Title: Unpredictable
Author: Shantel Tessier
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release Date: April 6, 2015
My niche in life is being an asshole. It suits me. I’m that guy who jokes about love and how settling down is overrated. Why would a guy ever fall for one woman when you can have as many as you want? Makes no sense to me.
But if being a cop has taught me anything, it’s that life is unpredictable. And that is exactly what Katherine is. The woman makes me question my sanity on a daily basis. Sometimes she makes me want to keep her to myself; other times, she makes me want to jump off a cliff just to get away from her.
Yet I still find myself turning into that little pussy I said I’d never be. Showing up on her front door holding flowers, only to have her throw them at me. Calling just to say hello, only for her to press ignore. Yeah, I’ve become a pussy all right. A whipped one at that. At first she was a challenge, but now I don’t like the fact that she is playing hard to get. But when someone comes after me, threatens my job, my life. It’s her that stands by my side. It’s her who has to pay for my sins. And it’s her who I’m threatened to lose. One thing that you need to know about me is that I’ll fight for what I believe in. And I believe in her more than myself.
What’s that saying? Boy meets girl and the rest is history…Well, those who fuck with what is mine, will become history.
Parker O’Hare’s life is pretty predictable, especially when it comes to how he see his future. He’s always up for a night with a hot chick where they both get off, but that’s where it ends. He never makes promises, and he sure as hell wants nothing to do with the kind of relationships his best friends have. He has his job, his cat, and his good times, and he doesn’t need or want more…
Katherine is anything but predictable. She’s a walking short fuse who is ready and willing to blow at any time. There’s a lot of pressure on her shoulders, and she’s never really had anyone to lean on; she’s always taken care of and relied on herself, so when someone, especially a cocky bastard like Parker, tries to step in and “save” her, she doesn’t know how to handle the situation or him, which puts Kat and Parker in tenuous, yet quite comical circumstances.
It was going to take an extraordinarily strong woman to put up with Parker’s bullshit and bring him to his knees, and while Kat didn’t want to be that person at the onset of the text for a variety of reasons, as their story continues, she and readers start to understand that she’s Parker’s perfect match – the one person who throws him off kilter and forces a bit of the crazy in his life – but now, she needs to accept that she can allow someone else to help take care of her…someone she can depend on because if that doesn’t happen and both Kat and Parker let their tempers and tantrums get the better of them, they’ll both miss out on the one person who can give them the kind of life they never thought they wanted but now desperately need and deserve.
I’ve always loved Parker in the other books of the series. He comes off like a complete douche, but he has his friends’ back and will go above and beyond the call of duty to serve and protect. Sure, he’s a cocky asshat and thinks very highly of himself, but there’s so much more to him than that, which is exactly what Shantel brings out in Unpredictable. Yes, Parker changes when he realizes his life’s course is altered due to his interest in Kat, but Shantel doesn’t overhaul is personality completely, which can be the case in some texts. Parker’s still the same guy….he just allows some of his other dormant traits to be exposed, which only adds to his character.
Kat seems like an absolute crazy bitch at times but there’s reason for that attitude, which is explained through her internal dialogue. Nothing has been easy for Kat, even when she was a little girl, and that has done a significant amount of damage to her and even though she doesn’t allow it to knock her down or deter her from what she wants to do, it does shape her and force her to put up barriers and protect herself by fighting back at all costs.
There’s definitely nothing predictable about Parker and Kat as a couple, which makes their story highly entertaining, steamy, and volatile…add in some suspense due to one of Parker’s ongoing investigations and Shantel Tessier gives readers a text that will have readers laughing out loud, swooning, cringing, and worrying how everything is going to play out for not only Parker and Kat but those who step in to help as well.
I knew Parker’s happy ending was going to be paved with road blocks, speed bumps, fuck ups, and a whole lot of bitching and attitude, which is exactly what happens in Unpredictable. He’s not an easy man to be around, which is perfect since Kat isn’t an easy woman to be around either; you would think that all of that attitude in one place would be too intense, and while it is, at times, the intensity gets turned into anger fueled sex which keeps them both coming back for me.
A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
4 poison apples
I sit at the wedding party table and watch the lovely couple smile at one another as they eat their cake. It’s sickening.
I can’t get my mind off the beautiful yet bitchy woman sitting next to me. She is having a much easier time ignoring me. But she did admit earlier that she was a good faker. I try to get up the courage to speak to her by taking another drink of my wine. I don’t need the liquid courage to actual speak to her; I need it to keep me calm from being a dick, which is what I do so well. I really don’t want her to kick me in the balls like she said she would.
“Would you like to talk about what happened that day?” I ask her politely.
She looks up from her cake and stares at me as if I have two heads. “Not to you.”
“Maybe I can help you,” I offer. “I am a police officer,” I remind her as if I wasn’t the one who threw her down in her front yard and handcuffed her. “Does that type of thing happen often with you and your boyfriend?” Maybe they like to fight. Maybe it’s like their foreplay. Believe me, I have seen some crazy shit.
She places her fork on the white tablecloth and leans over to whisper, “I told you once and I’ll tell you again. Drop it. What happened was none of your business.”
I reach out to softly rub her arm, and I feel it break out in goosebumps. “Does he hurt you?” I ask looking deep into her eyes. I’m being a total ass, and she knows it.
She jerks her arm away from me. “I had just got home that morning and was in a bad fucking mood,” she growls.
Just gotten home? It was like seven in the morning. “What in the hell were you doing just getting home?” I demand. “Especially the way you were dressed.” I smile as I let the dickness come out. “Been out hooking all night? And your man got tired of having to share you?” The memory of her telling me that she wanted to fuck her man’s best friend is still fresh in my mind. And what a thought that is.
I hear Samantha gasp as I watch Katherine’s eyes narrow on me. She reaches over to the table, and the next thing I know, she’s shoving her cake into my face. “Vas te faire encule salaud,” she hisses in my ear before I feel a cold liquid land in my lap. I can literally hear my cock sizzle as if she just put out a fire. Holy fuck, did she cuss at me in French? I think I just came.
Shantel is a Texas born girl who now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her high school sweetheart, who is a wonderful, supportive husband and their four year old little princess. She loves to spend time cuddled up on the couch with a good book
She has published five books in the Undescribable series and 2 books in the DASH series. She considers herself extremely lucky to get to be a stay at home wife and mother. Going to concerts and the movies are just a few of her favorite things to do. She hates coffee, but loves wine. She and her husband are both huge football fans, college and NFL. And she has to feed her high heel addiction by shopping for shoes weekly.
Although she has a passion to write, her family is most important to her. She loves spending evenings at home with her husband and daughter, along with their two cats and dog.
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