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SINS OF
SEVIN EXCERPT
Copyright © 2015 by Penelope Ward
As he gulped down the water, I watched his Adam’s apple
moving up and down. I used the opportunity to glance over his sweaty body up
close. The top of his underwear was sticking out of his jeans. The smell of him
was intoxicating, a mix of cut wood, sweat and cologne. I thought about our
talk the other night, how he’d confessed his sexual history. As much as it
disturbed me, knowing he’d used that body to give a woman pleasure made me weak
with desire. I could only imagine what that would feel like with him.
Elle would
find out.
I was still looking down at his abs when he said, “Thank
you.” My eyes immediately shot up to meet his incendiary stare.
He’d
caught me checking him out.
“You’re welcome.”
His mouth curved into a smile as he handed me back the
glass. “How have you been? I haven’t seen you much this week.”
“Yeah. I’ve been busy.”
“I have something for you,” he blurted out in a way that
indicated he was anxiously waiting to say it.
“For me?”
“Yeah. Wait here, okay?”
Sevin ran over to where his truck was parked and grabbed
something out of the open window.
He returned to where I was standing and handed me a CD.
“What is it?”
“If you like the Smiths, you’ll like some of the songs on
here. I included a few Smiths songs—the ones from your favorite album, but
there’s also The Lemonheads, The Pixies…and Pulp.”
“You made this?”
“Yeah. I made it for myself and burned you a copy.”
“Thanks.”
He looked me straight in the eyes and said, “Number ten is
my favorite.” Then, he walked away.
I immediately took it back to my room and dusted off my old
portable CD player.
Lying down on my bed with the sun streaming in, I drowned
out the world and listened to every song. When it got to number ten, I paid
special attention, knowing he’d specifically called that one out.
The name of the song was Like
a Friend. I later found out it was by Pulp. With each lyric, my eyes became
heavier until they welled up in tears. The words described to a tee exactly how
I’d been feeling about him. The singer was shouting out all his feelings about
his friend, that she was everything he shouldn’t want, everything that was bad
for him, but yet he couldn’t stop wanting her. He’d take what he could get even
if that just meant being friends. Every single line spoke to me. It was the
first time I realized that maybe I wasn’t alone in my torment. This
situation—whatever was happening between us—was taking a toll on him, too.
I must have listened to the song five times before I went
over to the window and looked down at him. At one point, he finally looked up
and noticed me. He squinted his eyes to see me through the glare of the sun. I
still had my headphones on. He knew I had heard number ten. The look on his
face when our eyes locked only confirmed that number ten wasn’t just a song. It was his way of speaking
to me.
Blurb
What
happens when the one you want is the only one you can't have?
My name
is Sevin.
Homeschooled
and sheltered by my ultra-religious family, I was always taught that lust was a
sin.
Elle was
the girl who'd been carefully chosen for me.
After a
long-distance courtship, I'd be moving into her family's guesthouse so that we
could get to know each other in the months before the wedding.
Boundaries
were set: no inappropriate touching, no kissing, no sex before marriage.
I'd
accepted those rules and my fate.
Until I
met the one I wanted to sin with.
That was
when restraint became a problem...especially since THE ONE wasn't Elle.
It was
her sister, Evangeline.
You know
what they say about best laid plans.
My name
is Sevin, and I have sinned.
Told in
alternating points of view, Sins of Sevin is a full-length standalone novel.
Contains graphic sexual content and harsh language. Only appropriate for adult
readers age 18+.
Meet Penelope Ward
Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street
Journal Bestselling author. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and
spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor, before switching to a
more family-friendly career. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 10-year-old
girl with autism and a 9-year-old boy. Penelope and her family reside in Rhode
Island.
Other books from Penelope Ward
Cocky Bastard
Stepbrother Dearest
Gemini
Jake Undone (Jake #1)
My Skylar
Jake Understood (Jake #2)
Eden Butler is an editor and writer of New Adult Romance and SciFi and Fantasy novels and the nine-times great-granddaughter of an honest-to-God English pirate. This could explain her affinity for rule breaking and rum. Her debut novel, a New Adult, Contemporary (no cliffie) Romance, “Chasing Serenity” launched in October 2013 and quickly became an Amazon bestseller.
