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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Cassie Fortuna flees back to her
own pack, broken-hearted, after discovering her intended’s interest in another woman.
Despite shifters being monogamous, it seems Ben isn’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As her twenty-fifth birthday
approaches, and her heat, she resigns herself to returning—there is no one for
her in Mystic River and her only sibling and her family live in Blue Star.
Besides, she’s over Benjamin Kraft.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Ben hopes Cassie came back for him
but is unable to breach her cold façade to finally share his dark secret.
Secrets have a habit of coming out, however, and Cassie is stunned by what she
learns. Intent on making things up to her, Ben succeeds in winning her back.
Having never gotten over him, she embraces their new relationship. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But Cassie and Ben could be in
danger, as well as someone else important to him when others learn his secret.
Is the risk worth the reward?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She was cutting
the crusts off a peanut butter and jam sandwich when she felt him. He moved
almost silently, but her wolf was attuned and threw itself against the
boundaries she’d enforced on it. His scent reached her next, that spicy
fragrance with a hint of musk, and Cass the woman swallowed a moan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After setting
the knife down, she transferred the sandwich from the cutting board to a plate
before turning with it held in front of her like a tiny shield. Or an offering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It took a
massive effort, but she met Ben’s stare with a cool, polite one of her own.
“Hey, Ben.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Cass.” He
sauntered closer and leaned one hip against the fridge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Having no desire
to engage in small talk, she snagged her cup and moved past him, now intending
to eat her breakfast in her room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Jett tells me
you’re back for good.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That’s right.”
She was nearly out the door when he moved with that deceptive speed he had,
grasping her elbow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’d like an
explanation.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">When hell froze
over, not that she’d pretend she didn’t know what he was referring to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">With a calm she
didn’t feel, especially with her wolf begging for freedom, she shifted her
weight to face him, and her elbow came loose. “I changed my mind about you.
About … us. And I was too chicken to tell you to your face. Sorry. I’m such a
girl.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He watched her
with the same steady regard she remembered so clearly, only without the warmth
he’d faked in the past. How he’d charmed her… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old news.</i> She fought her humiliation and looked into his eyes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Ben had golden
eyes, and she suspected his wolf was almost always at the surface but within
his iron control. Thank god for that control because he hadn’t allowed them to
become intimate, something that puzzled her to this day. Because surely, if
he’d played the amazing sex card—and she just knew it would be amazing because
his kisses made her melt—she’d have been a total pushover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In any event,
passion couldn’t cloud her thinking, even if her wolf might not agree. Her
animal hadn’t yet matured, but it still knew what—who—it wanted. Her other side
was surely smarter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’ve
changed,” he finally said as she waited him out. “What happened to you?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">You happened.</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">
Shoving back the thought, fearful it would echo in the room, Cassie lifted a
shoulder, careful not to spill her coffee. “Nothing happened to me, Ben.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Shaking his
head, he backed up a little, and she breathed in the extra space. “I don’t get
it, but I will. I like puzzles.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">God help her.
With a smirk that hurt the corners of her mouth, she said, “I’m not a puzzle to
be solved, sorry. I came back to seek a mate. Jett has granted me permission to
make my choice.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She blinked at
the sudden bleaching of his <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">sun-kissed</span> <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">skin,</span> as if all the <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">life-giving</span> blood had drained away. His eyes narrowed, and his
mouth set, a muscle clenching in his jaw. And then his face relaxed, and he
laughed. The sound grated across her senses, like fingernails on a chalkboard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Our Alpha has
been gradually changing the <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">time-honored</span>
rules. Accommodating the females more and more. Some don’t approve, but we need
to consider the period we live in, and I’ve been a supporter. Until now.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Excuse me?” The
mug of coffee and the plate were weighing her down heavily, like an extra tiny
punishment she had to endure as part of the interrogation. “What’s that
supposed to mean?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It means that
when flighty, spoiled females are given the right of choice, I question our
Alpha’s wisdom.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Successfully
defeating the urge to throw her coffee in his face, Cassie found the right
words. “I suppose you’ll have to take that up with him. With my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brother-in-law</i>. Be sure to mention the
spoiled and flighty part.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Her comment hit
the mark. Ben flinched, barely, but she caught it. He knew he’d crossed a
boundary, and she wondered what he’d do to fix it. He surprised her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Passing a hand
over his face, he said, “Dammit, Cass. What happened between us? I can’t
believe we’re sparring like this. I can’t fathom how you left without so much
as a goodbye or an explanation. Aside from that note.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re</i> sparring, Ben. I’d prefer not to
converse at all.” She made her exit as quickly as she could without appearing
to flee. How could she tell him what she’d overheard?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It’s not over,
Cass.” His final words floated behind her, but she pretended not to hear. She
didn’t care to interpret his … warning? Promise? Threat?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She gained the
privacy of her room—shades of that fateful night—and shoved the door closed
with her hip. Her coffee was lukewarm, and her sandwich had the consistency of
flavored paste, but she grimly consumed both. She’d survived her first
encounter with Ben and hadn’t given anything away, and had seen him dig himself
a hole. With any luck, he’d widen it on his own and fall in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Always happy to have C. R. Moss on my blog. She's a wonderful author and fellow artist, and she's here today with her new release a contemporary erotic romance, with paranormal elements.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Blurb"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">About the Series </span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">Nestled within the hills of central Texas
is a special ranch. A place that defies the laws of physics—that of time,
space, and dimensions. It’s a place where normal morphs with the paranormal and
supernatural. A place that seems to know what a person’s true desires and needs
are, and then allows the right circumstances to occur to fulfill those wishes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">Welcome to the Gateway Ranch.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">Your gateway to all things possible…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">To Be His</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> by C.R. Moss</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">I’m Professor Arianna Perez, and I’ve been asked if I’ll ever trust,
let alone love, another man again. After dumping an abusive boyfriend, I
doubted I would. At least, that’s how I felt until fate had sexy wrangler,
Gavin Bishop, reappearing in my life in a way I never expected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">Against my better judgement, I fell hard for the cowboy, believing
everything he said, including how he wanted to treat me like a queen and keep
me safe. Little did I know, though, that the circumstances that brought us
together could also tear us apart…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">And possibly claim my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Now a peek into the story…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Excerpt
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">I put down the peas, filled him in on the call, how Chad had found
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">“So am I.” He put his arm around me and gave my shoulders a
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">His face drew near to mine as if leaning in for a kiss.
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">I didn’t like the pit forming in my stomach with the thought of
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">“Nope. The rest of my day and evening are open.”<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">“Good.” I yanked on his hand to bring him back down onto the
couch, and I planted my lips on his.<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">Gavin kissed me in return, but all too soon he pulled away. “Ari,
I’m not sure this is a good idea. I don’t want to be an emotional crutch, a
rebound guy, or a tool in some kind of revenge maneuver. If we’re going to be
together, I don’t want it to be in Chad’s shadow.”<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">Shifting and looking straight ahead, I sighed. “I understand, but
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on—” A knock at my front door interrupted my little speech. “<i>Mierda</i>.
Talk about bad timing.”<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">“I’ll go see who it is and get rid of them, if you want?”<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">“Please.”<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">I watched him walk across the room into the small foyer and open
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;">“I don’t know who the fuck you think you are, but you’re going to
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Uncovering and divulging <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an outlandish conspiracy will put a hard bump
into any journalist’s career, and Armin can only blame himself when he’s
dispatched from Frankfurt’s skyscrapers into the depths of rural France on the
unglamorous job of writing about a cobbing workshop. </h4>
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Natural building is messy, dirty and sweaty work, but it has
its consolations. For example, Van, the greying but undeniably hot master
cobber teaching the workshop. Sure, the man is a hopeless tree-hugger, with
embarrassing notions about ancient folklore and religions, but he’s still worth
a week-long fling, right?</h4>
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When Van is revealed in all his majesty and power as a long
forgotten forest god, however, the week-long fling might well become entangled
with eternity, on the edge between life, death, madness, and immortality.</h4>
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I can't wait for tomorrow, and the release of The Elder Man, a story that I have worked on for well over a year. It all began even longer ago, with this drawing I made of Danila Kovalev in January of 2018.</div>
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"Cernunnos (1)" </div>
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(model, Danila Kovalev)</div>
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It was a drawing of Cernunnos, god of the forest and keeper of the gates of the underworld in Gaulish mythology. This drawing was just an homage to the beauty and magic of the woods around my garden, but it slowly became so deeply rooted into my imagination that Cernunnos finally found his way into one of my notorious "short, light stories" and turned it into a wonderfully deep and textured tapestry of wild nature and ancient magic. Since then I made more drawings for this book, and they became part of the storytelling for me. I have gathered them here, and I hope they express some of the love and awe I feel for Van and his woods.<br />
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"Cernunnos (2)"</div>
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(model, Henry Ian Cusick) </div>
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Pencil drawing, digital color </div>
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© Katherine Wyvern </div>
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"The Great God Pan (1)"</div>
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(model, Henry Ian Cusick)</div>
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pencil drawing, digital effects</div>
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© Katherine Wyvern </div>
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"The Great God Pan (2)"</div>
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(model, Henry Ian Cusick)</div>
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Christians started messing with the old deities. And the Wiccans just made one
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His trees were always small trees. Healing trees. The willow, the elder, the
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carried the solar disk in his crown. His antlers and his strength are greatest
in the autumn, </span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a class="msocomanchor" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=652044006191377153#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1"></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">they are lost in
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Cernunnos are avatars of the fall, of the death of nature and its rebirth.
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Always a tremendous pleasure having my bestie Lea Bronsen over here with a new release. This one is an expanded edition of the story previously featured in the anthology Passion, Pleasure, Pain in 2019 where my own Hell's Mercy originally appeared.
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<i>Ex-boxer Mike Logan struggles to put a brutal past behind and make ends meet as a bus driver. When a young runaway settles for an all-night ride, he seizes the chance to do a good deed—get her home safely. But first, they’ll drive around and talk.
What he doesn’t anticipate is that this broken night angel is also a sexy little minx needing a lot more…and not just the gentle kind.</i>
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She gives me a long, languorous look. I think I know what it means: She’s interested by my wild side. Dark attracts dark. She believes she’s found the same kind of fallen angel as she is, a soul mate.
Wrong, kiddo. What you need is someone good, not broken like me.
She reaches over the table to pat my chest. “So hard. Jesus. You definitely work out.”
Her touch sends electric sparks to my groin. My cock pulses. I push her hand away. “Don’t do that.”
“Why?”
“It’s inappropriate.”
“Why?”
I sigh. “I’m thirty-two, you’re what?”
“Nineteen.”
“Nineteen, that’s very young. I could easily be accused of taking advantage of you. Did you see how the waitress treated me?”
She crosses her arms underneath her boobs. “But I’m an adult, and I have boyfriends.”
“You have boyfriends.”
“Yeah.”
“Like, many?”
“Yeah.” She holds my gaze.
I don’t know why I had to make a deal of that.
She continues, “So, it’s not like I’d let anybody touch me if I didn’t want them to.”
“Well, I don’t want you to touch me. Let’s go.”
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb";">Very glad to host the lovely C.R. Moss, who's a fellow artist and long-time friend, with her new release, To Be Yours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Katrina Foster has survived a life no one dreams about and most don’t want to know about. Escaping to a ranch in Texas she used to visit during the summers of her childhood and rekindling an old relationship with Dakota Remington, she hopes to leave the nightmare of her past behind her. At first, all seems well, but when strange things begin to happen, she wonders if history’s about to repeat itself.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Dakota Remington has devoted his life to working at Gateway Ranch. He’s excited when Kat, his former sweetheart, returns and looks forward to reuniting with her. He finds she’s changed, though, and he’s not sure if it’s for the better. But he’s up for the challenge of the puzzle that is Kat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* The hard composite of her firearm shifted against her lower back.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* <i>Well, if push comes to shove, I can protect myself. I’ll shoot the bastard if he shows up and tries anything.</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Eventually, her nerves calmed enough so she could move without feeling ill.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* She rose and stripped out of her clothes, put her weapon on the counter, then stepped into the shower. The hard and hot spray beat on her, helping her to feel something other than worry about potential rumors or her ex finding her. Kat bowed her head, placed her hands above the faucets. The water sluiced down her hair, cascaded in wide streams over her back. More time passed. Relaxed and clear headed, she finished her shower and was about to open the door when a thud and click sounded on the other side.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Gripping the towel wrapped around her body, she snatched her weapon, opened the door, and cautiously looked out into the room.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Dakota lounged on the bed, one leg bent, his hat propped on that leg’s knee. His hair stuck up in clumpy spikes. He ran a dirty hand through his dark brown locks.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Kat released a pent-up breath, lowered her weapon, and placed the Glock on a counter next to the bathroom door. “How’d you get in here?”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Tired eyes gazed at her. “I’m manager on duty while the Taggerts are away, ’member? Got a bunch of master keys.” Dak held up the ring of them. “You okay? When you didn’t come back, I got worried.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “I’m fine. I think the humidity got to me. Along with the dirt.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “Sure. The humidity. You tell me that you’re afraid a man is going to come after you, or rather us. We hear about the vehicle. You turn white as one of our ghosts and run off. Who was in the car, Kat?”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “Hell if I know. I’ve been with you all day. I didn’t see the fancy black car or who was in it.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “You don’t have a clue as to who was in the car? I’m not buying it.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “Buy it or don’t.” She crossed her arms over her stomach. “I really don’t know. It could have been Nero. It could have been his goons. It could have been a neighbor of yours or one of the party guests Kent mentioned. I. Wasn’t. There. I. Didn’t. See.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Dakota flung himself off the bed and slammed the hat on his head. “Get dressed. You’ll come with me while I get cleaned up then we’ll go hang out in the rec hall.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “You know what, Dak? I appreciate the <i>Boy Scout</i> approach, and how you’re trying to get a merit badge for babysitting, but all I want is to lie down and take a nap.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* “Kat, please. I’m hot, dirty, and tired. I don’t want to argue.” He strode to the door. “Get dressed so we can get going.” His gaze flashed darkly, roamed over her with an appraising glance. A slow grin tipped up the corner of his lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;"><a href="https://books2read.com/ToBeYours" target="_blank" title="https://books2read.com/ToBeYours"><u>https://books2read.com/ToBeYours</u></a></span></div>
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Nestled within the hills of central Texas is a special ranch. A place
that defies the laws of physics—that of time, space, and dimensions.
It’s a place where normal morphs with the paranormal and supernatural. A
place that seems to know what a person’s true desires and needs are,
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<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Welcome to the Gateway Ranch.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;">* Your gateway to all things possible…</span></div>
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An eccentric and eclectic writer, C.R. Moss pens stories for the
mainstream and erotic romance markets, giving readers a choice of sweet,
savory or spicy reads, usually within a sub-genre or two — paranormal,
sci-fi/fantasy, time travel, or western flare. She also has a passion
for penning dark fiction. Writing as Casey Moss, she delves into the
darker aspects of life in her work, sometimes basing the stories on
reality, sometimes on myth. No matter the path, her stories will take
you on a journey from the lighthearted paranormal to dark things
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<span style="font-family: "californian fb"; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/C-R-Moss/e/B002DBE49W" target="_blank" title="https://www.amazon.com/C-R-Moss/e/B002DBE49W"><u>Amazon Author Page</u></a> | <a href="https://caseymscorner.com/" target="_blank" title="https://caseymscorner.com/"><u>Blog/Website</u></a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/caseymscorner/" target="_blank" title="https://www.instagram.com/caseymscorner/"><u>Instagram</u></a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/CRMoss" target="_blank" title="https://twitter.com/CRMoss"><u>Twitter</u></a> | <a href="https://youtu.be/B37W6qxaSBc" target="_blank" title="https://youtu.be/B37W6qxaSBc"><u>YouTube: Book Trailer</u></a> | <a href="https://threeflamespublishing.com/series/" target="_blank" title="https://threeflamespublishing.com/series/"><u>More Gateway Ranch books</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-88689297198614297622020-02-11T06:00:00.000+01:002020-02-11T15:23:01.365+01:00New Release - Kai Tyler - Bound to Liberty<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "bodoni mt" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">by Kai Tyler (Kiru Taye)</span></div>
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As if life isn’t tough enough for James Coker, rejected
and nearly killed by family, he is also a closeted gay man in a country where
being gay is outlawed. So when the first man he's ever loved gets engaged to a
woman, James’s solution to heartbreak is to indulge in a holiday fling.</div>
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In contrast, Ethan Eze has had life relatively easy. Born
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Desire burns between them and soon blurs into devotion. But
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Bound to Liberty is a story about breaking free from
mental chains and living a life of boundless love.</div>
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Content Warning: homophobia, threat of forced outing,
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As a lover of
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When she couldn’t find those books, she decided to write the stories she wanted
to read. She writes sensual African stories as Kiru Taye and writes queer
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<i>Three-hundred years after the demise of Earth-that-Was, the
Galaxy’s central<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>government has banned
all artificially modified and enhanced humans. Only the remote planet of
Cydonia has finally dissociated itself from the ban. The wild revelries of the
Black Carnival in the Cydonian capital, Neu Venedig, have now taken an even
wilder turn…</i></div>
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On the fifth night of the Carnival, Lukan strolled out of
his high walled courtyard, twirling his walking cane in the air and humming
Johan Caspar Ferdinand Fischer’s “Praeludium VIII” to himself. He had been
playing it on the harpsichord again and again that afternoon, and its slippery,
silvery perfection still clung to his inner ear like a haunting voice.</div>
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He crossed a little bridge into a narrow calle, then turned
right into a slightly wider canal-side, lit by glowing fire-bulbs and the
shimmering reflections from the dark water. The place was quiet, and the music
hummed on in his head, undisturbed. Even at the height of the festivities, it
was almost deserted in this part of Neu Venedig. He had carefully chosen his
16th century palazzo to be well out of the raving crowds.</div>
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He skipped from flagstone to flagstone along the edge of the
canal, almost like a child, almost like a dancer, following the music that he
alone could hear. The long tails of his embroidered coat flapped behind him as
if charmed by the inaudible melody. His ghostly shadow flickered in and out of
existence as he passed streetlight after streetlight.</div>
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It was Carnival, and he was going to Hell. </div>
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The Praeludium in his head gave way to an altogether more
spirited Rigaudon, and he skipped faster, actually counting, two, three,
four—he skipped a larger flagstone—five, six seven. Eight, nine, heaven. </div>
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Hopscotch. A forgotten game, like the music was forgotten,
like the harpsichord was forgotten, ghosts of a dead world, long, long ago. But
he was alive, and he remembered. He had been alive a long time, far longer than
his looks suggested.</div>
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The night was cold, and he was as taut as a violin string,
ready to snap with ache and longing, and something else, too, a sort of mute
grief he didn’t want to acknowledge but that haunted him all the time, subtly
gnawing at him.</div>
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But he was going to Hell, so all would be fine tonight.
Soon, he would be all right, freed from that silent sorrow, and released into
flaming brilliance.........</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Release!!</i></h2>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> or at least, newly edited re-release</i></h4>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with this mouthwatering new cover by Jay Aheer</i></h3>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelve years after
Ivory first visited the Black Carnival, Neu Venedig has changed: wilder,
crazier, and even more surprising, this new Carnival has even old hands like
Lukan staring wide-eyed.</i></span></h3>
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I have bittersweet feelings about this story, which first
appeared in an anthology put together for the benefit of Doris O’Connor and her
family in the final days of her struggle with cancer. There will always be this
great sadness connected to it.</div>
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On the other hand, it was great fun to dive back into the world
of Cydonia, the Sci/fi series that started my published author career in 2011
(2011? Eight years ago? How did that happen?) with the release of Black
Carnival. </div>
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It’s a great pleasure to re-release the story, with a new
edit and this fabulous cover by Jay Aheer.</div>
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I am terrible at short stories, because my world building
addiction always brings me to write a bit more, and a bit more, and then the
short story becomes a full length novel. I thought it might be easier to write
a short story in a pre-existing universe, but, no even so, the world and the
characters still managed to do their own thing. Everything changed in the telling.
Neu Venedig is a wholly more interesting place now, and I am wondering if it is
not time to write a new full length instalment in this series… all this just to
say, that this story was a tremendous fun ride for me, quite the surprise, and
brings me full circle, in a certain sense, connecting my current Transgender
Romance theme, to my debut novel. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I
enjoyed writing it.</div>
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Blurb:</div>
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Wealthy, charismatic, influential and damn near immortal,
Lukan Løvensgård looks like natural Dom material, and in fact he has never, but
never submitted to anyone in his long life. But among all the bizarre and fantastic
people roaming the far planet of Cydonia, there is one who stole his old, cold
heart. </div>
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And her love comes at a price. Complete surrender. </div>
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With her impressive presence and unusual equipment, Helenay
is the hottest and trendiest professional Domme in Neu Venedig and she hardly
has the time to top for pleasure these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But she knows what her old friend Lukan needs, something he never
suspected. Release from power. </div>
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#transgendererotica #futanari </div>
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Excerpt:</div>
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He knew all her favorite toys by their sting, and the sound
they made when they met his flesh.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Helenay slapped the split strap of thick leather hard on his
buttocks and then down his thighs, in a neat crisscrossing pattern. She could
leave crisscross switch welts as neat as a corset’s lacing if she wanted. At
his knees, she stopped, and Lukan breathed deep. The sharp sting of the tawse
was pure fire, but it faded quickly enough. Still, his skin was now definitely
well primed for the real pain.</div>
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He breathed hard.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hell placed a hand between his buttocks and stroked the edge
of his butt plug again and again, sending it to stroke his prostate, over and
over, while at the same time, gently pulling on the cord that tied his cock and
balls. He groaned, feeling waves of pleasure and the afterglow of pain mingling
in his flesh and in his brain, addling him. Soon he would hardly know the
difference between the two. He groaned again, not knowing anymore if he had
come for the pain she could give, or the pleasure she so often withheld.
Sometimes she would give both. Perhaps he would beg for it today. </div>
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Yes, he would certainly beg if he had to. </div>
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“Turn,” she said, and he let go of the wall, gingerly,
because his knees were soft. Her tawse was still in her hand, and from one end
of it, on a thin silk cord, hung a long suede tassel. Not quite a flogger, but
a vicious enough little thing, when one was standing naked with a swollen glans
reaching out, begging to meet that deceptive velvet kiss. He took a deep breath
and then gave a sharp gasp when the first soft swish of the tassel hit his
engorged cock. The suede was neither rough nor stiff, but his stretched,
blood-filled skin exploded in pain at its kiss. The pain was so close on top of
the pleasure he had been savoring a moment earlier that he could not quite tell
them apart. The almost-gentle, almost-intolerable flogging went on and on,
perhaps for only a few seconds, but he was jolting back at each blow, crying
out, whimpering. When she stopped and palmed his balls again, he actually
screamed, although she did nothing, just held them.</div>
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“You are so full of it today,” whispered Hell, seriously. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“It”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was the
unbearable tension that mounted inside him between their encounters, as he knew
well. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Why?” she asked.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He shook his head wretchedly. “I don’t know. Help me. Help
me, please.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She sighed, and kissed his forehead for a long moment. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Moments like this, long or short, made his heart stop.
Neither he nor she were made for tenderness, really. And yet it materialized,
from time to time, out of the blue, unexpected, unexplained, often
unacknowledged. Half the time, they almost pretended that it hadn’t happened. A
secret they kept, even from themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</h2>
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<a href="https://www.evernightpublishing.com/hells-mercy-by-katherine-wyvern/">Get it for FREE at Evernight</a></h2>
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It will soon be for free on Amazon too, as soon as they can be induced to match the proper lower price... sorry, Amazon is great, but it does send us nuts sometimes! </h4>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-418979758296244812019-12-17T06:30:00.000+01:002019-12-17T06:30:10.784+01:00New Release - Lea Bronsen - Dark Brilliance<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Everything can be bought. Except love. </b>
<i>Kace Karrington is a wealthy, self-made investor with no qualms about steamrolling others to achieve his goals. He’s attracted to men, but picks up beautiful women, giving the cold, unfeeling world of Finance the appearance he’s successful...powerful. That is until he meets a smoking hot street punk eager to show him there’s more to life than making money.</i>
#Billionaire #Manlove #Gay #MM #Romance
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Available from</h2>
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<a href="https://books2read.com/u/bO6MAo">Books2Read</a> / <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082DNJ399">Amazon.com</a> / <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082DNJ399">Amazon.uk</a> / <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dirty-brilliance-lea-bronsen/1135405213">Barnes & Noble</a> / <a href="https://www.kobo.com/no/nb/ebook/dirty-brilliance">Kobo</a> / <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1490651770">iBooks</a> / <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/994533">Smashwords</a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Put the book on your to-read shelf on</b> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48850265-dirty-brilliance">Goodreads</a></div>
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<b>See photos that inspired me to write the book on</b> <a href="https://no.pinterest.com/leabronsen/dirty-brilliance/">Pinterest</a></div>
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<h2>
Excerpt</h2>
And then happens what happens to me once in a long while: he catches my attention. I mean really makes me stop and stare. I’m attracted to men, after all, and some can be surprisingly handsome. This specimen is a lot more so than one would imagine of a drug addict. Strong, symmetrical features and tanned skin make quite the tableau with full lips, an aquiline nose, and dark green, gold-flecked irises framed by thick eyelashes. Even unkempt blond hair and a three-day stubble look sexy on him.
This is the guy who calls himself my sister’s friend? He’s so easy on the eyes, he has to be more than a friend.
He scowls. “Do you always do that?”
“Do what?” I take in the rest of him. He’s my height, but much skinnier. Probably can’t afford to go to a gym and do weights three times a week like I do.
“Refuse to shake someone’s hand,” he replies, tone offended. His voice sounds light but mature. Warm, comfortable to the ear. “While your sister’s in there…fighting for her life.” Tears form in his eyes. So, their redness was due to him crying.
“Sorry, it’s the nerves.” I give him my hand.
“Yeah.” He accepts to shake it, but his wet glare tells me he’s not convinced.
Me? I’m so taken aback by his good looks and intense presence, I almost forget why I came out of the room.
Oh yeah. Coffee.
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<h2>
About the author</h2>
<a href="https://leabronsen.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/lea-bronsen.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-89232" height="150" src="https://leabronsen.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/lea-bronsen.jpg?w=150" width="150" /></a>
Lea Bronsen likes her reads hot, fast, and edgy, and strives to give her own stories the same intensity. After a deep dive on the unforgiving world of gangsters with her debut novel Wild Hearted, she divides her writing time between romantic suspenses, dark erotic romances, and crime thrillers.
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<b>Meet Lea Bronsen on</b><b> </b></div>
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<a href="http://leabronsen.com/">Website</a> / <a href="https://leabronsen.com/blog/">Blog</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wildhearted.author">Facebook</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaBronsen">Twitter</a> / <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lea-bronsen">BookBub</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/leabronsen/">Instagram</a> / <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6966248.Lea_Bronsen">Goodreads</a> / <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lea-Bronsen/e/B00BTFT8KS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1371801325&sr=8-1">Amazon</a></div>
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Best Transgender Romance </h2>
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and </h3>
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Best Transgender Book 2018-2019</h2>
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A Muse to Live For</h2>
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A Muse to Live For is the story of a Victorian painter and
the crossdressing male prostitute who becomes his muse and lover. As one of the
Rainbow Awards Honorable Mentions correctly points out, Gabriel/le is “not so
much trans as truly androgynous”. I thought this was truly central to this
character, who, at a time when coming out and transitioning were out of
question, must be pragmatic about his identity, and straddle the lines between common
sense, sexual fetish, artistic performance, and gender dysphoria as best they could.</div>
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This is my first serious attempt at historical fiction, and
oh boy, was it a steep learning curve! There was so much to research that at
times it was all I could do to write a paragraph in one day! I was delighted
when one reviewer commented “I googled this”, as they thought it might be
genuinely historical. There’s no higher praise for a fiction writer!</div>
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Part of the realistic feel comes perhaps from the locale of
the story. I was stubbornly set on avoiding the more usual historical romance
haunts. No ballrooms, no dukes and debutantes, no grand country houses. We have
a saying in Italy, "nothing grows from diamonds; flowers grow from manure".
Perhaps I am just more familiar with manure than diamonds, but given my
fascination for Pre-Raphaelite painters and their penchant for picking stunning
beautiful lower class women as models, muses and wives, it was natural that I
would gravitate towards the less glamorous districts and professions, and the often
harrowing life of the London poor. </div>
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In a story that is so much about the creation of art, the contrast
between the darkness of the setting and the purity of love and beauty found
within it has an almost painterly chiaroscuro effect that gives much more depth
and brilliance to the characters and their journey.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Muse-Live-Katherine-Wyvern-ebook/dp/B07NPXLQNH">A Muse to Live For on Amazon</a> </h2>
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Best Transgender Romance 2018 - 2019</h2>
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Spice & Vanilla</h2>
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Spice &Vanilla was originally conceived as a quick and hot Erotic Romance, but then the story got out of hand entirely and became a true emotional roller-coaster. The core of this novel is Lucie’s struggle for
acceptance after her first disastrous coming out. When I first started
researching M to F crossdressing and transition I was struck by how many heart-breaking
stories of coming out, rejection and purging popped up on forums and message
boards. Purging is a word often used to describe the heartrending destruction
of all female clothes and accessories from one’s closet (real and metaphorical), in an attempt to repress one’s gender queerness. It goes without saying that the material objects carry
more meaning than just “clothes”, “hats”, “lipstick”, "mascara". It’s a whole, real identity
that gets denied existence.</div>
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It’s a tremendously painful (and alas common, and recurrent)
experience for some people, in a world where gender issues are still very little understood by the majority of the
population, despite
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It takes I think an almost superhuman courage to collect the
pieces after such a rejection, and find the hope and determination to try,
again, and again, to find love and acceptance.</div>
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I wanted to explore this in detail, and other things. The
different nuances of crossdressing as a sexual fetish and crossdressing as an exploration
of a different and whole gender identity, for example. Two things that can
overlap, but are also distinct. Gender issues are a very intriguing and poignant way for a
writer to explore the depth and intricacy of the human psyche.</div>
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And I wanted to write about the collateral damage of an awkward coming out. After
all it’s pointless to deny that transition affects the lives of spouses and
families too, often very painfully. Compassion respect and understanding are things that must go both ways for love to survive.</div>
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I am more honored and happy than I can possibly express in words that both A Muse to Live For and Spice & Vanilla were voted Best Transgender Romance(s) of 2018-2019 at the Rainbow Awards.<br />
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I could never have dreamed of such a wonderful tie! Both these stories mean so much to me, especially Muse, and they happen to be subtly interconnected, so it's lovely to see them making their way in the world together!<br />
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Story-telling is a lonely occupation as a rule, but publishing a book is not, and in this occasion I'd like to mention and thank all the people who made this Award possible for me.<br />
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First of all, Sandra Bunino and Lynn Burke, who sponsored my Rainbow Awards entries at a time when I was fantastically broke.<br />
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Christine Klocek-Lim, the acquisition editor who decided these crazy, bittersweet, convoluted, obsessive stories were worth publishing.<br />
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Evernight Publishing, who gave a home to my books again and again.<br />
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Jay Aheer for the lovely cover art on all my recent releases. <br />
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My editor, Karyn White, who tirelessly fights with me over every story and somehow manages to make my more introverted characters <i>talk</i>, so that readers can get to know what's going on in their heads, something I tend to neglect!<br />
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All the friends and readers who took the time to comment and encourage me, and give me confidence in my writing, especially (in random order) Jessie Pinkham, Christine Potter, Katerina Ross, Sally Bend, Lea Bronsen and K. T. Vaughn.<br />
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And all the wonderful men and women who have inspired my stories and helped my characters come to life, in particular Tim Boyle, Paul Boche, Henry Ian Cusick, and my true muse and much missed friend, Danila Kovalev, without whose contribution A Muse to Live For would never have come to life. <br />
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Flog Me, Sir</h1>
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by Lynn Burke</h2>
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#MF #BDSM #Billionaire #Romance</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">BLURB</span></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He offers freedom. </span>
<span style="font-size: small;">She fears addiction. </span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Can Garret coax Lissa to submit to his desire to pleasure her through pain, or will it be her needs that bring him to his knees?</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">EXCERPT:</span></u></b></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My guest room door clicked open before I could
move, and I snapped my mouth shut from asking what the hell, when Lissa came
in, a bucket of cleaning supplies in hand. Similar black and white clothing
like the evening before covered her from neck to ugly black shoes.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
kept her head down, dirty-blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, her face free
of makeup.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
tracked her as she moved toward the bathroom, unaware I still lay in bed.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mrs.
Hummel ruled the Laurent estate, ruled the live-in staff who kept the mansion
running like a spotless timepiece—which also never missed a beat. She knew I
hadn’t yet been downstairs. She also knew my lazy ass liked to linger in bed
long after everyone else sat for breakfast.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
corner of my lip curled as I realized what Tillie girl was playing at. I eased
back against the headboard and grinned.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Good
morning.”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lissa
shrieked and spun, her gaze landing on my barely sheet-covered, sprawled body.
“Oh! Oh, God...I’m so sorry!” She scrambled toward the door.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“No,
it’s alright. You don’t have to run off,” I shot out with a chuckle, not ready
to let her escape.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lissa
paused, grasping the door handle, her gaze averted. “I didn’t know you were
here,” she said in a rush. “Mrs. Hummel had said to get started on your room.
I’d assumed she’d seen you, and—”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“It’s
alright,” I repeated, cutting her off.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
glanced over at me again, her face red, but she jerked her focus away just as
fast.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
sheet covered one of my legs, my groin, and lower abs, but nothing else.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I’m
afraid that Mrs. Hummel made a mistake,” she said, still clutching the door
handle.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Tillie
girl doesn’t make mistakes.” As I stated the truth, I zoned in on Lissa’s
stance—slightly stooped shoulders, bowed head, and lowered gaze.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Lissa.”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
turned her widened hazel eyes on my face as though understanding my command to
look at me by simply stating her name. I studied her until she shifted, and I
loved that she didn’t look away. Her pulse jumped in her neck, her lips
slightly parted as though trying to control her breathing.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Do
you wash the bathroom floors on your hands and knees?” I finally asked.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Her
brow furrowed. “That’s the only way to properly clean a floor.”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
grinned and nestled into the bed as though getting comfortable and ready to
enjoy the show. “Then by all means,” I said, motioning toward the bathroom,
“continue.”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
glanced toward the open door and back to me. “You want to watch—” Her mouth
snapped shut, her face burning a sudden luscious shade of red that spread down
her neck beneath the starched, white button-down hiding her small breasts.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Cat
got your tongue?” I couldn’t help but tease as she stared at me as though
trying to figure me out.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“You’re
joking with me,” she finally said, her brow furrowing deeper.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
took my time raking my gaze down over her straightened form, enjoying the hell
out of her display of spunk. I wanted to see more of it—and I wanted to mark
her pale skin until she melted beneath my hands and begged to follow me around
like a needy little pussy cat.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
dick wanted the same thing.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I’m
not,” I murmured, my smile gone, my focus returning to her face.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Her
breath caught as her attention dropped to the sheet tenting over my groin. She
yanked open my guest room door, disappearing in a clatter of cleaning supplies
jostling in the bucket she clutched.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lynn Burke is a full-time mother, voracious gardener, and scribbler of spicy romance stories. A country bumpkin turned Bay Stater, she enjoys her chowdah and Dunkin Donuts when not trying to escape the reality of city life.
As a voracious reader herself, Lynn appreciates all of her readers, and hopes she can take them on a journey with her writing</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-85795719512648032832019-10-08T06:00:00.000+02:002019-10-08T12:37:26.345+02:00New Release - Lea Bronsen - Carnivora<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I have fallen off the edge of the universe for a while, but here I am, back in business. I could not miss a chance to tell you about this book. Very very happy to have my beautiful and extra-smart bestie, Lea Bronsen, on my blog today, with her new, very dark creature. It's been several years in the making and it sounds <i>amazing </i>(and really scary). Read on!</span><br />
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Hi, and thank you for having me on your blog!
I’ve always been fascinated by dark psychological thrillers that mess with your mind and keep you on the edge of your seat. I toyed with the genre writing my debut novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Hearted-Lea-Bronsen-ebook/dp/B00BL09IGA">Wild Hearted,</a> but labeled it a crime drama. Its sequel, Carnivora, evolved over six years to become a full-blown hold-your-breath thriller that deals with grave issues such as kidnapping, child sex trafficking, and self-harm.
Telling five parallel stories with as many voices, it gives you the perspectives of a police informant, a hunted gangster, a mad avenger, an inconsolable girlfriend, and a psychotic kidnapper. I pull no punches weaving these stories, so be prepared for a dark, gritty, and graphic read – a little dirty on the erotic side – that I hope will play with your strings and stick with you for a long time.
Please note that this is part 1 of Carnivora and I am currently working on parts 2 and 3, so if those cliffhangers at the end are killing you, don’t despair. The continuation is right around the corner!
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<i>Fight evil with evil.</i>
<i>TOMOR</i><i>
Crime lord Tomor is serving a life sentence behind bars. Without warning, he’s abducted by mysterious men. A sick manhunt is on, with people around him dying like flies. He will need all his street flair and gangster skills to prevent his loved ones from ending up on the death list.</i>
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Luz grieves the loss of her lover while striving to take care of their baby. The last thing she needs is to fall for the new neighbor.</i>
<i>DAVID
A year after he betrayed his adoptive father and sent him to jail, David is slowly rebuilding his life. Then everything falls apart again: he learns that Tomor has escaped, and his police connections lead him to a child sex trafficking ring involving cold, powerful men.</i>
<i>The cops are in over their heads with “Project Carnivora” … Perhaps the only one who can help bust the pedophile predators is an equally vicious devil: Tomor, the country’s most hunted criminal.</i>
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“Time to change your bandage again,” the nurse mutters, voice cool, and pulls my orange-colored sleeve up to the elbow.
She unrolls the long strip of bandage from my wrist and tugs at one corner of the gauze plastered on my wound. It sticks as if glued to the freshly grown skin, and instead of removing the gauze carefully, she tears if off hard, discharging pain through my arm, wrist-to-shoulder.
I open my eyes and lift my head off the pillow. “What the fuck are ya doing, trying to reopen the wound or something?”
“Like you care.” She stops pulling and glares, gauze between her fingers. “I can see who you are inside. You’re playing tough, aren’t you, <i>bad guy</i>? But you can’t fool me.”
“Shut up.” I lay down again, huffing, and stare at the white ceiling above me with its rows of long neon lights.
“You’re a good man.”
I glance back. “I said, shut the fuck up.”
Her eyes shine. She rips off the remaining gauze, ignoring my grunt of pain, and throws it in a bin. “Look.”
No fuck.
“Look at it,” she insists, voice low and demanding.
No. I know what I’ve done, and I can imagine what it looks like. A six centimeter-long deep, reddish, scratched-up ridge along my artery. Layers of skin, fat, meat, and whatnot must be visible and sweating a pinkish liquid from the reborn pores. I don’t need to see it.
I guess the girl wants me to be so horrified, I’ll never attempt suicide again. That’s right. She wants to shock me into acceptance.
<i>You gotta be fucking kidding me, little thing.</i>
She shakes her head. “I don’t understand why they gave you the life sentence.”
“You mean they shoulda given me the chair?”
Instead of responding to my sarcasm, she pivots to look up at the clock and widens her eyes as if realizing she forgot an appointment. Face tense, she returns to her work, applies some cool, gel-like liquid on the wound, and bandages it with quick routine moves.
What’s up with her? In my three days in this woman’s company, I’ve noted the things that make her tick. Maybe she’s upset because I’m leaving the infirmary soon. Earlier, she said she didn’t know when I’d be ready to go back to my cell. She probably knows now, but doesn’t want to tell me.
The door opens. She jumps.
A uniformed guard pokes his head in, checks the small room, and exits.
She seems frozen in place, features tense. Staring ahead and taking deep breaths as if trying to regain composure.
I cock my head a little. “What’s going on? They gonna transfer me?”
She visibly swallows and fixes her gaze on some point on the wall.
I snicker. “Are you sad ‘cause I’m leaving?”
Ha, I can be so ugly, when the girl clearly likes me.
As she sits there avoiding me, I take the time to check out her tits, and drink in the amazing sight of their pressing against her green blouse with each breath. She doesn’t have a name tag. Come to think of it, none of the personnel do. Evidently, so the inmates can’t identify their ‘caretakers’, and should they by some miracle leave the premises, track them down.
I nod to her blouse. “What’s your name?”
She twists back to me, brows raised, before shaking her head. “I can’t tell you that.”
“C’mon, I’ll never see you again.” I grin, then add with an ironic snicker, teasing her, “They’ll never let me slash my wrists, or hang myself.”
She looks away and busies herself collecting the medical stuff, throwing a quick, almost invisible glance to the door. What the hell is making her so nervous?
Coldness fills my chest. Something’s up.
“Come on, Babe,” I coax with my most gentle, sensual voice, wanting to buy time. “Tell me your name.”
“Why?” she whispers, fidgeting with the roll of bandage.
“’Cause I want a name to your pretty face when I jack off in my cell.”
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Hearted-Lea-Bronsen-ebook/dp/B00BL09IGA">Wild Hearted</a></td></tr>
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Lea Bronsen likes her reads hot, fast, and edgy, and strives to give her own stories the same intensity. After a deep dive on the unforgiving world of gangsters with her debut novel Wild Hearted, she divides her writing time between romantic suspenses, dark erotic romances, and crime thrillers.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">By</span><a href="http://www.authorlynnburke.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lynn Burke<span style="background-color: black;"><span></span></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Release Date: September 3, 2019</span></h3>
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<b>#BDSM #Erotic #Romance #Billionaire #Series #HEA</b></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>As part of the British peerage, Jordan Graystone knows what it’s like to live in the public eye. Which is why he holds hard limits when it comes to scening with submissives—no kissing, no penetration. Both lead to unwanted emotions and women attempting to take more than he’s willing to give.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Entrusted with the care of raising her younger sister is a responsibility Natalie Perez doesn’t take lightly. She focuses solely on her troubled ward, putting aside her own desires even when confronted with the temptation Jordan promises—fulfilling her fantasies to be bound and worshipped upon an old church’s altar.</b></span></span></div>
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A flick of the lights flooded the room in brightness, and I blinked until he dimmed them enough I could glance around the church’s interior. It appeared the same as the first time I’d trespassed—dark and seductive, the excitement of the unknown heightening my pulse and breath.<br />
Jordan released my hand, and I clutched my arms around my middle as he flipped the switch on a lone electric candle in the front window.<br />
“To let others know the church is occupied,” he explained once he turned to find my brow furrowed in question. He took his time lighting candles around the room, and eventually flicked off the dimmed overhead lights and stood before me.<br />
A shudder rippled over me at the look in his eyes, a darker blue, like the sky at twilight, full of unknown, lurking shadows. He stared at my lips and tugged me close. I dropped my arms to my sides, unsure of what to do but trusting him to tell me.<br />
“We need to talk about a few things first, okay, love?”<br />
The pet name, the accent in his low tone, nearly buckled my knees. I managed a nod, swallowing against the dryness in my throat as I stared at his lips.<br />
“Do you have any experience in this lifestyle?”<br />
I shook my head.<br />
“Are you a virgin?”<br />
Heat flooded my cheeks, and even though I’d only experienced sex a handful of times, I’d never enjoyed it as the women in the eBooks Lily insisted I read. I shook my head once more, too embarrassed to admit the truth of my lackluster sex life.<br />
“Do you know what a safeword is?” he continued with the questioning, and my face heated even more at memories of the last book I’d devoured the evening before.<br />
“Like traffic lights?” I whispered.<br />
A twinkle lit in his eyes. “Yes. Tell me what each color means.”<br />
“Green means go.” I swallowed. “Yellow is slow down, I need to think. Red means stop.”<br />
He nodded. “You’re in control, Natalie. I will learn your body, your tells, but you decide what will or won’t happen tonight, okay, love?”<br />
He would learn my body…<br />
<i>God, yes.</i><br />
I nodded.<br />
“Tell me—” Jordan turned me to face the room, his hands on my waist as he pressed against my back, his chin on my shoulder “—what part of this room excites you the most?”<br />
Gulping, I glanced at the altar. “Everything,” I whispered rather than admit to the truth.<br />
“Instruments of pain?”<br />
The rack of items including a crop and flogger snagged my attention, but I wasn’t sure about pain other than the idea of his hand prints on my backside.<br />
“The cross?”<br />
I eyed the St. Andrew’s cross, flinching at the memory of a woman I’d read about being strapped to such a contraption, angry red marks across her thighs and lower back.<br />
“The bed?”<br />
Rings on the sturdy posts drew my focus, and I licked my lower lip.<br />
“The altar?”<br />
My breath caught, nipples aching as I studied the table meant for worshiping God and the ungodly images flashing in my head of being tied down—open and unable to move. Bound for a dominant’s pleasure—Jordan’s pleasure.<br />
“Mmm.” His hot breath caressed my ear. “You <i>do</i> want to be strapped down to the altar, don’t you?”<br />
I jerked my head in agreement, a million butterflies fluttering my stomach.<br />
Jordan steered me closer with his hands on my hips, stopping me right in front of the padded altar. Coils of rope sat atop it, and I gulped at the thought of abrasions on my wrists and ankles—not that I had any intention of fighting whatever he wished to do to me.<br />
“Tell me what you want, Natalie,” he said, his breath once again hot against my ear.<br />
Dare I? I hesitated, embarrassed to admit what I’d fantasized about. My gaze flitted to the bed once more and the lengths of black silk draped over the bed’s foot.<br />
“Answer me.”<br />
I jerked my focus back on the altar and flicked my tongue out to moisten my lips. “Bind me, Sir.”<br />
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Lynn Burke is a full time mother, voracious gardener, and scribbler of spicy romance stories. A country bumpkin turned Bay Stater, she enjoys her chowdah and Dunkin Donuts when not trying to escape the reality of city life.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-41219237215946301632019-06-28T19:41:00.001+02:002019-06-28T19:41:54.164+02:00New release - In Between - Lynn Burke<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Always happy to host fellow Evernight author and fiendish gardener Lynn Burke, today with her new mmf novel, In Beetwen!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Release Date: June 17, 2019</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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stepfather nearly ruins both his family name and business, Damien Fiorenza
becomes suspicious of everyone—except for his long-time partner, Ethan Lord. He
doesn’t trust people in authority, much less the woman who weasels her way into
his walled-up heart, alongside his lover of fifteen years.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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dislikes his empathic abilities, especially since they allow him to feel his
mother’s indifference toward him, her only son. Damien, however, has always
made Ethan feel needed, appreciated, and protected—but he can’t voice what
Ethan is desperate to hear. Falling for their new secretary is unexpected, but
she encourages and supports him in ways Damien won’t.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Bright’s father chose his secret family over her and her mother. Ever since,
she’s striven to be the best she can be, unable to stomach being second best.
Although an office romance is taboo, she can’t deny the passionate chemistry
among the three of them and finds herself drawn to both her bosses.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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deep secret from the past forces Damien to raise his defenses. Haunting
revelations tear everyone apart, dooming Shaylia to second best and Ethan to an
incomplete life. Wrought with insecurity and stubbornness, can they find the
courage to accept parts of their painful past in order to forge a path
together, toward a happily ever after?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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at Ethan as he asked me if I was okay, and knowing I stood on the brink of a
cliff, the bottom far from sight, I hesitated before nodding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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my waist tightened as he squeezed, his smile flooding my heart. He glanced over
my head—at Damien behind me—and I wondered at the silent communication between
them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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returned his focus to me, to my mouth and released one hand on my hip to slide
up to cradle the back of my head as Damien’s hand settled where his had vacated.
“Can I kiss you?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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touch singed through my capris, and I swallowed a rush of saliva as my heart
pounded in my ears. “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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at my need to hurry, to rise to my tiptoes to close the distance between us,
but couldn’t help myself. I’d missed him, his touch more than I’d thought. The
softness, the gentle caress of his lips lightened my head and nearly caved my
chest in with the depletion of anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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I belonged to Ethan raged through my body, heightening my already racing pulse.
I grabbed hold of his head and sank into him as he slid his tongue into my
mouth, weakening my knees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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of Damien against my back raced fire over my skin, pebbling every inch, exposed
and beneath clothing. A shift of my hips pressed my ass against his thighs, and
he groaned as his hard length rubbed against my lower back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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fire—lava rushed through my veins, and I shuddered, pulling away from Ethan’s
mouth, gasping for breath. “I-I’ve never done this before,” I somehow managed
to say before trembling took over my body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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things slow,” Ethan whispered, brushing my hair back from my face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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what you want,” Damien added, the heat of his breath lifting the hairs on my
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a moan as he sandwiched me fully between the two men, tempting all thought to
flutter from my mind. My head tipped back onto Damien’s shoulder as I fought to
slow my pulse, to catch my breath. He leaned in and kissed Ethan right beside
my face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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and my core liquefied as I stared at their hungry mouths, tongues, and teeth,
appearing in flashes as they devoured one another, grinding against me as
though I was a conduit between their bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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strength left me, and I sagged between their hardness, my pussy pulsing, thighs
squeezing to ease the ache in my clit. I bit my lip at Ethan’s moan, his
surrender to Damien’s hold on his hair and control of the kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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hadn’t come to their condo for sex, but hell if I could think of anything else
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</span>Evernight Publishing</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Release Date:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>June 11, 2019</span></b></span></span></div>
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BDSM, Contemporary, Romance, HEA</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What’s a person to do when they discover everything
they’ve believed is nothing but lies?</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I grew up wealthy, a
spoiled rich kid some would say, blessed with a natural athletic physique and
erotic good looks that could get me into the panties of just about any girl I
set my mind to.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I wanted … what I
wanted.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And that meant one
thing: the beautiful brunette from study hall—but she left me high and dry.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today, I have a heart
made of stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m angry, a professed
lifelong bachelor, and a sexual sadist.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My soul is a cold
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eight years later,
she’s back in my life and holding secrets that are ruthless, unforgiveable.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I want to punish her,
make her cry, watch her suffer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want
to hate her for what she’s done.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But I want my hands on
her.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All mine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I simply want … Ava
Montgomery.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I ached for him with such a depth that it was
a visceral kind of pain. I wanted his hands on me, touching me everywhere,
taking me to that place I’d fantasized about for years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Are you going to tear up my butt? Leave
bloody marks on my back? Ruin my nipples? Are you…” My voice faded into silence
as I stared at his focused expression that was so sure, so certain, his eyes
that sent shimmers down my spine, his body that made me cave with pleasure
every time it came near me. Heat flowed through my veins. “Yes. God, yes. I
want to know everything. I want you to…” </span></span></span></div>
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in my throat, his lips were on mine, crushing his mouth against me with a
scorching kiss that felt like he was ravenous. His hands twisted fiercely
through my hair, my body arching into him as he licked into me, purging deep,
kissing me for long minutes like he wanted me more than any one thing in his
existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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underneath my ear. “You wouldn’t happen to still have that blindfold by any
chance?”</span></span></span></div>
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collapsed into his chest, turning to soft liquid and ceding in submission.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Of course, I still had the blindfold. I’d
stared at it a dozen times. Fantasized about what it would feel like being
bound, in the dark, his hands on me, oblivious to his next move, and if all my
daydreams were a reality … or a fool’s paradise.</span></span></span></div>
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kisses across my neck.</span></span></span></div>
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the night ends, my marks will be all over you.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lacee
Hightower is an American writer and romance novelist, referring to her style as
contemporary romance with a nice big pinch of kink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex,
she describes herself as a foodie that can’t cook, a large lover of fashion and
shoes, and an enormous hopeless romantic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since she was old enough to know what the word meant, she loved the
whole concept of romance and happy endings. Even though she has always enjoyed
writing, life got in the way and she never really thought of pursuing it
seriously until she decided to write her first book after both her children
were grown in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now with a nice
glass of wine in hand, or not, she is learning to love bringing the characters
in her head to life on paper for those who enjoy peeking into another world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Almost a decade ago, Marcus Grimes
worked as a bodyguard to a man who didn’t deserve the woman he’d had. When she
finally left, Marcus vowed to eventually find her and make her his.</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
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indulging in a different partner every week but never really exploring beyond
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him a chance.</span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">After leaving an abusive relationship,
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playing with any Dom she sees fit without compromising herself or her emotions.</span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There is something familiar about him,
which should have stopped her, but instead spurs her on, and before she
realizes it, Marcus is not only opening her body to his exploration, he’s also
delving into her heart.</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">However, when their mutual past comes to
light and everything she’s fought for during the last eight years is
jeopardized, will she close herself off again or will she give love an
opportunity?</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Excerpt:</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marcus sipped at his soda,
wishing it were something stronger so his libido would subside. Who was he
kidding? Looking at her would get him aroused regardless of the amounts of
alcohol he drank. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">She was perfect. Everything he’d
ever fantasized about: luscious curves, ample bottom, tits which would fit his
hands, and a mouth made for sucking and screaming out his name. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gabi. Her last name was of no
consequence. Neither was her first name. Years ago, he’d known her as Abby.
What mattered was that when he made her his, he’d refer to her as “kitten”.
He’d called her it once, by accident. The term had come naturally. Back then,
she had been vulnerable, small, like an abandoned pet. Now, however, he stood
in the presence of a different type of cat. She was graceful, strong,
seductive. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, unlike cats, which
tended to be more snobbish when it came to choosing an owner, Gabi played with
just about everyone. She was a regular at the BDSM club where he’d found her.
One night, he’d see her getting a spanking, the next, a caning, and another
day, she was being whipped. There didn’t seem to be anything Gabi wouldn’t try,
except sticking with the same partner. She had a different Dom every weekend,
playing with them at a distance, never really giving in to the experience. He
knew why, and he was determined to change it. Starting tonight. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Currently, she was tied to the
Saint Andrew’s cross, and Master Eric was giving her a good flogging. The Dom
played her like an instrument, knowing exactly where to hit to make her skin
tingle but not bruise. Marcus scowled. When they played, he’d make sure to mark
her so every time she sat down, she would remember him and how her body had
yielded to her Dom’s touch. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marcus downed the last of his
drink and moved closer to the cross. It’d been close to eight years since he’d
last seen her. Eight years. He sometimes thought they had been wasted years,
but deep down, he knew they hadn’t. After what she’d gone through, she’d needed
the time to heal and become the person she was now. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">In all that time, he’d never
stopped wanting her. He’d been incapable of erasing her from his mind even after
he’d lost track of her whereabouts. And then, fate had thrown her in his path.
He’d finally decided to join the BDSM community in the city, and he’d found
her. Here of all places. In his city. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">One look at her and he’d made up
his mind. Gabi would be his. Permanently this time. He’d bided his time,
investigating her present, trying to find out more about who she was today.
Every weekend for the past month, he’d come to the club and watched her. He’d
leave with a hard-on and a desperate craving to claim her. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tonight would be different. Eric
was almost done, each stroke of the flogger turning into a caress until it came
to a full stop. Gabi shuddered and hung her head. Marcus stiffened. Was she
okay? Eric seemed to think the same because he hurried forward and whispered in
her ear. Gabi nodded. Eric chuckled. Giving her ass a light tap, he began to
undo the restraints. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marcus clenched his fists. Soon,
he’d be the only one spanking Gabi’s behind. He waited patiently for them to
finish. His heart hammered in his chest, and sweat gathered at his nape. He
hadn’t been so on edge in years. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally, Gabi became free and
turned around. Marcus’s breath caught. She wasn’t naked, but she didn’t need to
be to get his dick hardening. He focused on her mouth. Wide with plump lips.
How many times had he fantasized about having them around his dick? Fucking her
mouth. Marcus swallowed a groan. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Soon. </span></i></span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eric blocked his view, stepping
in front of Gabi to give her a hug. She smiled politely, but there was no
affection in her gaze. She was merely being civil. Marcus smirked. They
wouldn’t end their sessions with a friendly pat. Finally, Eric left. Before
Gabi could also leave, Marcus approached her. She saw him coming, her gaze
narrowing and her lips parting into a coquettish smirk. He couldn’t wait to
make it sincere. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Gabi?”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“That’s me. What can I call you,
handsome?”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Marcus will do for now.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">She pouted, feigning
disappointment. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Shame, I thought you were a
Dom.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marcus grinned. “I am.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“And you don’t want me to call
you Sir or Master? Do you prefer Daddy?” She ran her fingertips across his
forearm making goosebumps sprout on his flesh. Marcus pulled away. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“If the men you’ve been playing
with require you call them Sir after barely ten seconds of interaction, you’ve
been hanging around the wrong people.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">She shrugged, her gaze dipping
then just as quickly meeting his again. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“So, why are we having this
conversation, Marcus?”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I would like to play with you.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gabi quirked an eyebrow. “And you
don’t want me to call you ‘Sir’?”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Not yet.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Well, I’m done for today, so
maybe next time,”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">He grabbed her wrist. Her eyes
blazed.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Release me.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“In a minute, kitten.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Don’t call me that. I didn’t
give you the right.”</span></span></span></div>
<div class="bodya">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Forgive me,” Marcus apologized.
“You’re right.” He stepped into her personal space, forcing her to tilt her
head to look at him even though she wasn’t much shorter. “You have to
understand, Gabi, I don’t want to play with you right now. I want to get to
know you a bit before I make you kneel at my feet, open up that pretty little
mouth of yours and stuff it with my cock until you gag.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><br /> Always delighted to have the wonderful and talented Raven McAllan on my blog, today with a new regency release from Evernight Publishing.</span><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br /><br />Hi there, and thank you for inviting me onto your blog. <br /><br />I’m so excited to be able to tell you a little bit about my new release from Evernight Publishing, The Dom who said Please. <br /><br />As I’m sure you all know the lovely author Doris O’Connor lost her battle with cancer earlier this year. She was like a sister to me. My husband and I are honorary grandparents to her children, and we spoke every day. Even though we lived at opposite ends of the country we got together regularly. <br /><br />She always said she loved my Regencies more than anything else so I started writing this for her, when she went into hospital. Sadly she didn’t get to read the end, but I’d told her the plot and she approved. <br /><br />I hope it works for you as well. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Widow Eleanor Charter knows one thing. She does not want to marry again. <br />Especially not to someone forceful and dominant. <br />So why is Theo Moncur, the Earl of Glensmoor interested in her? <br />As far as she is concerned any man who considers himself dominant, whether he is or not, will play no part in her life. She will be in charge of her life. <br />Dominant Theo doesn’t have marriage on his mind. <br />Having given his mistress her congé, his growing attraction toward Eleanor makes him wonder if she would fill that place. <br />He sees something in her, that appeals. <br />The lady would be a perfect submissive—not that she agrees. <br />However the more he gets to know her, the more he understands she is the only lady for him. <br />Now all he has to do is persuade Eleanor to agree. <br /></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"> <br /><br />And a wee tease… <br /><br />“For you to trust me is indeed all the thanks I need from you. To be the first one to make love to you is something I never thought possible. To be the one who shows you those joys as well as the ones of dominance and submission makes me both proud and apprehensive I will not make it as pleasurable as it should be. You know it will hurt at first?” he asked her. <br /><br />“But then that pain will go and you will experience something so beautiful it will take your breath away. Our bodies will dance and mesh and become as one, until that special sensation, the climax will overtake both of us and we cry out in our completion.” <br /><br />And he hoped to hell he remembered to withdraw before his seed filled her. Somehow, Theo didn’t think she’d appreciate being with child. Not yet. <br /><br />The thought of Eleanor, her belly swollen with his child, sent a tingle of anticipation through him. <br /><br />One day, perhaps? His mind went into overdrive as he imagined that scenario. First, though, he had to let her become comfortable with him in all ways. Their future was much too important to rush things. Slow, steady and with them both happy would be his mantra from now on. <br /><br />Theo stood up with Eleanor still in his arms and swung her around in a circle. Her legs waved and she giggled. He went faster and she squawked. “Give over. You’ll make us both giddy.” <br /><br />He laughed. “I am giddy. Drunk with desire. Ready willing and hopefully able to do all we want.” He strode to the bed. “Are you too sore for me to drop you on your arse? Watch you bounce on the mattress and see your tits bobble and jiggle. Then desire you watch me strip. Come on top of you. Suckle you. Worship you. Take you.” His words aroused even him. “Be together as close as any man and woman ever can be.” <br /><br />She stared at him, her eyes bright, her skin flushed, and her breath coming out in tiny erotic pants. <br /><br />“Hell, woman, answer me, please,” Theo said, his voice rough with desire. “Or I’ll be so swollen I won’t get my trousers off over my cock without doing myself an injury. That would benefit neither of us.” <br /><br />Her eyes widened. “That would never do. Let me fall now, do the bounce and things you desire, and then you undress, as fast as you can.” <br /><br />“My pleasure.” He did as she requested, and in less than one minute, dropped naked down onto the bed next to her and looked at her as he considered his options. <br /><br />Eleanor returned his gaze. She bent her head and examined him with a thoroughness he admired. No coy or shyness there, thank goodness. <br /><br />“Do you like what you see?” <br /><br />She stared up at him. “What?” <br /><br />“My body. Does it interest you? Please you? Make you want to touch?’ <br /><br />She blushed. “Oh, yes.” <br /><br />“Then, please, my love, feel free to do what you desire.” He could wait to make her his. For a short while, anyway. Theo rolled onto his back, stroked his wet cock, and inclined his head before he put his hands behind his neck.” All ready and waiting.” <br /><br />As he expected, his actions stretched his body and his staff rose out of its bed of wiry hair and swayed as if in welcome. One drop of pre-cum coated its head, another slid down its length. <br /><br />Eleanor swallowed. “Oh, my.” She moved and tentatively put one finger then her hand on him. <br /><br />Theo bit back the exclamation he had been going to make, tamped own on his desire to show her how to move her hand over his, and stayed as he was. His prick was primed and ready to go. He didn’t want any accidents. <br /><br />“It is velvet-covered steel.” She sounded awed. “And.” One finger touched the tip where that pearled droplet quivered. “And this?” <br /><br />“Is the prelude to when I spill my seed. It shows how you excite me, how I want to be inside you. How ready I am. Makes me wet for ease of entry.” <br /><br /> “Then maybe you best show me how it works?” Her voice quavered and strengthened. “The wetness?” She blushed and cleared her throat. “I experience something similar. It is … argh…” <br /><br />Theo stroked the downy curls that hid her channel and slid one finger easily into her moist depths. She clutched his shoulder. “Th … e … o. What?” <br /><br />“This is the rest of the prelude. You can still use your safe words if need be.” He added another finger. This time, she sighed and gave a soft mewl of satisfaction. <br /><br />“Go, go and go, and please, I want more.” She tugged at his wrist. “I need you in me. Now,” she added forcefully. “Right now.” <br /><br />He grinned. “Domming now, are you?’ <br /><br />“Am I?” She giggled. “If knowing I need you in me so much that my skin is on fire and I’m shaking with anticipation, then yes.” <br /><br /> <br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;">Very happy to be hosting fellow Evernight author Katherine McIntyre with her new release, Hypnotizing Beat!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Danica
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of Discord's Desire in their time of need, Trevor Arceneaux wants nothing to do
with her. Except when their tour brings them to Sin City and they run into
Danica once more, he can’t get the leannan sidhe off his mind.<br />
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She’s in dire straits, hunted by the same man who enslaved Trevor for most of
his life. He doesn’t trust her for a heartbeat, but he also can’t turn away
someone in such a similar circumstance as his own. As their path leads them
closer to a confrontation against his former owner, Trevor's loathing for
Danica strips away until he finds himself falling for the tough, independent
woman. Danica betrayed them once, but as something real blossoms between them,
if she backstabs them this time, his trust will be shattered for good.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The moment he turned the corner,
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She sat at the bar wielding an
appletini like a weapon, and the trim black dress she wore clung to her lithe
form like it’d been painted on. The neon blue scarf around her neck and
matching heels fit her style to a T, accenting glossy chestnut locks pulled
into a chignon and sharp, inquisitive eyes that sliced like a knife. The
leannan sidhe’s pointed ears and elfin features were the only tip offs of her
fae heritage, since she could blend even without the glamour veil that kept
humans unaware of their kind. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The sight of Danica Maslanka
delivered a one-two punch to the stomach, the reminder of the smoking ruin way
things left off between them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trevor lifted the gin and tonic as
he approached. “So, let me guess, poisoned?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Her plum lips quirked in a pert
grin. When they’d first met, he’d found her stunning, but nothing painted
someone in shades of ugly like betrayal. “Like I’d be so classless to offer a
poisoned drink. I was looking for a way to chat one-on-one, and I figured if I
sent an email, you’d ignore it.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’d be right.” Trevor took a
seat beside her. He did trust that she hadn’t poisoned the drink—the woman
wasn’t a killer, she just possessed no ounce of moral fortitude. Like he
should’ve expected more from one of his kind. When Ky’s brother Larsen
Blackmore targeted the band, sending mercenaries after them six months ago,
Danica had showed up with a similar vendetta and they’d joined forces.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Until Ky got kidnapped and Danica
ditched. She had Larsen in her sights and nailing him to a cross meant more
than saving their lead singer. The last time they heard from her, she hung up
on Liz while Ky was the worst sort of screwed. Trevor’s blood heated all over
again, and he took a sip of the gin and tonic to cool his nerves. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He met her eyes, not betraying an
ounce of the bitterness. “What’s so important you needed to stalk me all the
way to Vegas. Not a close drive from San Fran.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Danica glanced away, her gaze
flickering to the columns behind the bar. “San Francisco and I are on the outs.
Besides, my staff has always been urging me to take a vacation, so I figured
now would be a fantastic time.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Bull. Shit. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Wouldn’t Los Angeles be better
real estate for your talents?” Trevor asked. If she wanted to play around, he’d
indulge. After all, whatever reason brought her to him couldn’t have been a
good one. “There’s more glitz than talent around here.” A leannan sidhe like
her fed from artists in the same way Ky and Renn siphoned energy from sex and
passion. He just leeched off of the crowds’ energy, so playing shows offered
the perfect medium.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And miss out on the chance to grab
a drink with legendary guitarist Trevor Arceneaux? Never.” She placed a hand to
her chest in mock surprise, the sarcasm fluid as a stream mid-storm. He had to
give her credit for thoroughness—he kept his last name off the internet, so she
must’ve gone an alternate route to obtain the information. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trevor took a sip from his drink,
the coolness gliding down his throat like relief. Not like he’d reached some
state of calm. If anything, Danica’s presence hotwired his emergency alarms to
constant alert. The woman didn’t act without motivation and ultimately placed
her agenda above all else. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How’s your sister doing?” he
asked. Two could tango along the knife’s edge. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Danica’s gaze sharpened, if
possible. The heartless woman had her weaknesses, no matter how she tried to
downplay or hide them. After all—she had never been the one with a personal
vendetta against Larsen. Everything she’d done was for the sake of her sister.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“She’d be better if she could get a
seat at one of your shows,” Danica responded, trilling sweet as a sparrow. “A
little birdie told me your show at the Joint tomorrow night is already sold out.
When did you boys go from garage band blues to Rolling Stones?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Avoidance of the highest order—that had been
Danica’s game from the moment they met her. Too bad for her he’d played the
game for as long as he could remember. Whatever roundabouts she took, he’d
follow, until he managed to suss out her motivations for tracking him here. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The bar’s set for sleazy in Vegas,
and that’s the reputation we’ve cultivated for ourselves.” Trevor took another
sip from his drink, the icy gin trickling down his throat. Not like the liquor
did anything to sate the thread of exhaustion pulling tighter in him each
passing day, ready to snap at any moment. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We’re being watched,” she
murmured, her lips barely moving. She placed her appletini on the bar.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The second night I’d stood cloaked outside Lockwood’s eastern wing, the need to be impulsive, something I’d never dealt with before, fought my better judgment. Regardless of my beta’s mental state, I had wanted to sneak into his room and allow him to have his way with me, claim me like my inner dragon longed for.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Take the bed,” he said and closed himself in the bathroom—with the bottle of whiskey.<br /><br />Eyeing his bed, I chewed on the inside of my lip. I glanced at the couch he’d vacated. It wasn’t nearly long or wide enough for his height and bulk.<br /><br />“Shit.” I heaved a sigh and crawled under his comforter, burying my face in one of the two pillows. Perfume a la Austin flared heat up through my body, and I closed my eyes as the devil on my shoulder insisted scratching an itch never hurt anyone.<br /><br />“The fuck it didn’t,” I muttered, punching the feather pillow and curling up on the bed’s edge, facing away from the bathroom door.<br /><br />The shower turned on, and I imagined Austin using that bar of soap I’d had all over my body running down the bumps and valleys of muscle lining his. Did he grow hard while washing his cock? His balls?<br /><br />I bit the inside of my lip, determined to keep my hands beneath his pillow.<br /><br />Did he stroke his length, head tipped back, while thinking about me in his bed? I knew he wanted me—the sexual tension between us could have electrified the entire compound for a goddamn week.<br /><br />A low groan snapped my eyelids open, and I held my breath, ears straining.<br /><br />“Fuck.” The low, drawn-out curse coming from the bathroom pebbled my skin.<br /><br />Did I imagine the fisting slaps of a hand wrapped around a cock? Did my ears deceive, allowing me to think one final muffled grunt shot cum from the swollen head of his dick?<br /><br />“<i>Damnit</i>.” I growled, my entire body like a live wire, ready to burn down my fucking life.<br /><br />The water shut off, and again, I held my breath, ears ringing for sounds of his movement. Water ran again, and I realized I hadn’t brushed my teeth—not that I had a spare toothbrush in my bag anyway.<br /><br />A quick exhale into my cupped hand revealed I wouldn’t knock out a dragon, but still.<br /><br /><i>What did I care?</i> I grumbled a bit more in my head, but the opening of the bathroom door stalled all thought.<br /><br />Austin moved into the room, and I listened as he opened a cabinet and shut it. Unable to help myself, I shifted onto my back.<br /><br />A towel slung low around his hips.<br /><br /><i>Goddamn, the muscles… </i><br /><br />My mouth flooded with drool, and I bit back a moan as he turned. Rippled abs snagged my focus. The sexy as fuck V of muscle disappearing beneath the towel turned my mouth’s drool factory on maximum.<br /><br />“Just going to grab my pillow,” he muttered, moving toward the bed, his low voice pebbling my skin again.<br /><br />“There’s plenty of room in the bed,” I heard myself say, hating the breathless tone that escaped—and how the final word cut short on a squeak as I lifted my gaze to his face.<br /><br />Quiet rang in my ears for a few heartbeats as we stared at one another, heat licking over my skin, flushing me from head to toe. The promise in his eyes of more than a mere fuck, in and out, thank you darlin’, sent a shudder through me.<br /><br />Austin wouldn’t be kind or gentle in the sack. He seemed the type that would tie a girl up, use her to satisfy his every whim, and leave her a spent and smiling from exhaustion. My mouth dried, nipples pebbled to painful points.<br /><br />“Couch is kind of small,” he said, tearing his gaze away first, his brow furrowing.<br /><br />I tried to swallow the dryness from my throat as the tension simmering between us intensified, crackling with energy enough the hairs on my arms rose.<br /><br />“You’re very alert and cautious,” I said, desperate to get my mind off fucking and how good every inch of him would feel pressing me down into his mattress.<br /><br />He grunted in agreement, hands fisting at his sides, but didn’t move otherwise.<br /><br />I remembered how his gaze had scanned the strip joint’s parking lot before we’d left, the glimpses he’d tossed from mirror to mirror as the miles had faded behind us, until I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer and had ended up with my head against his truck’s passenger window.<br /><br />“What made you that way?” I asked, needing to fill the silence, needing to end the sexually charged atmosphere choking me.<br /><br />“Long fucking story that’s none of your business.”<br /><br /><i>Grumpy much?</i> At least his abrupt words eased the unbearable ache between my thighs. “Is your name really Austin?”<br /><br />“Yes.”<br /><br />“What’s your last name?”<br /><br />He hesitated a moment before answering. “Butterbaugh.”<br /><br />The name didn’t match his badass biker sexiness one bit, and I found myself wanting to giggle. “Are you really from Texas?” I asked what Hannah had already told me.<br /><br />“Yes.”<br /><br />I nibbled on the inside of my lip again, unable to help from ogling his massive chest as he studied the apartment around us as though desperate to keep from looking at me in his bed. “What brought you to D.C.?”<br /><br />“Another long fucking story.”<br /><br />I frowned at his disinterest in elaborating. “Are you always this closed off?”<br /><br />“Are you always this nosey?”<br /><br />I huffed and considered turning away, but he dropped the goddamn towel and slid under the comforter before I could move.<br /><br />Blinking didn’t erase the image of his semi-hard cock hanging low between his thighs I’d caught a quick glimpse of. So much for the desert mouth. Drool flooded, and I swallowed. “You could at least put on some boxers,” I managed to croak as if I had zero desire to have his naked ass in bed with me.<br /><br />“I don’t wear underwear.”<br /><br /><i>Lovely.</i> The thought boiled my blood—and also pissed me the hell off. I didn’t want to be turned on by the mountain of a man whose care I’d been placed under. I didn’t want to be all wet, warm, and willing for his huge cock to plunder all three holes of my body.<br /><br /><i>Scratching the itch won’t hurt.</i> I scowled at the ceiling at the devil’s voice in my ear.<br /><br />“Close your eyes and sleep, Cadence. You’re safe.”<br /><br /><i>Safe</i>. I held in my snort. Perhaps safe from the senator for the time being, but certainly not from my libido.<br /><br /> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-27459530269908199532019-05-14T17:52:00.001+02:002019-05-14T17:52:52.828+02:00New Release - Through Roscoe's Eyes - Kory Steed<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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continue his mother’s mission to feed the homeless, he never anticipated how
much a chance encounter with an injured man, his small, gaunt dog, Roscoe, and
sick, young cat, Cinders, would change the course of his life. With a winter
storm approaching, Reggie makes a snap decision and brings the wary trio to his
estate home to be cared for and nursed back to health.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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is Calvin, he was a quartermaster in the army, and he was dishonorably
discharged prior to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Taking pity on the
man and in need of someone to help him run his mother’s foundation, Reggie
offers Calvin a job. With few prospects in sight to find shelter for his small
family during the peak of winter, Calvin reluctantly accepts Reggie’s offer on
a trial basis, but it is only one of many trials both men will face.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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and Calvin had buried deep inside begin to fan the nearly extinguished embers
of passion in both men. With Calvin drawing emotional support from Roscoe and
Cinders, and Reggie discovering an ally in his beloved housekeeper, both men
explore their newfound attraction, edging them toward the precipice of an
ecstasy neither could have imagined. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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connection between the two men’s families be enough to bring them together? Or
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reggie nodded and smiled as he closed the
door behind them and then led Calvin to the foot of his bed. Placing both of
his hands behind Calvin’s neck, he pulled him in and tenderly kissed his mouth.
His hands slid down until he reached the top of Calvin’s shirt. He drew the
shirttails from his pants and began to unbutton it.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“You’ll go slow, right?” Calvin asked as
he pulled away, breaking the kiss.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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to push this. We can just talk if you like.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Calvin’s eyes began to twinkle. “Hell no,”
he said, seductively. “The time fer talkin’s over. I want the full treatment.” Then
his face turned impish. “If you please, sir.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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don’t have any difficulty making your wishes known.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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I said it, ‘coz, well, you know, I ain’t had it in a while.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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“It’s been a while for me as well, but you have had sex before, anal sex I
mean, right?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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couple o’ years. Things likely t’ have un-stretched if’n ya know what I means.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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Reggie’s shirt, but Reggie stopped him when he cupped his chin with his right
hand and drew him toward him by the shoulder with his left. Calvin’s arms fell
to his sides as a moan escaped his mouth when Reggie ran his tongue up his neck
and ended behind his ear.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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taste even better, but there’s something I’ve wanted to taste even more for
days now.” Reggie dropped to his knees and frantically yanked at Calvin’s belt.
He undid the top button, and slid down the fly of his pants, then pulled them
to the floor in one fell swoop. Immediately his mouth was upon the thick,
seven-inch, hard shaft, drawing it into his mouth through the boxers’ fabric.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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grasped Reggie’s head, steadying himself. “You’re gonna make me buckle over if’n
you keep that up.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Mmm,” Reggie moaned.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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through the boxers’ fly and sucked down the liquid-gold pre-cum oozing from the
tip, Calvin grunted. “Damn, boy, you know what to do with a mouth!”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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to bob his head up and down, sucking extra hard as his lips passed over the
head’s flange. He drew the shaft in further until his face bounced off Calvin’s
belly when it reached the back of his throat.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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closer and closer to the edge of orgasm as his prostate began to shudder. “No,
Reggie! Wait! Please slow down.” He began to pant. “I want the first … first
time I come … come with you to be … to be with you inside me.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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moaned between breaths, not slowing down in the least.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Reggie!” Calvin cried out as he stumbled forward.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As he fell toward the floor, Reggie’s grip
was broken as Calvin caught himself against the footboard of the bed. “Damn,
boy, I nearly came. You got yourself one hell of an appetite there!”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“And then some,” Reggie said, with a leer.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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hands out in front of him. “Please, can we slow this down a smidge? We got all
night.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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in his voice. “And I’m planning to dine on you several times before morning.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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shower, or a bath first?”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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slippery.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“This here’s a different side of you I ain’t
never seen, fer sure. I think I like it, Reggie, but it’s gonna take some
gettin’ used t’.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Sorry,” Reggie said anxiously. “I’m just
so worked up right now. I can’t believe this is really happening, not to me,
not now, and I don’t want it to slip by.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Calvin caressed Reggie’s face. “Me
neither.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I was so sure I wasn’t going to let it
happen. I was determined to not allow my desire for you to ruin the friendship
that began to develop between us. And besides, you’re my employee.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Calvin leaned forward and reached out to
caress Reggie’s face. “I ain’t makin’ light of it, but I sure am glad you
decided otherwise, ‘coz I’m gonna need help with this,” he said as he gazed
into Reggie’s eyes and drew his hand to his pulsating shaft. Then he lowered
his eyes to Reggie’s groin. “And I think you’re gonna need help, too.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Calvin pushed Reggie back up and rose to
his knees as he began to unfasten Reggie’s pants. As the belt came free, and
Reggie helped to shimmy them and his briefs down, his eight inches of manhood
sprang free. It was so thick, Calvin’s fingertips barely met when he wrapped
his hand around it. So engorged with blood, its purpled veins contorted and
seethed, begging for release, as the shaft swelled and bounced with each
heartbeat.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reggie moaned as Calvin caressed its
length with his fingertips. “There’s only one thing that will relieve it,
Calvin.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I know.” Calvin answered as he licked his
lips and leaned forward. “And I’m gonna help you out with that right now, as
best I can.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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swollen, purpled head, Calvin began to suck greedily, drawing in the briny
nectar that oozed through the slit at the tip. He licked his thumb and index
finger and formed them into a ring, then wrapped them around the sensitive spot
behind the ridge, extending the pressure his lips exerted and gently milked
back and forth across the sensitive glans. As saliva slid down the shaft, it
lubricated his grip even more, sending shivers up Reggie’s spine.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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just like that. Yeah, baby, just like that!”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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in response. “Gawd, it’s been so long … so damn long.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reggie began to slowly thrust his hips
forward, advancing his cock until it pushed through Calvin’s stretched lips. He
continued to thrust until it reached the back of Calvin’s mouth, nearly
dislocating his jaw with its girth. Calvin gagged and his eyes watered, but he
pressed on and swallowed as the head passed his tonsils, drawing the tip down
his throat. Reggie shuddered as pleasure waves spread from his loins and out
through his body when the thickened saliva that formed at the back of Calvin’s
throat slicked the path his cock followed. “Baby, you’re bringing me close. You’re
going to make me come.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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left his throat. “Ain’t that the idea?” he said after wiping his mouth with the
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-79888037609313066932019-04-25T18:05:00.001+02:002019-04-25T18:05:12.634+02:00#evernighties Favourite Romance Genre to read or write<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh, this will be a short post.<br />
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None.<br />
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Ok, I could just leave it at that, honestly. I really don't have a favorite genre, really, although there are certainly whole genres, sub-genres and trends that don't interest me at all. For example I don't have much interest in shifter stories or Rubenesque heroines, and none at all in firemen, military men, cowboys, millionaires, billionaires, sheiks, bikers, sportmen, assorted criminals, and most of all Mafia bosses.<br />
If you had grown up in Italy, you'd know why. These are the <i>real </i>monsters, and are not sexy.<br />
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I do enjoy to write and read fantasy, a certain unconventional flavor of paranormal, contemporary and sci/fi stories, with or without a sprinkle of BDSM thrown in for spice. Mostly I like original stories with a truly good voice and unusual but relatable characters.<br />
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So, hit me with your best recommendations! <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652044006191377153.post-60058899134567064912019-04-19T17:16:00.000+02:002019-04-19T17:16:57.414+02:00New Release - Nothing Else Matters - Peri Elizabeth Scott<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span lang="EN-US">Claire and Liam had a good thing <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">going</span> until he walks out of her life. Being
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another city and immerses herself in work, the better to forget Liam. Not that
it’s working. Claire is a <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">one-man wo</span>man,
to her despair.</span></span></div>
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she used her phone to arrange an Uber. Small groups with youthful faces,
couples, <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">and</span> the occasional single individual
moved along, their destinations unknown but likely the restaurants that crowded
downtown, or maybe a club later on after dusk fell. The camaraderie left her
cold, <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">and</span> with some desperation to
escape, she scanned the curb for her lift.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span lang="EN-US">Maybe she was indeed crazy, choosing
to cut herself off from everyone, cutting ties with her old life, all to forget
Liam. Because, newsflash, it wasn’t working. She was like one of those
historical romance novel heroines who languished and withered into old age
after losing a beau. Whatever empty spaces that opened up in her head, past all
her attempts to fill them, Liam snuck in. </span></span></div>
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messages, trying to shut out the people and noise around her that were
reminders of a different life. There weren’t many on the phone. She had no one
local to give the number to, outside of work, sad commentary. She was more like
one half of those werewolf or vampire couples who wasted away without their
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responded to <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">vms</span>. Assuming <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">u r</span> busy but u should know Liam is looking for
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back end blocking traffic and already, impatient drivers were honking. But her
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considered the burnished skin and a <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">leaner</span>
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The newest prompt in the #evernighties blog challenge is "Family, friends and pets that I wrote into my books".<br />
Oh, this could be a long post, so I'll skip family and friends altogether and just talk about pets, which are family and friends too, in any case! <br />
I love animals, and my pets pop all over my writing!<br />
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My Haflinger mare, Kaylee, is a central character in my short story "Headshy", and her journey from mistreatment to trust and confidence is both her true story and very much part of the story arc of the book. She also made another cameo appearance in "Spellbreakers"!<br />
Kaylee is living proof of "little people" power. She's a small horse, not fast, and not inclined to play tricks. But she proved to be a wonderful work-horse, and almost bombproof on the road, keeping her wits about her in situations where flashier horses would have exploded like fireworks.<br />
We walked 5000 km together from 2009 to 2011, on all sorts of paths and roads, from Germany to Brittany to Catalonia, and then back to France. This long foot trip was part of the inspiration for Spellbreakers. <br />
She's happily retired in a pasture just outside my garden now, with a ridiculous Shetland pony called Boomer for company. <br />
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Then there is Jade, the hell-hound. So called because he's impressive, large and black. In fact he's the most embarrassingly gentle, friendly and sweet dog that you will ever meet. He's been known to turn absolute cat-people into piles of pooch-cuddling mush. Jade appeared as Amber in Spellbreakers. And he pops up also in the story I am currently writing, The Elder Man, as himself. <br />
Although Jade is a basically a four-legged clown, there is from time to time a touch of the supernatural about him... and that always comes out in my stories, where he always has something magical about him.<br />
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Of course there is Muffin.<br />
Muffin was my adored white cat, who died in 2016. She was my "Little Doctor", and many other things. I think she held my world together and everything came apart somewhat since she passed away.<br />
In my whole life, only one other death affected me more than hers. 😭<br />
Muffin appears as herself in Spice & Vanilla. I truly wanted to write her in a story where she still was alive, and doing her healing work.<br />
Muffin always looked a bit grumpy... but she wasn't. <br />
There are also three more family cats in that book, Jonesy, Ebola (as Plague... yes, don't ask me about the name), and Tamburino as Tambourine.<br />
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And there is Luna, my "lemur cat"!<br />
She is the newest addition to my menagerie, with her brother Lumos. Because of her face-markings and her propensity for tree-climbing, we decided that her father (identity unknown) might have been a ring-tailed lemur escaped from the reserve zoologique of Salviac, not far from us!<br />
And that's how I had the idea of writing a ring-tailed lemur (two actually), in In the Eye of the Wind. Luna's pet name is Puny Loony, and the lemurs in the book are called Puna and Luna.<br />
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Even my ducks made it into my stories... in Spice & Vanilla (just as a small flash-back), and in The Elder Man, my current WIP. Here it is my Cayuga ducks, specifically. Cayugas are beautiful ducks with the loveliest iridescent black feathers, and in this story they appear with the collective pet name they have here in real life, the Paphoonies. If you want to know how that name came about you will have to read the story...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cloaking myself and following Ashley into the nondescript door at the end of the hallway came easy. Slipping through what appeared to a main entrance rather than a locker room of sorts she had entered proved a bit more difficult as a receptionist’s desk and bouncer flanked the double doors.<br /><br />I glanced around the reception area, fully present, yet visually, nothing more than a bend of light to the two in the room with me. Gray walls. Glass desk. Abstract art on the walls and two other doors besides the one Ashley had disappeared through—boring and not giving me a hint of what lay beyond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />A holding room with another set of double doors that couldn’t muffle or contain the patrons’ arousal. Still nothing more than a flicker in a person’s peripheral vision, I pushed one of the doors open enough to slip through.<br /><br />I stepped over a threshold leading to a sinner’s delight. Musk, sweetness, and the scent of anxious perspiration swept over me. Humans … dozens of them in all sorts of dress and lack thereof mingled in the huge lounge area. Dim lights. Low music. Leather seating and a bar lay on my left, a dais beyond held a St. Andrew’s Cross with a woman moaning beneath a Dom’s ministrations.<br /><br />Chains clanked from a man strung to the ceiling directly on my right. Groans rose from two men getting their cocks sucked by kneeling submissives as they lounged by the bar on my left.<br /><br />My gaze returned to the cross and the woman strapped to it.<br /><br />How many times had I allowed Elijah to do the same to me? How many times had he forced me to climax before shoving his cock so far up my ass I lost my breath?<br /><br />My dick swelled in my jeans, but it wasn’t the actions of the Dom that turned me on. It was the thought of being on the receiving end of his flogger—the one receiving the type of pleasure found in pain.<br /><br /><i>Please.</i><br /><br />My dragon’s whimper to play hit me hard, the fact I wanted to be the one submitting rather than dominating even harder. “Alpha,” I muttered aloud, reminding us both of our dominance as a blood born dragon from the royal line.<br /><br />I’d caught a hint of Ashley’s scent while following her down the hallway into the sex club, but the overwhelming perfumes of human and sex masked her—if she’d even made her way into the lounge area.<br /><br />My female … found delight in a sex club. I couldn’t have asked for more. Couldn’t have been more pleased—so why didn’t my inner dragon hiss his desire to tie her up? Stripe her ass in the way Elijah had mine countless times? Why did I want to pleasure her with gentleness—loving tenderness?<br /><br />A fierce frown dented my brow as I licked my lips, hoping for a taste of Ashley’s sweetness in the air.<br /><br />Cries of ecstasy jerked my head to the left … the lounge’s far corner. A dark-haired man fingered a woman through her climax, her cum slipping around his hand, dripping to the floor.<br /><br />Her scent slammed into me with a wave, and my dragon growled a rumble deep in my chest to taste. To claim.<br /><br /><i>My female.</i><br /><br />Pale, shapely legs led to her rounded ass the man now caressed, and my need to taste leaped to fierce protectiveness in a single heartbeat.<br /><br />No longer cloaked, I strode across the room, darkness seizing my mind, my self-control, something that hadn’t happened in over a hundred years.<br /><br /><i>He’s touching her. Mine.</i><br /><br />My dragon hellbent on ripping the man’s arms from his torso, I stalked forward, eating up the distance between us in a matter of seconds, my claws shimmering in and out of sight.<br /><br />The width of his shoulders came close to mine, but the breadth of his chest didn’t compare. An easy to defeat opponent, my dragon shrieked, clawing at my brain as I pulled all attempts to shift deep inside me where he couldn’t explode into a mass of muscle, sinew, and scales.<br /><br />I grabbed the man’s shoulder and spun him toward me, my other fist shooting out, connecting with his nose before he had a chance to blink.<br /><br />Green eyes. Brilliant like spring grass—<br /><br />My dragon shrieked again as he grabbed hold of my upper arms to keep from falling. Electrical charges raced up through my chest, catching my breath as we stared into each other’s eyes.<br /><br /><i>Mate.</i><br /><br />Dick immediately swollen—leaking at his touch—I hesitated a mere blink, my desire to drop to my knees and worship him shattering all I had hoped for my future.<br /><br />His punch landed on my side with enough pain my stubbornness rose with a flap of dragon wings, and growling with the need to kill, the need to fuck, goddamn need—I clocked him on the side of the side of the head. He held tight to me, yanking me down as he fell like a bag of bricks, stunned but not knocked out.<br /><br />I landed on top of him with a groan, my aching dick pressed against his, a wave of desire slamming into me. “Fuck. Me,” I gasped the words, blinking once more.<br /><br />A cocky grin wobbled his lips, and he shifted his hips beneath me, pressing his own hard-on against mine. “I’m usually the one in charge, but that’s one command I would love to obey.”<br /><br />His low voice slithered over my skin, waking goosebumps in its path, like a physical caress, and I froze.<br /><br />My mate, my beta … a goddamn, fucking Dom.<br /><br />© Lynn Burke 2018<br /></span><br />
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