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$25 #Giveaway The Only Man by A.S. Kelly @askelly_writes Ends 3.31

March 20, 2022 By Mary

 

 

The Only Man
A.S. Kelly
(From Connemara With Love, #4)
Publication date: March 21st 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

I was a different man, once.
I was a man with only one woman on my mind – the only woman I wanted to hold in my arms.
I was her man.
But things change. Life changes you. Choices, mistakes, resentment: they all change you.
So do unkept promises.
We hurt each other. We loved each other, then hated each other, then missed each other, then grew apart.
And then…
One day, we found each other again.
At the wrong time, in the wrong place.
Because the two of us are wrong together – we’re too far apart, too incompatible.
We’re the main characters of a story that doesn’t belong to us.
But I still keep loving her, even though she hates me.
And she keeps hating herself, because she can’t help but love me.
And we keep searching for each other, even though we’re destined to lose each other.

I wish I could be a different man, just once.
I wish I could be the kind of man who’s ready to give everything for the woman he loves.
Someone who was ready to let her go.
Because I want her to be happy more than I want her to be mine.

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EXCERPT:

“I hope, Darcy,” I tell her, honestly, “that you do forget about me, one day. I don’t want you to, but I hope you do.”
“That’ll never happen.” Her fingers slide into my hair and her red lips move close to mine. “I couldn’t forget you when I hated you,” she says, her voice trembling. I can hear it, even beneath the music. “So there’s no way I’d be able to forget you now.”
“Why not?” I ask, pain hammering in my chest, climbing up my throat and seeping into my temples.
“I think you know why.”
I don’t want to hear her say it, but I need to hear it. I need to remind myself what happens when you stop believing in the only thing you should believe in.
“Say it.”
“It’s too painful.”
“For me? Or for you?”
She smiles sadly. “Both.”
“Then don’t say it.” I rest my thumb on her lips, and Darcy parts them, sending a shiver through every vein in my body. “This is enough. You’re enough. Tonight is enough.” I’m lying, but I try, anyway. “Just tonight.”
“And then?” Her lips move against my thumb.
And then I’ll keep loving you from here, from afar, at the safe distance we have to put between ourselves so that at least one of us can have a chance. And it has to be you.
I didn’t do all this so that, one day, you’ll come back to me.
I didn’t give up on us to watch you give up on yourself.
“There is no ‘then’. And there’s no ‘tomorrow’.”
I drop my hand, and she looks at me, pity in her eyes.
“There’s no future for us.”
She rests her forehead against mine and lets herself go; my arms are holding her tightly, rocking her gently. We’re not dancing. We’re not following the music, or paying any attention to the world around us.
All we have is tonight, a handful of hours to breathe in. Nothing else has ever mattered compared to this moment.

Author Bio:

A. S. Kelly writes Rom-Com, Romantic Fiction and Family Saga.
Avid reader, hopeless romantic, lover of yoga, knitting and home baking.
She was born in Italy but lives in Ireland with her husband, two children and a cat named Oscar.

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Comments

  1. Deborah D says

    March 20, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    What a unique take on romance.

  2. Zetaret says

    March 20, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    Good author!

  3. Marcy Meyer says

    March 21, 2022 at 4:40 am

    The blurb and excerpt sound great. Thanks for sharing.

  4. Maria Malaveci says

    March 21, 2022 at 5:28 am

    Love the cover! Looking forward to reading it!

  5. Rita Wray says

    March 21, 2022 at 5:50 am

    Sounds like a good read.

  6. Angelica Dimeo says

    March 21, 2022 at 6:35 am

    cute cover

  7. Cathy French says

    March 21, 2022 at 7:01 am

    Nice cover. I’m hoping this is a second chance romance but it seems she still “hates” him.

  8. Julie Bickham says

    March 21, 2022 at 9:17 am

    Looks like a cute series. I look forward to reading it!

  9. Marisela Zuniga says

    March 21, 2022 at 10:46 am

    This sounds really good

  10. wendy hutton says

    March 21, 2022 at 11:21 am

    great cover, this sounds very interesting

  11. Bea LaRocca says

    March 21, 2022 at 1:11 pm

    I like the cover, synopsis and excerpt, this is a must read book and series for me. Thank you so much for posting

  12. Nancy says

    March 21, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    The Only Man by A.S. Kelly sounds like a book that has a lot of romantic conflict.

  13. heather says

    March 21, 2022 at 2:19 pm

    This sounds like one I would love to read this springtine and I love the cover too.

  14. Susan Smith says

    March 21, 2022 at 4:54 pm

    Sounds like a great book. I like the cover.

  15. Latifa Morrisette says

    March 21, 2022 at 5:43 pm

    Sounds like a good read.

  16. Bonnie says

    March 21, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    What an interesting book! Great excerpt. I’d love to read more.

  17. Sarah L says

    March 21, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    Good book for Spring reading.
    Thanks for the contest.

  18. Margaret Smith says

    March 22, 2022 at 6:35 am

    Sounds like an enjoyable story.

  19. Sara Zielinski says

    March 22, 2022 at 10:21 am

    Thanks for telling me about this book

  20. Barbara Montag says

    March 22, 2022 at 10:33 am

    I enjoy reading romance stores.
    This promises to be a great one!
    Thank you for sharing this with us.

  21. Abigail Gibson says

    March 22, 2022 at 1:07 pm

    Sounds like a great book!

  22. paige chandler says

    March 22, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    Very cute cover for a fun fantasy. Good work.

  23. Dianne Casey says

    March 22, 2022 at 2:33 pm

    Sounds like a fun read.

  24. David Hollingsworth says

    March 22, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    The cover is really cute.

  25. Ann Fantom says

    March 22, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

  26. Deb Pelletier says

    March 22, 2022 at 9:34 pm

    Nice book cover and the book sounds interesting.

  27. Cynthia C says

    March 23, 2022 at 10:29 am

    The excerpt is interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

  28. Laurie Nykaza says

    March 23, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    Such a great cover this sounds like a book i would enjoy reading

  29. turtle says

    March 24, 2022 at 4:09 am

    excted!

  30. Antoinette M says

    March 24, 2022 at 10:54 am

    Lovely cover & excerpt!

  31. Chrystina Williams says

    March 27, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!

  32. clynsg says

    March 28, 2022 at 11:02 am

    That blurb sounds sad–toxic relationships do exist, and not always because one or both are horrible people.

  33. Daniel M says

    March 29, 2022 at 11:07 am

    sounds like a fun one

  34. Jolanda says

    March 29, 2022 at 10:45 pm

    Sounds like a good read.

  35. Amy Green says

    March 30, 2022 at 7:25 pm

    Craving a story with characters you care about that’s worth re-reading? Then this’ll be the ‘ONLY’ one for you!

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