Mid-Week Tease – Trapped by Cupid #MWTeaste

It’s that time again – time for a mid week tease. This is so much fun. I’m reading a whole lot of great teases and finding new books to add to the already mile high to be read pile. How about you? Are you finding some good reads?

This week I’ve got a new release happening – YAY!!  Publication number 6 for me. So exciting.

This story is called “Trapped by Cupid” and it’s part of a Valentine’s Day Anthology called “Melt My Heart”. There’s also 3 other great short stories in the anthology too.

My story is loosely linked to my “Lovers Unmasked” Series – which by the way last week’s Tease “Seducing Phoebe” is part of and they’re all on sale too. Here is the blurb for “Trapped by Cupid”

Blurb:  Nurse Lisa Wheeler wouldn’t mind getting swept off her feet this Valentine’s Day, but it seems Cupid’s arrow has passed her by. Instead, she’s stuck working the late shift with arrogant Dr. Noah Collins. But when this couple gets stuck in a stalled elevator, it turns out the ER’s golden boy might just have a secret soft side—and Cupid might have better aim than she thought.

And now prepare to be teased!

“Do you want to thumb wrestle?”

His foot stopped moving. “I’m sorry? What did you say?”

She chuckled, she’d gotten his mind off his fear, perhaps only for a moment but she’d done it. “I said, do you want to thumb wrestle?”

“Why would I want to do that?”

“Well you don’t want to talk and I don’t want to sit here in silence, so what do you say,” she turned and rose up so that she was kneeling, her hand held out in a half-closed fist with her thumb sticking up in the air. It looked liked he wasn’t going to accept her offer. “Or maybe you’re too scared to thumb wrestle because you know I’m going to whip your butt.”

She got the exact response she wanted. He turned and linked his fingers with her. Her nerve endings sizzled and she was almost sure she could hear them popping, like the fizzing of soda when it was poured into a glass.

“So, how does this work,” he asked, his voice shook slightly; letting her know he still wasn’t comfortable with the situation. “Best of three rounds?”

“Sure. We start on three, two, one. Go!” Lisa twisted her thumb around trying to get into a position so she could squish Noah’s thumb. He moved his thumb quickly out of the way. The tussled for a few moments, she almost had him too. She started laughing when his thumb squashed hers.

“Victory!” He shouted. “Ready for round two?” He finished off with a wink.

Lisa couldn’t believe the guy sitting on the ground next to her was the same guy who, just last week, was annoying her to the point of frustration. Perhaps she’d misjudged him. Perhaps his over-confidence was all a show he put on because people expected it of him due to who his father was.

She wondered what would happen when they were finally freed from their tin can prison. Would he treat her any differently? She knew she would. Being in close confines with Noah, she’d seen him with new eyes and all her pre-conceived ideas and biases towards him had changed. How did he feel about her? Would he even been interested in getting to know her better like she wanted to get to know him better? She wasn’t the daughter of a society doyenne. She was a first-year nurse who was more comfortable at the recreation center than the sailing club.

“Don’t tell me I scared you into submission with only one round?”

Noah’s question pulled her out of her internal thoughts.

She gave herself a mental shake to get her head back in the game. She’d beaten her brothers in thumb wrestling; she could beat Noah.

“No way, get ready to go down. I gave you that one cause I felt sorry for you.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes it is. Now are you ready?”

A glint entered Noah’s eyes and Lisa wondered what he was about to do next.

“Sure am,” he replied. With one tug of their co-joined hands she fell forward against him. The momentum was enough to push Noah down from his sitting position so that his back was on the floor and she was lying over him.

Lisa hoped the maintenance crew didn’t get the elevator working anytime soon. 

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