Daring Ink(13)
Panic and confusion mixed with the adrenaline already making his heart race, the combination of which turned his brain into one vast wasteland. He couldn’t think of a thing to say. He had the woman he wanted two feet away from him and he’d lost his vocabulary. Then she turned and looked at him. His Penny. The woman who showed him that it was time to stop trying to get lost in other people and find himself. He blinked and all of the words came rushing back.
“Penny, I’m sorry. I was an idiot and I should have never made that bet and once I did I should have told you about it.” He closed the distance between them, not touching her, but close enough that he could feel her anyway. “I know you have no reason to trust me right now, but if you give me a second chance you won’t regret it. You don’t want a boyfriend? Fine. I’ll be whatever it is you want me to be, just let me be with you.”
She pivoted so they were face-to-face and only inches apart. “Too bad I already have a boyfriend.”
His stomach dropped to his toes. “What?”
Looking up at him, she smiled. “He’s tall, is mostly intelligent except for a few bone-headed mistakes, is super sexy and he’s got the biggest, most beautiful dick I’ve ever seen in my life.”
He let out the breath he’d been holding. Wasn’t that just like her, life with her would never be boring. “What a lucky guy.”
“Because of his dick?” she asked.
“No.” He cupped her cheeks and tilted her face up. “Because he has you.”
He claimed her mouth as if this was just the beginning. The kiss was a promise—not to fuck up again, to always be someone she could trust, and for the future. She moaned against him as he glided his hands down her back to her pert T-shirt-covered ass and lifted her so her soft, wet core rubbed up against his hardness. Fuck. She wasn’t wearing a damn thing under the T-shirt. He’d been right that first night.
Knock.
Knock.
Knock.
Hard and evenly spaced, now that was a cop knocking on the door.
He let Penny slide down his body as he lowered her to the ground and cut short their kiss. “I gotta get that.”
“Don’t worry.” She traced a finger across his bottom lip. “I’m not going anywhere tonight.”
The urge to ignore the door almost brought him to his knees, but he managed—just barely—to take the three steps to the door and open it.
A uniformed cop stood on the other side. He nodded at Sawyer and Penny. “Sorry for stopping by so late at night folks, but we’re investigating a noise complaint,” the officer said.
“Really?” Penny asked and looked up at him, batting her eyelashes. “I haven’t heard a thing. How about you, Sawyer?”
“You know me, honey,” he played along. “I don’t hear anything when you’re around.”
The officer chuckled, obviously not fooled for a second but not wanting to deal with any extra paperwork. “Let’s make sure it’s that way for the rest of the building tonight.” The officer tipped his hat. “Have a good night folks.”
Sawyer closed the door, more than ready to have Penny all to himself.
“You heard the officer.” She licked her bottom lip as she toyed with the hem of her T-shirt. “You have to show me a good time now.”
He grabbed her shirt and yanked her closer. “Did you forget I’ve got a badge too?”
She slid her hands down between them and cupped his fast hardening cock through his basketball shorts. “Does that mean you have handcuffs?”
An image of her spread eagle in the middle of his bed, handcuffed to the headboard, and with her red hair spilled out all over his pillows, took him from stiff to iron hard in a heartbeat. “I do have handcuffs and I believe I’m gonna have to place you under arrest.”
Penny spun out of his grasp. “Gotta catch me first, Officer Anaconda Cock.” With that, she ran to his bedroom, stripping as she went.
Sawyer opened up the drawer in the entry table and picked up his handcuffs. He wasn’t sure whose wrists they’d end up around, but neither of them was getting away now. This was just the first of a million and one nights together.
A Note From Avery
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An Inconvenient Dare
(Excerpt)
by Bethany Lopez
“You seriously need to loosen up,”Ella said, her eyes narrowed as she watched Vanessa over the rim of her whiskey sour. “It’s been what … years since you’ve had sex?”
Vanessa rolled her eyes to try and play off her best friend’s statement, but her hand tightened around the stem of her wine glass. “I’ve been focused on my career.”
It was true. She’d spent the last six years working her ass off to learn as much as she could, and had worked her way up that ladder at Smithson’s PR back in Detroit. A few months ago, when a position opened up at Fine PR in Miami, she’d jumped at the chance to move closer to Ella, whom she met in college.
“More like obsessed,” Ella accused as she tossed back the amber liquid. “It’s time to get a little crazy and achieve an orgasm with another person in the room. Preferably a hot male.”
Vanessa bit back a sarcastic reply when she realized Ella had a point. When was the last time she’d been with a man? Had it really been two years? Beginning to feel the tingly glow of liquid courage, she looked around the party with as light frown.
“I know most of these people from work, so even if I did decide to throw caution to the wind and pick up a guy, I couldn’t. I don’t mix business with pleasure, you know that.”
Ella looked at her beautiful friend.Vanessa’s rich chestnut hair was loose and flowing down her back, and the little black dress she wore showcased her killer long legs. It really was a crime that Vanessa was always so focused on moving up to the next level in her career, that she never allowed herself a little fun. Ella was determined to change that tonight.
“You never mix pleasure with pleasure,” she argued, biting back a smile when her perfectly posh friend stuck out her tongue in defense. “There has got to be at least one hot guy here who has nothing to do with your PR firm, or the MiamiThunder, and I’m going to find him.”
“Wait,” Vanessa said, her tongue darting out to lick her lips nervously. “What am I going to do while you search?”
Ella smirked at her friend and replied, “Drink up … I think you’re going to need something to grease those wheels.”
“Gross,” Vanessa grumbled, then watched with mild panic as Ella left her and began to circle the room. Taking Ella’s advice, she knocked back the rest of her red, then casually walked to the bar to order another.
“There’s the lady of the hour,”Vanessa’s boss, Derek Fine, said, reaching out a hand to stop her after her trip to the bar.
“Just doing my job,” Vanessa said humbly, even though her insides were glowing at the compliment. She’d only been with Fine PR for a few months, and she already loved working there. Mr. Fine could be a tough boss, but that only made her respect him more.
“Vanessa, you know Avery Dare.”
Vanessa turned to the striking brunette with an easy smile.
“Yes, we’ve met a few times.”
Avery smiled back and said, “It’s nice to see you again.”
The three chatted for a few moments,then Derek excused himself to go speak with Ian Dare, Avery’s brother and thePresident of the Miami Thunder.
“I have to say, the ideas you had for that last marketing campaign were risky, but it totally paid off. People are still talking about it.”
“Thanks,” Vanessa said, unsure of how to respond to the other woman’s praise. Derek had been skeptical about her ideas when she came on board, but she’d convinced him to give her the chance to prove herself, and luckily he’d agreed.