The Flirt Alert
Kaylene Winter
Publication date: November 17th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
When a man who has everything will do anything to ease the pain of the incredible woman who’s living with a timebomb.
My best friend’s twin, Shay Stojanović, is my ultimate gamer dream girl come to life.
Gorgeous, flirtatious and popular, she didn’t know I existed.
Until one fateful night, she made this nerd’s every fantasy come true.
The next day she blew me up like a frag grenade.
Years later, Shay’s brother and I have built a billion dollar gaming company.
He had the nerve to give his shady sister a coveted executive role.
Oh, I’m not going to make it easy on her—she’ll quit. You’ll see.
Everything’s going exactly to plan…
Until we get stranded at the top of a mountain.
And I learn the truth.
Now I can’t—and won’t—resist her.
She has a lot to overcome.
And I’m just the man to soothe her hurt.
It’s Shay’s turn for a flirt alert.
The Flirt Alert is a scorching, standalone, billionaire, enemies to lovers, best friend’s brother, forced proximity, STEM workplace, HEA romance.
Excerpt:
I mean, what was I supposed to do? My
brother and I had considerably different interests, so we weren’t actually
hanging out. Austin and Miles were shy and I was a full-blown social butterfly.
While they played video games, I was always with my girlfriends. Going to
dances. Partying. Fooling around with hot guys.
Anything to fill the void after my
pageant life ended.
For years, it was all I knew. From
the time I was a little girl until I turned fifteen, Mom and I traveled all
over the country so I could compete. From the Washington State Cinderella
Pageant to the Universal Royalty Pageants in Austin, Texas, I was on track to
level up to feeder pageants into Miss Teen USA. Then…I had to quit.
I learned a lot during those years.
How to speak in the presence of a crowd. How to take criticism like a champ.
Organization. Confidence. Poise. Skills that came in handy for a relatively
pain-free high school experience. Also, excellent training to deal with
assholes like Austin, a.k.a. Mr. Judgypants.
I swear, if he and Miles weren’t
business partners, I’d give him a piece of my mind. How he treats me is so out
of line but I’m not going break. Or tattle to my brother. Miles went out of his
way to help me get through this tough, scary time. My salary is excellent and
the experience I gain here will help my career in the long run.
I’ll simply have to deal with an
emotionally stunted jerkwad who despises me for no reason. No matter how nice I
am to him, he seems to have made up his mind that I suck, which is annoying,
but whatever.
As much as I’d like to avoid him,
unfortunately, I’ve got to put up with his cranky ass for a bit. I’m in charge
of Hungry Llama’s three-day corporate retreat at Crystal Mountain—which is precisely
five days from now. I plan on knocking it of the park because no one can throw
together an event better than me. But it’s no small feat to pull this off. I
hope he appreciates the amount of effort it’s taking.
Who am I kidding. He’s going to give
me all kinds of grief about the budget, which I need his sign-off on. Might as
well get the unpleasantries over with.
As I approach his glass-walled
office, I can see him talking to his computer monitor, which means he’s on a
call. With a noon deadline looming to provide proof of payment to the venue, I
have no choice but to wait. Oh well, it’s an outstanding opportunity to
covertly observe him for a few uninterrupted minutes while he’s busy.
I mean, checking out grown-up Austin
is no hardship. He’s incredibly easy on the eyes. No, that’s underselling him.
He’s devastatingly handsome and takes excellent care of himself. It’s definitely
hard not to stare. The transformation from awkward teenager to gorgeous,
confident man is quite something to behold.
His edgy drop-fade haircut is hot,
hot, hot, I love how he leaves it long and textured on top. If he weren’t such
a dick, he’d check off every physical characteristic category on my list. Good
hair—check. Square jaw with ever-present stubble—check. Solid, buff
physique—check. Strong, capable hands with tidy, clean nails—check. Manly
cologne used sparingly—check, check, check.
Author Bio:
When she was only 15, Kaylene Winter wrote her first rocker romance novel starring a fictionalized version of herself, her friends and their gorgeous rocker boyfriends. After living her own rockstar life as a band manager, music promoter and mover and shaker in Seattle during the early 1990’s, Kaylene became a digital media legal strategist helping bring movies, television and music online. Throughout her busy career, Kaylene lost herself in romance novels across all genres inspiring her to realize her life-long dream to be a published author. She lives in Seattle with her amazing husband and dog. She loves to travel, throw lavish dinner parties and support charitable causes supporting arts and animals.
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