Book Name: Awakening
Series: Crossing Desires
Book: One
Release
Date: March 6, 2016
Blurb:
Tony likes women. Always has. Always will. So when he wakes
up in a strange bed after a drunken night out, he isn’t too concerned.
Thinking he’d scored with a woman from the club he’d been in
the night before, he was shocked and horrified when he realized he was in a
man’s bed. Naked.
What the hell happened last night?
With that question in mind, Tony quickly leaves before seeing
the man he spent the night with, but in his haste leaves something important
behind.
When the man he spent the night with calls him, Tony
realizes that he has to meet him in order to get back what he left and that
maybe he might not be as straight as he once thought.
With his brother’s help, Tony begins to question what he
thought he knew about his sexuality and where the answer to that question might
lead him.
Pages or Words: 60 pages
Categories: Erotica, M/M Romance
Excerpt:
Tony woke up slowly and
sluggishly. He moved slightly on the bed and tensed when his stomach reminded
him of just how much he had drunk the night before. He groaned and repeatedly
swallowed as saliva flooded his mouth. His stomach didn’t want the contents it contained and was
attempting to eject them.
He ran his hands over the bedding and stopped. He
rubbed his fingers over the material noticing the softness. His breath caught.
It wasn’t his
bedding, and now he was aware that the mattress was completely different to his
too. He swallowed again but this time it wasn’t to stop himself from being
sick.
He blinked his eyes a couple of times before he could
open them and stared at the white ceiling above him, seeing it through gritty
and filmy eyes. Yep, didn’t recognize it. His breathing started to quicken as he became fully
aware that he was in a room he didn’t recognize. Refusing to give in to the
panic that was starting to rise in him, he slowly and carefully turned his head
to the side so he could look at the room. He grimaced and closed his eyes as
his head pounded in protest, and he took another couple of deep breaths before
he was ready to open them again.
Blue walls stared back at him. He glanced around the
room, noticing the dark furniture. Walnut maybe? Closing his eyes again, he
tried to recall if he knew who had a bedroom like this. No, couldn’t think of a single person. The furniture
looked expensive, too expensive for any of his friends to have.
On his second look around the room, he started to
notice the details he hadn’t picked up the first time he’d glanced at it. Pictures on the walls, a
bookcase in the corner, dark blue curtains, clothing strewn across the floor,
black bedding. Frowning he looked more closely at the clothing on the floor and
recognized his own among the scattered items. Was he naked? Why hadn’t he been
aware that he was naked in someone else’s bed?
Then he noticed the type of clothing. Jeans, a shirt
and boxer briefs that were definitely not his. His heart rate increased, and a
fine film of sweat broke out over his body. He scanned the room again, looking
more closely at the pictures he could see. There were men and women in them but
only one man appeared in all of the pictures. Fuck, he was in a man’s room. He was in a man’s room and naked
in his bed.
He closed his eyes. What the hell was he doing in a
man’s bed? What had happened?
His brother might like cock, but he didn’t. Absolutely not. Opening his eyes,
he lifted the sheets and looked down his body. A strange keening sound left his
mouth as he saw the marks that travelled down his chest and abdomen. He dropped
the sheets quickly hoping to erase the image of his body from his mind and
tried to think about the night before.
What had he done? How much had he drunk? He couldn’t remember much after he had gone into
the club with his brother and their friends. He had a vague memory of a woman
in a skin tight dress and a man wearing a black shirt. He looked at the shirt
on the floor. Shit, the shirt was black. Oh God, he was in the bedroom of the
man from the club.
As he lay there, he became aware of another sound
entering the room: the shower. The shower was running. That meant the man from
the club was still here and virtually in the room. He had to get out before he
finished in the bathroom. He couldn’t face him. What if he had fucked him? Oh fuck, what did he do? Why
couldn’t he remember?
He rolled cautiously to his side and had to pause,
rubbing his stomach as he attempted to settle it. He swallowed convulsively as
he took deep breaths. God, he felt like a woman in labor with all the deep
breathing he was doing. When he felt more in control, he gingerly sat up and
then slumped over as his stomach heaved. He put his head between his knees
again as he was forced to stop himself from being sick.
Squeezing his eyes shut, he wiped the sweat from his
forehead with the back of his hand and shivered uncontrollably. Sinking gently
to his knees, he crawled on the floor over to where his clothes were. He
dressed as quickly as he could, which wasn’t quick at all, and as he was attempting
to stand to find his shoes, he heard the shower switch off.
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Meet the author:
Megs Pritchard lives in England and is a mother to two
small boys. When she isn’t
working or being mummy, she is busy writing about complex characters that know
the harsh realities of life but want a HEA.
A lover of M/M and
M/F romances she believes everyone deserves to be happy, healthy and loved.
Growing up in a
military family, Megs has traveled Europe and has a great deal of respect and
gratitude for all the men and women who have and who still serve. Her dream job
was to be a Bomb Disposal Expert and even had her own ‘kit’ when she was younger.
She is currently
working on her first novella series called Crossing Desires and full length
series called Second Chances.
Where to find the author:
Publisher: Megs Pritchard
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Artist: A.M. Snead
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