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 The Right Words

Lane Hayes

Escaping an abusive relationship left Luke Preston anxious and spouting panic-induced poetry. Desperate for a fresh start, Luke accepts a job remodeling a tired old beach house for a professional soccer player and his model girlfriend. While his passion is literature, not sports, focusing on the renovations eases his anxiety. Until the job he signed up for turns out to be more complicated than advertised.

Sidelined with a serious injury, soccer star Michael Martinez decides his beach house is the perfect place to recuperate. Remodeling might be the diversion he needs to keep his mind off his busted knee. Falling for the pretty designer with some quirky habits wasn’t on the drawing board. Unfortunately, Luke didn’t build a big enough closet for Michael to hide in. Having a star-powered sports career used to be all Michael lived for, but he’ll have to reevaluate his plans and find the right words if he wants to build more than a beach house with Luke.

Excerpt

“One day at a time,” he repeated thoughtfully, making an obvious effort to steer the topic toward something more pleasant. “Well, I don’t have anything better, so… I’ll go with that too.” Michael’s smile lit his entire face. It was a beautiful thing to witness. He was handsome always, but wow… what a smile.

“Was the picture of us good at least?”

This time he laughed out loud, a sweet, musical sound that made me chuckle along with him.

“Yeah, very hot.” He reached over and pulled me into his side effortlessly. “Look, I wasn’t trying to send mixed signals this week. I know I haven’t been around like I said I would. I… Jamie isn’t going to go away easily. This has been a weird blow to add to an already fucked-up situation, but… I like you and I do trust you.”

“You like me?”

He gave a small half chuckled and shrugged. “Un poco.” He translated when I gave him a blank stare. “A little.”

“I like you a little too.”

I couldn’t help my response at being near him. I curled into his side like a cat begging for attention. Michael wrapped his arms around me and kissed my cheek and my chin. I didn’t want a “friend” kiss, though. I wanted what he gave me Friday night. I wanted “that kiss.” I intercepted him when he leaned in to peck my temple and stuck my tongue out to trace the corner of his mouth. He groaned and accepted the invitation, diving and thrusting his tongue inside my mouth to stake his claim. His right hand traveled down my throat and came to a stop over my left nipple. He rubbed at the sensitive flesh through my tight T-shirt and squeezed hard when he heard my moan of approval.

I arched my back into his touch but kept my mouth fastened to his. I didn’t want to lose this connection. He bit at my chin and sent kisses down my neck as his hand dipped down to my belt and came to rest on my hardening cock. I whimpered and scooted on his lap to straddle his thighs.

“Is this okay? Am I hurting your knee?”

“It’s good, honey. Really good.” Both of his hands splayed flat on my back and circled to the front to pluck at the fabric of my T-shirt. “Take it off.”

I didn’t have to be told twice. I was burning up. I yanked it over my head and tossed it aside before I began working on the seemingly endless row of buttons on his dress shirt.

“Fuck. Help me get his off you. I need to feel your skin.”

I barely recognized my voice. I sounded breathless.

When Michael finally leaned forward to let the fabric slide from his shoulders, I met him halfway to feel his skin against mine. Heaven. He was simply beautiful, with finely toned washboard abs and gorgeous skin. It was smooth like mine but much darker. Olive against golden. I loved the contrast and I was anxious to explore. I let my hands roam, over his chest, down his stomach, and back again. My fingers itched to palm his cock through his worn jeans. Instead I fused my naked torso against his and ground my aching cock against his equally hard member. We both hissed, and the kiss became something more like sex.

About author

Lane Hayes is grateful to finally be doing what she loves best. Writing full-time!  It’s no secret Lane loves a good romance novel.  An avid reader from an early age, she has always been drawn to well-told love story with beautifully written characters.  These days she prefers the leading roles to both be men.  Lane discovered the M/M genre a few years ago and was instantly hooked.  Her debut novel was a 2013 Rainbow Award finalist and her third received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Rainbow Awards.  She loves red wine, chocolate and travel (in no particular order). Lane lives in Southern California with her amazing husband and the coolest yellow Lab ever in an almost empty nest.

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Review

Title: The Right Words

Series: A Right and Wrong Story, #1

Author: Lane Hayes

Genre: Contemporary, Sports

Length: Novel (204 pages)

ISBN: 9781632164292

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (December 12th, 2014)

Heat Level: Moderate – Explicit

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 4.5 Hearts

Reviewer: Aerin

Blurb: Escaping an abusive relationship left Luke Preston anxious and spouting panic-induced poetry. Desperate for a fresh start, Luke accepts a job remodeling a tired old beach house for a professional soccer player and his model girlfriend. While his passion is literature, not sports, focusing on the renovations eases his anxiety. Until the job he signed up for turns out to be more complicated than advertised.

Sidelined with a serious injury, soccer star Michael Martinez decides his beach house is the perfect place to recuperate. Remodeling might be the diversion he needs to keep his mind off his busted knee. Falling for the pretty designer with some quirky habits wasn’t on the drawing board. Unfortunately, Luke didn’t build a big enough closet for Michael to hide in. Having a star-powered sports career used to be all Michael lived for, but he’ll have to reevaluate his plans and find the right words if he wants to build more than a beach house with Luke.

Product Link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5749

Review: I fell in love with this author’s Better Than series and I had very high expectations when I heard this book was going to be released soon. If I didn’t love this author already, I’d fall in love with her writing all over again. I loved this book and if I had a mirror close by when I finished it, I bet I would’ve witnessed myself with a ridiculously goofy grin on my face. This story is told in 1st person from Luke’s PoV.

When cute and sassy interior designer Luke accepts a job to remodel a Latino soccer player’s outdated beach house he’s in for the surprise of his life. Luke is going through a though period in his life after his relationship with his abusive ex goes up in flames. He’s in major need of a job and lots of distraction; so when the soccer player’s model girlfriend, Jamie, offers him a chance to do both, he readily accepts.

I hope I’m not going to give away anything major, because the blurb seems like it’s purposefully misleading. Michael, the rich, hot, and brooding soccer player is a closeted gay man. Surprise? Maybe not because obviously if Luke and Michael become involved he can’t be a straight man. But Luke will soon find out that Jamie is not Michael’s girlfriend; in fact, she’s not a girl at all. And Michael has always been and always will be gay.

There’s some serious attraction and chemistry between Michael and Luke, but their relationship progressed slowly from designer to designer-with-benefits to… something more. I loved the fact that even though you can cut the sexual tension between them with a knife, they don’t jump into bed together immediately. I felt like their relationship progressed naturally, it was real and touching. But when they do have sex, watch out, you’re going to be in danger of self-combustion!

Luke and Michael spend a lot of time together and they get to know each other very good. They are as different as can be: Luke is an out-and-proud gay man who knows nothing about sports and hates physical exercise. When you say words like offensive player, something shuts down in my head. I can’t compute.” My tone was joking, but it really was very damn close to truth. Michael is a closeted athlete who has no intention of coming out of the closet and his whole world revolves around soccer; it means everything to him. It seems like Luke and Michael have nothing in common what’s so ever, and they mostly don’t, but they fit together like pieces of a puzzle.

Luke is hilarious; I was delighted and amused by him the whole time. His imagination is very rich and he works himself into a frenzy frequently. Michael started off as broody and closed-off but he showed a lot of growth by the end of the book. Their interactions were at times charming and funny, like when Michael was trying (with absolutely no success) to teach Luke Spanish…

“Let’s start with how. Cómo. Go on… repeat after me. Cómo.”
“Homo.”
“Ha-ha. Try again.”
“Really Michael? This isn’t fun. I’m not—”
“Learning is fun. You’ll see. Repeat… cómo.”
“Homo.”

There were a couple of things that I didn’t really like. Number 1: Luke’s giggling. I don’t mind if men do it once, but when it’s a habit, it annoys me very much. Number 2: Michael and his manger always talked in Spanish when Luke was around and I thought that was extremely rude. I understand that is their native language, but it doesn’t excuse the rudeness. Especially since they both could speak English very well.

The secondary characters were mostly great, with the exception of Michael’s manager; I didn’t like that selfish bastard much. Brandon, Luke’s best friend, I absolutely loved. He is supportive of his friend but doesn’t hesitate to give him a good dose of reality when Luke needs it. Alejandro (aka Alex) is Michael’s best friend and ex-lover. We still don’t know much about him but I’m fairly sure one of the next books in this series is going to be his. When Luke met Alex for the first time, this stupid song took residence in my head and I couldn’t get it out (Lady Gaga – Alejandro); I know, I know I’m pathetic.

When Michael is in danger of being outed, what is he going to choose? His career and his religious family or a life together with Luke? I was going to say go and read to find out, but that would be mean. You should go read it anyways, because Mrs. Lane is a very talented writer and this book is awesome. I’m going to end this review with a quote that will explain exactly why I believe this book has the perfect title.

“Te amo, Luke. I love you.” He gave a short laugh and set his warm hand on the curve of my bare hip. “More than soccer, more than anything. Everything else is… nada, nothing without you.”

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