Spotlight & Giveaway: Wait For Me by K. L. Grayson

Posted July 24th, 2019 by in Blog, Spotlight / 39 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you K. L. Grayson’s new release: Wait For Me.

 

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My life is a mess. Literally.

 
I’m a single dad, which means If I’m not cleaning up spilled milk or changing a diaper, I’m pulling gum from my daughter’s hair. I barely have enough time to eat—let alone sleep.
 
And women? Forget about it. That ship sailed two years ago along with my ex-wife. My brother says I need to get laid. I say, screw that. I’m content with my life, until pop star Nora Hayes walks through my best friend’s front door and flips my world upside down.
 
She’s beautiful, famous, and completely off limits.
 
My life is a headline waiting to happen. Literally.
 
It all started with fishnet stockings and ended with a baseball bat to boyfriend’s Porsche, putting me on the front page of every newspaper and gossip magazine in the country.
 
My life is spiraling out of control and I’m ready to make some serious changes. What I’m not ready for is a hunky man to strut his jean clad tush into my life. Grayson Calhoun is as rugged as he is sweet. He’s also way in over his head with his kids, and I have an offer I’m hoping he can’t refuse.
 
What starts as an agreement, turns to a friendship, and quickly escalates to stolen kisses and heated nights spent wrapped in each other’s arms. What we have is temporary. I promise him that I won’t fall in love.
 
But I make that promise already knowing it’s a lie.

 

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Wait For Me 

Daddy!” I wince at Emma’s ear-piercing scream. Henry seems completely unaffected. “Jack putted gum in my hair.”
“It was an accident!” Jack argues.
I grit my teeth and walk into the living room. “Jack.”
“I said it was an accident. It just fell outta my mouth.”
This kid is a pain in my ass. I pray for patience—something I seem to have less and less of these days.
“You’re telling me your gum accidentally fell out of your mouth and happened to land in Emma’s hair?”
“Yep.”
“Here. Take your brother.” He grumbles, but takes Henry while I squat down to inspect Emma’s hair. Sure enough, there’s a large pink blob nestled there. “I think I can get it.”
I reach for the sticky goo, but it doesn’t come loose, and Emma screams. She slaps a hand to her hair, covering the pink mess. “Dat hurt.”
“Sweetie, I’ve got to get the gum out.”
“You could just cut all of her hair off,” Jack suggests with an ornery grin.
Emma’s eyes grow round. “No!”
“I’m not going to cut your hair.” Unless I have to.
“Why not? It’ll probably look better than it does now.”
“Jack Andrew, go to your room.”
“Fine.” He puts Henry down beside me and walks away as if he’s glad I’m sending him.
I make a mental note to find other ways to punish him. Taking his iPad away doesn’t work. Maybe I’ll make him clean out the toilet or something equally as gross.
“Is my hair gonna fall out?”
“No, sweetheart, your hair isn’t going to fall out.” At least I hope it doesn’t. What the hell do I know about removing gum from hair?
I take my phone out of my pocket to Google it as Henry tugs on my arm to pull himself up. He doesn’t have a good grip and tumbles back, smacking his head on the coffee table. Loud sobs begin immediately, and a cup wobbles precariously on the table.
Damn it. “It’s okay. You’re okay.” I scoop him up and cradle him to me as the cup topples off the table. It lands on the floor; the lid pops off, and chocolate milk goes flying.
Son of a bitch. Why do these things happen to me?
“Emma, honey, can you grab the cup for me? Shhhh.” I rub Henry’s head, hoping it’ll stop him from screaming in my ear. “Jack, can you get in here and give me a hand?”
“I’m in trouble, remember?” he yells.
How did my life come to this? And it’s only Monday.
Never mind. Stupid question. I know how and why and when and all the horrible details in between.
With Henry cradled to my chest, I walk into the kitchen, grab a string of paper towels, and toss them over the mess on the living room floor.
Emma leans right under my nose and starts wiping up the mess. She’s pushing the milk around more than she’s cleaning it up, but I love that she wants to help, so I let it go.
Henry finally calms down and wiggles out of my hold. I kiss his head and set him on the floor by his toys so I can finish helping Emma clean up.
“Thank you,” I tell her.
She responds by smiling and hands me a wad of towels dripping with chocolate milk.
“What happened?” Jack asks, walking into the living room.
I sit back on my haunches and look at him. “Was that your chocolate milk on the table?”
“Yeah.”
“Next time, if you’re not going to finish it, put it in the refrigerator or dump it out. Don’t just leave it sitting there.”
“You don’t have to yell at me for it.”
“Jack.” I blow out a breath and shake my head. “I’m not yelling at you.”
“Yes, you are. You always yell.”
Sometimes I do, but most of the time I talk loudly because that seems to be the only way I can get the kid to hear me. “I’m not arguing with you about this. Go throw these in the trash for me.”
He takes the wet towels and walks off. After I wipe the floor down with disinfectant and the stickiness is gone, I grab Henry and go in search of Emma, who completely disappeared on me.
“Emma?”
“I’m in da bafwoom.”
Please, please, don’t let there be piss or shit on my bathroom floor.
“What are you doing, sweetie?” I ask, poking my head into the bathroom.
“Twying to get da gum out.” Her bright blue eyes blink up at me. Her hands are in her blond curls, and the blob of gum is now streaked down the length of her hair.
“Oh, Emma.” How do I fix this? I can unclog any drain, fix a deck, repair a car, change the lightbulb, work on the plumbing, give baths like a boss, but I don’t know what in the world to do about this.
Henry is probably starving. None of the kids have had supper. Emma has gum in her hair, and Jack is pissed at the world.
I think for a second about what Lorelei would do, but quickly push the thought away. Lorelei isn’t here. She left us, and she’s not coming back. It’s just me, and right now I’m two seconds away from losing my shit and not afraid to admit I need help.
“Change of plans. Emma, get your shoes on.”
She hops off the stool, and I shut off the bathroom light when she walks out.
“Jack, buddy, get your shoes on,” I holler.
“Where are we going?” he asks.
“To see Nick and Jessa. Maybe she can figure out how to get the gum out of Emma’s hair.”
He punches the air. “Yes!”
Emma follows behind him, equally excited, because even though he’s a jerk to her, she still thinks he hung the moon. Even Henry squeals at the sounds of their names. Jessa was Lorelei’s best friend growing up, and when she married Nick, he and I became friends.
They’ve been a huge help with the kids, especially after everything that happened with Lorelei. They’re like family to us.
My parents live four hours away, and we see them as often as we can. My brother is in town, and though he’s still single and a little all over the place, he helps quite a bit. Lorelei’s parents and her sister live an hour away in the city, but they’re busy with their own lives, and I feel like a burden to them.
“I like Nick.” Jack grabs Henry’s diaper bag without me having to ask.
If the kid would do things like that all the time, my life would be so much easier.
“Maybe he’ll let me play his XBox.”
“Maybe.”
At least I did one thing right tonight. If we all come home in one piece, I’ll call today a win.

Excerpt. ©K. L. Grayson. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 
 

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Meet the Author:

K.L. Grayson resides in a small town outside of St. Louis, MO. She is entertained
daily by her extraordinary husband, who will forever inspire every good quality she
writes in a man. Her entire life rests in the palms of six dirty little hands, and when the
day is over and those pint-sized cherubs have been washed and tucked into bed, you can find her typing away furiously on her computer. She has a love for alpha-males,
brownies, reading, tattoos, sunglasses, and happy endings…and not particularly in that
order.

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39 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Wait For Me by K. L. Grayson”

    • Lynne Brigman

      Excerpt sounds good I really enjoyed it. Can’t wait to read this book ❤ Cover is HOT

  2. Melanie Bowers

    Sounds good, and sounds like something that would happen in my house… Gum in the hair.. Ugh…. Love the cover too

  6. Marcy Meyer

    I enjoyed the chaos in the excerpt. It was so true to life. I think it will be a great story.

  9. Kate Sparks

    I thought it was a enlightened scene including an adult and 2 kids dealing with life in general.

  21. Courtney Kinder

    I love the scene with Grayson and his kids. Sounds great! Excited to read it.

  23. Nicole (Nicky) Ortiz

    It’s caught my interest. Can’t wait to read more.
    Thanks for the chance!

  24. Mary C

    Can’t wait to read more of Grayson’s interactions with his children.

  25. Jo-Anne B.

    Even though the excerpt made me laugh I felt so sorry for the man. Getting gum out of a kid’s hair isn’t easy then he had other children to look after and deal with spilled milk. He was clearly out of his depth.

  29. Angela Smith

    i really enjoyed the excerpt.i love books about a single dad over his head

  31. Anita H.

    Aww, poor Grayson, sounds like he could really use some help. Can’t wait to find out how Nora fits into this!

  34. Lilah Chavez

    Props to all the single parents ! I wouldn’t be able to handle all that chaos