“Jon, please don’t say you’ve been fighting Danny again?”
He fingered his jaw line. “This was, ah, a gift from your father.”
I was astounded. “Dad?” I shook my head; the world had gone mad. I remembered something and dug deep in my fleece pocket to retrieve the precious iPod. “I wanted to thank you for this. I listen to it all the time.”
Jon smiled fully at me, pushing the iPod back into my pocket, his hand wrapped around mine. “I’ve brought you something else, I hope you like it as much.” He released my hand and went rummaging in another pocket, then produced a small box. The wind gusted round us, and he frowned. Next thing he gave me a wicked grin, grabbed my hand and ran up the beach toward the cliff, dragging me behind him. It was our crazy run on the beach at Red Wharf Bay all over again.
Just like last time I bumped into him when he stopped dead, and I giggled. This time though, he pulled me down onto the dry sand, sat there and eased me onto his lap, wrapping his coat around us both. We were out of the wind here. I stared at him, and marveled at how tanned he was, yet how tired-looking.
He produced the little box again. Inside laid the most beautiful silver ring. Not an engagement ring, nor an eternity ring. It was narrow with flowers etched in a spiral design along the outside, and tiny diamonds gleaming in the flower heads.
“It’s so beautiful.” I knew what I hoped it meant. “I don’t have anything for you.”
“Oh, I think you do.” His voice sounded cheerful. Looking me in the eyes, he took one of my hands in his own and moved it down to rest on my still flat stomach. “I know.” His voice was soft, his eyes tender. “I still want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
My bottom lip wobbled. “How did you find out?”
He smiled tenderly, brushed my wobbling lips with a soft kiss. “That’s not important. But I want you to know, I was on my way back to you anyway, when I found out. This is a bonus.”
He kissed me again. “My divorce is through, and I’m officially single. Please Anita, marry me and make me the happiest man alive.” Before I could say anything, he plunged on. “Being with you is the single most important thing in my life. I will do whatever it takes to make you happy. I’ll give up racing and work for my dad, just tell me what you want. And please say yes.” His eyes beseeched me.
I hugged him close, whispered “yes,” in his ear, and felt his sigh of relief.
“By the way, your dad doesn’t have a shotgun does he?”
“Not to my knowledge, why?”
“Oh, I just want to be sure I’m safe when we go back to your house. He was fierce when he saw me earlier. Perhaps I should hide behind you?”
We slowly started talking again. Smatterings of things, snippets of catching up. Lots of kissing, wrapped round each other, and a few tears. Maddie pestered for her stick to be thrown, and Jon obliged, while still keeping me wrapped up inside his borrowed coat.
I knew I wouldn’t ask him to stop racing. I’d have to be strong and watch from the sidelines, but the fact he’d offered meant the world to me.
“We’ll have to go back soon, there are a few people that need to hear our news.” He hauled me upright and snuggled me inside his coat again. “And you know, we’re going to need somewhere to live. There’s a nice place just up the road. And it’s got its own stabling….”
THE END
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Although Pole Position is a standalone novel, if you enjoyed meeting Jon and Anita, you can also find them in the dark paranormal Talisman series.
It starts with Obsession. The perfect husband becomes the perfect nightmare.
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They also appear as cameos in an upcoming series from Sofia Grey. Look out for the Event Horizon books, coming late 2016.
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Playlist
Music is interwoven so tightly into my writing that I can’t untangle the two. Either I’m listening to a playlist on my iPod, have music seeping from my laptop speakers, or there’s a song playing in my head – sometimes on auto-repeat.
If Pole Position had a soundtrack, this would be the playlist:
Foo Fighters: Aurora
Kings of Leon: Revelry
Foo Fighters: Stranger Things Have Happened
Filter: Where Do We Go From Here
Kings of Leon: Trunk
Natalie Imbruglia: Torn
Kings of Leon: On Call
Foo Fighters: Headwires
Pearl Jam: Yellow Ledbetter
Maroon 5: She Will Be Loved
The Cranberries: Linger
All Saints: Pure Shores
KT Tunstall: Other Side Of The World
Villainy: Ammunition
Puddle of Mudd: Blurry
Manchester Orchestra: Shake It Out
Listen along to these—and more—with my Spotify playlist: Spotify
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More by Sofia Grey
If you enjoyed Pole Position by Sofia Grey, why not try some of her other books, including:
Obsession (Talisman #1)
Josh Delaney is the ideal honey trap. His charm and model good looks would be enough for most women, but coupled with his psychic ability to read their thoughts, he’s impossible to resist. Suspicious husbands employ him to test their wives, to see if they can be tempted to stray.
High profile couple Suki and Gabe Bridgewater have the perfect marriage, or at least, that’s the image they portray to the world. Behind closed doors, Gabe’s dominance in the marriage is unravelling and he decides to test Suki, using Josh as bait.
For Josh it should be just another easy job, but two things go horribly wrong.
One, Josh falls in love with Suki.
And two, Gabe refuses to let her go.
Seeing the Love
Lucas Wade is losing his sight. As the darkness threatens to swamp him, the one bright spot in his day comes in the form of Natalie Fontaine. She works in the sales office, hundreds of miles away, and she alone treats him like a regular guy. She has no idea about his disability, and he doesn’t plan on telling her about it.
But if Lucas can’t be honest with her, Natalie may never see the love he has to offer.
His Temporary Fix (a Love at the Beach novella)
One night is all it takes...
Holly Jacobs loses her heart a little too easily. Never again. But when she meets the sexy soldier on the beach, Holly knows she’s in big trouble. Zack Winter is gorgeous and in pain, and when he kisses Holly, all of her resolve melts away...
Zack is on short-term leave to attend a funeral, and he’s walking a fine line. The loss is unbearable...and he’ll do whatever it takes to distract himself from it. Especially if it means a night of searingly-hot sex with Holly Jacobs. Only his brilliant idea isn’t exactly going according to plan.
One night isn’t nearly enough. But if it goes much longer it might end in broken hearts…
Acknowledgements
Pole Position is set in a location I adore, the quiet island of Anglesey, off the north-west coast of Wales. I spent many happy holidays in this region, and loved including some of my favourite places within this story.
About Sofia Grey
Romance author Sofia Grey spends her days managing projects in the corporate world and her nights hanging out with wolf shifters and alpha males. She devours pretty much anything in the fiction line, but she prefers her romances to be hot, and her heroes to have hidden depths. When writing, she enjoys peeling back the layers to expose her characters’ flaws and always makes them wo
rk hard for their happy endings.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
1.1 Anita
1.2 Jon
1.3 Anita
Chapter 2
2.1 Jon
2.2 Anita
2.3 Anita
Chapter 3
3.1 Anita
3.2 Jon
3.3 Anita
Chapter 4
4.1 Colette
4.2 Anita
Chapter 5
5.1 Jon
5.2 Anita
5.3 Colette
5.4 Jon
Chapter 6
6.1 Anita
6.2 Anita
6.3 Jon
Chapter 7
7.1 Anita
7.2 Colette
7.3 Anita
7.4 Colette
Chapter 8
8.1 Jon
8.2 Anita
8.3 Jon
Chapter 9
9.1 Jon
9.2 Anita
9.3 Jon
Chapter 10
10.1 Anita
10.2 Colette
10.3 Jon
Chapter 11
11.1 Anita
11.2 Jon
11.3 Anita
11.4 Jon
Chapter 12
12.1 Colette
12.2 Anita
12.3 Anita
12.4 Jon
12.5 Jon
Chapter 13
13.1 Anita
13.2 Jon
13.3 Colette
Chapter 14
14.1 Anita
14.2 Jon
14.3 Anita
14.4 Jon
Chapter 15
15.1 Anita
15.2 Anita
15.3 Colette
15.4 Anita
Chapter 16
16.1 Anita
16.2 Jon
16.3 Anita
Chapter 17
17.1 Jon
17.2 Anita
17.3 Anita
Chapter 18
18.1 Jon
18.2 Jon
18.3 Anita
18.4 Anita
Chapter 19
19.1 Jon
19.2 Anita
19.3 Anita
19.4 Anita
20.1 Jon
20.2 Anita
20.3 Anita
20.4 Colette
Chapter 21
21.1 Jon
21.2 Jon
21.3 Anita
21.4 Anita
21.5 Jon
Chapter 22
22.1 Anita
22.2 Jon
22.3 Jon
Chapter 23
23.1 Anita
23.2 Jon
23.3 Jon
Chapter 24
24.1 Anita
24.2 Jon
24.3 Jon
Chapter 25
25.1 Anita
25.2 Jon
25.3 Anita
25.4 Colette
25.5 Colette
25.6 Anita
Chapter 26
26.1 Colette
26.2 Jon
26.3 Anita
26.4 Jon
Chapter 27
27.1 Anita
27.2 Jon
27.3 Colette
27.4 Jon
Chapter 28
28.1 Colette
28.2 Jon
28.3 Anita
THE END
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Acknowledgements
About Sofia Grey