Damaged
by Jeanne St. James
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance (Light Suspense)
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Blurb:
Two
scarred souls: one physically, one mentally. Both on the mend, hiding from
their pasts...
Mace Walker can't wait to get home.
Being buried deep undercover for the past two years, on the most complex case of his career, has torn him down physically and mentally. Now the FBI agent has come home to recover after having his leg badly injured from a gunshot wound. Arriving home late one night, his relief is short-lived as he's faced with a stranger pointing a gun to his head, acting like he is the one who doesn't belong there!
Colby Parks, a biochemist at the local university, had come to town a year earlier to escape an abusive relationship. She vows never to put herself in that situation again.
Then the perfect opportunity comes along: house-sitting for Mace's sister while making the house she purchased habitable. But she couldn't anticipate this big snag: the one wearing the tight Levi's and worn leather jacket, looking like he had just escaped prison.
Being forced to share a house creates sparks between them in more ways than one. However, things take a turn when their pasts catch up to them, threatening to pull them apart forever.
Excerpt:
Late in the afternoon, Mace heard
a car drive up and opened the front door to see who it was. He surprised
himself; he never even looked out the peephole first. It felt good to open a
door without fear of some thug blowing holes in him. Three days home, and he
was starting to relax already.
Colby parked a bright red, but
older, convertible next to his not so bright, old Ford truck. He spotted the
groceries in the back seat and went to help her.
“Sharp,” he said, snagging a couple
of the bags.
Colby handed him a third and
grabbed one herself. “Me or the car?”
“Both. I didn’t think you had a
vehicle.”
“It was at the garage. Needed a
water pump.”
He followed her into the house.
“Yeah? Too bad I didn’t arrive sooner. I’m great with cars.”
“And women?” she tossed over her
shoulder.
He grinned. “Them too.”
“Did you learn your mechanical
skills at—”
Mace dropped the grocery bags on
the kitchen table in time to cover her mouth with his hand. “Don’t. I’ve had
enough of your jailhouse wisecracks.”
His fingers against her warm,
moist lips immediately sent a shock wave down to his groin. He wanted to run
his thumb along her bottom lip and then dip it in and out of her mouth until it
was wet. He would follow his thumb with his tongue. And other things. Or just
one other thing: his aching, swollen cock. His eyelids lowered with need until
Colby stepped away from him, breaking his contact, breaking into his thoughts.
“Too close to home?” she asked,
her voice a little shaky.
Good. Maybe he affected her like
she affected him. “No.”
“So, tell me what you do for a
living.”
He broke eye contact first,
because if he hadn’t, he would have pushed her Miss Proper skirt up and slammed
his cock home very improper-like against the kitchen cabinet. Frontward,
backward, he wouldn't be picky.
Instead, he concentrated hard on
the subject at hand. “You first. What do you do with your days, Ms. Parks?”
“You’re avoiding the question.
Finish carrying in the groceries while I unpack them, and then, and only then,
I might play your little game, Mr. Walker.”
If she only
knew what game he really wanted to play with her…
He behaved himself and brought in
the rest of the bags. Settling into a chair, he regarded Colby while she
started dinner.
“Are you an MCP?”
A what? He shot her a questioning look.
“A male chauvinist pig,” she
clarified. “Don’t you cook or clean or do laundry?”
Mace smiled. “I try to avoid it at
all costs.”
“So, who normally does all your
domestic duties?”
“Here we go with the questions
again. You still need to answer mine.”
She gave a little shrug. “Fine.”
He stood and moved in behind
Colby. She started when she turned around and found him so close. Close enough
to feel her heat. And make him lose his mind.
“What are you doing?”
The tremble in her voice caught
his attention and threw a little cold water on his steaming hot libido.
“Helping. I assume that’s what you wanted when you started in on the male chauvinist
crap.”
When her relief was obviously
clear, Mace shook his head. Three days had gone by. They’d eaten meals and
watched TV together, and he had even helped her paint her yellow kitchen. Not
to mention the make-out session in the hallway yesterday. But she still hadn’t
relaxed around him yet.
Thinking about their up-close and
personal time on Sunday made his cock snap right back up to attention. But he
needed to be cautious. Even though he wanted to get down and dirty with her,
discover all her secrets, he couldn’t push too hard. Not yet. He didn’t want to
scare her away. Hell, if he wasn’t careful, the sexual tension would kill him.
“You’ve read my mind. You can make
the salad.”
If they were reading each other’s
minds, he was in trouble. Because right now, his mind was dirty, dirty, so
fucking filthy. He imagined digging his fingers deep into her fireball mane
while she sucked him off. She would be on her knees, and he would be guiding
her head back and forth. Her wet mouth around his cock, little moans escaping
her lips…
Mace bit off a groan and removed
the rinsed vegetables out of the colander where they’d been drip-drying. He
grabbed a cutting board and sat back down at the table to chop them. He had to
concentrate on something else. Like lettuce.
Author Bio:
JEANNE
ST. JAMES is a USA Today bestselling erotic romance author who loves an alpha
male (or two). She was only thirteen when she started writing. Her first paid
published piece was an erotic story in Playgirl magazine. Her first erotic
romance novel, Banged Up, was published in 2009. She is happily owned by farting
French bulldogs. She writes M/F, M/M, and M/M/F ménages. Want to read a sample
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