Just for Now (Sea Breeze #4)
by Abbi Glines
Publication: 25th April 2013
Publisher: Simon And Schuster Australia
Pages: 336
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age Appropriate: New Adult
The day Preston Drake figured out that wealthy women paid well for a set of tight abs and a pretty face his life turned around.
The run down rat-infested trailer he had shared with his alcoholic mother and three younger siblings was now only a place he visited to pay the bills and stock the pantry with food.
He no longer worried about his family starving or living without electricity. The money he made entertaining rich older women more than covered his family’s needs and his own. He had it all figured out. Except…
There was this girl.
She was as innocent as he was tainted.
Amanda Hardy wished her knees didn’t get weak when Preston walked into a room. She hated the fact her heart raced when he flashed his smile in her direction. He had a different girl in his bed every night. He was the kind of boy a smart girl ran from. So, why was she coming up with ways to get close to him? Even when it was obvious he wanted to keep her at a distance.
Maybe her heart knew something the world didn’t. Maybe Preston Drake was more than just a pretty face.
The run down rat-infested trailer he had shared with his alcoholic mother and three younger siblings was now only a place he visited to pay the bills and stock the pantry with food.
He no longer worried about his family starving or living without electricity. The money he made entertaining rich older women more than covered his family’s needs and his own. He had it all figured out. Except…
There was this girl.
She was as innocent as he was tainted.
Amanda Hardy wished her knees didn’t get weak when Preston walked into a room. She hated the fact her heart raced when he flashed his smile in her direction. He had a different girl in his bed every night. He was the kind of boy a smart girl ran from. So, why was she coming up with ways to get close to him? Even when it was obvious he wanted to keep her at a distance.
Maybe her heart knew something the world didn’t. Maybe Preston Drake was more than just a pretty face.
My Thoughts.
Just For Now is the fourth book in the Sea Breeze series by Abbi Glines, this book is one of my favourite's of the series so far, up there with Breathe, the first in the series.
That is all due to Preston, Abbi knows how to write hot, sexy male characters, add to that his past and current situation and you have yourself a male lead that keeps you absorbed and glued to the pages!
I definitely think that Amanda 'Manda' was the perfect choice for him, they both seem to balance each other out, and the chemistry 'Wowser', talk about steamy, this book should come with a fan to cool you down it's so hot.
I loved discovering Preston's private life and what he did for a living just to make sure that his brothers and sister were kept fed, clothed and had a roof over their heads, no thanks to their druggie, alcoholic mother, who couldn't care one way or another what happened to them as long as she was able to get high and pissed.
You really feel for Preston, ashamed at where he came from and now how his siblings are having to live the same way, he never told a soul not even his best-friend Marcus (Manda's brother who is like a brother to him) about his home-life situation, and he's definitely never told anyone about where he gets his money from to pay for everything.
Preston has trouble with love, certainly never having gotten any from his Mother he finds it hard to believe that someone like Manda could ever feel that way about him, especially if she ever discovers his secret, Manda meanwhile has had a crush on him for a couple of years now and just wants to be thought of as more than Marcus' little sister.
This book ends with a wedding, I won't say who's but it's nice to see one of the couple's taking the next step, and all the characters coming together to celebrate, I loved it.
The next book is going to be called 'Sometimes It Lasts' and will again feature Cage and Eva, and will see where they are after a year together, I can't wait for that one, that will then be followed by 'A Little Misbehavin' Jason Stone's book, which means because they're brothers you would think that there would be quite a few appearances from none other that that sexy rock-star of ours Jax *squee*.
Unfortunately we have to wait for the next book, I enjoyed having the first four books all at once so I could just pick up the next one as soon as I was finished, I hate to wait, all I can do is count down the days.
Highly recommended.
I give this 5/5 Stars.
Quotes.
“Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.”
“I love you. I love you so damn much it consumes me. I don't deserve you, but I'm gonna become the man who does deserve you. I promise you. I'll make you proud of me.”
“Nothing about this thing we have is a bad thing. I’m not gonna lie about it: I don’t deserve you. I’m sure as hell not good enough for you, but as long as you want me, I’m all yours.”
“I didn't need taming. I needed saving.”
“In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.”
About Abbi.
Abbi Glines was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She grew up in the small town of Sumiton, Alabama where she left the summer she turned eighteen. She didn’t get far… she chased her high school sweetheart down to the coast and she’s been there ever since.
Abbi now lives in the quaint southern town of Fairhope, Alabama with her three children and husband Keith (the high school sweetheart she chased after). Her life is never dull and Keith always makes sure there is another “experience” for them to explore.
Books published by Abbi include The Vincent Boys and the USA TODAY bestseller The Vincent Brothers, Breathe, Because of Low, the USA TODAY bestsellers While It Lasts and Just For Now, The Existence Trilogy that includes the USA Today Bestseller Ceaseless, and The New York Times bestseller and Wall Street Journal bestseller Fallen Too Far. Currently she is working on Never Too Far, the sequel to Fallen too Far.
When Abbi isn’t locked away in her office typing away she is hauling her kids to and from their many social activities. You could say her second job is the Glines Kids personal chauffeur. It’s a rather illustrious job.
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