Cover Reveal: RAW by CA Harms + EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT

RAW by bestselling author CA Harms is one of the installments featured in the upcoming anthology, THE VAULT. 

Cover Designer: Dana Leah of Designs by Dana

RAW

Overwhelming desire, a powerful need to lose control.

Those are the things Alec makes me feel.

It’s dangerous, I know, but my body craves the sin. Though I try to fight it, the force is just too strong.

I’m torn, left feeling raw and confused.

He inflicts such an extreme rush of emotions within me.

I’m paralyzed by the pleasure, and desperate for the next dose.

I feel so unlike the innocent girl I once was.

I love the freedom, but I also fear it.

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EXCERPT

I sat in my car outside Flannigan’s, my foot tapping as I nervously ring my hands in my lap. I’d been nervous since I text Alec earlier in the afternoon agreeing to this dinner. Part of me thought I must have lost my damn mind to ever consider this arrangement. I wasn’t all that experienced when it came to relationships, but to settle for such a crazy scenario made me question my sanity.

Who in the hell would ever consider this to be reasonable?

Now that I was here, I couldn't bring myself to go inside. If something was this hard to decide on, shouldn't that be a sign I should just walk away?

I jumped at the sound of a knock on the window next to me and I pressed my hand to my chest over my racing heart as I look up into the eyes of the man that had me so mixed up inside. Then the reasoning behind my inability to run hits me hard. No man should be that gorgeous. It’s too dangerous.

From those eyes to that amazing smile--it all made me wonder how the hell he could be so different. You’d never know he had this hidden dark side just by looking at him.

I reach up with shaking fingers and press the button that lowers the window glass that separates us. I watch as he lowers himself, bringing those tantalizing eyes level with my own.

“Have you talked yourself into it yet?” He asks with a smirk that manages to go straight through me and settle someplace deep in my chest. Why must that man have such an appealing smile?
“I’m working on it,” I say in return.

“Let me see if I can help.” Before I can ask him what he means his lips are on mine and I feel my body begin to relax in the seat.

Alec didn't kiss like he was a man into dominance. It was soft and slow, and managed to play tricks on me I wasn't prepared for. I had a strange feeling though, that there was no way anyone could be prepared for a man like him.

“I don’t want you to fear me, Brynn,” he whispered, kissing me once again. “I want you to desire me, I want you to crave me, the way I do you.”

Those very words were one of the biggest reasons I found it difficult to say no.

“I don’t think it’s you I fear,” I confess.

“Then what is it?”

“My inability to be the person you need me to be.”

“The only thing I need is for you to be you.” Alec leans back and trails over my lower lip with his thumb, “I don’t want you to be someone other than you. After all, it was you that gained my attention, not some image you think I have in my mind. Just you, Brynn.”

How could this man be such an anomaly? On the outside he looked so very normal.

“Just give me chance, it’s all I ask.” He tilts his head to the side slightly giving me a sweet smile. “Tonight is only dinner and talking, nothing more. Something about the look in his eyes and the kindness in his smile had me nodding my head in agreement as I reached across the seat to grab my purse.

He stands, allowing me to close the car window before reaching out to open the door and offering his hand. The way he presses his hand to my lower back as he leads me across the street and to the front entrance of the restaurant gives me the weirdest sense of security. It was one I never thought I’d feel in regard to him, or at least after I read the strange set of rules and expectations his paperwork contained. It was almost protective how he continues to hold me close while we are led to our table, and instead of taking the empty space across form me he chose to sit next to me in the nook. It was as if he didn't want anyone else in the place to have the opportunity to take this for anything other than a date. Some type of crazy claim he was staking as he watched me, gauging my reaction.

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