Accepting the Fall by Meg Harding

Publisher: Oceanside Press

Release Date (Print & Ebook): June 8, 2018

Length (Print & Ebook): 62k

Subgenre: Contemporary Romance

Book blurb:

Confronting the past is never easy. Cole Whitaker is happy. He has the job and boyfriend he always wanted. His heart’s in no danger of being broken, and he can’t ask for more from life. As a kindergarten teacher, he sees it all; however, one troublesome student has him reaching out to the parent, wanting to help. There’s something about Savanah that tugs at his heartstrings. He never expected her father. Zander Brooks hasn’t had an easy life, and he’s made some mistakes. Freshly retired from the military and working as a firefighter, Zander thought he’d left Cole in the rearview mirror. He’s not expecting him to appear in St. Petersburg, Florida, of all places, teaching his daughter’s kindergarten class. Suddenly, his biggest mistake is being shoved in his face. This is Zander’s chance to close a door he’d never fully shut, but time with his former flame might change his mind.

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“Can I kiss you?” he asked, chest tight and too many things he didn’t want to acknowledge floating in his mind. He wanted a kiss that was more than just a quick barely there brush of skin to skin.

Cole was sucking on his lower lip, chewing softly on the thin skin as he so liked to do when he thought. “That’d be…. Yeah.” He nodded and licked over where he’d bitten, leaving the pink flesh glistening.

Zander’s heart performed the two-step in his chest. This was the big tell. Would kissing Cole still turn his stomach to molten lava and erase every thought from his brain? Would it leave him breathless and wanting, with the feeling he’d be lost if he stopped? Or had that all been the wild fancy of a teenager who didn’t know better?

“Um, Zander? Sometime this year?” Cole looked hesitant. “Unless you changed your mind.”

“No!” He’d damn near shouted that. He cleared his throat. “No,” he said, lower. “I haven’t changed my mind.”

He brought his hand up to cradle Cole’s cheek, smoothed his thumb over the sharp line of his jaw. Stubble tickled his palm, rough and nothing more than a shadow that would be gone come the morning. Zander leaned in, grazing the tips of their noses together, just sharing air for a drawn out second. So close but not touching. He felt the change in Cole’s breathing against him when Cole parted his lips. He heard the hitch in it as Cole waited.

Zander closed the distance.

It was softness and warmth, the slide of their noses bumping, their chins scraping, their lips relearning the feel of one another. Zander held Cole steady, tilting his head for a better angle. With his tongue, he traced the curve of Cole’s lips before venturing into his mouth. Cole met him push for push, and what had started out gentle turned heated quickly. Their tongues tangled together as Zander and Cole teased and chased. Cole tasted sweet and sugary, and vaguely like strawberries.

The air between them was damp and heavy, neither willing to pull away. Zander felt as if the oxygen was being sucked from his body, and he hadn’t the slightest inclination to do anything about it. The world would end if the kiss stopped. He didn’t need anything else but the slick glide of their tongues and the dull graze of teeth as they fell into their own private world.

About Meg Harding:  Meg Harding is a sucker for things on four legs and works as a pet sitter when she’s not writing. She’s an editor and a lover of fanfiction. She enjoys the theatre, concerts, and lazing about in front of the TV. Meg Harding is a graduate of UCF and Anglia Ruskin, with a bachelors in Psych and a masters in publishing. For as long as she can remember, writing has always been her passion, but she had an inability to ever actually finish anything. She’s immensely happy that her inability has fled and looks forward to where her mind will take her next. She’s a sucker for happy endings, the beach, and superheroes. In her dream life she owns a wildlife conservation and is surrounded by puppies. She’s a film buff, voracious reader, and a massive geek.

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