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He kissed me softly on the lips and I wrapped my arms around him returning the kiss deeper. Without saying a word, Gary carried me to the bedroom and laid me down on the bed.
There he began to make love to me, sweet, loving, and full of life. Our lives had really begun.
I hope you enjoyed reading Slow Burn. If you liked this one, then you would definitely love my other best seller and Amazon TOP 100 Book - Burning with Desire. In the following pages, I have included an excerpt from the same. So, keep reading!
Author’s Note
Thank you to all my readers, especially those who are reading my work for the first time. I know there are so many books to choose from these days, and I am glad and thankful that you all chose to spend a day or two reading mine.
If you have a minute—or even, say, like 30-40 seconds—please take a moment to leave a review on Amazon for SLOW BURN. Reviews help indie authors so much!
XO, Bella
Excerpt
I hired her to help my daughter sleep easy,
But now I want her in my bed!
Julie: my daughter’s new nanny and my …
Damn, this is so wrong,
Give yourself a break Ricky.
She’s your employee and so much younger and…innocent.
But what if I want to claim her innocence,
What if her love warms my heart,
What if her curves ignite that flame of passion once again!
And what if my daughter is falling in love with her too.
But just when I think my damaged past is over,
And never again going to haunt me,
She disappears…
Would the strength of my love ever bring her back?
Would she ever have the guts to stand up against her own family?
Ricky
You never know which call will end up being your last.
The adrenaline flooded throughout my body as always when this call came in. I’d been sitting around the table in the lounge playing some cards with my coworkers/friends and really enjoying the nice, relaxing day when the bell started ringing and we had to grab our gear and rush to the trucks. It had been a relatively slow week in the fire game, but you could never really let yourself relax and think that everything was going to stay that way for long. That’s the way it was, the nature of the beast. Sometimes we would go for days without a single fire and then we’d have a week where we’d have one or two calls a day.
Regardless, when the call finally came in, your chest felt like it was being gripped tightly by some invisible force and you would experience the fear that most people would never ever think of. They were lucky. It was the worst kind of fear. You were up against a formidable enemy, a brute force of nature, and you didn’t know if you would get out alive. And you weren’t sure if the people who needed your help would get out alive either.
I tried not to overthink as I grabbed my gear and put it on before heading hastily to the truck. But sometimes fear just grabbed you and it wouldn’t let go. That was a dangerous situation. In training and in practice we learned to respect the enemy, but never fear it. Fear would paralyze you, it would muddle your brain, make you second guess yourself, and make you hesitate. Those things cost lives. And one day it would cost you your own.
I couldn’t have that. I had Zoe to think about. Sweet Zoe, my eight year old daughter, my angel. I was all she had since her mother died a few years ago. Amanda… the love of my life. It had been over two years since she’d succumbed to the cancer that had ravaged her body. My sweet wife was gone, laid to rest, leaving Zoe and me alone. I’d tried to do the best I could for Zoe on my own, and most of the time I thought I did a really good job.
“We’re almost there! Get in the game!” Patterson, our foreman yelled. He was leading the charge on the scene today, which basically meant he directed everything right down to the most subtle of movements. He was basically the coach of the team and if you wanted to keep working and you wanted to stay alive, you better listened to what the thirty nine year veteran firefighter had to say without a question.
