Sail
Book
Two in The Wake Series
by M.
Mabie
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Synopsis
This isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life.
This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair.
I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my
second chance.
She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as
much to blame.
Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long
was.
I’ll show her how fearless our love makes me. I’ll protect her
torn heart.
He still has magic in his eyes. He’s the man who makes me happy.
Her voice still brings me to my knees. She says my name like
it’s sacred.
I live for the day when I’m his. To take care of him. To love
him the way he deserves.
I can’t wait to be all she needs. I can give her a happy life,
security and so much love.
Sometimes two ships never meet in the night, but ours did.
Sometimes the water is rough. It beats you all to hell until you
have no choice but get stronger.
Our love story reads more like a tragedy, but to me it’s clean
and pure.
Let them point their fingers. Without a love like ours, they
haven’t really lived. I pity them.
I’m a cheating wife and a villain. I am his honeybee.
I’m a snake in the grass and I sleep best when I’m lying next to
his wife.
I want to be his everything.
I’m nothing without her anyway.
This isn’t even close to over.
It’ll never be over.
Sail is the
second book in the continuing Wake Series. For more information on the
first book in the series see the link for Bait below.
Excerpt
The room was dimly lit with the few
lights we’d left on. It was late, and even though I was tired from travel and
just life in general, I craved the feel of him.
Our suite was warm, void of chill or
worry. In the bedroom, we didn’t bother with a light, knowing where everything
was by memory.
He guided me to bed. He let my hair
down and brushed it off my shoulders, and then he held me close and pressed his
lips to mine. Casey laid us down so softly I barely knew we were moving until I
felt the fluffy pillow under my head.
I deepened our kiss and moaned when his
body pressed against mine.
“We’re not going to have sex tonight,
Blake,” he said breathlessly around my lips. Why? I wanted him so badly. Just
like that. Slow and easy.
I tried to evict thoughts of uncertainty
from my mind, but they snuck in with his words. His behavior was contradictory.
He’d shown me nothing but affection and care since we saw each other in the
airport.
Why wouldn’t he make love to me?
Old demons felt the need to speak up.
What if he doesn’t want you after the
chase? What if he only likes the thrill?
I felt my body begin to tense for the
first time since we’d arrived. The hands that had been wandering across his
back stilled. The leg I had started to wrap around his waist slowly began falling
to the side.
“Hey, where are you going,” he said, as
he kissed my neck and ran a hand through my hair to the nape of my neck.
“I don’t understand,” I contested. “I
want you.” He shifted his weight and I felt how hard he was against my inner
thigh. He was definitely turned on. So what was his deal? “Don’t you want me,
too?”
“Mmmm,” he breathed near my ear. “God,
I want you.” His big right hand hitched my leg back around his hip and he
palmed my ass, bringing my dress up to my waist in the process and exposing my
pale pink underwear. “I’ve wanted you day and night for so long now. I don’t
know how to not want you.” He spoke between kisses and rubbed his nose along my
clavicle. Then he bit me gently at the crook of my neck. “But there’ve been too
many times I’ve let that need for you cloud my focus.”
“But I—”
“No, Blake. Not tonight. Tonight, I’m
going to make you come and then I’m going to sleep next to you. I’m going to
fall asleep with you in my arms. All those nights I missed out on holding you
and feeling you next to me. I stole them from both of us being scared and
stubborn.
I have to be better this time. I see
all that you’re doing and I’m so damn proud of you, honeybee,” he said calmly.
“But I want more than just physical things from you. It isn’t that I don’t want
you. Fuck, do I want you. But I need all of you. Not just this.” He moved
against my center and I knew I had to change his mind. After hearing those
sweet
words,
I had to have him and I wasn’t going to fight fair.
“Please, Casey. Fuck me.”
He growled and pressed his forehead to
my chest. “You’re evil.” He laughed. I wished he sounded defeated, but mostly
he sounded amused. “You’re not making it easy for me to be noble.”
“Don’t be noble then,” I said as I
wound my arms around him and
pulled
him closer to me.
“If you knew what I was thinking about
doing to you, you’d know I wasn’t.” He rolled partially over toward the center
of the bed and ran his hand under my dress and up to my breast.
“Then tell me,” I shamelessly
suggested.
The tips of his fingers roamed down my
stomach and my pulse sped up. His fingers slid under the sheer fabric of my
underwear and my breaths came in spurts as I mentally begged him to keep going.
I was so wound up.
“Don’t worry. I told you I’d take care
of you.”
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Sail
M. Mabie
As soon as I finished Bait, I dove into Sail head first. I was still (and am still, truthfully) reeling from Bait. I know I said it in my Bait review BUT it definitely needs to be said again that M. Mabie knows her craft. She pulls no punches delivering all of the feels. Mo has made her way up my list for go to authors and I can’t wait to see what comes from her in the future!
I once again fell into Casey and Blake’s story, feeling every single emotion they both went through. There were times while I was reading Bait that I got so damn frustrated with both of them, wanting to yell to STOP. I was so glad to see growth between both Casey and Blake. Cheering for them to finally find the happiness they both deserved all the way from the beginning I was so, so happy when they were getting to achieve it.
This series is a top recommendation from me. If you have not read Bait, you should bump it up on your TBR, and then follow up with Sail. You won’t regret it.
5+++++ Stars!
Oh I love me
some Casey!! I want to pet him and love him and stroke him. Wait. What? No not
like that. Well... Sorry... hazard of a smut reader. What I even love more is the fact that the basic
ingredient of an idea of this story makes my heart swoon HARD. I mean really
the subject of wanting to be with someone so badly that all else be damned but
is still scared to make the leap strikes a nerve so deeply in me that it makes
my over romanticism go to def. con four. But enough about me let’s talk about
M. Mabie and her amazing series to date.
Book two to
the Wake series, Sail takes place back into the lives of Blake and Casey. Two
people who met on the off chance and struggled to be together as their hearts
want them to be, only to have life and relationship commitments blocking their
path. Sail takes place after events that led to the explosion of truths that
came to light in book one Bait, and Casey and Blake try to find their way to be
a “real” couple. Even though this is what they wanted for a few years, Casey
and Blake still find that their personal hang-ups can break them as well.
M. Mabie has
written superbly a story; a series that starts off so dark and deep in Bait that
while I was reading from the very first page she had my emotions all over the
place. So filled with angst and longing, absolutely coveting one another Bait
had me questioning why I continued to torture myself. I later found the answer
to that question to be simply because Bait is a great story and needs to be
read. When I jumped into Sail, I was scared that I would be on emotional
overload. Thanks to all that is filled with chocolate and rainbows, Sail breathed
fresh air and bright light into me. I really think M. Mabie took pity on her
readers and felt that she needed to give us a break from being in the dark. Well
played Mo, well done. HAHA
While Sail still consumes you as Bait does, Sail is written as if the pressure has been lifted
right off your chest and only now can you really appreciate the characters even
with all their faults. Completely polar opposites of the sea current. In my
opinion it takes a wonderfully well versed writer and storyteller to be able to
write a series with the first two books to be completely different in vibe but
uniquely the same in relation.
So really
what all my mumbo jumbo means is that I would recommend to everyone that Sail
needs to be read but only after Bait. Please, PLEASE HURRY so I’m not sitting alone jonesing for more
words from whom sure will be your next go to author.
Bait
Book One in The Wake Series
Still on Sale for 99¢
Synopsis:
He was trouble from the
start, but I couldn't resist.
She was the best kind of
trouble. The kind that was so wrong, it felt right.
I’ve tried and failed to stay
away from him.
I’ve done everything in my
power to make her mine and keep her.
He’s almost impossible to say
no to.
She never tells me yes.
We’re always fighting.
When we’re not fighting,
we’re… well… making up.
He makes me laugh so hard.
I miss her laugh the most.
I'm a liar.
She knows the truth, but
won’t admit it.
Sometimes, I wish I'd never
met him.
I wish we could meet all over
again. I'd do better.
His sweet girlfriend knows.
The guy she’s with is a fool.
I’ll never love anyone like I
love him.
She doesn’t love me enough to
choose us.
It was the wrong place.
It was the wrong time.
It should have been him.
It will always be her.
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Bio
M. Mabie lives in Illinois with her husband.
She is the author of the steamy comedy Fade In. Her sophomore release, Bait, is
the first book in the angst-filled erotic Wake Series. She writes
unconventional love stories and tries to embody "real-life romance."
She cares about politics, but will not discuss
them in public. She uses the same fork at every meal, watches Wayne's World
while cleaning, and lets her dog sleep on her head. She has always been a
writer. In fact, she was born with a pen in her hand, which almost never
happens. Almost.
M. Mabie usually doesn't speak in third-person
either. She promises.
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