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Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 86335 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 432(@200wpm)___ 345(@250wpm)___ 288(@300wpm)

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From USA Today Bestselling author Nikki Ash comes a secret pregnancy, office romance ...

Nate
One minute, I’m minding my own business, and the next, I’m rescuing a beautiful woman in front of my family’s hotel.
I’m not prepared for the instant attraction I feel for her, but the chemistry is undeniable.
Paige warns me all she can give me is London, and I agree, but when our time is up, I’m desperate for more.
I slip my card into her purse, hoping she will call, but after two months of silence, it’s clear she’s not going to.
So, I do what any man in my position would do …
I go after her.

Paige
What started as a grand gesture for the man I thought was the one ends with me fleeing after catching him with my best friend.
With tears in my eyes and my heart in my hand, I stumble on the cobblestone. One second, I’m closing my eyes and praying I don’t die, and the next, I’m being swept off my feet by a handsome stranger—literally.
Nate shows me passion like I’ve never known, and it only takes five unforgettable days to fall head over heels for him.
Faced with the harsh reality of long-distance love, I make a heart-wrenching decision to throw away his number—a choice I believe will spare us both from inevitable heartbreak.
But after returning home, I realize what a colossal mistake I made. Because what had happened in London didn’t stay in London …

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prologue

PAIGE

Fourteen Years Old

“You can’t give up,” Dad yells on the other side of their bedroom door.

It’s closed, so they don’t know I’m here. I wasn’t supposed to be home for another two hours, but Mrs. Simmons got food poisoning and had to cancel math club.

“What the hell am I supposed to do without you?” he asks.

“I’ve tried,” my mom cries, her voice raspy and weak. “But I can’t do it anymore. I need you to not fight me on this. My time is limited, and I want to spend it with you and Paige.”

“You’re asking me to sit back and just let you die!” Dad argues. “You can’t ask me to do that! That’s not fair.”

Ever since Mom found out that she has cancer, Dad has been extra nice to her. He’s even stopped moving us all over, choosing to stay in London because Mom said this city makes her happy.

She’s been fighting the cancer for a long time now, but from what they’re saying, it sounds like it isn’t getting any better and Mom is going to stop her treatments. I don’t know a lot about cancer, but I know that the treatments make her sick and miserable, but without them, she’ll die, which is apparently what she wants to do.

“No,” Mom says. “I’m asking you to understand that I’m choosing to enjoy the time I have left with the people I love.”

“Paige is going to be devastated,” Dad says, his tone filled with emotion. “She needs you.”

He’s not lying. My mom is my best friend, and I can’t imagine my life without her. She gets along with my friends and boyfriend, and everyone loves her. She’s the person I go to when I’m having a bad day. She listens and never goes all mom on me the way a lot of my friends’ moms do.

Every weekend, holiday break, and even many afternoons after school, we explore together. I hate moving, but she’s always made it a fun adventure, and because of her, I have already experienced so much that the world has to offer. She can take the simplest of things and turn it into something magical.

“She’ll be okay,” Mom chokes out. “She has you. And when I’m gone, you will have each other.”

No, I won’t be okay, I think, but don’t voice out loud. I need you to fight. I need you to want to live for me. Don’t you want to keep making new memories with me? Our latest scrapbook isn’t finished yet. There are so many pages that need to be filled. I need you, Mom!

“Damn it, Finley!” Dad barks, making me jump. I’ve never heard him raise his voice to my mom, let alone yell at her like that. “This isn’t what I wanted! What the hell am I supposed to do with a teenage girl? You need to fight!” he says, as if plucking the words straight from my head. “She needs you!”

“She will have you!” Mom sobs.

“I didn’t ask for this,” Dad hisses, and even though I should be focused on my mom choosing to die, his confession has me taking in his words.

“You wanted this,” he continues. “The family, the baby. I told you that I was scared that I wasn’t cut out for that type of life, but you told me you would be by my side. That we would do this together. You wanted her. And now, you’re going to abandon her instead of fighting for your life…for her. You’re going to leave me, and I’ll have to raise her on my own. That’s not what was supposed to happen!”

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Advertisement Hooked on You (Love & Whiskey #2) Read Online Nikki Ash http://www.books2020.com/hooked-on-you-love-whiskey-2-read-online-nikki-ash Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:32:29 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/hooked-on-you-love-whiskey-2-read-online-nikki-ash Genre: Alpha Male, Billionaire, Contemporary, Insta-Love, Suspense Authors: Nikki Ash Series: Love & Whiskey Series by Nikki Ash
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Total pages in book: 93
Estimated words: 88841 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 444(@200wpm)___ 355(@250wpm)___ 296(@300wpm)

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Kira
Raising my daughter as a single mom wasn’t the life I dreamed of, and neither was being homeless. But thanks to my abusive ex and a broken system, that’s our reality.
Until Ryder Du Ponte finds us sleeping in our SUV in the company parking garage and brings us home with him.
The handsome single dad convinces me to work for him as a live-in nanny. And against my better judgment, I accept.
With each passing day, Ryder becomes more than my boss. My heart is invested, but falling for him means risking everything.
The problem is, I can’t ignore how safe I feel in his arms, and that’s what scares me the most.

Ryder
Money can buy a lot of things, but it can’t buy love. A valuable lesson I learned the hard way—first with my parents and then when my ex chose to take a payoff and walk away.
One day, I’m a single dad, doing my thing, and the next, I have a beautiful nanny and her adorable daughter living under my roof.
Kira Adams is everything I never thought I’d find. She’s not only sweet and selfless, but she’s also a damn good mom to her daughter … and mine.
The longer she’s in our lives, the harder it’ll be to let her go. What started out as friendship has grown into something neither of us expected.
I know I should cut her loose before this thing goes any further, but I can’t. I’m already hooked on her.

*Hooked on You is book two in the Love & Whiskey series but can be read as a standalone*

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hooked on you playlist

Treat You Better – Shaw Mendes

What Ifs – Kane Brown

Little Do You Know – Alex & Sierra

Fight Song – Rachel Platten

Roar – Katy Perry

I Wanna Dance with Somebody – Whitney Houston

The Comeback – Danny Gokey

Rain On Me – Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

Stand By You – Rachel Platten

She’s So High – Tal Bachman

This Love (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift

prologue

RYDER

“Ryder, your wife is on line one. She said it’s an emergency.”

“Thank you, Julie,” I say to my assistant.

I quickly press the line and bring the phone to my ear. “Nora, is everything okay?”

“No,” my wife shouts through the phone over the sound of a screaming baby. “Everything is not okay. I need you to come home now.”

I’m already standing, worst-case scenarios flitting through my head. Did our daughter fall and hit her head? Did she choke on something? Was there some kind of accident? Addie is only four months old, but anything is possible.

“Let me call you on my cell.”

I hang up and grab my phone, seeing a dozen missed calls and texts from Nora. Shit. I had it on silent because I was in a meeting earlier and forgot to turn the ringer back on.

“Hello,” she breathes, the screaming in the background still going strong.

“What’s wrong?” I ask, snagging my keys and running out the door.

“I don’t know! The nanny isn’t here, thanks to you giving her the time off, and I have no idea what the hell is wrong with her.”

I step into the elevator and press the button for the parking garage.

“Did something happen?” I ask in confusion.

“How the hell am I supposed to know? I tried to feed her, but she threw up all over me. I was supposed to be meeting my mother for brunch, but I can’t go now because I’m going to have to shower, and the formula stained my dress, and I have no one to watch Adeline.”

“Forget your fucking brunch for a second,” I bark. “Why is our daughter screaming like she’s in pain?”

“Because the nanny and you have turned her into a spoiled brat, and neither of you are here, so I’m left to deal with it.”

“She’s four months old,” I remind her as I get into my car. “She has needs, and the only reason she’d be crying, unless there was something wrong with her, is if they weren’t being met.”

“Well, I don’t know how to meet her needs. Maybe we need to hire another nanny. She literally gave us zero notice.”

“Her mother passed away,” I say dryly, wondering how this has become my life. “You can’t exactly give notice when you don’t know your mother is going to have a heart attack and die.”

She called Friday night and told me her mom was in the hospital and she wasn’t sure what was going to happen. Nora was on a girls’ trip with her mother and friends, so I spent the weekend with Addie.

Last night, the nanny called and said her mom didn’t make it, and of course, I told her to take off as much time as she needed. Because I had to go to work today, Nora was left to take care of Addie. It’s only been about two hours since I left.

“Can you please just get home?” Nora huffs over the line. “I don’t know how to fix this.”

“I’ll be there soon.”

I click End, and the car immediately goes silent, giving me a few minutes to calm myself so I don’t lose it on my wife. For a woman who wanted a baby as badly as she did, it’s insane, the way she wants nothing to do with caring for our daughter.

The nanny mentioned that Nora has gotten worse, relying on her to do everything, but I didn’t fully grasp the severity of the situation until now, as I walk inside and hear my daughter screaming at the top of her lungs.

“Jesus fucking Christ! What do you want from me?” Nora yells, sending chills up my spine.

It brings me back to when I was little and my parents would fight. And then my dad would leave, and my mom would take it out on me. Nothing I did was right. I was too messy, too noisy, too much work. I tried to be cleaner, to keep my mouth shut, to make it to where she wouldn’t be upset. All I wanted was for her to love me … and instead, she left.

I follow the cries, and they lead me to the nursery, where I find Nora standing over our daughter in her crib. Addie’s face is bright red and blotchy from crying, and when her hazel eyes—identical to my own—meet mine, my heart shatters into a million pieces.

I shouldn’t have left Nora with Addie. This morning, when I told her the nanny wouldn’t be coming in, she threw a fit over having to care for our daughter herself. I called her a selfish bitch and told her she could handle one damn day of taking care of Addie. But I should’ve listened because based on Addie’s face, she’s been crying for a while.

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Advertisement Drunk on You (Love & Whiskey #1) Read Online Nikki Ash http://www.books2020.com/drunk-on-you-love-whiskey-1-read-online-nikki-ash Mon, 27 May 2024 20:58:16 +0000 http://www.booksnovels.com/drunk-on-you-love-whiskey-1-read-online-nikki-ash Genre: Alpha Male, Billionaire, Erotic, Insta-Love Authors: Nikki Ash Series: Love & Whiskey Series by Nikki Ash
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Total pages in book: 83
Estimated words: 78304 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 392(@200wpm)___ 313(@250wpm)___ 261(@300wpm)

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Anastasia

If I want to prove to my dad that I can take his place as CEO of our family’s liquor company, I need to show him I won’t let work consume my life the way it did his.

He wants me to be a family woman? I can fake it till I make it.

A fake fiancé is the perfect solution, and the man I’ve found is the ideal candidate.

He’s smart and successful, and he’ll look great on paper as well as on my arm …

Until I realize he’s also my stiff competition.

Julian

She’s supposed to be a trophy wife. The missing ingredient I needed to toast my success.

I was hoping the ten million reasons I offered in exchange would be enough to get her to agree. But it turns out, she’s got her own reasons for using me.

From the boardroom to the bedroom, this woman has turned my world upside down.

She might be good at faking it, but her beauty and brains have me falling for real.

I’m just getting started, and I’m already drunk on her.

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chapter one

ANASTASIA

“Thank you, Annabella. That will be all,” Victoria says, closing the file folder we were just going over and sitting back in her seat.

With her half-black, half-silver hair, she reminds me of Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians, and I briefly wonder if she has a stash of puppies she’s holding hostage somewhere.

“It’s Anastasia,” I correct, not for the first time, as I pick up the reports off the table. “If there’s anything else you⁠—”

“Nope. I think we have everything we need.” She plasters on a fake smile, silently indicating I’ve been dismissed.

I stuff the files into my Bottega Veneta briefcase that my father sent me for my birthday last year and then stand, feeling completely rejected. I spent hours upon hours working on those reports and projections, only for Cruella to barely give them a glance. When I’d brought up the idea at a meeting last month and she said I was welcome to pitch it, I should’ve known she was full of shit.

When I get back to my office, Paige—my best friend and colleague—is waiting for me. Between her slim figure, stunning looks, and the fact that, with heels on, she towers over most men, she looks more like a runway model than a marketing executive for Benson Liquor. The second she sees my facial expression, her pouty lips turn down.

“Such a damn waste,” I hiss once my door is closed.

I fish the files out of my bag and toss them into the garbage can, annoyed that I wasted so much of my time working on them when I knew Victoria didn’t care about anyone’s opinions or ideas but her own. I round my desk and slump back into my seat while Paige takes a seat in the visitor chair across from me.

“It’s not you,” she says, blowing wisps of her blonde hair out of her eyes. “Victoria is a controlling know-it-all, and if she keeps it up, she’s going to run this company straight into the ground.”

She’s not lying. The numbers are down thirty percent for the quarter—an all-time low for the company. Victoria is blaming it on the economy, but when you compare our numbers to our competitors’, theirs have gone up. The economy might be on shaky ground right now, but that isn’t stopping people from drinking.

“And the last thing I want is to be here when it happens.” I clasp my hands over my stomach and cross my legs. “I’ll never understand why her father thought it was a good idea to let his socialite daughter, who knows nothing about the liquor industry, take over the company when he retired.”

“Because she’s a daddy’s girl,” Paige mocks and then gags, making me choke out a laugh despite not being in a laughing mood.

“Must be nice,” I mutter just as my phone rings with Dad on my screen. “And speak of the devil …”

I turn my phone so Paige can see, and she flinches.

“You sure you want to answer that? You’ve already had a bad enough morning.”

“Better to get the conversation over with.”

She nods in understanding and stands. “Lunch?”

“You’re not meeting John?” Since Paige and her boyfriend work near each other, they usually meet for lunch.

“Nope, he has a lunch meeting.”

“Okay, then let’s do lunch.”

“Sounds good.”

Since I missed my dad’s call, I call him back once Paige has closed the door behind her.

“Anastasia, have I caught you at a bad time?” he asks when he answers.

“I’m at work, but I have a few minutes.”

Dad sighs at my curtness, and I close my eyes, hating what’s become of us.

I would give anything to have a relationship with the only parent I have left, but it’s hard to do when that parent is partially responsible for the death of my other parent.

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