Excerpt: I Wish You Were Mine by Lauren Layne + Giveaway

Series: Oxford #2
on February 2nd 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Sports
Pages: 283
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Perfect for fans of Alice Clayton and Emma Chase, Lauren Layneâs Oxford series heats up in this story of forbidden desire as a brooding jock hoping for a comeback falls for a woman whoâs strictly off-limits.
A year ago, Jackson Burke was married to the love of his life and playing quarterback for the Texas Redhawks. Now heâs retired, courtesy of the car accident that ruined his careerâand single, after a nasty scandal torpedoed his marriage. Just as heâs starting to get used to his new life as a health and fitness columnist for Oxford magazine, his unpredictable ex shows up on his doorstep in Manhattan. Jackson should be thrilled. But he canât stop thinking about the one person whoâs always been there for him, the one girl he could never have: her younger sister.
Mollie Carrington canât say no to Madison. After all, her older sister practically raised her. So when Madison begs for help in winning her ex-husband back, Mollieâs just glad she got over her own crush on Jackson ages agoâor so she thought. Because as Mollie reconnects with Jackson, she quickly forgets all her reasons to stay loyal to her sister. Tempted by Jacksonâs mellow drawl and cowboy good looks, Mollie is sick and tired of coming in second place. But she canât win if she doesnât play the game.
Jackson took a sip. Perfection. Although what did it mean that Jacksonâs life had turned into one where the highlight of his day was a well-made cocktail?
It wasnât that Jackson needed the booze. He enjoyed it, certainly. Had relied on it more than he probably should have in those first few days when heâd gotten out of the hospital and come home to a whole lot of nothingness.
But these days he could take it or leave it.
Tonight, however, he was taking it. Sobriety had no place when you had to sit across from the most off-limits woman on the planet.
Knowing that didnât stop the anticipation, however. He hadnât seen her since sheâd shown up in his hospital room to deliver a bag of Gatlinâs BBQ and . . .
His divorce papers.
That had been eight months ago.
Heâd avoided her ever since, and he couldnât even say why except that heâd avoided pretty much everyone. Jackson still spoke with his parents every Sunday, but everyone elseâall the old teammates, the old neighborsâhad eventually stopped calling.
Mollie hadnât, though. Mollie had never given up on him. Until today, he hadnât responded to a single text, a single email, and yet she hadnât stopped sending them. That was Mollie for you. Fiercely loyal to both him and Madison, even when things had started to go to hell.
Mollie had been accepted to Columbia just about the time that he and Madison started coming apart at the seams. In hindsight, he was grateful that Mollie had been in New York when things started to go to hell in his marriage. That she hadnât seen him at his worst.
At the time, however, heâd been hit with an unfair sense of abandonment. He hadnât realized how much heâd come to rely on the much younger Mollie to mediate things between him and the volatile Madison until she was in a different time zone.
Even now, more than a decade since first meeting Mollie, he struggled to reconcile the fact that she and Madison had come from the same parents. Madison was perfectly coiffed, charming only when she was in the mood, and manipulative as all hell. Mollie, on the other hand, was adorably awkwardâa brainy research assistant who cared a hell of a lot more about her scientific journals than her manicure.
But somewhere along the line, Mollie Carrington had ceased to be that awkward kid who talked about bugs at inopportune times. Somewhere along the line, sheâd become his rock. The one person in the world, save for perhaps his parents, who always knew the exact right thing to say to make him feel like a human whenever heâd started to feel like a caricature of himself.
For years heâd tried to tell himself that it was just sibling affectionâthat he cared about her the way he would a sister. But then things had gotten worse with Madisonâway worse. And Jackson had been hit upside the head with the truth: that maybe heâd married the wrong sister. That he didnât want to spend the rest of his days married to the beautiful, brittle Madison.
He wanted someone who made him laugh. Who listened. Someone who cared more about people than she did about hair appointments.
Someone like Mollie.
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