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Special Excerpt from Out of Time!!

In light of all the positive feedback from Nine Minute fans, I have decided to release a small excerpt from Out of Time. This is unedited. 

Enjoy!

 

 Just then, Kit walked in. She had been outside taking care of her garden. She was growing vegetables in the back of the motel. Grizz insisted that she keep one of the dogs with her at all times. He had recently noticed that there had been more alligator activity than usual at the motel and he knew that Damien or Lucifer would alert her if they detected an intruder of any kind.

He had taken some light hearted ribbing about how pretty the front of the motel was becoming. He had allowed his young wife to spruce up the place a bit. In addition to her vegetable garden, she had planted flowers along the motel sidewalk and she recently added hanging plants outside their unit. He thought it might have been helping with her depression a little bit, but his gut had been telling him it wasn’t enough. He needed to figure out a way to let her go to college. That was why Axel was there.

“Hi Axel,” Kit said. “I didn’t know you were here.” She walked over to him and planted a light kiss on his cheek. “Do you want to stay for dinner? I made a roast. There’s plenty.”

Axel looked at her innocently. “Well, if you think you’ll have enough.”

“I’ll definitely have enough,” she answered him as she walked over to Grizz and kissed him on the top of his head before checking her roast.

“Okay, Kit. If you insist.”

Grizz rolled his eyes.

“I need fifteen minutes to get it all together,” she told them as they stood.

“We’ll be in the pit,” Grizz told her. “Just yell.”

“Yep,” was all she said. Kit set dinner up buffet style on the kitchen counter. There was a small dinette table that she and Grizz ate their meals on. It was very rare that someone was invited into number four to eat with them. It wasn’t a big table so she set the food on the counter. The three of them could serve themselves then sit wherever they wanted.

“She’s not limping as much,” Axel commented to Grizz as they headed for the pit.

Axel remembered a few weeks earlier he was at the motel and standing on the sidewalk in front of number four. He was deep in conversation with Grizz and Chowder when they heard a small cry. Kit had been jogging around the front of the motel on the old and crumbling asphalt. She must have landed wrong and lost her footing. Grizz was immediately at her side and effortlessly picked her up cradling her closely.

“I’m okay, Grizz. I just stepped funny,” she said wincing.

“You’re not okay. Your ankle is already swelling. We need to get you inside and get some ice on it.” Before she could reply he shouted at Chowder, “Get this fucking road paved. She could’ve broken her ankle.”

Chowder watched as he carried Kit into number four. “I’ve been asking you for five years to let me get it paved. It wreaks havoc on the bikes and cars too.”

“Just do it!” was his reply as he entered number four.

“Yeah, it was just a bad sprain. She seems fine,” Grizz answered Axel. They made their way to the pit and resumed their business.

Less than fifteen minutes later she stuck her head outside the door of number four.

“Dinner’s ready, guys!”

She ran into the bedroom to change her blouse. She had somehow managed to spill gravy down the front of it while she was setting the food out. She had quickly changed and was running some cold water from the bathroom sink over the gravy stain when she heard a small commotion. She left her blouse in the sink and headed out through the bedroom and into the kitchen and living room area. She stopped dead in her tracks. She felt a wave of nausea and then panic. Grizz and Axel were in the kitchen. Blood was everywhere.

“We need to call Grunt or doc. You definitely need stitches,” Axel was saying to Grizz while he was reaching for the dish towel that Kit kept hung on the oven door.

“I don’t need stitches,” Grizz replied.

“Oh my God!” Kit yelled. “What happened? Oh no! Grizz, did you get in another fight? Who hit you? Let me see it!”

“Kit, I didn’t get in a fight and you can’t see it. There’s nothing to see.”

“Yes there is. It’s bad, Grizz. Looked real deep. You definitely need stitches,” Axel piped in.

“Shut up, Axel. I don’t need stitches,” Grizz replied in an aggravated tone.

“Let me see it,” Kit was saying while standing on her  toes. Grizz had the dish towel pressed to his forehead. There was blood all over his face and running down his right arm.

“Nothing to see, Kit. Axel can help me put a bandage on it. Why don’t you help with that, honey? Go back into the bathroom and get some bandages and alcohol or something. Go on. Get me some stuff to clean it up with.”

Kit reluctantly headed back into the bedroom. They could hear her rustling around in the medicine cabinet.

“You definitely are going to need stitches. I’m telling you, Grizz. It’s really deep. I got a good look before you covered it up with the towel. Fuck man, you already need another towel,” Axel told him.

“Fine. Give Grunt a call, he can stitch it up. I just didn’t want Kit to see it. Blood makes her as woozy as needles. Hurry up. Call him.”

“Blood too? Really? Boy, did she ever marry the wrong guy then,” Axel muttered under his breath as he picked up the phone.

Kit came back out then carrying antiseptic, bandages and medical tape. She also had a pile of washcloths. Grizz grabbed a washcloth from her and swapped it for the bloody one before she could take a good look.

“Oh Grizz. What happened? If you’re this bloody and messed up I don’t know if I even want to know what happened to the other guy,” she said, worry evident in her tone of voice.

“Nobody else got hurt, Kit. You don’t need to worry,” he answered her while taking a seat at the small kitchen table. “Head wounds bleed a lot. It’s not a big deal. Doesn’t even hurt.”

“You’re a bloody mess and have a cut that needs stitches and you don’t think I should be worried about the other guy? C’mon, Grizz. I’m not stupid. Is there someone else out there that needs help?”

“Kit, I did not get in a fight. I did not hurt anyone. Okay?”

“Really? You come in here looking like you do and expect me to believe that the other guy is walking away?” She was standing in front of him, hands on her hips. She had been down this road many times before. She didn’t even want to think about the time Grizz came home with a bullet wound. She kept glancing at the door and Grizz knew she was debating whether or not to go outside and check for herself.

“There is no other guy, Kitten.”

Before she could challenge him, he added, “I cracked my head on one of your hanging planters.’ 

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Only me.

“You could never disappoint me, baby and I don’t want you to have experience. Everything you need to know you’ll learn from me,” he said as he turned me around and kissed me. “Only me.”

Who wants a free book?

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A winner is randomly picked by this awesome contraption below.

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Only me.

“You could never disappoint me, baby and I don’t want you to have experience. Everything you need to know you’ll learn from me,” he said as he turned me around and kissed me. “Only me.”

An open letter to my readers

I’ve never blogged before and I’m really, really excited to try it! In this space I hope to share some of my occasional thoughts with you-about Nine Minutes, about my new book, about writing in general, and about this wild ride we call life. I‘d also like to use this blog to answer some of the questions that I‘ve been receiving.

Today I just want to take a few minutes and thank you, my readers and supporters, for walking this journey with me. I truly appreciate your comments and your kind words about Nine Minutes and what it means to you personally.

I started writing the book for myself, and when it was finished I was a little nervous about sharing it, even with my friends. But to my surprise, they not only liked it, they loved it, and encouraged me to pursue my dream of publishing it. Fast forward a year later, and now my book is available for purchase and growing in popularity on Amazon and Goodreads! (Well, I could use a few more reviews on Goodreads – so if you can write one I would appreciate it!) It’s been an amazing journey and has taught me so much.

Right now, I’m struggling with making the time to promote Nine Minutes and finish my second book in the series, Out of Time. I’m already more than half way through. It’s exciting and scary the second time around, but I’m up for the challenge.

Please feel free to write or email me anytime. I’d love to hear from you!

xoxo,

Beth