Slash – a 1001 Dark Nights Novella by Laurelin Paige
Slash, an all new sizzling hot 1,001 Dark Nights Standalone Novella in the Slay series by New York Times bestselling author Laurelin Paige is available now!
Sandy’s 4.5 Blush Review
Unfortunately, I did not read the series, though that did not prevent me from enjoying this novella. Let me tell you that Ms. Paige is for sure on my radar now. The Slay series added to my TBR stat!
Camilla Fasbender was a side character in the Slay series. She is a single mom with lots and lots of baggage from her marriage. Her profession – photographer.
Hendrix Reid is all things that we want our fictional heros to be – smart, sexy as hell and with a silver tongue.
Don’t get me wrong, despite it’s short length, we get a lot of substance here. We get a deep look at what makes Camilla tick or not tick as it were. It’s not so much about Hendrix. Though he is a force that will not be denied in the evolution to the love that she did not think possible.
Truthfully, I could have done without the photography term explanation that started each chapter. I would have rather had more of “them”. The ugly, the tender, the real, the breaking, the healing, the ALL that was their story.
Hendrix – “I need you to know that I’m here. Afraid because of how much I want you. Willing to wait for any scrap of you that you’re able to give. If this is all I get, if this is all I ever get, it will still have been worth it.”
Lord have mercy! I felt those words. I wanted me some more of that right there! Laureline Page writes with a depth of feeling that had me at hello.
Camilla Fasbender has a secret.
Underneath her posh accent and designer clothes lies the evidence of her pain.
Every heartbreak, every bad day, every setback has left a scar.
From behind her camera, she shows the world what to see. And it isn’t her.
Until him.
He sees right through her carefully constructed facade.
And he’s going to slash it all to pieces.
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Excerpt
Hendrix didn’t strike me as ridiculous. Or impulsive. Or silly.
Why on earth, then, would he believe that there could be something worth seeking out with me? If that’s what he meant at all. Which…he did, didn’t he?
It’s confusing, and confusion makes me hide, on the whole. But since I can’t hide because I’m the fucking teacher in this class—seriously, how did this happen?—and for some reason the educator is expected to stay present, I find my confusion turning to anger. It works itself through me until the beauty of our night together is cropped out of my memory and what’s left is trite and fleeting. His presence feels nothing like flattery—which it did feel flattering, admittedly, for a half second there in the midst of everything else. Now, though, it just feels invasive and unprofessional and mean.
Perhaps I’d confront him about it, if I were a different sort of person, one who isn’t afraid to stand up to a challenge. One who isn’t afraid to live her life.
But I’m not that sort of person, so after I give out the assignments and send the students on their way, I plan to gather my things and get on my way as soon as possible, so fond of hiding that I am. I was stupid enough to believe—or perhaps hopeful is the better term—that Hendrix would let me do that, as he’d let me leave that night in Paris, not that I’d given him a choice.
He doesn’t, though, of course. Of course. He approaches me, his leather camera bag slung over his shoulder, a man satchel underneath.
“Camilla,” he says in that American accent that makes me both cringe and swoon all at once, and for the briefest of moments I find myself considering something different for a change. I consider staying.
But underneath my long sleeve polo neck, my skin throbs with an intensity that equals the blaring of a car alarm, and I think of Fred waiting for me at home to take him out for ice cream and the dead husband who hurt me as much as he loved me and the ugliness that marks me inside and out. And in the chaos of those thoughts, there is no option to stay.
“You being here is in bad taste,” I say before he has a chance to say anything else. “Don’t do this to me.”
I brush past him then, and with the heat of that brief contact following me in radiating waves, I rush outside to disappear among the Saturday-morning Londoners who are out enjoying the early signs of spring.
About Laurelin
With millions of books sold worldwide, Laurelin Paige is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author. She is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Killing Eve, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She’s also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn’t do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio.
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