Exclusive Extra: Advance Excerpt From Sailor & Ísa's Book
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Author's Note: This is an extremely advanced excerpt from my work in progress, so it may change in the final book. I hope you enjoy seeing this glimpse of how Ísa and Sailor first met!
Advanced Excerpt from Sailor & Ísa's Book
by Nalini Singh
He wasn’t human.
That was the only explanation.
No one was that perfect. Like soda commercial perfect. Her toes had curled at first sight of him, but she’d managed to resist temptation for an hour. Then she’d peeked out because she couldn’t help herself and what was he doing but taking off his T-shirt! That wasn’t fair. It didn’t matter if he was getting hot and sweaty doing all that manual labor fixing up the school’s gardens; it simply wasn’t fair to the female sex for him to take off his T-shirt and reveal all that rippling golden muscle.
If that wasn’t bad enough, he was wearing khaki work shorts and they were short enough to reveal the edges of a tattoo that circled the upper part of his thigh. Ísa wanted to run outside and order him to put on some damn clothes! How was she supposed to keep her head down and concentrate on her lesson plans when he was out there exuding male pheromones like they were going out of business?
“Ms. Rain, what’s so interesting?”
Jumping at the sound of the principal’s voice, Ísa turned—and tried not to look too suspicious. “Nothing,” she said brightly. “Just taking a break.”
After fixing the long chain around her neck, the older woman walked over to the window. “Nice view.”
Ísa felt her cheeks go hot red in flagrant disregard of all her commands and thoughts to the contrary. Mumbling something incoherent, she went to stand by her desk, where she shuffled paper around just to give her hands something to do. She should be mortified—and she was—but she was also disappointed at losing that “nice view.”
Principal Cafferty laughed. “Admiring a fine hunk of a man is hardly a crime, Ms. Rain. If I was twenty years younger, I’d do more than get an eyeful.” A wink that made Ísa burst out in laughter herself.
“Maybe we should give him detention for having abs-of-distraction,” she suggested after catching her breath.
© Copyright 2017 Nalini Singh
If you haven't tried my contemporaries yet but enjoyed this excerpt, check out Rock Hard, which features Sailor's brother, Gabriel. You can read an excerpt from Rock Hard on this page of my website.
Rock Hard
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