The writing? Addicting, so poetic at times. Here is why this novella was without a doubt a "chef’s kiss": A decade ago they started a bet-game that sent them straight into a slippery slope of seduction. And hated each-other for most of their lives. The protagonists grow up living in the same street. How can someone pull so much emotions and life into less than 100pages ? still wondering Is this just another bet, or are we playing for keeps?ĥ -idk what kind of cracks the author puts in her novellas, but im eating it up- stars. It’s to end the undertones of tension that neither of us can deny, and put the neverending torment to rest.īut in the end, the real question still remains… Only this time, the winner isn’t subjected to something like our usual Designated Driver duty or eating a lime off the floor. I’m pretty sure we were born to be this way, and in the three decades since, nothing has changed.įor those reasons alone it shouldn’t surprise me when Kam pulls one of his classic moves and forces us to compete in yet another bet. Sounds a little much, but it’s been like this since we were old enough to talk, and even then I’m sure it was a race as to who spoke first. No, really, I’d pay almost anything to see my childhood rival on his knees, ankle in hand, with my foot dangling in his smug little face.Īnd I’m pretty sure if you asked him, he wouldn’t mind me tasting his boots. Kameron Ford can lick the bottom of my shoe.
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