In Her Eyes
By Wesley Banks
Blurb:
When Ben Wilder is given a second chance he focuses on the one thing he's always been good at: running. After walking on to the University of Florida Track and Field team he begins to quickly move up the national rankings, paving a path towards the NCAA Championships. Everything is going the way he planned, until the day he bumps into Casey Taylor.
New to Gainesville, and focused on her first year out of medical school, Casey is initially hesitant to let Ben into her life. But the truth is she's worried about letting a guy near the one thing she loves most: her daughter, Emma. After one fun and fateful night Casey can no longer bury her feelings behind these excuses, and takes a chance on a guy she is slowly falling for.
Casey's relationship with Ben starts to gradually build into a love that she has never felt before. But more importantly, Emma has taken a particular liking to Ben. As they all spend more time together Ben is forced to confront painful memories when he starts to notice something hauntingly familiar in Emma's eyes.
After a local journalist uncovers the secret of Ben's past their lives begin to converge on a single promise that Ben Wilder has long since made: to never give up...no matter what.
New to Gainesville, and focused on her first year out of medical school, Casey is initially hesitant to let Ben into her life. But the truth is she's worried about letting a guy near the one thing she loves most: her daughter, Emma. After one fun and fateful night Casey can no longer bury her feelings behind these excuses, and takes a chance on a guy she is slowly falling for.
Casey's relationship with Ben starts to gradually build into a love that she has never felt before. But more importantly, Emma has taken a particular liking to Ben. As they all spend more time together Ben is forced to confront painful memories when he starts to notice something hauntingly familiar in Emma's eyes.
After a local journalist uncovers the secret of Ben's past their lives begin to converge on a single promise that Ben Wilder has long since made: to never give up...no matter what.
Release Date:
March 14, 2016
Excerpt
Ben was tired, but he was excited when he woke up on
Monday morning. It was Casey’s day off and Coach had given the team the week
off, minus a team meeting this afternoon, since they had another month until
the NCAA Championships.
Emma’s school started at seven forty-five which meant if
he got to Casey’s around eight, they could spend the whole day just relaxing.
When he arrived the garage was shut, so he walked up to
the front door. Before he could knock, though, the door swung open and Casey
jumped on him, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.
“My hero,” she said in a terrible southern accent. Then
she started giving him little pecks all over his head and face.
He walked inside with her still wrapped around him and
kicked the door shut. Laughing, he said, “Who is this strange girl, and what
did you do with Casey?” She continued on in the southern accent. “You won the
race for your beloved and claimed victory.”
Ben sat her on the backside of the couch and looked down
at her. “What on earth has gotten into you?”
“You, Sir Runner. Now, take me, take me now.” Casey
puckered up her lips playfully and Ben laughed.
Ben leaned in to give her a quick kiss, thinking she
might taste or smell like alcohol, because right now that was the only
explanation he could come up with. She tasted like…cookies.
He looked around the room and to his right, sitting on
the kitchen counter, he found his answer. He let go of Casey and she fell
backwards onto the couch.
“Hey!” she said as she hit the couch cushion.
Ben walked over to the kitchen and picked up a small tub
of Cookies ’n Cream ice cream and a bag of Fudge Filled Chewy Chips Ahoy. He
held up both and looked over at Casey who was half-hiding, half-peering over
the top of the couch. “Please tell me you are not eating cookies and ice cream
at eight o’clock in the morning.”
Casey jumped over the couch and came running at Ben, a
ball of sugar filled energy. She wrapped her arms around his waist, her legs
around the back of his calves, and inched her way up his body. When she reached
the top she bombarded his neck with kisses. “My hero,” she said. She stopped
for a moment and looked at him with the most devious, sensual grin. She leaned
in closer until there was almost no space between her lips and his. Then like a
cheetah springing on a gazelle, she grabbed the ice cream with her left hand
and the cookies with her right, hit the ground and took cover on the couch.
“You have serious problems,” Ben said.
Casey pulled out a cookie and dipped it in the ice cream
and held it up for him to see. Then she started humming and dancing the cookie
around like she was taunting him.
Ben took two steps, dove across the couch, snatched the
cookie from her hand and shoved it in his mouth before she could barely move.
She looked at him wide eyed and in complete silence and then jumped on him.
They wrestled and tickled each other like five-year-olds, stopping every now
and then for a quick cookie break.
This went on for about thirty more minutes and then she
crashed on the floor next to him. Her head lay across his chest as he played
with her hair until eventually he crashed too.
About The Author
Wesley recently moved from Florida to Oregon to get back to the great outdoors that he loves so much. He lives with his wife Lindsey, and his two dogs Linkin and Story. Most of his time these days is spent writing, with as much rock climbing, hiking, or skiing as they can fit in.
You can find Wesley at
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