Excerpt
We
stand in a ridiculous line (my opinion) to grab a coffee at the original
Starbucks, and Macy pulls out her phone.
“Now we’ll take our coffees and go drink them somewhere
cool.” She pulls me along back the way we came, hops on the Link again, headed
back toward the hotel.
“Where
is this cool place?” I fight the urge to take the reins. She’s lost. We’re
headed nowhere.
“Just
wait. It’s gonna be cool. I asked the concierge about it before you got up,
too, so it’s not just me and Google that thinks so.”
We
walk a short block in the opposite direction of the hotel, past the gleaming
steel and glass public library, which Macy takes several pictures of as we
walk.
We
cross the street, and she walks up to the front doors of a grey stone modern
office building.
“What?”
I feel a little unsettled. I’m the one who does the surprising.
“Trust
me.” She takes my hand and pulls me in through the revolving doors.
We
get on the elevator, and she presses the button for the seventh floor.
“Okay.”
I stand next to her, but I’m concentrating mostly on the way it feels to have
her hand on mine. I think about her lips on mine, her hips against mine…
And
then she coughs. It’s two, quick coughs, but there’s that rattle again.
And
my mind’s back on the business of keeping her well, keeping her safe.
We
get off the elevator. She looks like a kid with a great secret. “Just wait.
This is so cool.”
“You
haven’t been here, how do you know?”
“Don’t
be a crank. Nobody likes the stick in the mud.”
“Fine.”
She
pulls me through another set of chrome and glass doors.
And
yeah, she’s right. It’s pretty cool.
So
apparently Macy from Teton County, Idaho, has discovered the rooftop park
hidden in the middle of downtown Seattle. And it’s gorgeous. She hands me my coffee
and walks over to the railing. The sun is out, and the water and the waterfront
is laid out in front of us.
“There’s
the Space Needle! We’re going there later today. After dinner.”
I
laugh. “Are you at least going to let me pick a spot for dinner?”
“Do
you want to?” She doesn’t look like she wants me to.
“There’s
a great place I know, and it’s a short walk from the hotel.”
“Fine.”
She takes a sip from her coffee and looks out over the view.
I
kiss her on the cheek again. “Don’t sulk.”
She
turns and kisses me full-on, on the lips, for the briefest possible moment,
before pulling away and facing out to the view again. “I’m not.” I taste mint
and feel sparks down to the base of my spine.
Then
she smiles the slyest, crookedest grin I’ve seen. I haven’t seen her smile like
that.
And
I grin back.
Use Somebody is Beck Anderson's
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Releasing October 8th.
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Blurb
Jeremy King, Hollywood über-agent to the
stars, knows that sharks gotta swim. He’s one of them, after all. He’s never
met a deal he couldn’t strike or an argument he couldn’t win. LA is his kind of
town—they both never stop moving.
So when his friend and client, movie star
Andrew Pettigrew, invites him on a “man-cation” to the wilds of Idaho for a
little fly-fishing, Jeremy’s not so sure. He might not have cell service.
There’s no way there’ll be any supermodels to woo. And his idea of the great
outdoors is a drive down the Pacific Coast Highway in his Tesla Model S—moose
definitely do not factor into the picture.
Fitting then that because of a moose, he
meets Macy Shea Summerlin, the best fly-fishing guide on the South Fork.
Jeremy’s surprised and tantalized, but Macy isn’t having any of his alpha male
posturing. She gives as good as she gets, and she knows how to throw a mean
right hook.
As the two of them get tangled up in each
other’s lives, both Jeremy and Macy must come to terms with winning and losing
and letting love in. And Jeremy has to find the answer to his own question: Is
he simply “using” Macy or could he really “use” someone like her? Find out in
Use Somebody, book 3 of the Fix You series.
About the
Author:
Beck Anderson is a two-time Rita©
finalist and author of four novels including the Fix You series and The
Jeweler. She’s also a wife, a mom, an educator, and a walker of a small,
bossy dog-slash-evil genius.
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