Teaser Tuesday! Starlight By Mimi Strong

TEASER TUESDAY ladies! Time to get SEXY with this exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming book - Starlight, by Mimi Strong. 

***TEASER:***

“I’m sure your family has some secrets.”
I laughed, my voice high-pitched. “Well, there is this one thing.”
“Mmm?” His eyebrows tented up with intrigue.
“My mother has banned my father’s recliner from the living room, so he brought up all the way up to the attic, along with a beer fridge. There’s no bathroom up there, and my mother suspects he’s going in a bucket and throwing it out the window.”
Keith started laughing, rolling onto his back, holding his sides.
“That’s not all,” I said. “They paid the deposit for our house with money my mother got from fucking a movie star.”
Wheezing with laugher, Keith slapped the bed between us. “I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!”
“Excuse me?”
He stopped laughing and wiped at his eye. “You and your mom both dated movie stars.”
“But I didn’t get paid for it.”
“You should have. That guy is a serious Grade A Douchebag. And his acting is terrible. He’s always—“ Keith turned his head sideways and gave me a super-intense brooding stare. With his dark hair and high cheekbones, he did an alarmingly accurate Drake Cheshire.
“This isn’t funny,” I said, now feeling sweaty and claustrophobic in the bed with Keith.
“Look at me, Peaches. It is funny. It’s damn funny. And making fun of our exes is an important part of the rebound experience.”
“The rebound experience? Please, Keith, in all your infinite wisdom, tell me more about what emotions I should be feeling.” 
He wiggled his way backward, to the edge of the bed, then lifted his arms and rested his hands behind his head in a relaxed pose. He looked quite please with himself, as though he’d helped me with some spiritual breakthrough. The nerve.
“He still has power over you,” Keith said. “Making fun of him takes that power away.”
I gave him stinkeye for a minute, trying to hear what he was saying without rushing to judgement, and without smothering him under my pillow.
“I’d make fun of your ex, Tabitha,” I said. “Except I do a lousy impression of skinny-ass-having, ex-boyfriend-fucking, Las-Vegas-slutting, bag-of-hair-best-friending, meek little anorexic whores. Mainly because of my cheekbones.”
He nodded slowly, opening his mouth with a crisp smacking sound. “I deserved that.”
I covered my mouth. “No, you didn’t. I’m being a monster, and I don’t know why.”
He studied me for a moment. “You’re good at protecting yourself. It’s an admirable quality.”
I adjusted my position in the bed, squeezing my breasts together to put them on display. “As admirable as my peaches?”
“You’re good at changing the subject, too.”
“Kiss me,” I said. “Kiss me like my lips are on fire and you need to smother the flames.”
He grinned. “You’re cute.”
“Kiss me like I’m the judge of a kissing contest.”
He laughed, but still wouldn’t go for the kiss.
I meant to say something original, something funny, but I found myself using the lines from Dalton’s movie script—the lines I’d been so pissed that he’d used on me.
“Kiss me like I’m bad for you. Kiss me like I’m dangerous.”
His expression serious, Keith whispered, “You are dangerous.” He leaned in and kissed me with an urgency that caused my pulse to race.
As we kissed, our hands found new places to hold on, and we rolled back and forth, trading top and bottom with every breath.
I knew that using the movie lines was wrong, though I wasn’t sure why. I couldn’t shake the feeling Keith and I were in some sort of war, and by manipulating him with words that weren’t my own, I had won this battle.
**end of TEASER**

STARLIGHT - Peaches Monroe #2 - the sequel to STARDUST - coming soon. Sign up for Mimi's mailing list at mimistrong.com to be alerted of new titles.
If you want to read more Mimi Strong books, read more Mimi Strong books! 

Billionaire Novelist
Borrowed Billionaire
Pretty Girls
Her Teddy Bear
Laura's Two Ice Cream Boys
For You
Stardust
Bliss - a collection of 4 novelettes
Kissing Coach
~all available now.