For some love stories, there is no happy ending.
Excerpt:
He lifted his hand, bringing it
crashing back down over her covered behind, and he watched with satisfaction as
her lips parted.
Holy
fuck.
“Why are you being spanked, Lily?”
he asked her as he delivered another three swats in fast succession.
She gasped, her eyes blinking wildly
as she replied. “You… you want me to answer?”
Ethan chuckled lightly. She was so fucking adorable. “Yes,
beautiful Lily,” he told her. “I want you to bloom for me, to come alive under
the weight of my palm. And for that, you must answer.”
He heard the gasp of air Lily pulled
in between her teeth. “I wanted it,” she responded, and Ethan could hear the
trace of irony and disbelief in her tone at the admission. “I wanted you to spank
me.”
Lily was right. She had wanted this, and as he spanked her
over and over, he wondered whether or not she was regretting that choice now.
He hoped not, and as he glanced down at her face he couldn’t see any fear in
her eyes. There was some shock, and perhaps even concern, but not fear.
And Ethan knew what fear looked like
better than most.
There was definitely no terror in
his little flower, but there was the genesis of something else—the dark promise
of her dilating pupils and her splaying knees beneath her virginal gown. There
was the tantalizing prospect of her arousal.
“That’s right,” he crooned from over
her bent body. “You did want it, little Lily, and I believe you need it, too. I
think you’re the kind of woman who would benefit from a spanking most days.”
His right palm connected with the
sitting spot of one and then the other pert cheek of Lily’s behind. “What do
you think, young lady?”
Her lips parted again at his query,
and he could see just by looking on her face how much she both loved and hated
being labelled that way. No doubt she found the name denigrating in some way,
but that was alright. Ethan could tell how much her body wanted to be treated
that way—her desire to yield and her fast, panting breaths were evidence enough
of that—but he also knew something else, something Lily didn’t know yet. Ethan
wanted to denigrate her. He wanted to push her right down into the depths, if
for no other reason, so that he could be the one to make her soar again.
“Yes,” she rasped, gyrating her body
over his lap although he had never commanded her hips to move. It was
hypnotizing to witness. “Yes, I do.”
“I know you do, beautiful,” he
confirmed as he rained down a fresh torrent of smacks on her upturned bottom.
“But you don’t have to worry. I’m here now, and I can help you scratch that
little itch.”
Blurb:
One
powerful serial killer. One visceral connection.
One deadly secret that should have stayed buried.
Men like Ethan Reilly should never fall in love. Dark, enigmatic and dangerous, Ethan is the perfect predator until he meets Lily Simpson, a woman passionate enough to placate him and strong enough to surrender to him.
For a while Lily’s love is enough.
But the darkness inside Ethan is too powerful to contain, and soon it spills into their burgeoning love affair. As he wrestles with his demons, Ethan must come to terms with who he really is, but if he does, what happens to Lily? Can any love be strong enough to survive a past as terrible as Ethan’s? And what kind of future can they forge from the ashes of his awful admission?
Read Flawed, a Dark Necessities prequel, and discover the making of not one, but two monsters.
One deadly secret that should have stayed buried.
Men like Ethan Reilly should never fall in love. Dark, enigmatic and dangerous, Ethan is the perfect predator until he meets Lily Simpson, a woman passionate enough to placate him and strong enough to surrender to him.
For a while Lily’s love is enough.
But the darkness inside Ethan is too powerful to contain, and soon it spills into their burgeoning love affair. As he wrestles with his demons, Ethan must come to terms with who he really is, but if he does, what happens to Lily? Can any love be strong enough to survive a past as terrible as Ethan’s? And what kind of future can they forge from the ashes of his awful admission?
Read Flawed, a Dark Necessities prequel, and discover the making of not one, but two monsters.
About the Author:
Felicity Brandon is a top 100 Amazon bestselling author.
She loves the darker side of romance, and writes sexy, suspenseful
stories, with strong themes of bondage and submission.
You’ll find her either at her laptop, at the gym, or rocking out
to her favourite music.
Find Felicity here:
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Hi Kathryn and Felicity, loved the awesome, tantalising snippet. This sounds like a wonderful and hot read!
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