Page 86 of Sweet Addiction

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My fingers itch for my keyboard.

This will be fun.

This is what I’ve grown to love about being an author. When the characters speak so loudly, it almost feels like I’m not the one writing the book. I’m just the one typing the words the characters feed me, hoping I can keep up with them. And after having spent two full years with these characters, I know them well enough to know when that happens, the best chapters fly from my fingertips if I just embrace it. So I always embrace it.

Once I’m back in Rome’s room, I consider climbing back into bed, but the black leather chair in the corner of the room looks like it may work just as well, if not better. I grab a pillow to use as a makeshift lap desk, curl my feet up underneath myself, and give it a go. Pleasantly surprised when it’s actually comfortable, I slide my headphones over my ears, hit the noise-canceling option, press play on my Spotify, and get lost in my kingdom.

Badass Book Club

Kaleigh

Pretty sure Rome won book boyfriend of the year with that press conference.

I smile as Kaleigh’s text pops up on my MacBook. She has no idea.

Dillan

I agree.

Lexie

Oh. Yeah. That was HOT. We approve.

Lucky

Hey . . .

Lexie

Don’t worry, sweetie. You’re hotter.

I smile and laugh to myself at Lexie’s placating tone, like Lucky doesn’t have my little cousin’s entire heart, and decide to stir the pot a little.

Dillan

She has to tell you that. She married you.

Lilah

Even our mom thought it was hot.

Yeah . . . I may have ignored Mom’s text.

Jamie

And that goes in the something I never needed to know column.

Lilah

You might not want to know what she said after that then either.

Dillan

Yeah. I didn’t even want to know that.

Ryker

So when do we get together and actually talk about this book?

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