MESS ME UP by Lani Lynn Vale
Release Day – Sept 4th
When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his
intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and
soul—as well as his son’s.
Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play
professional football. Not with the Bare Bottom MC cut covering his back, and
definitely not with his friendly smile completely obliterated.
No longer is there charm in each smooth word that comes out
of his mouth. What’s left is an angry, bitter, scared man that’s terrified one
day he’s going to wake up and his entire world is going to be gone.
Nobody knows what drove him to leave the game he loved—nobody
but her.
She’s the one person that has helped him make it through the
dark days and even darker nights. She’s the bright and shining star in his
pitch-black sky.
And he doesn’t even know her name.
He should be afraid that she knows things that not anyone—not
even his best friend—knows.
Yet, with each encounter, he gives what little bit of his
soul remains, and before he knows it only two people on this earth—one dying,
and one too afraid to live—make his life worth living.
Until one day he has to choose—the love of his life, or the
life he brought into this world.
Two impossible situations. One decision that would change him
forever.
Excerpt
Rome
RP’s Biggest Fan,
I’m not sure how
you became my therapist, or how we even got to the point of being pen pals, but
I’ll take what I can get.
I could use a
friend.
So, you want to
hear about my life? How it’s nowhere near as glamorous as everyone makes it out
to be?
Where should I
start?
How about the
paparazzi. They’re awful. They follow me home. They follow me to work. They
follow me to my son’s appointments—though technically, they don’t know he’s my
son. Luckily. That was one thing I did manage to do right—keeping him out of
the limelight.
Lucky for me,
too. Or, at least for him.
And if the
paparazzi wasn’t bad enough, my ex was only with me for my money—because she
knew that I had it.
If there was one
thing I could erase from my life, it would be her.
But, if it wasn’t
for her, I wouldn’t have my son…and at this point, he’s the single bright light
in the sea of darkness that is my life.
Last week she
threatened to sue me because I broke the custody agreement we have for our son.
Do you want to know what I did? Nothing. Not one damn thing. I stayed at her
house while she went away for the day, and I put a drink on her coffee table.
Let me repeat
that…I put a drink on her coffee table.
Ok, so it was a
Coke can, and I didn’t use a coaster… but I’d finished the damn thing. It was
completely empty, it wasn’t sweating, and it didn’t leave any sort of mark.
But, with the way
she reacted, you would’ve thought that I’d carved my initials in the table using
a screwdriver or something.
Oh, and let’s not
forget what my team manager wants me to do.
He wants me to
pose naked except for a strategically positioned football for Sports
Illustrated. When did Sports Illustrated
stop focusing on sports in favor of selling what’s sexy?
You told me last
week that you weren’t sure that you were going to write anymore. I realize that
this back and forth we have going on isn’t normal, but if it doesn’t bother
you, it doesn’t bother me.
I hope you write
to me soon, RP’s Biggest Fan.
Rome.
About Lani Lynn Vale
Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children, and lives in the Great State of Texas.
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