This Time Around (Maybe #2)(54)

I see Taiya walk over to me, wearing a yellow sundress. She looks edible.

“Everyone loves it,” she beams, pushing away an errant curl.

“It looks great. You did an amazing job. I’m proud of you,” I tell her, pulling her close to my side.

“Me? This was all you,” she says, going on her tiptoes to give me a kiss on the cheek. I want to ravish her right here and now, but that kiss is going to have to do until we get home.

“This is your dream, beautiful. Now you get to live it.”

When I see her eyes starting to pool with tears, I flinch. “Don’t cry.”

“They are happy tears,” she says, blinking furiously a few times. “And you’re my dream, Ryan. This is just a bonus.”

“You’re so f*cking sweet, Tay. Sweetest girl in the world. Happy tears or not, I still don’t like seeing you cry,” I tell her, playing with the thin strap of her dress. I kiss her on top of her head, and pull her to stand in front of me. I stare at the mirrored walls surrounding the entire wall, and instantly get ideas. All kinds of ideas.

“Ryan, why do you have your sex face on?” Taiya suddenly asks, interrupting my dirty thoughts and making me laugh.

“Sex face?” I have to hear this explanation.

“Yeah, you know, your bedroom face. Like this…” she says, giving me a smouldering look.

My laughter can’t be contained. I can see the others staring at me like I’m crazy, so I just wave at them. Reid stalks over and gives me a weird look.

“Are you on something?” he asks me with a serious face.

I lean against the wall to steady me. “No. I’m just… happy.”

Summer walks over and stands next to me. I wrap my arm around her. “Time for the after party?”

Summer looks at Taiya, “Can I take dance classes here?” she blurts out, looking excited.

“Of course you can,” Taiya says. I see Reid eyeing the mirrors and start laughing again; his face takes on an intrigued look.

“I’m going to have to lock this place up, aren’t I,” Taiya mutters, shaking her head at us. Tag, Dash, Xander, Isis, Seph and Jade walk over, all smiles. They congratulate Taiya once more, and then we head to my apartment for the after party.

Life couldn’t get more perfect.

*****

One week later

“You look so f*cking beautiful,” I whisper, staring down at Taiya. She’s lying in the middle of the bed of our hotel room, dressed in her white gown, looking like a temptress slash virginal sacrifice. We just renewed our vows, and the day couldn’t have been any more perfect.

“Are you going to stare at me all night?” she asks, sounding breathless.

“Amongst other things, yes.”

Her pouty lips tug up into a smile. “I’m waiting,” she says, lifting her arms above her head and thrusts her breast out. My mouth waters, wanting those sweet nipples in my mouth. I take my shirt off and throw it on the floor, followed by my pants and boxer shorts.

“I love you,” I tell her, kissing her with everything I have.

“Show me,” she replies, a challenge in her eyes.

I rip off her dress and do just that.



The End



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Toxic Girl

Coming April 2014

Everyone has secrets.



Finally, I had a fresh start.

I knew no one.

I could be anyone, or so I thought.

I wanted to be invisible, to blend into the background.

But it turned out keeping my secret wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.



Enter Grayson Mills.

When Grayson noticed me, so did everyone else.

He wanted me. Bad.

And what Grayson wanted, he usually got.





Time Will Tell


(Maybe, Book Three)

Coming 2014

Be spontaneous, they say.

That's how I ended up on the back of a stranger's bike.



A sexy, tall, tattooed stranger, but a stranger nonetheless.

How was I to know that a chance meeting with this man, Xander Kane, was going to change my life?





Destroyed by Pepper Winters

Preview

Coming February 2014

BLURB:

She’s a woman with a dirty secret.

I’m complicated. Not broken or ruined or running from a past I can’t face. Just complicated. For good reason.

I thought my life couldn’t get any more tangled in deceit and confusion. But I hadn’t met him. I hadn’t been sucked into his lies or taught to run from everything that he is. Instead, I let him ensnare me, seduce me, trap me with secrets—Hazel Hunter

He’s a man with a killer secret.

I’ve never pretended to be good or deserving. Despite the shadows I live in, I’m ultimately a slave to my secrets and that gives me a free pass to chase who I want, be who I want, act how I want.

I didn’t have time to lust after a woman I had no right to lust after. I told myself to shut up and stay hidden. But how could I deny her? How could I deny my one chance at redemption? But then she tried to run. I’d found a cure to my existence and damned if I would let her go—Roan Fox