VODKA ON THE ROCKS
Series: Uncertain Saint’s MC #3
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: July 6, 2016
There are rules to life that one just obeys in order in her attempt stay on the right path. For example:
1. You don’t wear dirty panties out of the house. You just never know who’s going to see them.
2. A lady must always have chocolate at the ready—just in case the world as she knows it comes to an end.
3. You don’t egg on a drunk woman who’s pissed off at life.
Why, you ask? Because they start bar fights, that’s why.
Casten Red, the unofficial enforcer of The Uncertain Saints MC, wasn’t necessarily trying to urge her into doing anything illegal, and he definitely wasn’t trying to get her into a fight with a group of men who were all twice her size.
No, he only intended to give her the confidence to stand up for herself, just a little nudge in the right direction. How the hell was he supposed to know she’d go all Chuck Norris on them and put three of them in the hospital with concussions?
He should’ve followed his gut instinct and turned around that first moment he saw her in the bar, but Casten has never liked following the rules.
Why the hell would he start now?
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“You’re dilly dallying,” Casten growled.
I turned around, bag in one hand, and papers in the other, and glared.
“What makes you think that I don’t have a fuckin’ reason for doing what I do?” I growled.
He held up his hands.
“Down tiger,” he said soothingly, although his eyes flashed, telling a different story.
I shoved the rest of my things in my bag, bending them to hell and back, but I couldn’t seem to find the urge to care at that moment in time.
I walked past him, knocking his shoulder, and headed to the back hallway to turn off the last of the lights.
I hit the first two in the in the locker room before heading to the last one in the entire gym area at the bathroom entrance.
But before I could hit the lights, my hand was stilled by Casten’s.
“What’s your problem?” he asked.
I tried to rip my hand free from his grip, but he held on without even the least bit of effort.
“I’m pissed,” I growled.
“Why?” he countered.
I looked across the room at the mirror, and glared at his reflection.
“I don’t want to tell you why I’m pissed. Suffice it to say, you’re the reason, and that’s that,” I growled.
He tightened his hands on my wrists.
“That’s not it. Tell me fuckin’ why, or I’ll make you tell me,” he hissed.
My fists clenched.
“Because you fucking pouted last night instead of talking to me. Then made Core spend the night and take me to work, when I didn’t want him to be there. I wanted you to be there. But you were being a titty baby,” I yelled.
He moved me until my ass met the counter, crowding so close that I was sure he was either going to beat me or fuck me.
Hopefully the latter over the former, if I had a choice.
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!” I exclaimed.
I waited.
Nothing.
“Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!” I cried.
I waited.
Again, nothing.
“Shit,” I said, opening my eyes.
“Done?” Casten asked from where he’d trapped me against the bathroom counter.
“My clothes are getting wet. In fact, I think my pants are soaked all the way through,” I grumbled, leaning forward until my upper body was laying across the counter.
Casten sat up until all that was touching me were his hips, where his massive erection dug into my ass.
“You’re cute,” he said, reaching up and pulling my hair out of my ponytail.
I glared. “I’m not cute.”
He grabbed my face and turned it to face the mirror.
His hands were squeezing my face so I looked like I had ten chin rolls and lips three sizes too big.
“See,” he said. “Cute.”
Casten life revolves around his MC and his businesses. A woman is not part of the equation, not does he desire it to be, so when he mets Tasha, and is instantly attracted to the brunette he tries his best to avoid his feelings and specially not showing them to her.
And each time I saw her, it became harder and harder to resist her.
But I would.
Because I couldn’t have a woman.
Women and I didn’t mix.
Tasha may seem like a carefree ball of energy, with her large number of degrees, but deep down she his hidden a deep pain from her past, that left scars as ingrained as Casten’s injury in combat did on him.
But you know what they say about two broken souls together… It is indeed true, and once Casten accept what was in plain site for anyone to see – that Tasha was his one -, and fought for her and to protect her against a dangerous stalker, it was incredible to see their relationship develop. But specially the way they delivered themselves to each other.
“All I wanted was to be free, to live my life without commitment. But now all I can think about is you. How you’re feeling. What you’re fucking doing. You’ve worked your way into every single one of the cracks in my armor, and I don’t think I’ll ever get you the fuck out or that I even want to,” (Casten to Tasha)
I have to say that Tasha, the heroine, was definitely my favorite character of the story, her strength and sassiness, and her hidden fragility made her steal the show for me, which I loved! Casten was also a fantastic character, and the badass bearded MC hottie role, fitted him to T, but some attitudes he took, and the pushing away, got a bit on my nerves, and made me a bit less sympathetic to him. Don’t get me wrong, he was still a delicious hero, I just wished he had done things a bit differently. But, like I said, he also had a lot of caring (as you can see in the quotes) and wickedly sexy moments – sizzling HOT sex scenes – with and towards Tasha, so still the HOT king of the story! LOL 😉
And those secondary characters, wow!!! Lani, really, it’s evil to tease us like this!!! We get an insight into the life of the MCs of the previous books, but also some enticing snippets into the upcoming characters, one more delicious than the other, that leave us counting the days until the release of their story!
It was an amazing story, as per Lani Lynn Vale’s usual, with all the exciting, funny, romantic, and sexy elements we want in our Romance, and that Lani’s special ‘touch’ that makes us completely devour it in one sitting.
And now, bring on THE BAD APPLE!!!
“No. Because I liked you too much. You’re Trouble, with a capital T. You’ll ruin me.” He ran his lips along my belly. “You’ll put me back together, but you’ll be a part of me when you’re through, and I’ll never be able to function without you ever again. Forever.” (Casten to Tasha)
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