Wrong To Need You
Forbidden Hearts, #2
Forbidden Hearts, #2
by Alisha Rai
Genre: Adult, Contemporary
Romance
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: November 28th
2017
Alisha
Rai returns with the second novel in her sizzling Forbidden Hearts series!
The
Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . WRONG TO NEED YOU (Forbidden Hearts,
#2) . . .Beautiful. Sexy. Touching. Alluring. Forbidden. Livvy
and Nicolas began the series and it was done well with the forbidden for one
reason or another, but it set the tone for the upcoming books in this series.
Now here with book two, Sadia and Jackson put a different spin on the forbidden
romance. They have loved each other for years. Pulled apart by lies, betrayal
and life Sadia ended up marrying his brother, Paul. Now years later and Sadia’s
alone, struggling, confused and just plain tired. She works hard to raise her
son, work multiple jobs, and keep up with her deceased husband’s debts. The last
thing in the world she needed was the man she loved most of her life to walk
back in after not communicating with her for so long.
Jackson returns to the place he most wanted to be. Of course, that comes
with complications and trials. Sadia not sure that she could every put her
completed trust in a man that walked away from her and not so much as sent her
an email. Jackson had reason to run all those years ago. He also has reason to
not completely trust his family or those around them. He takes things slow with
Sadia. He builds a friendship with the one woman he had loved a lifetime.
Jackson was not your typical over the top alpha male that felt he needed
to completely dominate everything. He was more a protective, gentle, sexy,
caring, sensitive male.
As children seem to do with most romance, they make the connection stronger,
feel truer, get emotions involved. This was no different with the moments shared
with Kareem. There was true honesty, realism, raw intensity. Sadia was a woman
that knew herself, her needs, her desires just her. Jackson was a man that was
true, open, honest, sensitive, protective, and caring. The two of them together
made sense. The three of them together made a family.
Alisha Rai gave me a fabulous romance that told of a second chance of a
forbidden romance that should have been. I found it to be the perfect addition to
the Forbidden Hearts series.
Forbidden Hearts series:
Hate to Want You – Forbidden Hearts,
#1
Wrong to Need You – Forbidden Hearts,
#2
Hurts to Love You – Forbidden Heartsm,
#3
BLURB
He wasn’t supposed to fall in love
with his brother’s widow…
Accused of a crime he didn’t commit,
Jackson Kane fled his home, his name, and his family. Ten years later, he’s
come back to town: older, wiser, richer, tougher—and still helpless to turn
away the one woman he could never stop loving, even after she married his
brother.
Sadia Ahmed can’t deal with the
feelings her mysterious former brother-in-law stirs, but she also can’t turn
down his offer of help with the cafe she’s inherited. While he heats up her
kitchen, she slowly discovers that the boy she adored has grown into a man
she’s simply unable to resist.
An affair is unthinkable, but their
desire is undeniable. As secrets and lies are stripped away, Sadia and Jackson
must decide if they’re strong enough to face the past…and step into a future
together.
EXCERPT
Some women were seduced by a voice or a touch or a look. For Sadia Ahmed, it was hands.
Or, at least . . . His hands.
They were big, the perfect size to grasp her ass and grip her tight. Or to wrap around her neck while his thumbs settled into the hollow at the base of her throat. Or to cup her breast and lift it to his mouth.
Sadia picked up a glass and started drying it, her actions precise and unhurried. She was certain her face didn’t give away the fact she was fantasizing about sex with a patron sitting in the dive bar. Her libido might be hot, but her facade was stone- cold. She was a mother, a widow. To a lot of people, she’d discovered, those two titles took precedence over being a woman.
She didn’t mind letting people keep their illusions. It made her life easier and she wasn’t a disruptive person by nature. Someone else could shock the world, so long as she could dream about what she pleased.
Out of the corner of her eye, she contemplated what she could see of the anonymous man’s hands. He wore a baseball cap pulled low, and the bar was dark, so his body was all she had to moon over. His body was enough.
His fingers were long and elegant. They were big enough to fill her up with one, but she’d demand two. Hidden under the soft cotton of her shirt, her stomach clenched. He could play her like a violin, which was appropriate. He had the hands of an artist. Attached to a body that belonged to a fighter. Her gaze drifted over what she could see of the rest of him. Wide chest, broad shoulders, thighs like tree trunks, biceps like whoa.
Unf.
Sadia carefully replaced the dry glass and picked up another one. Over the past week, she’d gotten really good at surreptitiously peeking at her mystery man during each of her shifts. On Monday she’d noticed him for the first time, sitting in a darkened booth in a far corner. On Wednesday he’d chosen a seat which was better lit, enough for her to grow obsessed with thoughts of his fingers on her and in her.
Though it had been busy earlier tonight, she’d consciously kept an eye out for him. Once the Thursday crowd had thinned out, her gaze had been drawn to him like a magnet to a metal. An- other dark booth, another dark cap pulled low to hide his face. Alone, nursing the ginger ale he’d ordered. His quiet stillness set him apart from the rowdy people who usually filled this bar.
“Hey, Sadia.”
Sadia started. She regrouped quickly and gave her boss a cheerful grin which hopefully masked the filthy thoughts in her head. “Hey, what’s up?” Michael had owned O’Killian’s for at least as long as she’d been working here, off and on since her twenty-first birthday.
“I wanted to thank you again for picking up so many shifts this week.”
She tossed her towel over her shoulder. “No problem. You know I’ll take the hours.” The tips were good. With a young son, she could always use extra money. She wanted to keep her bartending skills sharp.
Those were all the reasons she told people when they asked her why she was still tending bar when she had her hands full with the café she’d inherited from her husband. They weren’t false.
They weren’t completely true either, but the whole truth would cause more than a few raised eyebrows.
My husband had debts he didn’t tell me about. The tips give me grocery money.
I’m terrified the cafe will go bankrupt on my watch. I need a fallback career.
And there was one other good reason, but she really couldn’t share that one with anyone. That reason was her secret.
Some women were seduced by a voice or a touch or a look. For Sadia Ahmed, it was hands.
Or, at least . . . His hands.
They were big, the perfect size to grasp her ass and grip her tight. Or to wrap around her neck while his thumbs settled into the hollow at the base of her throat. Or to cup her breast and lift it to his mouth.
Sadia picked up a glass and started drying it, her actions precise and unhurried. She was certain her face didn’t give away the fact she was fantasizing about sex with a patron sitting in the dive bar. Her libido might be hot, but her facade was stone- cold. She was a mother, a widow. To a lot of people, she’d discovered, those two titles took precedence over being a woman.
She didn’t mind letting people keep their illusions. It made her life easier and she wasn’t a disruptive person by nature. Someone else could shock the world, so long as she could dream about what she pleased.
Out of the corner of her eye, she contemplated what she could see of the anonymous man’s hands. He wore a baseball cap pulled low, and the bar was dark, so his body was all she had to moon over. His body was enough.
His fingers were long and elegant. They were big enough to fill her up with one, but she’d demand two. Hidden under the soft cotton of her shirt, her stomach clenched. He could play her like a violin, which was appropriate. He had the hands of an artist. Attached to a body that belonged to a fighter. Her gaze drifted over what she could see of the rest of him. Wide chest, broad shoulders, thighs like tree trunks, biceps like whoa.
Unf.
Sadia carefully replaced the dry glass and picked up another one. Over the past week, she’d gotten really good at surreptitiously peeking at her mystery man during each of her shifts. On Monday she’d noticed him for the first time, sitting in a darkened booth in a far corner. On Wednesday he’d chosen a seat which was better lit, enough for her to grow obsessed with thoughts of his fingers on her and in her.
Though it had been busy earlier tonight, she’d consciously kept an eye out for him. Once the Thursday crowd had thinned out, her gaze had been drawn to him like a magnet to a metal. An- other dark booth, another dark cap pulled low to hide his face. Alone, nursing the ginger ale he’d ordered. His quiet stillness set him apart from the rowdy people who usually filled this bar.
“Hey, Sadia.”
Sadia started. She regrouped quickly and gave her boss a cheerful grin which hopefully masked the filthy thoughts in her head. “Hey, what’s up?” Michael had owned O’Killian’s for at least as long as she’d been working here, off and on since her twenty-first birthday.
“I wanted to thank you again for picking up so many shifts this week.”
She tossed her towel over her shoulder. “No problem. You know I’ll take the hours.” The tips were good. With a young son, she could always use extra money. She wanted to keep her bartending skills sharp.
Those were all the reasons she told people when they asked her why she was still tending bar when she had her hands full with the café she’d inherited from her husband. They weren’t false.
They weren’t completely true either, but the whole truth would cause more than a few raised eyebrows.
My husband had debts he didn’t tell me about. The tips give me grocery money.
I’m terrified the cafe will go bankrupt on my watch. I need a fallback career.
And there was one other good reason, but she really couldn’t share that one with anyone. That reason was her secret.
Author Info
Alisha Rai pens award-winning sexy contemporary romances and is the first author to have an indie-published book appear on The Washington Post’s annual Best Books list. She spends most of her time dreaming up sexy heroes and heroines, traveling, and tweeting. To find out more about her books or to sign up for her newsletter, visit http://www.alisharai.com
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