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After ten takes that lasted throughout the morning and into the afternoon, Lucy Younger heard her stomach growl so loudly that she was pretty sure anyone within a five-mile radius would’ve heard it, too.“Cut!” yelled the director, Jim Stanton. Jim had a swath of silver hair that tended to expand outward as the day progressed. Lucy wondered if it was from the humidity, or if Jim’s hair expanded as he got more irritable with every take that he inevitably hated. It was rather like watching a cat fluff out its fur, arching and hissing at some threat.“That’s a wrap for now,” said Jim. “Go get some lunch.” He shot Lucy a sardonic glance, and she had a feeling he’d heard her stomach growling. Well, if he let them have lunch breaks before three in the afternoon, she wouldn’t be so damn hungry!Lucy had arrived on Hazel Island in the Puget Sound to film The Last Goodbye a week ago. It was her first movie, and although it was a smaller indie one, it was a huge opportunity for her. If she co
Last Updated : 2021-10-03All I Want Is You: The Youngers Book 3 Also by Iris Morland
Say You’re MineAll I Ask of YouMake Me YoursHold Me CloseOopsie DaisyHe Loves Me, He Loves Me NotPetal PluckerWar of the RosesincludingThen Came YouTaking a Chance on LoveAll I Want Is YouMy One and OnlyThe Nearness of YouThe Very Thought of YouIf I Can’t Have YouDream a Little Dream of MeSomeone to Watch Over MeTill There Was YouI’ll Be Home for Christmas
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A coffee addict and cat lover, Iris Morland writes sexy and funny contemporary romances. If she's not reading or writing, she enjoys binging on Netflix shows and cooking something delicious.Stay in touch!irismorland.comIris Morland’s MermaidsNewsletter Facebook Twitter BookBub Goodreads Instagram
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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be constructed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.All I Want Is You (The Youngers Book 3)Published by Blue Violet Press LLCSeattle, WashingtonCopyright © 2018 by Iris MorlandCover design by Resplendent MediaAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
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Sighing deeply, her feet aching from standing all afternoon and evening, Emily Lassiter glanced at the clock on the wall of The Dine in Five and wanted to sigh all over again. She still had two hours left on her shift.Normally her waitressing shifts went by quickly, but tonight there was a dearth of customers, which meant there was only so much work to do. Her boss, Lawrence, had already sent two other waitresses home. Emily was just glad that she got to work tonight—she needed the money rather desperately.“Your table wants more ketchup,” said Lawrence as he passed her in the hallway. Middle-aged and married with three kids, Lawrence had been like a father figure to Emily ever since she’d gotten this job two years ago. When he looked at her pale face, he added, “You okay, kid?”Emily forced herself to smile. “Fine. Ketchup, you said? I’ll go get that.”Lawrence looked like he didn’t believe her, but thankfully his phone rang, effectively distracting him. Emily went to the kitchen
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Phin Younger tapped his pen against the table as he waited for somebody from the DA’s office to show up for this court case. Phin’s client, a sixteen-year-old who’d been the driver of a getaway car for his friend who’d committed a robbery—slumped in his chair despite Phin’s admonition that he should sit up.Josh Lassiter was tall and bulky for his age and looked much older than sixteen. He had a sulky turn to his mouth that Phin had recognized the second he’d shaken the kid’s hand and introduced himself as his court-appointed lawyer. Josh had sneered and told him in no uncertain terms that he was wasting his time.Phin often felt like he was wasting his time—or rather, like he was fighting a losing battle with these cases. As a court-appointed lawyer who worked in the county’s public defender’s office, Phin got the cases of people who couldn’t afford a fancy lawyer. Phin was his client’s only chance at either getting out of prison or at least getting less time. But with more and more
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Emily tried to calm her racing heart as she waited to see Josh’s lawyer later that week. When Mr. Younger had told her that Josh could go to prison for close to six years, she’d wanted to throw up. He wasn’t even eighteen yet! And he hadn’t even been the one to rob that store. How could that be fair or just?“Ms. Lassiter?” Mr. Younger entered the tiny waiting room at the public defender’s office. “Come on back.”Emily followed him, once again admiring how young and handsome he was. When she’d first seen him in the courtroom, she’d almost demanded to know how old he was because he seemed too young to know what he was doing. She’d been afraid he wasn’t really a lawyer but instead some intern practicing on her poor brother. But, no, according to everything she’d found online, Phineas Younger, J.D., was as much a lawyer as she was a broke waitress and former model. He’d graduated at the top of his class from the University of Oregon, and he’d been working as a public defender since he’d
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Phin had lied about having another appointment because he’d needed to get Emily out of his office. She presented too much of a temptation to him, which bothered him immensely. He wasn’t the type of guy who was easily tempted. He kept to himself, and it had worked for twenty-eight years of his life.When he sat down heavily in his office chair, he stared at nothing for a long moment. Until a voice broke through his disordered thoughts.“Who’s the new client?” Katherine, Phin’s coworker and only real friend within the office, sat down on the edge of his desk with a smile. Happily married with kids, Katherine was somehow convinced that everyone else needed the same things in life to be happy.Phin, however, had so far resisted her best efforts to pair him up with one of her girlfriends.“Sixteen-year-old brother arrested for aiding and abetting a robbery,” he replied.Katherine whistled. “Damn. That’s serious. You gonna do a plea?”“Most likely. I’m not sure we have any other option
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All I Want Is You: The Youngers Book 3 About the Author
A coffee addict and cat lover, Iris Morland writes sexy and funny contemporary romances. If she's not reading or writing, she enjoys binging on Netflix shows and cooking something delicious.Stay in touch!irismorland.comIris Morland’s MermaidsNewsletter Facebook Twitter BookBub Goodreads Instagram
All I Want Is You: The Youngers Book 3 Also by Iris Morland
Say You’re MineAll I Ask of YouMake Me YoursHold Me CloseOopsie DaisyHe Loves Me, He Loves Me NotPetal PluckerWar of the RosesincludingThen Came YouTaking a Chance on LoveAll I Want Is YouMy One and OnlyThe Nearness of YouThe Very Thought of YouIf I Can’t Have YouDream a Little Dream of MeSomeone to Watch Over MeTill There Was YouI’ll Be Home for Christmas
All I Want Is You: The Youngers Book 3 Enjoy this exclusive excerpt
After ten takes that lasted throughout the morning and into the afternoon, Lucy Younger heard her stomach growl so loudly that she was pretty sure anyone within a five-mile radius would’ve heard it, too.“Cut!” yelled the director, Jim Stanton. Jim had a swath of silver hair that tended to expand outward as the day progressed. Lucy wondered if it was from the humidity, or if Jim’s hair expanded as he got more irritable with every take that he inevitably hated. It was rather like watching a cat fluff out its fur, arching and hissing at some threat.“That’s a wrap for now,” said Jim. “Go get some lunch.” He shot Lucy a sardonic glance, and she had a feeling he’d heard her stomach growling. Well, if he let them have lunch breaks before three in the afternoon, she wouldn’t be so damn hungry!Lucy had arrived on Hazel Island in the Puget Sound to film The Last Goodbye a week ago. It was her first movie, and although it was a smaller indie one, it was a huge opportunity for her. If she co
All I Want Is You: The Youngers Book 3 Epilogue
Emily closed her eyes as she lay down on the soft grass. With the sun shining and the breeze cool, it was the first truly warm day of spring. After a little persuasion, she’d managed to get Phin to agree to picnic at Willamette Park, not far from Emily’s apartment.It wasn’t that Phin didn’t want to spend time with her. On the contrary, they spent as much time together as either could manage. It was just that Phin enjoyed spendingprivatetime with Emily, and he told her with a heated smile that he couldn’t seduce her when little kids and old people were within close proximity.“What are you smiling about?” said Phin as he sat down next to her.She opened one eye. “Do I have to have a specific reason?”“I thought this morning might be the reason why you’re smiling.”Considering what they’d done this morning—and where—Emily just smiled wider and closed her eyes again.Phin didn’t say anything for a while, but Emily knew it wasn’t because he was keeping something from her
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Strangely enough, Emily felt almost energized after her encounter with Sterling. Or maybe it was just the leftover adrenaline that kept her smiling and laughing and taking orders that evening, like she didn’t have a care in the world.If she thought too hard about what Sterling had said, she knew she would stop smiling. And if she thought about how Phin would react once he found out? Well, she decided that she’d think about that later. Preferably in a million years, when it might not seem so daunting.On her break, she wandered into the kitchen and sat down heavily on a stool in the corner. Her stomach rumbled with hunger, but she ignored it. She was still too on edge to keep anything down.Jenson eyed her as he finished slapping a hamburger together. “You look like shit,” he said without preamble.“You’re such a charmer.”He grunted. “Just speaking the truth.” His eyes narrowed as he took in her appearance. Emily had thought she looked as she always did, but then again, Jenson wa
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It took Phin a week to admit to Emily that Sterling had submitted an official complaint to the bar association. It was late at night. Emily curled up next to Phin, but neither of them could sleep.She had known something was eating at him. He kept telling her it was nothing, but with enough badgering, he’d caved and told her the news.Now, they both lay silently. Emily’s mind whirled with how she could fix this for Phin. She knew he would tell her to leave well enough alone, and it wasn’t that she didn’t trust that he knew what he was talking about. It was more that she knew that she’d caused this to happen in the first place.“I’ll take care of it,” said Phin into the dark room. “I didn’t want to tell you because I knew you’d worry.”Emily didn’t answer. She didn’t know whether to find it comforting that he didn’t want to worry her, or to be annoyed that he thought she was so fragile that she couldn’t handle the truth.A few days later, she sat in the district attorney’s office,
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Once Josh decided to take the plea deal, things moved more quickly than Emily had expected. By the end of October, she was sitting in the same courtroom where Josh had been charged. Josh sat with both Phin and his JCC officer, Harry Benson, and he hadn’t looked back at Emily once.Emily blew out a breath. Her heart was still pounding hard, and she was glad she was behind the trio of men. Otherwise, she was afraid she might faint. Or sob. Or both.When everything began, Josh finally looked over his shoulder at Emily. He shot her a wan smile. She prayed that the judge would accept the deal and be merciful toward Josh.Phin had warned her that Josh could still spend time in a juvenile detention center. She hated the very thought, but it was still better than adult prison. Anything was better than that.“I accept the plea deal as set forth by your lawyers,” said the judge, “and as such, the lesser crime of theft in the second degree, which is a class B misdemeanor.”Emily waited with
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Saturday morning, Emily awoke to find Josh already up and making coffee. Considering her younger brother could barely make toast without burning it, she was shocked to find him making coffee in the first place.“I didn’t know you drank coffee,” she said.“I started drinking it when I was in juvie.”“It’s early for you to be up.” Normally Josh didn’t get up until midday on weekends.He shrugged. “Couldn’t sleep.”Emily slumped down onto one of the rickety kitchen chairs. “I couldn’t either. I kept staring up at the ceiling no matter how hard I tried to shut my eyes and sleep.”The coffee machine beeped, and Josh brought two mugs to the table. Emily stared at her brother in surprise. Where had the angry, selfish teenager gone? She kept getting whiplash from Josh’s personality changes; she was half-certain she’d get a concussion soon enough.“Did something happen last night?” said Josh. He was decidedly not looking at Emily when he asked the question.Last night—Emily swallowed, h
All I Want Is You: The Youngers Book 3 Chapter 18
Emily’s stomach rumbled as she smelled the burger and fries waiting for her latest table. She hadn’t eaten since early that morning, and the diner had been so busy that she’d only had time to eat a quick granola bar on her break. Normally she tried to avoid the greasy meals here, but right then, she could’ve eaten that entire plate and then some.Jenson eyed her as she gazed longingly at the plate. “You hungry?” he grunted.“No.”“Yeah, you are.” Jenson pushed the burger and fries toward her. When she balked, he said, “I already made too many. Eat it. Otherwise I’ll trash it.”Emily was skeptical this was the case, but she wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. Taking the plate, she found her favorite corner in the kitchen and chowed down. She almost moaned with pleasure as she took her first bite. She ate the entire plate in record time, practically licking it when she was done.“Thanks for that. I should get back to work.”Jenson didn’t say anything; he didn’t need to.
