Three, Two, One (321) by J.A. Huss
Publication date: January 28th 2015
Genres: Erotica, Romance, Suspense
Publication date: January 28th 2015
Genres: Erotica, Romance, Suspense
Synopsis:
ONE GIRL
Battered, barefoot, and huddled under a bookstore awning in the pouring rain, Blue only knows one thing. After fifteen months of captivity, finally… she is free.
TWO FRIENDS
Self-made millionaires JD and Ark are not out to save anyone when they stumble upon a wet and shivering girl one early Sunday morning. But when you sell sex for a living and salvation rings your bell… you answer the call.
THREE SOULMATES
After years of searching, love lifts the veil of darkness, and three people—with three very big secrets—find themselves bound together in a relationship that defies the odds.
Or does it?
Love. Lust. Sex.
This trinity might be perfection… but not everything should come in threes.
WARNING: This is a STANDALONE non-traditional M/F/M ROMANCE with a non-traditional ending.
Battered, barefoot, and huddled under a bookstore awning in the pouring rain, Blue only knows one thing. After fifteen months of captivity, finally… she is free.
TWO FRIENDS
Self-made millionaires JD and Ark are not out to save anyone when they stumble upon a wet and shivering girl one early Sunday morning. But when you sell sex for a living and salvation rings your bell… you answer the call.
THREE SOULMATES
After years of searching, love lifts the veil of darkness, and three people—with three very big secrets—find themselves bound together in a relationship that defies the odds.
Or does it?
Love. Lust. Sex.
This trinity might be perfection… but not everything should come in threes.
WARNING: This is a STANDALONE non-traditional M/F/M ROMANCE with a non-traditional ending.
EXCERPT:
I
walk quietly over to the door and press my ear against it to listen. I can hear
the clicking of a computer keyboard, then the rolling wheels of a chair.
Finally soft footsteps as he pads towards the doors. I back away, afraid of
being caught. But he doesn’t slide them open. Instead, the lights flick off and
then his footsteps retreat. I hear the crack of a beer bottle being opened, and
then a sigh.
I
slide the doors apart, just enough to peek inside.
There’s
a large monitor on the desk sitting on front of a wall of windows. And on the
screen are the images he took of me this morning. Of JD and me. And of the
three of us out on the terrace. They flip by, hundreds of them, at least. Maybe
thousands. I look over at the couch where he’s sitting with a beer propped up
on his leg, staring at me.
“You
can look at them if you come in here to do it.”
I
don’t know how he wants me to respond, so I’m unsure if I want to look at them
or run back to JD’s room and hide.
“I’m
sorry about that,” Ark says, clearing his throat. “It’s just… JD stopped
thinking about her, ya know? It took him so fucking long to stop thinking about
her. And now here you are with a clue. And…”
I
step into the room.
“And
he’s gonna go looking for shit again, I just know it.”
I
take another step towards him and Ark pats the space on the couch next to him.
“I love these pictures. Come look at them with me.”
I
take two more steps, and then I’m within arm’s reach and he slips his hand in
mine.
My
body shivers from his touch, but I let him pull me the rest of the way, and
take a seat as he lets go. My butt is barely perched on the cushion, my hands
in my lap, my body on high alert in case he wants to hurt me.
But
he doesn’t. He surprises me by scooting away, propping his back against the
armrest, and stretching out his legs behind me. They are long and in the way,
so now I can’t lean back.
He
takes a swig from his beer. “I saw you this morning. God, has it only been one
day?” I know what he means. It feels like I’ve been in their house forever.
“And answers were the last thing on my mind, Blue. I mean, fuck. I’d given up,
just like JD. I gave up a while back, actually. Just accepted that this was the
way things were. The way my life was gonna go. But fuck.”
I
don’t know what any of that means, but I take that it’s not good by the way he
finishes the beer and then throws it across the room, where it lands cleanly in
an open-top trash can near the desk. “Get me another one, will you?”
I
look down at him and squint.
He
stares back. His eyes are bleary, and red, and now that I look closely, tired.
Not tired like he needs sleep. But tired in a way I can relate to. The kind of
tired where your body feels heavy and your mind feels empty. “Never mind,” he
says in a soft voice that I’ve never heard before. He says it, but he doesn’t
stop staring.
“What?”
I ask, getting uncomfortable.
“Why’d
you come in here?”
“I
was…” I was looking for my money so I could leave. But this guy. These guys…
they are pulling me towards them somehow. JD and his charm. Ark and his
distance. And despite the fact that they take advantage of girls for a living,
they feel very… vulnerable. It feels precarious. Like the whole thing might
come crashing down at any moment. Like they are held together by some invisible
thread. And not some mental connection or shared experience, either. Although I
have no doubt they have all that too.
Held
together by a thread that’s invisible because it’s nearly gone.
We
are alike, then. Aren’t we?
Three
people brought together by the early-morning rain.
Two
of us clinging together, trying to stick it out. Ride the wave until it
crashes, and then help each other up to start all over again.
One
of us already dead. Still walking, but not living. Waiting to be saved. Or
maybe wanting to be the one who does the saving.
AUTHOR BIO:
JA Huss is the USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty romances. She likes stories about family, loyalty, and extraordinary characters who struggle with basic human emotions while dealing with bigger than life problems. JA loves writing heroes who make you swoon, heroines who makes you jealous, and the perfect Happily Ever After ending.
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