I set down my champagne flute, untouched, and waited, my arms folded across my chest.

But what he said next surprised me. “What kind of life do you envision for yourself? What’s your dream future?” Instead of immediately hounding me about my utter disrespect for the sanctity of marriage, he wanted to listen.

This…was new.

I wasn’t prepared, which sort of pissed me off. Not only because it occurred to me that I could have misjudged Nathan Sinclair, but also because I didn’t exactly have a checklist of plans for myself. I just had things I liked doing that I wanted to continue doing, uninterrupted.

“What is it I want from my life?” I repeated back to him, buying time to think about it.

And then when I did think about it I realized I didn’t need the time. I knew exactly what I wanted. “My own stuff, my own space, steady kinky sex in different locations. Happy? I’m leaving.” I spun on my five-inch heels and walked toward the exit. Irritated.

I didn’t know why I was so worked up, maybe because the whole topic was a sore spot. Maybe because even though he hadn’t given the speech yet, I knew it was coming eventually. I didn’t fit into the traditional world with my viewpoints about happily-ever-afters. I already knew that.

Or, maybe I was worked up because people rarely believed it about me when I told them. They always thought that I was lying to them or lying to myself, but I really didn’t want what society believed I should want in the way they thought I should want it, and I didn’t want to have to argue about it with Nate, because I did truly like him. And I didn’t want to have this conflict. But liking him didn’t mean I wanted to give up who I was just to make him happy.

Instead of talking it to death and arguing my side, it was easier just to go. Get it over with. I could cut the ties now before I liked him even more. Before the string didn’t just tug me back from the clouds, but let all the air out of me, too.

I rushed out into the lobby, assuming he’d let me go, but he followed. And really, that’s what I probably should have expected. He’d already proven he was the kind of guy that chased. Shoe or not, Nate Charming liked his fairytale kink.

And I’d just performed the most cliché move of all for a sexed-up Cinderella—I’d run from the freaking ball.

Laurelin Paige’s DIRTY FILTHY FIX – Review & Excerpt Schedule:

November 22nd

Becky on Books – Review & Excerpt

Booked All Night – Review & Excerpt

Collector of book boyfriends – Review

Discrete Divas – Review & Excerpt

Friends Till The End Book Blog – Excerpt

I Can’t Help Where My Mind Goes – Excerpt

Kayns Book – Review

Les Chroniques Aléatoires – Review & Excerpt

Once Upon a Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

Ramblings From This Chick – Review

Romance as a first language – Review & Excerpt

Steamy Reads – Excerpt

The Book Boyfriend Addict – Review & Excerpt

November 23rd

A crazy vermonters book reviews – Review

Booklovers For Life – Review & Excerpt

Cupcakes and bookshelves – Excerpt

Devilishly dirty book blog – Review & Excerpt

For the love of romance – Review & Excerpt

I’m A Sweet And Sassy Book Whore – Review & Excerpt

Kindle Friends Forever – Review

Love & Lavender Book Review – Review & Excerpt

Mom’s Secret Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

Read and Share Book Reviews – Review

Shayna Renee’s Spicy Reads – Review & Excerpt

The Reading Cafe – Review & Excerpt

November 24th

Alphas Do It Better Book Blog – Review

Books 2 Blog – Review

Books,Dreams,Life – Excerpt

Escape into a Booksite – Review

Feel The Book – Excerpt

ISCREAM BOOKS BLOG – Review

JaymeBooks – Review & Excerpt

Knotty Girl Reviews – Review & Excerpt

My Girlfriend’s Couch – Review & Excerpt

Read-Love-Blog – Excerpt

Sultry Sirens Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

Torie’s Book Obsession – Excerpt

Wicked Babes Blog Reviews – Review & Excerpt

November 25th

A Brit and a Yank – Excerpt

AC Squared Book Blog – Excerpt

Book Loving Fairy – Review & Excerpt

Crazy Daisy Book Whore – Review & Excerpt

Francoise’s Reading Corner – Review & Excerpt

K&J Book Promotions – Excerpt

Loves Great Reads Blog – Excerpt

One-Click Chocolate Chick – Review & Excerpt

Reading Between the Wines Book Club – Excerpt

Sexy Vixen rEader – Review & Excerpt

November 26th

As You Wish Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Author Groupies – Review

Book Lovers Reviews and Reviews – Review

Books According to Abby – Review & Excerpt

Dirty Girl Romance – Review

Kari’s Book Reviews and Revelations – Review

Mama Likes to Read Book Blog – Review

Naturally Nerdy Books – Excerpt

Only One More Page – Review & Excerpt

Renee Entress’s Blog – Review & Excerpt

Smutty Book Friends – Review & Excerpt

Two peas in a pod – Review

November 27th

A British Bookworm’s Blog – Review

A Storybook Romance.net – Review & Excerpt

Bobo’s Book Bank – Review & Excerpt

Brittany’s Book Blog – Excerpt

I’m A Book Shark – Excerpt

Jen’s Reading Obsession – Excerpt

Living In Our Own Story – Review & Excerpt

Meleth Bookaddicted – Excerpt

Once upon a romance – Review

Romance Reviews and More – Review & Excerpt

The Heathers’ Blog – Review & Excerpt

The Smutbrarians – Review & Excerpt

November 28th

Alpha Book Club – Review

Blonde & Blue Reviews – Review

Book Breath babe – Review & Excerpt

Crystal’s Book World – Review & Excerpt

Four Chicks Flipping Pages – Review & Excerpt

Lamplight Review and Promotion – Review

Novel Addiction – Review

OMGReads – Review & Excerpt

Panty Dropping Book Blog – Review

Relentless book chics ramblings and reviews – Review & Excerpt

Star Angels Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Stranded in Books – Review

The Eeny Meanie Neen – Review

This Mom Loves Alphas – Review & Excerpt

November 29th

All Things Dark & Dirty – Excerpt

Amo’s Book Corner – Excerpt

Beneath The Covers Blog – Excerpt

Blushing Babes are up all night – Review

Book Lovers Obsession – Review

Bookalicious Babes Blog – Review & Excerpt

Evermore Books – Review & Excerpt

Kindle Crack Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Literary Gossip – Excerpt

Pervy Ladies Books – Review & Excerpt

Sip Read Love – Review

Sweet Sexy Escape – Review

The Divas Book Lounge – Review & Excerpt

True Story Book Blog – Review

November 30th

AC BOOK BLOG – Review & Excerpt

Book Angel Booktopia – Review & Excerpt

Bloggin With M. Brennan – Review

Jackie’s Book World – Review

KDRBCK – Review & Excerpt

My YA NA Book Obsession – Review & Excerpt

Nerdy Soul – Review & Excerpt

Sweet Red Reads – Review & Excerpt

The Book Addict’s Reviews – Review & Excerpt

The Romance Reviews – Review

V’s Reads – Review & Excerpt

Wrapped Up In Reading – Review & Excerpt

December 1st

Addicted 2 Romance – Review & Excerpt

All Books Obsessed – Review & Excerpt

Bad boys and bedtime stories book blog – Review

Book Lovers Hangout – Review & Excerpt

Fictional Rendezvous Book Blog – Excerpt

G & T’s Indie Café – Excerpt

Jax’s Book Magic – Excerpt

Kick Back & Review – Review & Excerpt

MI Bookshelf – Review

The sweet life – Review

Two Book Pushers – Review & Excerpt

WickedGoodReads – Review

USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Author Laurelin Paige is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She is represented by Rebecca Friedman.