Snippet Saturday ~ Setting
Welcome to another Snippet Saturday! Today's theme is Setting! Check out my excerpt and then hop along to the other blogs! Have a great weekend!
Revenge can be sweet…and oh so sexy.
Lena Richards's whirlwind vacation to Europe with a friend is a welcome chance to shake her pre-wedding jitters—until she learns her high-school sweetheart is cheating on her, Hawaiian-style. Figuring all's fair, she indulges in a fling of her own with a sexy New Yorker she meets in Amsterdam whose kiss blows her mind—and the lid off her hormones.
Tyler Bentz is wary that the petite bombshell, who only a short time ago insisted their one kiss must never happen again, has done a complete 180. His questions only make it clear she's interested in probing of the sexual kind. Who is he to turn her down?
As they burn their way across Europe, something shifts, and it's not just the earth moving with their exploding passion. Lena begins to realize what it really means to fall in love. And Tyler finds himself tumbling hard and fast.
Reality catches up with them in Paris, leaving Tyler to wonder if Lena's really the one, or if he's nothing more to her than a pawn in her game of revenge.
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EXCERPT
"Will you please get up? You're sleeping the entire day away."
Lena groaned and pulled the pillow over her head. She may as well have had a hangover for how awful she felt. What a long flight that had been.
"It's not daytime, Steph. It's the middle of the freaking night."
Stephanie spun from the mirror and pounced on her, dragging the blankets off Lena's curled up body. "It is the middle of the night in Portland. We, in case you haven't noticed, are in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Lena. It's ten in the morning here. Now get your ass out of bed before I drag you out."
Lena answered with her face still buried against the pillow. "Can't we just take a couple more hours to sleep?"
"No, we can't sleep. I want to go eat Dutch pancakes and drink wonderful coffee." Stephanie grabbed Lena's leg and jerked her toward the edge of the bed. "Once you have your coffee, you'll feel fine."
Lena pulled her leg back from Stephanie and then sat up on her own.
"Jesus." Stephanie sat back on her heels, her face settling into an expression of wonder. "What did you do to your hair?"
"Don't make me hit you. You know I'm not exactly Mary Poppins in the morning." Lena yawned and patted down the hairs on her head that were sticking straight up. "I'll go shower."
An hour later they strolled down the streets of Amsterdam, careful to avoid the astonishing amount of bicyclists. Cars rarely passed by.
Lena had traded in her pajamas for jeans and a black sweater, with a heavy wool coat to combat the cold. She nursed a latté as they walked the streets of the city. The weather must've been just above freezing. It almost hurt to breathe. Not
that she cared. She was in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam.
"This is too amazing. Saying thank you seems somewhat inadequate." Lena glanced at her friend, giving her a big grin. "So where do we go now?"
"This great café." Stephanie stepped to the right and allowed a bicyclist to pass on the left. He smiled, waved, and pedaled on by. Stephanie's gaze followed him down the road. "People are so friendly here. Not to mention hot."
"I don't really look anymore." Lena shrugged and paused to lean over the rail of the bridge they were on. "But this view is gorgeous."
The canal shimmered in the muted winter sunlight. Tour boats glided through the icy water. Beyond the canal lay buildings that had probably been around longer than America had been a country.
Lena inhaled the cool air and watched her breath drift upward as she exhaled. "Do you smell that? It smells like aged Gouda…" Her nose scrunched. "And cigarettes."
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