Are we worth the risk, or will we both go down in flames?
Changing the Game, the moving and emotional first book in The Risks We Take Duet from bestselling author Bella Matthews is available now!
Not all love stories have happy endings. Some are destined to crash and burn.
Growing up, I was the youngest member of my family. Sheltered and protected by my older brother and his friends. Always on the outside looking in. College was supposed to be my chance for a fresh start. My opportunity to figure out who I am and what I want.
I thought I knew what I wanted until he charged back into my life and changed the game.
Cooper Sinclair was my brother’s best friend long before he became my stepbrother. A navy SEAL who’s owned my heart since the day we met. Loving him was easy. But time was never on our side, and stolen moments only last so long.
Are we worth the risk, or will we both go down in flames?
Renee’s Five Star Review I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.This is a stepbrother romance. So a forbidden romance and I am telling you right now it is going to suck you in and you will not lay it down until you have finished it and then you are going to be wanting the next book because this is a duet. I am a sucker for a great stepbrother romance too and this one is one you will not ever forget I feel like.
Carys has been in love with her brother’s best friend Cooper since the moment they first met each other. One day though he turned into her stepbrother and then she felts like her love was unrequited and she was just going to have to make herself get over Cooper weather she wanted to or not. Then he left of the Navy SEALS and comes back home on leave and things get complicated quick. Cooper has always though of Carys as his best friends little sister and later on his stepsister. But it has been a while since he has been home and now he is looking at a very grown up confident women who is beautiful and he just can not resist her. However it is not going to be a easy road for them or for you as a reader. I was a mess many times reading this book. I loved Carys but I can not say to you that you are not going to want to bop her up the side of the head a few times. I don’t even want to explain why because I feel like that is a part of this book that you need to discover for yourself but I will say that I was frustrated. I don’t even know if I have the words to tell you how I feel about Coop!!! Man that man knows how to steal a girls heart. He is fierce and protective and when he loves he loves with his entire heart. I think we all desire to be loved like Coop loved Carys and again I wanted to shake this girl hard. They have some smoking hot chemistry and an epic connection but…..well you have to discover all this for yourself. Have fun with that. Try not to throw your kindle and maybe have a box of Kleenex in your hands. I can not wait to get my hands on the next book since this is a duet because I just refuse to accept the way this book ended.
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Excerpt
Coop . . . what changed?” I can’t believe I’m asking, but I need to know. “Why now? What made you look at me now?” My words stay soft. Unsure. Cooper presses his lips to the top of my head before answering, and I inhale his clean scent, memorizing it, so I can still smell it once he’s gone. “Do you really think I only just saw you, Carys?” I tilt my head back and run my hand up his neck to the back of his head. If I ever want this to be more, I have to be honest. “I guess I do. This last week has been different. You’ve been different.” With an almost imperceptible shake of his head, he agrees with me. “I guess I have, but so have you. When I met you, you were a freshman in high school. Your brother was my best friend, and I was about to turn eighteen. There was no way anything could have happened then, but I promise you, I saw you. I always saw you.” Coop crosses his legs at his ankles and gets comfortable. “I saw how you would beam up at Murphy any time you two were in the same room. I paid attention to the way you’d talk about being a Broadway star one day and saw every single show you performed on Kroydon Prep’s stage once I moved to town. My favorite was Rent. You killed it, but I didn’t like when you had to die for a minute at the end.” A cool breeze blows in through the doors, and goosebumps scatter over my bare skin. Not as much a reaction to the cold as the realization that this man has always seen me. “I watched you get quiet when there were too many people around. The way you prefer to be surrounded by people you know, people you feel safe with. I know the freckles across your nose and cheeks get darker in the summer and you hate the ocean at night. I’ve been watching you for a long time, baby. But our family situation is complicated. I haven’t figured out how we’re going to deal with all that yet. But seeing you last week . . . away from everyone else.” He trails the tips of his fingers along my throat, and I shiver as the heat building between us comes close to incinerating us both. “You’re not that kid anymore, Carys. Neither of us is.” I lay my face against his shoulder and hide my eyes. “I saw you too, you know?” Laughter rumbles up his exquisite chest. “Yeah. You weren’t as good at hiding it as I was.” “You asshole,” I laugh and try to yank away from him, but he tugs me back. “Hey, now. Don’t be like that. I liked the way you looked at me.” We lie in the quiet of the room, listening to the storm outside play its own tune as sleep slowly tugs at the two of us. “Sing me something, Carys,” he whispers as the weather rages on. Without overthinking it, I sing the old Lifehouse song we danced to years ago while I run my fingers over his chest. And by the time I sing the last words of the song, his breathing has evened out, and his strong, hard body has relaxed around me. Everything but the grip he has on me. That’s tighter now than it’s ever been. On my body and on my heart.
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