Tell Me a Truth (The Story Series Book 5) Read online

  When class ended, I hurried outside into the white-bright Florida sun, shivering with restless longing. A hand gently grabbed my wrist and the fine hair on my nape trembled.

  “Justine?” he asked, his voice gentle and flecked with a slight Spanish accent.

  “Yes.”

  At twenty, I had barely kissed anyone. How could a man so raw, so carnal, exist? Or inspire such craving within me?

  “Where are you from?” My small wrist looked so fragile in his big hand.

  “St. Augustine.”

  Rafael’s grin revealed dimples under the stubble.

  “So, Justine from St. Augustine,” he said, rhyming and stealing my heart. “What are you doing for Halloween? Going to a party? Dressing up?”

  I laughed and shook my head, temporarily mute. My skin flared with heat, as if I had spent a day at the beach in August. His eyes were the most unusual color, almost copper, and they glinted in the sun.

  “I don’t have plans,” I murmured.

  Another grin, this one wicked. I had never seen such long eyelashes on a man.

  “Do you know what you should be for Halloween?”

  I shook my head again and he stared at me for a smoldering beat.

  “Mine.”

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  Also by Tamara Lush

  THE STORY SERIES

  Tell Me a Story: Episode One

  Tell Me a Desire: Episode Two

  Tell Me a Lie: Episode Three

  Tell Me a Secret: Episode Four

  Tell Me a Truth: Episode Five

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  STAND-ALONE NOVELS

  Hot Shade

  Into the Heat

  About the Author

  During the day, Tamara Lush is a journalist with The Associated Press. At night, she writes fictional romance tales about complicated, sexy men and the women who love them.

  When Tamara isn’t reporting, writing or reading, she’s doing yoga, cooking for her Italian husband or chasing her dogs along a beach on Florida's Gulf Coast.

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