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EXCERPT:
Elise grabbed the triangle and began racking the balls, putting
them in their proper place. She grabbed the one ball and put it at the apex
when Rachel walked over and leaned against the side of the pool table.
“Are you having a good time?” her friend asked.
“Yeah. I’m glad you asked me to come. I totally kicked Luke’s
ass.”
Rachel smiled, but it was hesitant.
Elise stopped what she was doing. “What’s wrong?”
Rachel stood up straight. “I think we’re going to take off.
I don’t feel well. Shelly and Joe are leaving, too. Shelly’s tired, and she wants
to go home and put her swollen feet up.”
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah,” Rachel said, putting her hand over her stomach. “I
think it was something I ate.”
Elise narrowed her eyes and studied her friend. “Liar. You
just want to go home and get laid.”
Rachel blushed. “Guilty. I haven’t seen Sean for a week.” She
stuck her bottom lip out.
Elise laughed. “I understand. Go have fun with your man.”
Rachel looked around the room, as if she was calculating the
situation.
“What is it?” Elise asked.
“Nothing.”
“Rachel, just spit it out. What’s wrong?”
“I don’t want to leave you here with Luke.”
Elise shook her head. “I’ll be fine. We’re having fun. I’m
not ready to go home yet.”
Her friend looked over her shoulder to where Luke stood at
the bar, talking to Sean. They seemed to be having a serious conversation. She
looked back at Elise. “I just want you to be careful.”
Elise tilted her head. “How do you mean?”
“It’s been over six months since you and Jason broke up. I
don’t want to see you get hurt again.”
Elise shook her head in confusion. “I still don’t get it.
Why would I get hurt?”
Rachel sighed. “Just don’t sleep with Luke, okay? He’s grown
up quite a bit, but he’s still Luke. I’ve never seen him get serious with
anyone, and I don’t want your heart to get broken.”
Elise threw her head back and laughed. “We are just playing
pool. Nothing’s going to happen.”
Rachel didn’t laugh. “I know you haven’t slept with anyone
since before you and Jason broke up.” She leaned in close and lowered her voice.
“And I know how horny you get when you’ve been drinking. I also know that sex
with Jason was mediocre, at best, so you’re probably really jonesing for sex
now. And let’s face it; we both know that Luke probably fucks like a rock star.”
Elise laughed again and shook her head. “Trust me, Rach, you
have nothing to worry about. I am never going to sleep with Luke Long.”
The next morning,
Elise woke, flat on her stomach, disoriented, with a piercing headache that
only came from a hangover. While she’d been living with her parents for about a
month now, she’d often still wake up in confusion from forgetting where she was
at first. It’d sometimes take her a minute to realize she wasn’t in her house
in Denver anymore. She opened one eye to check the time, but the alarm clock
wasn’t hers or the one in her parents’ guest room.
She sat up, jarring her already-sore head, and let out a
moan. Thankfully, dark shades were covering the windows, casting the room in
shadows and hiding the evil sun.
What happened last
night? Her memory was fuzzy, and it hurt to think.
She realized she was naked and pulled the sheet up to cover
herself as she slowly looked around the room, recognizing nothing. Nothing but
the sleeping naked male lying on the bed next to her.
Oh God. No! Panic
raced through her body, and memories rose to taunt her.
She’d slept with Luke Long. She’d slept with. Luke. Long.
She whimpered and closed her eyes. She had managed to escape
college without screwing the guy, only to have dirty, dirty sex with him last
night. And that was only the stuff she could remember.
She was never drinking again.
If Rachel ever found out, she was going to give Elise so
much shit—after she quizzed Elise on whether the whole fucks-like-a-rock-star
thing was true.
Elise couldn’t recall everything from last night after the
rest of their friends had left the restaurant, and Luke and she had decided it
would be fun to take a bunch of shots. But, now, she did know that, yes, Luke
Long did indeed fuck like a rock star. Her sore vagina could attest to that.
I hate you, alcohol.
Luke shifted beside her, but the arm he had over his eyes
remained where it was, and his breathing regulated and deepened again.
She really should get out of there before he woke up, but
instead, she found herself staring at his beautiful body. Why does he have to be so gorgeous?
She moved her gaze from his face to down his muscular chest
and stomach and noticed a blemish of some kind. She leaned closer to look at
the red mark directly above his hip.
Are those teeth marks?
A memory surfaced. She’d bitten him so hard that she bruised
him…after she went down on him…again. She dropped her head in her hand.
She was such a slut.
She looked again at the wound, and her gaze moved to the
thin white sheet that was covering one leg and only part of his penis. God,
even flaccid, it was thick and long. She remembered thinking it was perfect.
She might have even told him that she wanted to mold his dick, so she could use
it on herself when she was alone. She moaned softly with embarrassment.
“Jesus, would you stop thinking? You’re making my hangover
ten times worse.”
Elise jumped. “Would you stop scaring me?”
Luke chuckled and moved his arm from his face. His brown
eyes glittered with amusement. “Sorry,” he said, but his tone indicated that he
wasn’t the least bit remorseful.
And, now, she was regretting not getting the hell out of
there right away. She looked at the floor next to the bed and only saw a few
items of clothing and nothing that looked like the shirt or skirt she’d been
wearing last night. Nothing to cover her up so that she could make her escape.
Then, she spotted them by the door on the other side of the room and winced.
She looked at Luke, hoping maybe he’d shut his eyes in an
attempt to go back to sleep, but luck was not on her side this morning, and she
found him watching her. It was making her self-conscious, knowing all the
naughty things she’d done with him and to him last night. “Can you please close
your eyes, so I can get dressed?”
This made Luke laugh, but she didn’t find it the least bit
funny. She needed to get up and out of there before Rachel called her or her
parents called Rachel. She really didn’t need a lecture about sleeping with Luke
right now—from her parents or Rachel. Especially after she’d told her friend it
was never going to happen.
“I think that ship has sailed, Lise. I already saw
everything last night, babe.” He looked down at her crotch. “Everything.”
She fidgeted on the bed. First, she didn’t know if she liked
him shortening her name like they were close now or something, and second, she
suddenly pictured him kneeling between her legs as he parted her and blew on
her nether lips right before he—
Luke threw back the covers and sat up on the edge of the
bed, giving her a clear view of his back. Even his back was sexy. Except for
the red claw marks there.
Holy shit. Had she
possessed any restraint last night?
Luke stood and walked to the door to retrieve her clothes.
He didn’t seem to care that he was naked because he didn’t bother dressing. Of
course, he had a world-class butt. Elise tried hard, but when he turned around,
she couldn’t help staring at his morning wood, and she grew wet between her
legs.
“Can you put on some clothes, please?” Her tone was bitchier
than she had meant it to be, but she really needed him to get dressed before
she threw back the bedsheet and spread her legs for him, begging him to fuck
her again.
He raised an eyebrow.
“I know, I know. We already had sex, so what’s the big deal?
And I’m sorry for being rude, but I’m finding it hard to think with you walking
around…” With your big beautiful dick
saluting me.
Luke snickered as he tossed her clothes on the bed, as if he
knew exactly what was going on in her head. But he didn’t object as he went
into his walk-in closet.
As soon as he was in there, she quickly yanked on her
clothes, except for her underwear. She didn’t see them anywhere, and since Luke
would walk out at any second, she opted for going commando. It wasn’t ideal
since she was wearing a skirt, but at least she wasn’t nude anymore.
Luke exited his closet, wearing a pair of nylon shorts and
holding a T-shirt in his hand. The bite mark she’d left stood out against the
light gray of his shorts. She considered just pretending like she didn’t know
it existed, but she was maturer than that. Or, at least, she wanted to think
she was.
“I’m sorry—”
“If you apologize for fucking me…” Luke’s lips were in a
hard line, and his eyes had lost all humor. He almost looked hurt. “Look, we’re
both adults, both single, we used protection, and no one got hurt.”
She sat on the side of the bed. “Well, see, that’s not
exactly true…” She waved her hand toward his lower body.
He shook his head, obviously not understanding. “What’s not
true? Are you trying to tell me you have a boyfriend?”
“No.”
He frowned. “Are you saying, we didn’t use protection?
Because I might have been drunk, and you did almost jump the gun there the
first time, but I distinctly remember using condoms.”
Her cheeks got warm as she vaguely recalled pushing him down
on the sofa, slipping her underwear off, lifting her skirt, and—
“Open your eyes and
watch me while I fuck you, Elise. I want you to know whose cock you’re riding.”
She shook her head before she turned red, clearing the
memory. “No, that’s not it either.”
“Okay, Lise, you’re just going to have to spit it out then.”
“Hurt. You’re hurt.” She pointed to his hip and sighed. “I
hurt you.”
Luke lowered his head and examined her bite mark. “Oh, yeah,
I remember that.” He looked up at her and grinned. “I never would have taken
you for a wildcat in bed, but damn, I liked it.” He shrugged and put his shirt
on. “Besides, I sort of got you back.” He waved his hand over his neckline.
She gasped and jumped up, bolting for the bathroom. “You
didn’t!” she yelled at him before she flipped on the light switch. She lifted
her chin up and to the side, and there it was—a big ole hickey right on her
neck. Thankfully, the top she’d worn last night had a low collar, so she should
be able to find a more modest shirt to cover it for work, but she sure as shit
didn’t know how she was going to walk into her parents’ house and not let them
see it.
He came up behind her. “I’d tell you I was sorry, but then I’d
be lying. If it makes you feel better, I don’t remember doing it, and I didn’t
do it on purpose.”
She angled her head to look at it again. “Fat lot of good
that does me. It’s there whether you meant to do it or not.”
He leaned in closer to her, meeting her eyes in the mirror. “Well,
at least I didn’t bite you,” he teased.
Embarrassed, she didn’t reply. Instead, she worked on
straightening her appearance. She finger-combed through her long hair to get
the snarls out and used hand soap and water to get rid of the mascara that
rimmed her eyes.
She almost forgot he was still there when he said, “I’m
going to get coffee. I’ll meet you downstairs.”
She hurried up, trying to make herself look presentable, and
quickly used the facilities before heading downstairs.
If she wasn’t hungover and freaking out about sleeping with
Luke, she would have taken the time to admire his beautiful home. But, at the
moment, she wanted to forget that she had ever been there and get the hell
home.
She quickly scanned the living room for her missing article
of clothing, but with no luck, she met Luke in the kitchen where he handed her
a glass of water and a couple of pills while the smell of coffee brewing filled
the kitchen.
“Ibuprofen,” he explained when she gave him a questioning
look.
“Thank you,” she said. Swallowing the medicine, she downed the
whole glass in a few gulps. She hadn’t realized how thirsty she had been until
now.
She handed him the empty cup, and he put it in the sink.
After he poured himself some coffee to go, he grabbed his keys off the counter.
“I rode with Sean last night, so my car’s here. You need a
ride, I’m assuming?”
“Yes, please.”
“Do you want any coffee?”
She shook her head.
He reached for something else on the counter and handed it
to her. It was her purse.
“Do you have everything?”
Everything but her underwear, but she wasn’t going to tell
him that. She slung her purse over her shoulder. “Yep, I’m ready.”
REVIEW:
Holy hotness, Batman!!! Talk about DIRTY this was smokin' HOT. I literally read this book in one sitting. It flowed so well that I didn't want to put it down!
The authors did such a well job with the characters. They had their flaws but you still couldn't help but root for them and really like them. Even the secondary characters were pretty well fleshed out. Luke could seriously charm the panties off a nun! I adored him. The chemistry between Elise and him was off the charts and never felt forced. I also couldn't imagine how hard it must have been for
Elise and her sister growing up with such conservative parents. Having to hide things in their life.
So while this book was FULL of steamy scenes and definitely lived up to its title, it had a really great story and I can't wait to read more from this author duo!
