I anchor myself by my elbows hooked around his neck, and we kiss until I’m dizzy and our breaths tangle in a cloud of bliss. I take his cock in my hand, aligning our bodies, and two become one in a carnal slide of flesh. We’re chest to chest, with August’s number crushed between us. He thaws me with his kiss, my prince, and I melt into him. Not his love, when I’ve been possessed and owned and mistreated. Not his tenderness, when I’ve been handled roughly in the past. Not his kindness, when I’ve known cruelty all too well. I kiss him like the world might end tonight because I’ll never take this for granted. And I see him so clearly, my prince, asking for a kiss. A night filled with laughter and confidences, pregnant with promise. I remember a magical night under the stars, under a streetlight on the eve of greatness.

“Kiss me,” he whispers, his eyes so tender, so intent.

I blink down at him dumbly, swallowing my tears, eating my memories whole and digesting a nightmare from long ago. “Iris?” August’s frown, the concern on his face, in his voice, remind me where I am. Now there’s a new player in the game, August West.īut my past, my fraudulent prince, won’t let me go. I was a fool, and his love – fool’s gold. I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud. Think you know what it’s like being a baller’s girl? “Satisfying and soul-gripping!” - Lucy Score, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author LONG SHOT, a deeply emotional, thought-provoking standalone love story set in the exciting world of professional basketball, from Kennedy Ryan is LIVE!Ī FORBIDDEN LOVE SET IN THE EXPLOSIVE WORLD OF THE NBA…

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