Blog tour: Four Years Later (One Week Girlfriend #4) by Monica Murphy + excerpt & giveaway
We are really into enjoying all of the New Adult contemporary romances available on the market and more titles are being released all the time. Here is the latest book from Monica Murphy as Reader Girls is one of the stops on the tour for Four Years Later.
Four Years Later (One Week Girlfriend #4) by Monica Murphy
New Adult contemporary romance
Paperback/eBook, 320 pages
Published March 4th 2014 by Bantam
New Adult bestselling author Monica Murphy winds up her sensational series with this sexy story of two college kids with nothing in common but a bunch of baggage and a burning attraction.
Over. That about sums up everything in my life. Suspended from my college football team and forced to cut back my hours at The District bar because of my crappy grades, I can’t keep turning to my sister, Fable, and her pro-football playing husband, Drew, to bail me out. I just can’t seem to find my own way. Weed and sex are irresistible temptations—and it’s messed up that I secretly hand over money to our junkie mom. A tutor is the last thing I want right now—until I get a look at her.
Chelsea is not my type at all. She’s smart and totally shy. I’m pretty sure she’s even a virgin. But when she gives me the once over with those piercing blue eyes, I’m really over. But in a different way. I won’t deny her ass is killer, but it’s her brain and the way she seems to crave love—like no one’s ever given her any—that make me want her more than any girl I’ve ever met. But what would someone as seemingly together as her ever see in a screwed up guy like me?
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Excerpt:
What am I doing?
Why do I even care about her name? I don’t know her. I don’t want to know her. I’ve never seen her
before in my life. We have our brief encounter earlier this afternoon where she
told me no and pissed me off. Now here she is again.
Wearing a really
messed up black uniform that’s shapeless and does nothing for her but make her
look bad. Her hair is dark, dark brown and her eyes are a wide, innocent blue.
She looks completely untouchable, like no girl I’ve ever been interested in before
and I’m asking for her name like I care or something.
“It’s Chelsea,”
she answers and I turn it over in my head. Over and over. Again and again.
Chelsea. Chelsea. Chelsea.
“I was, uh, hoping
I could meet up with you tomorrow so I could get my assignments from you.” Man,
this is awkward. We’re standing in the middle of this shitty diner, where Des
and Wade can overhear every single thing I’m saying to Chelsea the innocent
tutor with the blue, blue eyes and the pink, pink lips. They don’t even know
what’s going on. I’m going to hear an endless amount of crap once we leave this
place.
“Tomorrow?
Friday?” Her delicate brows draw downward and her entire face scrunches up like
she’s adorably confused. Which she is. Adorable.
Dude. Cut with the adorable crap.
“Tomorrow is
Thursday,” I remind her.
“Noo, today is
Thursday, considering it’s almost four in the morning.”
“Right.” She makes
me feel like a dumbass. I don’t like it. “Can we meet later this afternoon
then? I need to get those assignments, especially if we’re not going to see
each other again until Monday.”
A lot can happen
between now and Monday. Crap I can’t even begin to consider. I feel like I’m
walking on a tightrope, weaving this way and that, just waiting for the right
amount of wind to send me toppling over and plummeting to my death.
This is what my
life has turned into. The push and pull. The wanting to do right and instead,
falling into the same old habit of doing wrong. I want to tell Fable the truth.
I want to tell Mom to leave me alone.
I know deep in my
heart, I will do none of that. I will keep going. Keep up the pretense of right
and wrong. Of living two lives. One where I’m the good brother who does what
Drew and Fable wants me to do. And then there’s the other side, where I’m the
good son who slips his mom some money when she comes around asking for it,
which is all the time. Then smokes a joint with her and begs her to buy him
some beer.
Sometimes, I
really hate myself.
About Monica Murphy:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Monica Murphy is a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite. A wife and mother of three, she writes New Adult and contemporary romance for Bantam and Avon. She is the author of One Week Girlfriend and Second Chance Boyfriend.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Monica Murphy is a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite. A wife and mother of three, she writes New Adult and contemporary romance for Bantam and Avon. She is the author of One Week Girlfriend and Second Chance Boyfriend.
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