Villain
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The sexy and emotional companion novella to the New York Times bestselling romance HERO.
Nadia Ray is not just a broadcast meteorologist. She’s Boston’s morning television It Girl. Successful and independent, she’s put a past she’s ashamed of behind her and is forging a future she can be proud of. However, when her new boss discovers her secret he blackmails her, intent on using Nadia’s popularity to make them the number one morning show in Massachusetts. He wants her to be part of uncovering the city’s biggest scandal – a secret billionaire Caine Carraway is hiding.
Soon Nadia is thrown into the path of Caine’s best friend: sexy, wealthy bachelor Henry Lexington. But she doesn’t encounter the dashing high society gentleman Henry is purported to be. Instead she’s faced with an insulting and defensive villain who misjudges her at every turn.
When Henry finally realizes the truth, and decides to make amends, Nadia wants nothing to do with him. But she underestimates his determination and charm and soon they find themselves embroiled in an intense, passionate affair.
An affair Nadia knows must come to an end before their feelings grow any deeper and he discovers her secrets.
After all, Henry Lexington isn’t the only one who played the part of a villain once…
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Excerpt
“I need
to apologize,” he said to my back as I hurried into my sitting room. My shoulders
hunched to my neck at the words. I couldn’t look at him.
What did
he want me to say? That it was okay?
Because
it wasn’t.
No one,
no matter what, should have to be subjected to what that woman said to me.
Henry’s
mother!
He was
in Cloud Cuckoo Land if he thought this, whatever this was between us, could ever
work out when his mother thought so little of me.
“Just go,”
I snapped, not looking at him.
“No,” he
said, his tone stern. “Not until you turn around and look at me.”
I shot
him a glare over my shoulder. “Satisfied? Now leave.”
Instead
of leaving, he studied my face, softening as if he understood what was going on
behind my fury.
But he
didn’t understand.
“I cannot
apologize enough for what my mother said to you. Frankly, right now I’m ashamed
I share DNA with the woman. That was the reason I was avoiding her. She’s … bad
with the women I date normally, even the ones she’s set me up with. No one is good
enough. Usually, it’s merely irritating, but I didn’t want to subject you to her.
And if I had known how goddamn low she’d sink tonight, I never would’ve put you
in that situation.”
I heard
his words, but I couldn’t feel them. I couldn’t feel the anger and worry in them
that I’d later remember. In that moment, all I saw were the flowers peeking over
the top of the trash can behind him. Flowers that had arrived at my apartment earlier
that afternoon. Flowers that meant he’d found my home address. Flowers that
taunted me, saying, “You can’t be angry at Penelope Lexington when you know she’d
feel smug with satisfaction if she ever discovered the truth.” She’d feel vindicated
in her opinion of me.
Worse would
be how Henry would react if he knew the truth. How he’d never look at me the same
way again. He’d never look at me in that way that was getting under my skin, becoming
an addiction, despite all the defenses I’d tried to put up against him.
A chill
shivered down my spine.
“Nadia,
what can I do? What—”
“If you’re
not going to leave,” I turned around to fully face him, “then we might as well get
this over with.”
Henry watched
with narrowed eyes as I threw my purse on the couch and then removed my earrings.
“What are you doing?”
Cold, toneless,
I reminded him, “Our arrangement is almost over. A deal is a deal.”
“A deal
is a deal?” The muscle in his jaw twitched, his eyes flashing. “You’re going to
fuck me like some martyr?”
“Well,
I’d prefer it if you leave but I don’t welch on a deal.”
“Nadia,
don’t hide from me.” I could hear the barely contained fury beneath his words and
in a twisted way, I reveled in it. I wanted his anger. I wanted to force him to
walk away and walk away for good. “Talk to me.”
I scoffed.
“Why do you keep trying to make this more than it is? You wanted to slum it with
the local weather girl. I wanted to get laid because it’s been a while. You just
happened to be there and I’ve heard you’re good. That’s all this ever was. And I’m
not one of your uptight society princesses who needs to be assured you want more
from me than a dirty fuck.”
“Nadia
…”
I didn’t
heed the growl of warning in his voice. “Let me make it clearer,” I hissed out,
all my rage at myself redirected at him like I knew and feared would happen. “I
don’t do relationships with spoiled rich boys who run away from their mommas. I’ll
let a rich boy fuck me for the hell of it, but rest assured when I do let someone
in long-term, it’ll be a man.”
Not even
a second later, Henry crossed the distance between us, one hand tangling into my
pinned-up hair, the other around my waist. He yanked me roughly against him before
I could blink and slammed his mouth down over mine in a hard, punishing kiss.
About Samantha Young:
Samantha Young is the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of adult contemporary romances, including the On Dublin Street series and Hero, as well as the New Adult duology Into the Deep and Out of the Shallows. Every Little Thing, the second book in her new Hart’s Boardwalk series, will be published by Berkley in March 2017. Before turning to contemporary fiction, she wrote several young adult paranormal and fantasy series, including the amazon bestselling Tale of Lunarmorte trilogy. Samantha’s debut YA contemporary novel The Impossible Vastness of Us was published by Harlequin TEEN in ebook & hardback June 2017. Play On is an adult contemporary romance and the first in a brand new series set in Scotland. Villain is a companion novella to the New York Times bestselling romance HERO.
Samantha has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 for Best Author and Best Romance for On Dublin Street, Best Romance 2014 for Before Jamaica Lane, and Best Romance 2015 for Hero. On Dublin Street, a #1 bestseller in Germany, was the Bronze Award Winner in the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2013, Before Jamaica Lane the Gold Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2014 and Echoes of Scotland Street the Bronze Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2015.
Samantha is currently published in 30 countries and is a #1 international bestselling author.
Review
Yessss, finally! You
can't imagine my excitement while reading this book 😍
I fell in love with
Henry and Nadia in Hero, and always hoped to read their story <3
Nadia and Henry's
story begins for sure with a clash: a misunderstanding made sure their first
encounter was not one to be forgotten! From then on, I was hooked and fell more
and more in love with this awesome couple.
Nadia and Henry's
relationship was 😍 I absolutely loved
Henry, his hidden qualities and the force of his love for Nadia. Nadia, on the
other hand, had to overcome some obstacles, her past made her skittish about beginning
a new relationship and for sure she struggled a little to let herself go... but
in the end, Henry won her hearth, how couldn't he?
It was really
interesting to see some aspects of their world, full of rich and famous people,
with its pros and cons, included some difficult compromises people have to take
to survive in that tough world.
I definitely recommend to read this book,
Samantha Young creates once again a great couple who will steal your hearts
<3
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