A Shameless Little Lie by Meli Raine
Series: The Shameless #2
Publication date: March 27th, 2018
Synopsis (according to Goodreads):
I did it. I admit it.
I fell in love with Silas. My bodyguard. My protector.
My new informant.
We're playing a cat-and-mouse game. I'm not sure whether I'm the cat or the mouse, but I can definitely tell I'm in a trap.
A trap with no way out.
I'm not who everyone thought I was. The truth is over there, finally turning the lie about me inside out. I am the shameless little lie. It's finally been revealed, and now even more people want to kill me.
As a presidential campaign hangs in the balance, a delicate web of international relations and economic stability at risk, power becomes more important than anything else.
Even my life.
Especially my life. I'm a nothing. A no one. Just a took, remember?
But tools can be used to open locks. Cracking open the truth and exposing it could change the balance of power. Tip the scales. Make a presidential campaign turn on a dime.
Too bad Silas doesn't believe me when I tell the truth.
And that may make him the biggest tool of all.
A Shameless Little Lie is book two in the Shameless trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine.
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Excerpt
The first conscious moment I'm aware he's in bed with me comes as I slide my palm against his flat stomach, the layered grooves of his abs bringing me out of slumber. He's so warm, the skin unlike mine, a line of hair in the middle of my hand thickening as I move my hand down. It's warm, hotter as I hit a line of fabric, then brush against something hard and unyielding.
He makes a low sound in his throat. My nose grazes his shoulder. I sigh, the long sound of coming to, the luxurious, slow exhale of post-sleep awakening. My arm is around Silas's waist. He's on his side, turned away from me, and here I am, feeling his bare skin in my sleep.
"Oh!" I say and begin to retreat.
His hand clamps over my wrist. "No. Don't stop."
"But I--"
"Jane," he says roughly, "please don't stop."
His voice holds a richness, his breath coming quickly. A ragged sigh emerges as I make a wordless sound to tell him yes, I'll continue. Yes, I want to touch him. Yes, I want to see the center of his heat.
And yes, I want the heat in me.
"I didn't mean to touch you in your sleep."
"I wasn't asleep."
"I was."
"I know. And the fact that you reach out to me even when you aren't aware of it is enchanting," he whispers as he turns over, my arm now around his back. Silas kisses me until I am very, very much alert.
My hand runs down the long, hard lines of his back to his ass, the coiled power in his legs so strong. He moves toward me, pressing with a mix of urgency and patience. Nothing holds us back now but ourselves. No interruptions, no killers, no meetings, no constant vigilance. For now, we're a man and a woman who want to be stripped bare and to enter into each other's bodies to create a new space.
A refuge.
A haven.
He makes a low sound in his throat. My nose grazes his shoulder. I sigh, the long sound of coming to, the luxurious, slow exhale of post-sleep awakening. My arm is around Silas's waist. He's on his side, turned away from me, and here I am, feeling his bare skin in my sleep.
"Oh!" I say and begin to retreat.
His hand clamps over my wrist. "No. Don't stop."
"But I--"
"Jane," he says roughly, "please don't stop."
His voice holds a richness, his breath coming quickly. A ragged sigh emerges as I make a wordless sound to tell him yes, I'll continue. Yes, I want to touch him. Yes, I want to see the center of his heat.
And yes, I want the heat in me.
"I didn't mean to touch you in your sleep."
"I wasn't asleep."
"I was."
"I know. And the fact that you reach out to me even when you aren't aware of it is enchanting," he whispers as he turns over, my arm now around his back. Silas kisses me until I am very, very much alert.
My hand runs down the long, hard lines of his back to his ass, the coiled power in his legs so strong. He moves toward me, pressing with a mix of urgency and patience. Nothing holds us back now but ourselves. No interruptions, no killers, no meetings, no constant vigilance. For now, we're a man and a woman who want to be stripped bare and to enter into each other's bodies to create a new space.
A refuge.
A haven.
Rest of the Series
A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine (The Shameless #1) -
A Shameless Little Bet by Meli Raine (The Shameless #3) -
[publication date: June 5th, 2018]
About the Author:
Meli Raine writes romantic suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad boys turned good, and Special Ops heroes--and the women who love them.
Meli rode her first motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean long before that. She lives in New England with her family.
