REVIEW, EXCERPT, & GIVEAWAY: ALL I AM: DREW’S STORY by Jodi Ellen Malpas

Posted June 18, 2017 by MeliMel in Blog Tours, Giveaways, Guest Posts & Reviews, Home, Meli Mel Review, Our Reviews, Release Blitz, Special Content & Excerpts / 0 Comments

 

ALL I AM: DREW’S STORY (A THIS MAN NOVELLA) by Jodi Ellen Malpas

(June 18, 2017; Forever Yours ebook; $2.99)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Ellen Malpas comes a new novella in the This Man series. You don’t need to read the series to enjoy this story, but if you’re already a Jesse Ward fan, just wait till you see the advice he gives Drew about falling in love.

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I thought I had control.  I was so, so wrong…

I don’t need a relationship.  I have Hux, a decadent club where I quench whatever raw desire I choose.  I take pleasure and I give it – no strings attached.  So when Raya Rivers comes in asking for someone cold, emotionless, and filthy… well, no man ever takes his wicked pleasure quite the way I do.

  Only Raya is different. Vulnerable. And carrying some deep sorrow that gets past all my carefully constructed walls and inexplicably makes me care.  Now craving controls me.  Ice has given way to red-hot need.

  But Raya has no idea about my other life – my real life.  That I’m daddy to an adorable little girl.  My two worlds are about to collide with the force of a supernova.  Once Raya knows the truth, will she be able to accept all I am?

♥ ♥ ♥ 4 STARS ♥ ♥ ♥

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‘Jesus Christ, this woman could be my downfall. Could make me forget who I am. All I am.’

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Drew is almost forty years old with a seven-year-old daughter and he has never been in love. All of his friends have seemed to have found their “the one”, that is something Drew is not interested in. He loves his no-strings meetings with nameless women at the Hux sex club. It’s at this club where he receives a number of a woman named Raya who wants a sexy encounter without a commitment of more. This is just the type of woman he enjoys, so he doesn’t hesitate in giving her a call.

As soon as Drew meets up with Raya, he is instantly attracted to her. After their first night together, they both realize that there is some intense chemistry between them. One night definitely isn’t enough, however, they both still don’t want anything permanent but they agree to hook up for just a little bit longer.

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‘I can see nothing, feel nothing, sense nothing, except her. Rules vanish. Sense abandons me. Questions vanish. Craving controls me. And Raya is with me one hundred percent.’

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I loved this couple so much. I enjoyed getting to know Drew a little bit better and seeing his softer side whenever he interacted with his little girl, it was so darn heartwarming. I really liked the scorching chemistry between him and Raya as well. Despite this being a quick read, the pace in which things developed between them was really good to me. And of course, the steam was off the charts hot. Raya was really great as well. She had some things she kept hidden. It was really interesting to these two slowly let their walls come down. Overall, I really liked this read. In fact, it left me wanting a little bit more of these two. It also didn’t hurt that were able to have a few moments of Jesse in this book. Still, love that man.

‘What do you want, Raya?’

She steps toward me tentatively, as if she’s questioning what she’s doing. And when she reaches me, her chest pressed to mine, she gazes up at me. ‘I don’t know.’ Her eyes are wild and unsure. ‘But I know that every time we’re close, something powerful takes over. And you’re trying hard to fight it. You’re warm and cold. What are you scared of?’

‘You.’ My mouth is on her before I can think better of it, and I’ve lifted her from her feet before my tongue breaches the seam on her lips. We should talk, but this is the only thing I know what to say right now, and when her arms circle my shoulders, her mouth opening up, inviting me in, I know she’s okay with it. I know she gets it.

With one arm around her waist holding her to me and one secured on the nape of her neck, I walk to my office, my kiss deep, my blood racing, my heart bouncing off my ribcage. I set her on her feet and take the hem of her dress, pulling it up over her head, losing her lips for just a second in the process. She wrenches my shirt open, scattering buttons in the process, her hands immediately finding my skin beneath. My forward steps encourages her backwards, our kiss deepening as she unfastens my trousers and I push her knickers down her thighs.

We’re all over the place, desperation getting the better of us, a mess of tongues, hands and bodies. I pull some strength from nowhere, seize her hands and break our kiss, breathing heavily. Her unsure brown eyes soon prompts me to start ridding myself of the rest of my clothes, all under her watchful gaze. Until I’m naked.

‘This wasn’t supposed to happen,’ she whispers.

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Jodi Ellen Malpas was born and raised in the Midlands’ town of Northampton, England, where she lives with her two boys. Working for her father’s construction business full-time, she tried to ignore the lingering idea of writing until it became impossible. She wrote in secret for a long time before finally finding the courage to unleash her creative streak, and in October 2012 she released This Man. She took a chance on a story with some intense characters and sparked incredible reactions from women all over the world. Writing powerful love stories and creating addictive characters have become her passion, a passion she now shares with her devoted readers.

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