There’s not an athlete alive who can match Will’s drive and self-discipline…until an adorable two year old and a fiery chef land on his doorstep and turn his life upside down. If he wants to keep his girls, he’s going to have to learn to lead with his heart and not his mind.
Will Bowie is supposed to be training for the Olympics, but the toddler unexpectedly dropped into his life isn’t interested in his schedules. Still, he’s pretty sure he’s got things under control…
…until a sexy chef lands on his doorstep and offers a temptation he can’t resist.
Hours after losing her restaurant, chef Delilah Lua enters a cooking competition thousands of miles away from home. Winning would resurrect the dream that’s been stolen from her. If—no, when—she wins, she’ll go back with the capital to open her own place and enough fame to do it with flair. Her roommate, though, is a delicious surprise she hadn’t anticipated…
…but she’s not sure how to have her cake and eat it, too.
Despite the undeniable sparks in the kitchen, Will’s not about to give his heart to another woman who’s leaving, and Delilah must decide if the delectable future she could cook up with Will is worth more than a childhood dream.
Check out the first book in The Bad Boyfriend Series! Last year Fin wrote a Love Note, have you read it yet?
Six years ago Fin Bowie made a decision that cost him the love of his life. Now his ex is coming back to town for her brother’s wedding, and he can finally make things right. Except, right before the event, a text he sent goes viral. Overnight, he becomes an international meme. And it’s hard to win your woman back when the whole world’s calling you The World’s Worst Boyfriend.
The last thing on Calliope Bell’s mind is getting back with Fin. Not when her life’s just gone sideways, forcing her to spend the summer in her hometown. She can’t be away from the New York art world this long, so she comes up with the idea to turn the hottest pop culture event of the moment into a museum exhibition.
The two have every intention of avoiding each other—until the county judge sentences Fin to community service…helping her exploit the meme he’s trying to make go away.
Will’s note is so swoony!!!
Keep reading to see the full Love Note!
Delilah,
You know what woke me up this morning? I was suffocating. Know why? Yep, Ruby. Once again, she crawled into bed with us—no idea what time. After I pulled the foam Nerf darts out of my nostrils, I tucked her up against me and sang a lullaby. It took maybe one stanza before she was conked out. I wanted to go back to sleep—are you kidding me? This kid’s got me running in circles all day long. I’m so beat I can hardly see straight.
But I couldn’t close my eyes. Because right here in the bed I used to sleep alone in, I had the two girls who’ve turned my life upside down. I couldn’t sleep because my heart was pounding so hard and fast, I thought I was having a heart attack. I don’t know how my life changed so completely. I don’t know how a man like me got so damn lucky, but I’m thankful every minute of every day that I’ve got you.
Delilah, I never imagined—not once—I’d fall for anyone, let alone a sexy New Yorker and a two-year-old who carries a stuffed chicken everywhere she goes. With my medals and my trophies, my brothers and my routine, I thought I had a full life, but that day I met you, the actual second I laid eyes on you in the kitchen, my half-sister asleep out in your arms? I knew something big was happening. Because something inside me recognized you. And, hard as I tried to keep my distance, all I wanted was to be where you were.
That’s all I want now. To be where you are. You make my heart full. You make the whole world come alive. I love you like I’ve never loved anything or anyone before.
I will never stop working to make you as happy as you make me and to be the man you deserve.
Will
Award-winning author Erika Kelly has been spinning romantic tales all her life–she just didn’t know it. Raised on the classics, she didn’t discover romantic fiction until later in life. From that moment on, she’s been devouring the genre and has found her true voice as an author. Over three decades she’s written poems, screenplays, plays, short stories, and all kinds of women’s fiction novels. Married to the love of her life and raising four children, she’s lived in two countries and seven states, but give her pen and paper, a stack of good books, and a steaming mug of vanilla chai latte and she can make her home anywhere.
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Love Will’s love note to Delilah. Such a great story!