Gabe
His Woman. His Family. His Company.
When the going gets tough, the tough get Alpha.
Silicon Valley billionaire CEO Gabriel Betts has finally found the happiness he’s been searching for—in gorgeous, brilliant fellow billionaire Lauren Taylor, the so-called reigning queen of the biotech industry. But when Chinese healthcare mogul Li Na Zhao kidnaps Lauren’s sister in a high-stakes game of corporate espionage, the world they’ve worked so hard to protect comes crashing down. Li Na agrees to trade Hannah for Lauren’s Paragon Laboratories and her help—onsite and in person. In an attempt to keep Lauren safe, Gabe calls in his security-industry professional brothers to help get Hannah back. But when the rescue effort stumbles, Gabe must pick up the pieces to protect the woman he loves…before she makes the ultimate sacrifice.
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EXCERPT
This is a scene where Lauren and Gabe are having an issue in the
bedroom, and she shares a story from her AP-Chemistry past.
He tightened his embrace
and kissed the top of my head. “Shh. You don’t have anything to apologize for.”
I forced myself to calm
down. Everything Gabe did, he did for me—a fact I was well aware of. No other man
could handle me, or would’ve had the patience to wait to lure me out of my ivory
laboratory, divest me of my virginity, and handle every other crazy thing that’d come our way since.
“I love
you,”
I said.
“I know.” He kissed my nose. “And I love you too.”
“Even
though you have…blue
balls?” I
laughed, trying to lighten the mood, although my face reddened at the topic.
Gabe looked at me,
startled. “Lauren Taylor,
where on earth did you hear such an expression?”
“High
school AP chemistry,” I
admitted, and laughed again. “We were doing a section on cryogenics. The boys in my
class passed me a note about it—they used to call me ‘The Ice Queen.’ They said I was the freezer of all balls.
They wouldn’t stop
laughing.”
Gabe grimaced. “Do you remember who they were? They might
need a visit from your big, bad, vendetta-loving boyfriend.”
“Oh, I
already took care of them. I got an A-plus in that class, beat them all out for
the last remaining spot in the National Honor Society, and I also compromised
the integrity of their test tubes so they shattered during our next experiment.” I smiled at the memory. “After I started Paragon, one of them had
the nerve to try to add me to his LinkedIn. I blocked him, of course.”
“Nice.” Gabe sounded impressed.
“It seemed
appropriate. The Ice Queen doesn’t let shit like that go.”
Gabe pulled me against
him. “That’s why she’s the boss.”
I clung to him. I never
thought I’d meet a
man who understood me, let alone embrace me for who I was. “Thank you for…loving me. Me, the giver of blue balls.”
He patted my hand. “Me and my balls love you—a lot. We’re good, babe. But we should try to get
some rest while we can—are you okay?”
I relaxed against his
chest. “I’m okay.” And for that brief moment in his arms, I
actually meant it.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Leigh James is an author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. She is a vocal lover of strapping alpha males in movies, books and real life, which makes her three kids roll their eyes and makes her husband feel appreciated.
When she's not writing, you can usually find her reading or watching Outlander, Game of Thrones, and Vikings (see penchant for alpha males, above). She has a degree in journalism from the University of New Hampshire, which is good for deadlines and word counts, and a law degree from Suffolk University with a Concentration in High Technology Law, which is helpful when writing about sexy tech billionaires with legal woes.
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