Welcome to
another LoveCats
DownUnder Sunday Smooch!
the winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway
is Pam Swain!
Pam, can
you please email Barbara DeLeo - barb (at) barbaradeleo (dot) com (dot) to receive your copy
of The Bouquet
List!
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And now for
today's Sunday Smooch from Louisa George's new medical romance, Tempted By Hollywood’s Top Doc
Back cover blurb:
Behind
the scenes…
Top-of-his-game neurosurgeon Dr. Jake Lewis has thrown
himself into work in a bid to forget the past. Now, used to high-octane medical
emergencies, he's furious to be temporarily assigned to pander to LA's biggest
diva!
Yet when he meets headstrong assistant-to-the-stars
Lola Bennett, their instant chemistry makes his new job much more tempting!
He's working with her on set in the sultry Bahamas, and it's just a matter of
time before that chemistry reaches boiling point…
Kiss Scene:- Set up: Lola Bennett is the PA to one of the most famous and beautiful
actresses in the world. Consequently, she’s a little suspicious of people
wanting to get close to little old Lola instead of her amazing boss.
Jake caught her up and pulled her to a complete
halt. ‘What…? You think…? Me? With Cameron? Are you for real?’
‘It wouldn’t be the first time that has happened
to me.’
‘Hell, no. You’ve totally got this upside down.
Not at all. Not at all…Has that happened before? A guy has taken you out so you
could introduce him to Cameron?’
‘Yep. One too many times.’ Lola closed her eyes
briefly at the memory, the sharp sting of betrayal. How gullible she’d been…and
was continuing to be. Would she never learn? ‘But she is very beautiful and
rich and famous and on another level. Why wouldn’t anyone be attracted to her?’
Conversely, then, why would anyone be interested
in Lola?
Jake’s jaw stiffened, his eyes blazing in the
streetlight, his grip on her arm firm. ‘I am not attracted to Cameron
Fontaine.’
‘Then you must be blind.’
Strangely, out of nowhere a smile formed on his
lips. ‘Oh, no, my vision is perfect.’
‘Then you must be gay.’ Please, for the love
of all women, including Cameron Fontaine if absolutely necessary, do not be
gay.
‘No way.’ He stepped closer, so she could see
his chest rising and falling, could feel the warmth of his breath on her skin.
Could smell the most exquisite scent of man and medicine and spice.
‘Then what…?’
‘Then this.’ And he was suddenly too close. Not
close enough. He pulled her to face him and his fingertips lifted her chin. ‘This,
Lola.’
His mouth pressed against hers, gently at first,
and her body responded in a flush of heat that pooled deep in her core. Every
part of her craved him, craved to touch him, to kiss him, to feel him against
her.
Initial instinct told her that she shouldn’t
kiss him back, but something deeper, something intense had her opening her
mouth and tasting him. And he tasted good. So good. She felt as inquisitive as
the doomed teenagers stepping into the dark basement, and as filled with
adrenalin. Knowing, like them, she was headed to disaster but doing it anyway.
She wound her arms around his neck and pulled
him closer as his tongue slid past her lips, stoking the furnace that had lit
inside her. She moaned at the pleasure of him filling her mouth, of the curling
clench in her gut, at the sensations that ran up and down her spine, just being
in his arms.
Leaning her against her car door, his hands
cupped her face and he pressed harder against her, kissing her open-mouthed and
wet and hungry. She could feel how much he wanted her. How much he wanted
something from her.
And like listening to an old-fashioned vinyl
record scratching to a stop, she felt a visceral catch as her body stiffened.
She put her hands on his chest and pushed a little away from him. ‘Stop. No.
This…this isn’t…’
‘What is it? What’s wrong?’ But he didn’t let
her go as he hauled in deep ragged breaths, kissed the top of her head and
stayed close.
‘I can’t stop thinking about Cameron and there
are too many questions racing in my head. Too many reasons not to do this.
Please, I think you should just go.’
‘Lola, believe me, this is not about Cameron.
She is the furthest thing from my mind. I don’t want to go. I want to stay
right here, doing this.’
Louisa
is giving away a copy of her book to one lucky commenter! So her question
to you is:
Who would
play you in the movie of your life- and why?
Come back
next Sunday, when the winner of today's giveaway will be announced -- and a smooch
from Kate Hardy's Holiday With The Best Man will be posted!
