OK, I had to go to yet another Lauren Dane book this week because she asked on her blog about her most Alpha character so I was reminded of Shane Chase from Taking Chase, a contemporary romance I read recently.

There was no one passage that described his overall appearance so here’s a snippet:

The man was so big and bad but there wasn’t anything threatening about him despite that. She loved the color of his hair, sort of coffee brown with a hit of blond. He had a savage kind of handsome that she found herself thinking of during the day.

I chose model Doug Porter because the man’s 6’3” and pretty close to how I pictured him:

I loved him for all the things he did – in her mind, wrong – and how he changed. Soon as she told him about her creepy ex, he went into protector mode and devised a plan to safeguard her house etc and she was like, “hold the reigns on the pony; no one will manage me.”

They have a lot of good scenes, mostly because they actually argue a lot but not fighting-like. Just getting around each other’s hang-ups etc. But when they’re together together, they have serious chemistry. Also, men who use the word darlin’ are swoon-worthy.

“Oh, darlin’, seeing you react that way as you think about my hands on you, my mouth, your taste in my throat, it does me in”

“Wh-where do you get all this stuff?” Her voice was shaky. The way he affected her shook her to her core.

“That’s not a line. I want to tell you all the things you do to me, all the things I want to do to you. You have no idea how you make me feel do you? Standing here in the middle of this crowded place,  I want to back you against the wall and take you.”

There’s more to that scene but I’ll leave it at that. The man is the perfect book boyfriend; I’m not sure men like this really do exist. But here’s one more tasty pic for your imagination.

So basically, he’s a gigantic cop with a protector personality. Oh yeah. The thing I liked about his character was that we’d seen him in the previous installation of this series and he’s sort of an ass. He’s overpowering and a little TOO in control of people and situations. But here, with Cassie, he learns to take things slow. He woos her, as it were. He begins by stopping by her jewelry stand and complimenting her, then he brings her lunch at work. Their first real date is in a group where she creams him and his brothers at pool. All these things lead to him falling madly in love with her, which is – of course – why he’s the BEST book boyfriend.

Happy Wednesday!