Feature: Your Fierce Love by Layla Hagen

About YOUR FIERCE LOVE

Clara Abernathy adores the Bennett family. After growing up in group homes, she yearns for the warmth and love of a family, and the Bennetts treat her like one of their own. So when Clara needs a temporary place to live, Blake Bennett suggests she move next door to him.

The offer is tempting. The problem? So is Blake himself. Handsome, funny, and alpha, he’s six feet two of eye candy… and his outlook on life is completely different from hers. But Clara finds it difficult enough to resist his charms at family events. How is she supposed to resist him when he’s just one wall away, and hell-bent on having her?

Blake Bennett knows family friends are off-limits for good reasons, and Clara is more off-limits than anyone else. But Blake went through life and made his fortune in the gastronomy industry by bending rules rather than following them. Clara’s sweetness and sass fill a hole in him he wasn’t even aware of. Soon he finds himself gravitating around her. He wants to have her and he will, rules be damned.

YOUR FIERCE LOVE is the seventh book in Layla Hagen’s Bennett Family series, but all books stand alone.

Get your hands on YOUR FIERCE LOVE:

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2uZDCxD

iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1250576720

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Kobo: http://bit.ly/2uIFwT0

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Excerpt:

Blake saunters to his feet and holds out his hand for me. I gladly accept the help because climbing out of a beanbag is serious business, especially after half a bottle of wine. I’m as unsteady on my feet as a toddler. But the moment my hand touches Blake’s, a bolt of heat singes me. It travels through my limbs, making my toes curl and my nipples tighten. In the span of a few seconds, my body has gone from relaxed to wound up. Blake hauls me up so close our chests touch. Our noses are dangerously close too.

The proximity makes me lightheaded. The wine isn’t helping either. I pull my head back a notch, so I can see Blake better. I make the mistake of looking him directly in the eyes. The intensity in them is overwhelming. I’ve been on the receiving end of his hot looks before, but this is different. There isn’t just lust here, but also downright hunger. A little too late, I realize it’s probably because he can feel the tight peaks of my breasts pressing against him. He drops one hand to my waist, and his fingers are pressing against my flesh possessively. I become aware of every single point of contact—there are far too many.

We’re close enough that I can sniff the scent of his shower gel. Crisp. Masculine. My mind immediately supplies images of Blake in the shower, rubbing gel on himself. I imagine he does that job thoroughly, not leaving out even one morsel of skin. I wonder how he looks like with only a towel wrapped around himself. Now that we’re neighbors, there’s a distinct possibility I might see him in that scenario, especially with the shared balcony and everything. Shit, my peeping Tom tendencies are getting out of hand.

I try to whip my thoughts into shape, but they are jumbled together and become more jumbled still when I feel Blake’s hot breath on the lobe of my ear, then the tip of his nose on my cheek. When the corner of our lips touch, he presses his fingers into my sides, a low sound reverberating in his throat.

“Blake, I….”

“You look so kissable right now, Clara.”

His voice is low and rough—his bedroom voice. I haven’t heard it before. It’s sexy and inviting, just like the rest of him. Great. I won’t be able to unhear it. I draw in a sharp breath. Wanting to diffuse tension, I try to joke, but under the influence of the wine and his intoxicating proximity, the best I can come up with is, “So I usually don’t? Careful Bennett, I take offense easy after drinking wine.”

“Always do. First time I saw you, I wanted to kiss you.”

“You did?”

“You have no idea how much you affect me, do you?” Blake is looking down at me with so much intensity my knees nearly buckle. He skims his thumb along my jawline, moving to my earlobe, rubbing it gently between his thumb and forefinger. I clench my thighs together almost involuntarily. My ear is not a sweet spot. It really isn’t. But I have a hunch Blake can turn any body part into a sweet spot.

“Blake… I … oh God, how did I end up in your arms?” I’d blame the wine, but that would make me a hypocrite.

“Because you can’t help this either. I can’t stop thinking about you, Clara. When I’m working, when I’m at home. You’ve been on my mind since we met, and I thought I could pull it off… living next to you and not wanting to make you mine, but now I know I won’t.”

I can’t wrap my mind around what he is saying, but I hang onto his every word, melting against him.

Get your hands on the rest of the Bennett Family books:

Your Irresistible Love (The Bennett Family Series, Book 1):

Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2dbUS7s

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1071839236

Nook (Barnes and Noble): http://bit.ly/2cQ8OI3

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/your-irresistible-love

Google Play: http://bit.ly/2booehV

The AUDIO version: http://amzn.to/2dsVfw4

Your Captivating Love (The Bennett Family Series, Book 2):

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1RISb9k

B&N: http://bit.ly/23bz3ck