You know how you hear those stories about once abused kids
growing up and overcoming the difficult life they have been dealt and becoming
majorly successful like FBI agents or lawyers or something cool like that and
never having any lingering problems?
Well this isn't one of those stories.
I used to know how my life as going to be, how I was going
to live out my lifeless days, unloved and fearful. Hopeless to the possibility
that life, my life could be anything better than what it is now. I knew that I
would either give up, or give in, either one would eventually being the end of
me and I didn't think that was so bad. I would no longer be constantly reminded
that I was shit, and would be shit no matter how hard I tried in life. I
thought it was all easier to just slip away.
But that was before....
by Jeri Williams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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Excerpt:
His breathing.
My heart.
His breathing.
My heart.
I tried to step back
again, and found myself up against the side of the building, the coldness of it
hitting my back. Dammit!
"Harley,"
he moved his thumb and caressed my bottom lip. His eyes fell to my mouth and he
licked his lips, and that was it. I got goose bumps all over, as I flattened my
back against the wall I looked into his eyes, now a gun metal color and watched
as he searched my face. He shouldn't be allowed to look at a woman like this.
"What are you
hiding?" Those words caused my slamming heart to stop. How could he know I
was hiding, when not even Ember knew? I was trying to tell myself he didn’t, it
was just a ploy for someone like him to get what he wanted. But deep down, I
knew he knew.
"I...I...I
don't know what..."
He took a deep
breath and closed the already small gap between our bodies. I put my hands up
to stop him, and came into contact with his rock hard abdomen. Shit, those
couldn’t be real. I wanted to move my hand further and feel what I knew would
be a six pack, if not eight. That was the wrong thing to touch if I wanted to
stop him.
"Just a
taste..." His grip on my face tightened slightly as he pulled me toward
his lips, the heat coming off him felt amazing, it instantly made my vaginal
walls tighten and moisture to dampen my panties. I had been waiting 23 years
for this kiss, to feel lips on mine. I
moved my hands to his side and gripped the sides of his shirt blazingly pulling
him closer, I wanted this, I didn’t care that he was a stranger, a customer and
that I didn’t even know his name. I. Was. Ready.
He must have taken
my actions as a go-ahead and he slowly leaned down bringing our mouths closer.
I closed my eyes because that’s what they did in all my books and waited for
his lips to touch mine.
"Harley, is
that you?" A voice I knew and hated
right now called out.
Seriously?! Great
fucking timing Ember. I heard him make the sexiest noise I have ever heard as
he braced his hand against the wall and leaned down, his lips brushing my ear.
“I smell you. Fuck,
you smell amazing.” His voice came out leathery.
If I wasn’t leaning
against a wall, I would have fainted epically right there. I was one hundred
and thirty-five percent sure he wasn’t talking about my deodorant and it made
my panties moisten more.
Jeri
Williams lives a super fabulous lifestyle (by fabulous, she mean’s kinda lame)
in the hot Florida sun and loves reading of any kind (except instruction
manuals and cereal boxes). She has always written stories and made her family
listen to them since she was young, although this is her first book she has
ever published. She is a mom of an up-and-coming Jerry Seinfeld (in girl form)
and also enjoys being right and knowing everything, although she is hardly ever
right and really doesn't know anything and is obsessed with inventing miniature
zoo animals you can carry around in your pocket (although not really).
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