemaking
against the willow tree instead of a failed escape from the Oliver
residence? Wait!
No, no. I
shouldn’t be imagining sex with Taylor. He’s Francesca’s
boyfriend, I’m with Kai. Oh man, this is so messed up. Taylor
shrugs, and a lazy smirk lights up his face. “Strawberry fields
impress chicks.” Here
my mind does a mental flip. They’re not going to buy it. What kind
of a ‘chick’ would go for a line like that? I’m either
completely ignorant, or these men are referring to different chicks
from those I’ve had the pleasure knowing in my life. Or maybe they
look at Taylor and assume he’d be able to convince a woman to do it
anywhere. You be the judge. All I can say is that from this point on,
they seem to have been given permission to openly examine my legs and
the rest of my body. I glare at Taylor. He’s going to pay for this
later.
Katerina Baker is a lucky gal who still attempts to have it all: full-time project management job that she enjoys, crazy family of four (with the ongoing threats of getting a pet to upset the family equilibrium) and writing.
Although on some days she is much
more successful at managing her life than on the others, she still
claims that she doesn’t want it any other way.
Katerina’s latest novel Under
the Scrubs will be published in the spring of 2019 by Limitless
Publishing. Her YA novel Blue is represented by Sharon Belcastro from
Belcastro Agency.
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