Title: Bossy Bride: Emma & Jesse
Series: Bossy Brothers
Author: J.A. Huss
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Romance
Release Date: 18th December 2019
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Bossy
Bride features Jesse and Emma getting almost-hitched on a roller coaster,
tricked into being the stars of a pirate show, jumping out of an airplane, and
saying their vows in front of two huge Italian families who don’t speak
English. It’s a rompy, whirlwind trip down a rabbit hole of “Fantasy” Vegas
weddings planned by a man called “Fingers” and just when you think nothing else
could go wrong—a mermaid descends from the ceiling.
Jesse Boston is
the man of my dreams. He’s super sexy, super rich, and super funny. He gets all
my jokes, he treats me like a princess, and our love life is smokin’ hot.
So I’m gonna
marry him. I’m not real picky about how that happens and if my mother wants to
have her say, fine. That’s fine. She gave birth to three boys and just one
girl. So I get it. She NEEDS a wedding.
But when she
invites my childhood nemesis, KAREN, to plan our wedding AND be one of my
bride’s maids? Uh---no. It’s not happening. Karen Krakken-Channing will
not plan my wedding, will not be at my wedding, and she’s
certainly not going to be IN my wedding.
Luckily, my
jet-butler, Miles, and my almost-husband get this great idea!
We’re going to
elope to Vegas on Christmas Eve eve, get hitched in the most ridiculous way
possible, and then fly home in time for Christmas Eve dinner.
We’ve got it
all figured out.
Nothing can go
wrong.
We will have
one simple wedding in like… a drive-through chapel, and call it good.
Take
that, KAREN!
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EXCERPT
My bride is
sexy hot.
And no, the man
whose arm she’s holding onto as she walks isn’t her father. And none of
these people here are our people—but in this moment I do not care.
Emma.
Emma is the
only thing on my mind.
I want this
woman by my side right now. I want
her next to me for the rest of my life. I want her in sickness and in health. I’ll
take all the bad with the good. I want to love and cherish her so hard, she
will forget the thirteen years we spent apart and only think of the ones we
spent together.
Her veil only
covers her eyes. It’s a very tasteful, very understated veil. But the best
thing about that veil is that as I watch her walk towards me—as I see her
suddenly realize that this is it, we really are gonna make it all the way
through this ceremony—I catch her checking me out. I catch her eyes wandering
down my body, then back up to meet my gaze again.
She smiles and
bites her lip.
And man, that
little lip-biting thing? Yeah. I’m gonna picture that every time I
make love to her for the rest of my life.
My stomach
flips with excitement once they reach the steps and all I want to do is rush
down those steps and pull her into my arms.
But I wait.
I force myself
to stand still and wait as her fake father pauses to look lovingly at her—nice
touch, fake father-in-law—and then she ascends towards me.
Emma’s
eyes find mine as she slowly approaches the altar. And then she shrugs up her
shoulders as if a tingle went up her body.
God, I love
her. I love her so much. And even though I still have regrets about missing out
on all those years when we were apart, I know—I just feel it in my heart—that
this is just the beginning for us. We have so much to look forward to. And
pretty soon none of those missing years will matter anymore. We’ll
be too busy making new memories to even think about the ones we never had.
When they reach
the top her fake father stops just a step away from me, turns to Emma, and
lifts her small veil up and says something low and soft in Italian.
Emma nods her
head at him and murmurs, “Thank you.”
Then she turns
to me. I reach for her and she takes my hand, stepping forward to stand next to
me as we both face each other in front of this chapel filled with people.
It’s
only then that we realize… the priest is speaking in Italian.
Both of us
giggle. Fuck it, right?
What did we
really expect? And surely, this day could not get any weirder.
We hold hands
as he speaks, probably saying all the usual things. Marriage is serious.
Marriage is a lifelong commitment. Marriage is sacred.
Yes. I agree to
all those things.
I hold Emma’s
hands in mine as the ceremony proceeds. And I even hear a sniffle or two from
our audience. Nice touch, Fingers. Nice touch.
And even though
everything here started out fake, suddenly everything feels very, very real.
I am marrying
this woman.
The priest
pauses, and when we look at him we realize we’re up.
We didn’t
discuss this. We have no vows! And even though everyone else is working off a
script, we’re just winging it.
Emma looks a
little frightened. Her eyes are wide and her pouty lips are making a perfect,
round, o shape.
I squeeze her
hand. “I got you, babe.” Then I clear my throat and begin.
“Emma Dumas. I first met you thirteen years ago. We were
young, and one of us was very stupid.” She smiles wide and sucks in a breath of
air. “Me,” I say, looking out at the crowd. And hey, they get it. Because they
chuckle a little at my joke. “But I don’t think I ever told you how you grabbed
my attention that day. I saw you from across Mallory Square. You were wearing
little Daisy Duke cut-offs and a white tank top. And, of course, those now
infamous pigtails.”
She squeezes my
hands as she shakes her head and looks down for a moment. But she quickly
raises her eyes back up to meet mine. Like she refuses to miss a single moment
of our big minute.
“And Emma, I thought to myself… ‘Jesse Boston—’” A slight
murmur from the crowd makes me pause for a moment. I guess they didn’t know who
I was and now they do. Jesse Boston is the same no matter what language you say
it in. “I said, ‘Jesse Boston, how in the heck have you been on this island for
a week and are just now seeing this girl?’ You see,” I say to the crowd, “I
missed her. And I hated that. I really hated that. Because up until that moment
when I first saw this vision of a girl, I was doing nothing. I was nothing. I was wasting time, and taking up
space, and couldn’t even begin to imagine what the next thirteen minutes
would bring, let alone the next thirteen years. So I took my chance.” I turn
back to Emma. “I went up to your shaved ice stand and asked you out. It was
probably not my best pick-up. But Emma, I just want you to know… it was my most
honest one.”
She lowers her
eyes again. And when they rise up to meet mine just a moment later, I see the
shine of a tear in them.
“It was… honest. Every moment with you that night was honest. And when we
reconnected thirteen years later, every moment that came after was honest too.
You not only make me want to be a better man, I am a better man with you by my
side.” I bring her hand up to my lips and I gently kiss her
fingers. “Thank you. Thank you for seeing the better me. Thank you for buying
me from a bachelor auction with grand delusions of revenge. Thank you for the
one-up dream date. Thank you for sharing your family with me. Thank you for
being my knight in shining armor… just…” I shake my head. “Babe? I can’t do
this without you.”
She inhales
deeply, lets go of one of my hands to swipe a tear off her cheek, and then
says, “Jesse Boston. You were my fantasy man when we first met.
You were the man who made all the promises. You were a boy so golden I could
barely stand to look at you.”
I sigh. Because
I didn’t feel good enough for her back then. I was so afraid she’d
see through me. So afraid she’d realize what a fraud I was. So afraid that
she’d figure me out and sneak away, thankful that she dodged a bullet with a
boy called Jesse.
“And when you disappeared, I was lost. I was someone else
when you left. Some other girl who no longer understood her place in this
world. And for the next thirteen years I would think about you at least once a
day. I would think… what could we have been? What life would we have lived if
we had stayed together from the start? If we had never gone out and did our
thing, by ourselves, on our own?” She squeezes my hands. “And you know what?”
“What?” I whisper, dying to know what she thinks about this.
“We might’ve been that couple.”
I laugh a
little. That couple.
“We might have been that couple you described on our
second-chance first date last summer. The one who fights hard, and lives fast,
and loves each other ferociously.”
“Love is a battlefield, babe. And we’re both just generals.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JA Huss is the New York Times
Bestselling author of 321 and has been on the USA Today Bestseller's list
21 times in the past five years. She writes characters with heart,
plots with twists, and perfect endings.
Her new sexy sci-fi romance and paranormal romance pen name is KC Cross and she writes novels and teleplays collaboratively with actor and screenwriter, Johnathan McClain.
Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Her audiobook, Mr. Perfect, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017. Her audiobook, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Five of her book were optioned for a TV series by MGM television in 2018. And her book, Total Exposure, was nominated for a RITA Award in 2019.
She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.
Her new sexy sci-fi romance and paranormal romance pen name is KC Cross and she writes novels and teleplays collaboratively with actor and screenwriter, Johnathan McClain.
Her books have sold millions of copies all over the world, the audio version of her semi-autobiographical book, Eighteen, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and an Audie Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Her audiobook, Mr. Perfect, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2017. Her audiobook, Taking Turns, was nominated for an Audie Award in 2018. Five of her book were optioned for a TV series by MGM television in 2018. And her book, Total Exposure, was nominated for a RITA Award in 2019.
She lives on a ranch in Central Colorado with her family.
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