Sparrow by Victoria Jayne
Title: SPARROW
Author: Victoria
Jayne
Genre: NA
Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense
Cover Designer:
Deranged Doctor Designs
Editor: Toni Rakestraw
Publication
Date: Sept. 14, 2021
Publisher:
Limitless Publishing
Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR
Blurb:
Regrets. She has a few.
Nothing went how Sparrow Malone planned. Her boyfriend didn’t get clean.
She didn’t take the entrance exam, and the motorcycle club her father had been
a part of is crumbling. To add insult to injury, Jacob didn’t stay in Montana.
Screw him over once, shame on her. Do it twice, shame on him. Jacob gave
up on Sparrow when he left without her two years ago. But Odin’s Fury
Motorcycle Club still had business in Ohio, which meant he did too.
The first time, it wasn’t their fault. Their second chance didn’t end
well. While both swore never to repeat past mistakes, they can’t help
themselves.
With the two clubs merging into one, it’s either going to be third time’s
a charm or three strikes and they’re out.
Victoria Jayne is the epitome of a Jersey Girl. She doesn’t [know how to] pump her own gas, enjoys pork roll, and grew up on the Jersey Shore. The only daughter sandwiched between two brothers, she was a bit of a Tom-boy as a child.
As an adult, she’s lived throughout the state of New Jersey. She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She earned her Masters degree in Marriage, Couples and Family Counseling from Walden University. She's worked in the human services field since 2005.
She met her sports journalist husband in an online audio/visual chat room. After a few years of dating, they got married and have two darling daughters.
When not writing, Victoria enjoys baking with her daughters, rooting for the New Jersey Devils, thinking of home improvement projects for her husband, and staying up far too late chatting on Discord.
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A fling, a moment of weakness, a fond memory, those were the things Jacob
Karolsson was supposed to be. He was supposed to stay in her goddamn fantasy
and in fucking Montana.
Okay, one time. There was one time she’d allow him into Ohio. The rally.
She’d concede that. He could come for the rally and she would avoid it like the
plague. It shouldn’t be too hard. It was good to have a plan.
“You got any Jameson back there?” he asked once the crowd practically
parted for him to walk to the bar. The whiteness of his teeth was a stark
contrast to his dark beard as he put his elbows on the bar top, smiled, and
leaned over it.
Frozen in place, Sparrow looked him over as though she wasn’t sure he was
real. Enforcer. Blinking at him, she realized he’d gotten an officer position.
When her gaze made it to his light blue eyes, she stuffed the lollipop in her
mouth.
Jesus Christ those eyes.
Something jabbed her in the side, and the trance was broken. The hum of
conversation over Aerosmith rushed to her ears, and she turned to see Kimber
holding a bottle of Jameson, and peering at her questionably. Caught staring at
him like a high school girl with a crush. Could she be any more pathetic?
Taking it, she offered a smile to Kimber first and then looked to Jacob.
Still grinning, he seemed to have added a bit of smugness to it. Clearing her
throat, she half-filled a lowball glass and placed it on a napkin for him.
Placing a twenty on the bar, he reached for his glass, allowing his
digits to graze hers. Fire danced up her fingers, over her hand, and through
her arm. She should have yanked her hand back. She should have looked away from
him. She shouldn’t have turned into a puddle where she stood.
“Thank you,” he mouthed before pulling the glass away from her and
bringing it to his lips.
Could someone sip whiskey sexily? Was it possible? It shouldn’t be. As
much as she wanted to fan herself, she couldn’t. So, she did the next best
thing. “You got this?” She may have asked Kimber the question, but she had no
intention of staying for the answer.
“No! Wait, I…” Kimber’s voice trailed off as Sparrow made her way out the
door of the bar. Dick move. She knew it, but if the woman knew what the hell it
was about, she’d understand. Anyone who had any inkling of what had gone on
between Sparrow and Jacob would understand why she’d just fled the bar.
The cool Ohio air chilled her heated skin as she walked along the side of
the cinderblock building, heading for the back parking lot. She just needed to
walk to her car and to drive away from all of it. It was too real.
Her car. Fuck. She didn’t have her car.
As the realization hit, she turned, and her back pressed against the
bricks. Closing her eyes, her head hit the wall. She needed to figure out a way
to handle these little pop-ups.
“I’m going to have to buy you a new shirt.” The deep timbre of his voice
heated her just as much as the memory of his touch did.
“Why are you here?” she demanded without looking. The accusation in her
tone wasn’t on purpose, but it was too late now. It’d been said.
The heat of his body close to hers tickled her skin. She might as well
have been set on fire at the feel of his hands on her face. Before she could
stop herself, she nuzzled into his palm. He made her lose her fucking head with
the slightest of touches.
“Do you mean Ohio or the bar?” he whispered in her ear when he brushed his bearded cheek against hers. It looked coarse, but his facial hair was impossibly soft. The feel of it had her face tingling as much as his breath along her neck.
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