Worth Keeping
by Susan Mac Nicol
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BLURB:
Nick Mathers pulls Owen Butler from the freezing waters off
the Norfolk coast, but Owen’s love can carry Nick back from the edge of
oblivion.
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EXCERPT
Nick cursed the daylight and the
truths it brought with it. He finally moved to get up, deciding a morning woody
was worth the embarrassment as opposed to this thorough inspection of his body.
Owen grasped his shoulder,
holding him back. Nick stilled at the expression on Owen’s face, a mixture of
compassion and something else—sheer tenderness. He lost his breath at that
look. Nick was torn between badly wanting this man to touch him and fleeing.
He stayed. Owen’s long, warm
fingers started to explore his past. Owen’s fingers moved lightly over Nick’s
chest, touching the scars, finding the long, jagged one underneath his right
arm that trailed down to his ribs.
Nick’s own morning hard-on got
steelier by the minute at the other man’s gentle touch. Owen drew a deep,
shuddering breath. “Jesus, Nick, someone really did a number on you.” His voice
was uncertain. “Unless you did that to yourself?”
Nick laughed shortly. “No, I
can’t take the credit for these ones. Not my work.”
Owen shook his head in
incredulity. “Who the fuck could do this to someone? Nick, what the hell
happened to you?”
Nick shook his head. “I don’t
want to talk about it,” he whispered. He shivered as Owen’s fingertips slowly
circled the burns. Then Owen did something totally unexpected. He leaned forward
and kissed one of them. It was a soft, fleeting caress by a pair of warm lips
that felt incredibly good against Nick’s skin. Nick pulled back defensively,
sitting up, but Owen’s hand moved gently, pushing him back. The duvet fell to
Nick’s hips and he closed his eyes in mortification at the tenting of it around
his groin.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Susan Mac Nicol was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. At
the age of eight, her family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa where she
stayed for nearly thirty years before arriving back in the UK in December 2000.
She has written nine novels, two novellas and a screenplay since February 2012
and clearly believes in keeping herself busy. She has found herself wanting to
stay in the genre that is M/M Romance so more can definitely be expected.
Sue is a member of Romance Writers of America and Romantic Novelists
Association in the UK. She is also a member of a rather unique writing group,
called the Talliston Writer’s Circle, which in itself has a story all of its
own to tell and lives in the rural village of Bocking, in Essex, with her
family. Her plan is to keep writing as long as her muse sits upon her shoulder.
Her dream is to one day make enough money to give up the day job and get that
big old house in the English countryside overlooking a river, where she can
write all day and continue to indulge her passion for telling stories.
Social Media:
website: www.susanmacnicol.com
blog: susanmacnicol.wordpress.com
facebook: www.facebook.com/susiemax77
twitter: www.twitter.com/SusanMacNicol7
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