Roni Loren - Forever Starts Tonight

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First published in USA by Intermix, Penguin Group (USA) 2014

First published in Great Britain by Harper 2014

Copyright © Roni Loren 2014

Excerpt from Nothing Between Us © Roni Loren 2015

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780698183025

Ebook Edition © September 2014 ISBN: 9780008108236

Version: 2014-09-10

To every reader who demanded more of Jace, Evan, and Andre.

This is for you.

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Title Page FOREVER STARTS TONIGHT Roni Loren

Copyright Copyright Copyright Dedication Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Epilogue Read on for more from Roni Loren About the Author Also by Roni Loren About the Publisher Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in USA by Intermix, Penguin Group (USA) 2014 First published in Great Britain by Harper 2014 Copyright © Roni Loren 2014 Excerpt from Nothing Between Us © Roni Loren 2015 Cover illustration © Shutterstock.com Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014 Cover photograph © pyxil/ iStockphoto.com Roni Loren asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780698183025 Ebook Edition © September 2014 ISBN: 9780008108236 Version: 2014-09-10

Dedication Dedication Dedication Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Epilogue Read on for more from Roni Loren About the Author Also by Roni Loren About the Publisher To every reader who demanded more of Jace, Evan, and Andre. This is for you.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Epilogue

Read on for more from Roni Loren

About the Author

Also by Roni Loren

About the Publisher

“He’s going down,” Andre murmured against Evan’s ear.

“That’s what she said.” Evan smirked from behind the lens of her camera and clicked.

“Mmm,” he said, pressing a light kiss to her shoulder. “I wish that’s what you were saying right this second, bella . Wanna take a break? I think there’s a storage closet with our names on it. I could get down on my—”

She moved her face away from her camera and sent Andre a warning look, but the impact was totally undermined by the way her teeth bit into her lip. She was picturing exactly what he could do to her in that closet, no doubt.

“Behave,” she whispered. “You’re supposed to be my assistant tonight. Keep me on track, not on my back. Plus, if the groom takes a header because he drank too much, it’s my job to capture the special moment so that their future children will be able to laugh at him.”

Andre’s gaze slid over the dance floor where the bride was basically holding her newly minted husband up for their dance. Lady Gaga’s “The Edge of Glory” was playing, and other couples were bouncing to the beat, but in the middle, the bride and groom were swaying like they were listening to “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.” Andre grinned. “It’s kind of romantic, isn’t it?”

“Getting drunk off your ass at your own wedding?” Evan asked, adjusting her position and snapping more shots.

He hefted her equipment bag higher on his shoulder. “No, that they’re moving to their own beat. She doesn’t seem annoyed at all, even when he keeps stepping on her dress, and he’s watching her with rapt amazement.”

Evan smiled. “Well, she is a beautiful bride.”

Andre leaned against a pillar, still watching the couple. Yes, the bride looked like she’d stepped out of the pages of a bridal magazine, but she was nothing compared to the woman standing beside him. Even with Evan sporting her photographer uniform of nondescript, black everything, he couldn’t keep his eyes off of her. Though, seeing the bride all dolled up, he couldn’t help but imagine what Evan would look like in flowing white and walking down an aisle next to him—no, next to them . She wasn’t just Andre’s, she was Jace’s, too. And he, theirs. But they wouldn’t get the right of that marriage ritual, at least not in the traditional sense. There wasn’t room for three of them at the church.

And Evan had declared more than once that she didn’t need the fancy wedding, that she wasn’t a woman hung up on fairy-tale stuff. But Andre had to wonder what it was like for her to spend most weekends photographing things that were normal for most people but complicated for them. Weddings, family reunions, children. Even he got pangs every now and then. He knew there was nothing traditional about his tastes or his relationship with Evan and Jace—and he wouldn’t change anything about what he had. He was one lucky bastard. But he’d been raised in such a traditional environment that part of that was still ingrained in his psyche, making him crave some of the privileges of that life—talking openly about the people you love to friends and family, calling someone your wife or husband, getting to see his girl and his guy dressed up and making vows.