Title: Back To The Drawing Board
Author: L.L. Collins
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Lies. Betrayal. Deceit. Carter knows them all too well. His whole life was based on them. He decided long ago that his life would be on his own terms. No one would dictate his future, since he'd had no control over his past.
Desire. Lust. Love.
Julia is the bosses' daughter. She's everything that Carter wants, and nothing that he thinks he needs. She's got plans of her own, and Carter is one of them.
Both determined to control their own paths, can she show him what his future could be like if he just lets go, or will he send her BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD?
EXCERPT
“Let’s play a game,” I said, breaking the silence. “A quick one. We’re only a few minutes away from the restaurant.”
“Never Have I Ever again?”
“Nope. Let’s do a short version of Twenty Questions. Like, two questions. We can resume later.”
“Tell me the rules.”
“We get to ask each other any two questions, and we have to answer them.”
Carter cleared his throat, looking over at me. “Sounds…interesting.”
“You start,” I said. I wanted him to get personal.
“You’re putting me on the spot,” he laughed.
“That’s the point.”
“Okay….have you had a serious boyfriend before?”
I furrowed my brow. That’s what he wanted to know? “Yes. In high school. We broke up after our first year of college and I haven’t talked to him since. His name was Scott.”
A look I didn’t understand passed over his face. “He was your only boyfriend? Like, ever?”
“That’s what you want for your second question? It’ll be my turn next.”
He nodded, so I continued. “He’s been the only…serious boyfriend. Since him, I frankly haven’t had the time or the desire to have a boyfriend. I’ve gone out with guys, but that’s it. Nothing serious.” I didn’t think I wanted to get into the details of all of that, so I was glad it was his last question.
“My turn. First, where did you get this hot car?”
He laughed. “My dad and I restored it. It’s a ’69 Camaro SS. It took us most of the last few years to perfect it. He’s a mechanic, and I didn’t grow up knowing anything at all about cars, so it was a great way for us to bond. I found out that I love restoring old cars, and driving them. And having hot girls in them.” He wiggled his eyebrows at me, and we both laughed. I loved that he was lightening up with me. Now it was time to get more serious.
“Okay, my next question is…if you could remember one thing about that night that we can’t remember, what would it be and why?”
Carter coughed. “Whoa,” he said. “You don’t mess around.” We hadn’t discussed ‘that night’ since right after we both realized we couldn’t remember. “I…Julia. Wow. I’m not sure how to answer that.”
“Truthfully,” I said. I loved making him uncomfortable.
“I wish I could remember touching you,” he said, the deepness of his voice tickling all through my body. “Everywhere.” It felt like he just had touched me, everywhere. I squirmed in my seat, almost wishing I hadn’t asked. Now I really wanted to attack him.
When I didn’t answer, he looked over at me. I smiled, reaching out and touching the scruff on his face, my favorite thing to do. “Wow is right,” I said quietly. “I wish I could remember that, too.” We looked at each other until the car behind us honked their horn.
Back to the Drawing
Board Playlist
Smoke and Mirrors~
Imagine Dragons
Love Alone is Worth
the Fight~ Switchfoot
Fool For You Anyway~
Foreigner
Time~ Creed
Broken~ Lifehouse
Everything~ Lifehouse
Sail~ AWOLNATION
Halo~ Beyonce
How You Remind Me~
Nickelback
If Today Was Your
Last Day~ Nickelback
Just As I Am~
Brantley Gilbert
Bleeding Out~ Imagine
Dragons
Something I Need~ One
Republic
The Fighter~ Gym
Class Heroes
No Ordinary Love~ The
Civil Wars
Dust to Dust~ The
Civil Wars
Photograph~ Ed
Sheeran
Lost In You~ Three
Days Grace
The Best of Me~
Brantley Gilbert
Like I’m Gonna Lose
You~ Meghan Trainor, John Legend
Yours to Hold~
Skillet
Riot~ Rascal Flatts
Fly~ Maddie & Tee
Sparks~ Coldplay
Where It All Begins~
Hunter Hayes, Lady Antebellum
It Was Always You~
Maroon 5
Love Someone~ Jason
Mraz
Everything I Didn’t
Say~ 5 Seconds of Summer
Inside Your Heaven~
Carrie Underwood
So Small~ Carrie
Underwood
Broken~ Seether
My Own Prison~ Creed
Goodbye My Lover~
James Blunt
100 Years~ Five for
Fighting
Six Degrees of
Separation~ The Script
If It’s Love~ Train
This Ain’t Goodbye~
Train
This is What it
Takes~ Shawn Mendes
You’re Beautiful~
James Blunt
Marry Me~ Train
You and Me~ Lifehouse
Accidentally in Love~
Counting Crows
Smile~ Uncle Kracker
About L.L. Collins 
LL Collins is a teacher who loves spending her days in the Florida sun with her husband and boys, reading, and writing. Her love of writing has found a home in the self-publishing world. The Living Again series: Living Again, Reaching Rachel, Guarding Hearts, Finding Forever, and Breaking Free: A Living Again Novella are available now in both eBook and paperback. The Twisted Series, consisting of both Twisted Souls and Twisted Paths, is available now exclusively on Amazon. LL has been writing since she was old enough to write. Always a story in her head, she finally decided to let the characters out to try to make her lifelong dreams of becoming an author come true. She has been a teacher for over ten years, a wife for 15, and a mom to two boys, 13 and 11.
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