Take Me On (Pushing the
Limits #4)
Release Date: 05/27/14
Harlequin Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
Summary from Goodreads:
Acclaimed author Katie
McGarry returns with the knockout new story of two high school seniors who are
about to learn what winning really means.
Champion kickboxer Haley swore she'd never set foot in the ring again after one tragic night. But then the guy she can't stop thinking about accepts a mixed martial arts fight in her honor. Suddenly, Haley has to train West Young. All attitude, West is everything Haley promised herself she'd stay away from. Yet he won't last five seconds in the ring without her help.
West is keeping a big secret from Haley. About who he really is. But helping her-fighting for her-is a shot at redemption. Especially since it's his fault his family is falling apart. He can't change the past, but maybe he can change Haley's future.
Hayley and West have agreed to keep their relationship strictly in the ring. But as an unexpected bond forms between them and attraction mocks their best intentions, they'll face their darkest fears and discover love is worth fighting for.
Bonus novella included: Crossing the Line.
Champion kickboxer Haley swore she'd never set foot in the ring again after one tragic night. But then the guy she can't stop thinking about accepts a mixed martial arts fight in her honor. Suddenly, Haley has to train West Young. All attitude, West is everything Haley promised herself she'd stay away from. Yet he won't last five seconds in the ring without her help.
West is keeping a big secret from Haley. About who he really is. But helping her-fighting for her-is a shot at redemption. Especially since it's his fault his family is falling apart. He can't change the past, but maybe he can change Haley's future.
Hayley and West have agreed to keep their relationship strictly in the ring. But as an unexpected bond forms between them and attraction mocks their best intentions, they'll face their darkest fears and discover love is worth fighting for.
Bonus novella included: Crossing the Line.
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Excerpt from Haley’s Point of View:
On the flat screen in West’s room, the movie
ends and, to be honest, I have no idea what it was about. West watched his
fingers tease and explore my body until my skin vibrated and my blood buzzed.
I, for the most part, watched West.
I love the serious set of his jaw and the way
he’d occasionally run his hand over his golden hair. The biceps in his arm
would flex as he moved and, every now and then, his shirt would ride up,
exposing his gloriously defined abs.
I’m flat on his bed and West is propped up on
his side next to me. His fingers sweep across the plane of my stomach and his
deep blue eyes follow an imaginary line like an artist would a paintbrush along
a canvas. “You’re the sexiest damn thing. Jesus, your skin is soft.”
West shuts his eyes and I suck in a breath. This
is dangerous. Very dangerous. My lips are still swollen from earlier. Kissing
West is addictive. It propels me to want to kiss and touch more and travel with
him to unknown and hidden places. And I secretly begin to imagine the type of
kissing that involves darkness and covers and whispers.
His fingers slip under the already tucked up
fabric of my shirt and he gently skims the trim of my bra. Heat explodes
throughout my body and my breathing hitches. It’s frightening how I react to
one simple caress.
Not good. Not good at all. Actually, it’s very
good and I all but purr with his hands on my bare skin, but I need to think. I
need air.
Without warning, I go to roll off the bed, but
in lightning-fast movements, West captures my waist and draws me back to him.
“Where are you going?”
“You’re going to kiss me again,” I say a little
breathlessly.
“Yes, I am.”
Excerpt from West’s Point of View
I’m used to people talking, saying
words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they’re better than me. But
they’re just words. Syllables strung together between breaths to fill
uncomfortable silences.
Meaningless words.
Haley, on the other hand, speaks volumes with a
touch. The way her hand clutches mine, it rips out my heart and tosses it onto
a platter.
This moment, it’s too raw. It’s too real. And
the instinct is to snatch my hand back and slam the door shut on the sharing,
but the other part of me—the part that feels as if my remaining sanity is a
gift on the verge of being returned—it clings to her.
I knot my fingers with Haley’s and turn my head
so I’m focusing out the driver’s side window—away from her. If I look at Haley,
I’m terrified of what I might say, what I might feel. And fuck me, I’ve already
said too much.
If she understands this, being without a home,
will she understand the rejection? Will she understand the devastation that
everything you have ever loved doesn’t love you in return? And because I can’t
face those fears, I’m unable to face Haley.
She squeezes once and it’s like her voice
caresses my mind: I’m here.
I get it.
I squeeze back.
Seconds pass into moments. Moments into minutes.
No words. No meaningless conversation. No eye contact. Just our hands combined.
My throat swells. Haley’s the only string
holding me together.
About the Author
KATIE MCGARRY was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, and reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Katie would love to hear from her readers. Contact her via her website, katielmcgarry.com, follow her on Twitter @KatieMcGarry, or become a fan on Facebook and Goodreads.
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