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So, for now, all I can do is try and provide as much shelter against the storm she’s experiencing. One day, the sun will shine for her again, and I’ll be right there, ready to experience it with her. If she’ll let me.
Andrew elbows me in the ribs, dragging my eyes away from Bailey.
“What?”
“I said, I don’t know. Olivia said some or other author was doing a reading with a book signing after.”
“What made you think this was a good idea? You haven’t read a fucking book in your life.”
There’s no real heat behind my words because I’m keeping an eye on Bailey, who’s moved to the front, her back to us while she’s stacking some books on the rectangular table. Fuck, the way those jeans cups her ass wants to make me bite my knuckles, and when she bends forward, I shift uncomfortably in my chair. It takes real effort, but I manage to drag my eyes away. The last thing I want is for her to catch me staring and bust me for the creep I’m being.
“Just look around you,” he says, but I catch him staring at Olivia.
“You realize a lot of these women are old enough to be your grandmother?”
“Yes, and a lot of them have daughters and granddaughters,” he smirks, but before I can tell him he’s full of shit, Bailey clears her throat and the room quietens down.
“Thank you all for coming. It is my honor to introduce you to Lorraine Hart.” Applause breaks out, and Andrew and I dutifully clap along, him a lot more enthusiastically than me. “She has graciously agreed to do a reading for us from her latest novel, ‘The Beastmaster’s Virgin Conquest.’ I know most of you here tonight have been beyond excited for this.”
What. The. Fuck?The rest of Bailey’s words are lost when I turn my head, glaring at Andrew who’s eyes are wide, lips formed in an “o.”
I’m still glaring when the woman starts reading, but then I realize what I’m hearing, and fuck…If only alien abduction was a thing. I’d make a poster volunteering. Anything to get me out of here.
My breath sped up as the moonlight painted his rippling abs in soft shades of purple.
“Who is your master?” he growled, the fire in his eyes and the vibrations of his impossibly deep voice a match that ignited an inferno of want and need deep in my core. I whimpered helplessly at all the unfamiliar sensations ripping through my body, reducing me to my most primal state of being.
“Say it!”
“You are!” The words ripping from my throat were both a surrender and a cry for mercy. Mercy from a man that knew no such thing.
All it took was a quick movement, and his loin cloth fell to the grass, leaving him naked. I watched with a mixture of curiosity and wonderment as his cock rose, its incredible thickness coming to rest against his belly, twitching as if it had a will of its own. I had never seen a man unclothed before, and the first tendrils of fear snaked through my body, settling in my stomach. He was about to ravage me, plunder the deepest part of me, and I knew he was going to show me no mercy. Even if every fiber of my being wanted it, wanted him, I knew it was going to hurt.
“That’s it. You’re dead,” I mutter, sinking even lower in my chair and keeping my gaze glued to the floor.
“I’m so buying a copy,” he whispers. “Look around you. The women are eating this up.”
Fuck no, looking around is the last thing I’m going to do. My eyes might just land on Bailey, and seeing her and the visuals the book is evoking are not a good combination.
*****
“That was so cool,” Andrew says, bouncing on his toes.
“That was…something,” I mutter.
Most everyone has cleared out, but a few stragglers are hanging around, chatting. I cringe, thinking they might be discussing the book. I zoned out when shit got…intense, picturing myself on some far-off planet, chipping away at rocks for a living. And they say men are bad…
“Hey guys,” Addie chirps, looking just as perky as when we met. “I wasn’t expecting to see you here.”You’re not the only one, lady.“But it’s so nice of you to support your fellow business owners.”
“Of course,” Andrew says, “Us ‘business owners’ have a duty to stick together.”
She nods, lapping up the shit he’s spewing. If he didn’t have the hots for Olivia he wouldn’t get near a bookstore. The idiot.
“Poor girl,” Addie sighs, staring at where Bailey’s just exited the kitchen. “It’s such a shame.”
I straighten up, my heart beating faster. I’m not one for gossip. I don’t gossip, and I don’t tolerate it in my presence, but if it concerns Bailey and can help shed some light on what’s going on with her, I’m all for it.
“What do you mean?”
