It's In The Stars: I had a feeling we both knew

By Liz Levoy

Anna is an independent woman who can’t find a partner in any of the men she meets. Leo is self-destructive and desperate to run away from his path. When the two meet, sparks fly but neither of them know what to do with it.

In the meantime, life goes on and they choose their paths. When they spend more time together they start to wonder if they shouldn’t be together after all.

Until Leo’s past interferes and Anna decides to take a job offer that will take her away from him.

Will the two of them realize they were meant to be? Or will they choose lives without each other?

• Language: English
• Publisher: DAO Press
• Release date: Mar 30, 2018

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IT'S IN THE STARS

I had a feeling we both knew

Liz Levoy

DAO PRESS

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Leo

Chapter 2: Anna

Chapter 3: Leo

Chapter 4: Anna

Chapter 5: Leo

Chapter 6: Anna

Chapter 7: Anna

Chapter 8: Leo

Chapter 9: Anna

Chapter 10: Leo

Chapter 11: Anna

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Chapter 1

Leo

I pushed my foot down harder and harder on the gas until the pedal hit the floor. The scenery changed to a blur all around the Corvette and a rush pumped through my veins like an orgasm of the daredevil variety. I was locked in a bubble and with the landscape, everything else fell away. The failure. The disappointment. The hard reality.

Jesus, Leo, slow down. I just got this car.

Right. Cam was with me. I wasn’t alone. For a moment, I had allowed myself to believe I was.

You’re never going to know if she’s really worth what you paid if you don’t push her until she begs you to stop. I performed a double clutch and the engine growled at me. God, this was so much sexier than any woman could be.

Cam grinned and despite his pale face he eased up a little. Yes, I made everything about sex. That was what made the world go around, right? Ass and arrogance. It pretty much summed me up on a good day. A day they saw me, anyway.

They didn’t need to know what happened behind the scenes, what was real and what wasn’t. This life was all about illusions and I was the star of the show.

This ride is tight, I said, skidding to a stop at a red that popped out of nowhere and acted as a buzzkill. I was breathing hard like I’d been the one to physically create the speed.

I told you she was a girl you would never forget.

Cam winked at me and I nodded. The steering wheel was smooth under my hands, the leather seat supple beneath my legs. A girl after my own heart. 

We have to get to the club or we’ll be late, Cam said. I stifled a sigh. I didn’t really want to cut this ride short. The speed, the exhilaration, the feeling that I was heading somewhere – somewhere far from here, God-willing – had me begging for more. Still, I slowed onto the shoulder of the road and made a U-turn when the coast was clear. I put my foot down again. No reason not to take this lady for another round while I still could.

When we were back downtown I didn’t slow down. I should have, but I didn’t.

If I get a speeding fine I’m going to charge it straight to you.

So, worth it, I thought. I skidded around turns. Pedestrian froze and stared – I loved an audience – and I pulled up the handbrake, skidding into a parking bay in front of the club.

I’m never letting you drive again, Cam said.

Don’t be a Nancy. When I looked at him, though, he had paled out even more – proof that there was a color lighter than white – and this time there was no humor in his voice.

You could have totaled her. He opened the door with a shaky hand. I shrugged. Yes, I could have totaled her. I could have written the car – and us – off in the process. But I hadn’t.

I didn’t care either way. We were still alive and the only thing that was the matter with the Corvette was that our ride was over now. I got out and walked around the car. The left two wheels were just outside the parking bay. So, I didn’t nail it head on.

That’ll do, I said, patting the hood. I fished for my box of cigarettes and pulled one out, clenching it between my lips while I searched for my lighter.

Cam rolled his eyes and shouldered me. You’re crazy, he said when we walked toward the club door.

Boy, he had no idea.

Chapter 2

Anna

Le Café Coffee was famous for its latte art and the most public place I’d been able to think of when I was meeting a random stranger on a blind date.

Like tonight.

We sat in a booth in the back – a seat I didn’t usually choose if it was up to me. Of course, it wasn’t up to me. It was all about compromise, right? That was what relationships were about. Self-sacrifice and all that.

Not that this was heading anywhere near that direction.

Victor wasn’t exactly my definition of Prince Charming. For one, he’d been late. For a first date – a first impression, in fact – that wasn’t a very good start. Punctuality was a must on my list.

What exactly is it that you do? I asked.

Victor looked around the room as if he was interested in everyone that was walking around us, instead of the conversation. Maybe he’d given up on this whole evening even before I had.

I’m a temp.

Right, a substitute teacher. Now I remembered. It seemed non-committal.

Do you ever want to go into teaching as a full-time job?

Victor shook his head, swallowing a sip of the water he’d ordered. Oh, I don’t mean temp as in I stand in for others. I mean temp as in it’s just temporary, until I can find a job.

I blinked at him. You don’t have a job?

He grinned. It’s one of those things where I just haven’t found yet where I belong. I work at a school where my mom’s the secretary. She pulled some strings for me.

I fought the urge to narrow my eyes at him and ask him if he was being serious. I wasn’t going to be rude. Not everyone had the same ambition I had.

You’re a PA, right? he said. Natalie told me.

I nodded. Natalie had set us up. I was starting to wonder what she’d been thinking.

"I’m a personal assistant to a CEO of a big firm while I study Communications part time.