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"You have to go. I won't be able to control myself.
I've wanted you so bad for so long and after I've been in the cage...I can't
think straight." He gives a guttural groan and his fist clenches on my
hip.
Primitive. Primal. His need speaks to me. I tighten my grip
on his neck and rock up to kiss him. He takes over. His kiss is hard and
demanding.
"Mine." His voice is raw, savage and for a moment
I truly believe he may lose control.
He rules in the ring
Two years ago, Jake and Amanda were going hot and heavy. But
when Jake wanted more, Amanda walked away. Jake immersed himself in mixed
martial arts, living life on the edge. But that didn't dull the pain of
Amanda's rejection-until a chance encounter throws them together.
A high-powered lawyer, Amanda was a no-strings-attached kind
of girl. But two years after her breakup with Jake, she still hasn't found
anyone who gets her heart pumping the way he did. And then he shows up in her
boardroom, hot as sin and needing help...
But can he rule her heart?
Jake is darker, sexier, and impossible to resist. As their
chemistry builds, Amanda's not sure if she can stay in control, or if she's
finally willing to let him claim her body and soul.
Excerpt: In Your Corner
“Don’t move.”
Totally immersed in painting the cupboard, I freeze
mid–paint stroke at the sound of Jake’s deep voice behind me.
“What? Am I doing something wrong?”
He closes the distance between us and runs his finger along
the back waistband of my gym pants, sending delicious tingles up my spine. Then
he slides his hands around my waist, bared by the rise of my T-shirt as I
stretch to reach the top of the cupboard with my paintbrush.
“Yes. You look too damn sexy. Do you know what it does to a
man when he catches a glimpse of something he isn’t meant to see?”
“I hope it makes him tell the woman she can call off the
panic attack and drop her arm,” I mutter as I do just that. “I also hope it
makes him decide his hands might be of better use somewhere other than around
her waist.”
Jake slides his fingers around to my stomach, resting them
just over my mound and his voice drops to a low growl. “I could make use of
them here.”
“So says the man who turned down a good offer just the other
night at Redemption.” I remove his hands and turn to face him, putting on a
brave face while inside I seethe. Who does he think he is coming on to me after
brushing me off?
“No games, Jake. You made your position clear. I got that.
I’m not interested in being screwed around.”
He presses his hands against the cupboard on either side of
my head, caging me with his body. “What are you interested in?”
“Moving on,” I say honestly.
His pulse throbs in his neck and his eyes harden. “With
whom?”
“No one right now.”
He gives a satisfied grunt as if I had just cleared up a
question in his mind. “Everyone is out back having a good time. You should be
there too.”
“There’s a lot of work to do. I want to get it done. The
faster I open shop, the faster I can start my lawsuit against Farnsworth.” I
slip under his arm and edge along the counter.
“You’ve been working since six o’clock this morning.”
Grabbing a clean cloth from the counter, I make an effort to
wipe the grease off my face. “I’m used to working twenty-hour days. I’m not
afraid of hard work.” But I am afraid of mercurial fighters who run hot one
minute and cold the next.
His face softens, and he takes the cloth from my hand and
holds it under the tap. The pipes gurgle when he turns the rusty faucet and
water gushes out, skimming over the cloth and trickling into the sink below.
Without warning, he lifts me and settles me on the counter.
“You don’t have to work like that anymore.” His voice is
calm, soothing. I am momentarily lulled out of work mode and into heat mode as
he eases his hips between my legs and reaches to turn off the faucet. “It’s
Saturday night. Time to relax and have fun.” With a firm hand, he cups my jaw
and then wipes the cloth gently over my nose, forehead, and cheeks.
His gentle touch, the warmth of his hand, his breath, minty
and sweet, and his hard body nestled between my thighs all converge in an
unbearable rush of sensation. I grab his wrist, forcing his hand away.
“Jake…I’m good. Really. There’s so much to do. I’ll come out
when I’m done and I’ve cleaned myself up.”
“I like you this way,” he murmurs. “You look…cute. Real.”
“Real?”
He brushes his thumb over my cheek. “Amanda without the
armor. Your clothes, hair, makeup…nothing is perfect. It’s just the real you. I
never got to see the real you before.”
Torn between being mortified and pleased, I reach for
another cloth. “Real Amanda is covered in dirt and has holes in her sweats.”
He traces a finger down my throat to rest in the hollow at
the base of my neck. The room heats to one hundred degrees, and if I’m not
mistaken, I hear the sound of my blood boiling.
“I like holes in sweats.” His voice drops, husky and low,
and his finger continues its downward journey into the vee of my shirt.
“Jake…”
He traces lightly over the crescent of my breast. “I like
dirty girls,” he whispers, his voice thick with desire. “I can’t stay away.”
Oh God. Every bit of warmth rushes to my center as his deep,
sensual voice ignites one of my dark fantasies. Jake, straddling my bound body,
growling commands, telling me what he’s going to do to me in the filthiest
language I know. A soft moan escapes my lips and we’re back on the roller
coaster again.
“This game you’re playing confuses me.” His heart beats
strong against my palm when I lay my hand over his chest.
“Me too.”
“Then what are you doing?”
His eyes take on a feral gleam and my breasts tingle.
“Playing dirty,” he growls. Tangling his hand in my hair, he
tugs my head back, exposing my throat to the heated slide of his lips. “Sometimes
you have to stop thinking too much and just go with it.”
My breath comes in short pants as he sucks gently on the
pulse at the base of my throat. Barely able to form a coherent thought for the
pounding of blood in my temples, I scramble for sanity. “There’s too much
between us to just go with it. We need to talk…”
His hand closes in my hair, twisting roughly. “Lawyers talk.
You don’t look like a lawyer now. You look fucking sexy, and your mouth is all
lush and pink and needing to be kissed. You want to talk, Amanda, or you want
that kiss?” He nips the hollow at the base of my neck.
Pleasure and pain meld together and I whimper as a heated
rush of sensation floods my veins. “Kiss.”
Jake smiles. “My dirty girl wants a dirty kiss.” Holding my
face, he slants his mouth over mine and kisses me.
Soft kiss. Sweet kiss. Warm, firm lips tasting faintly of
coffee. His five o’clock shadow brushes my chin as his tongue eases my lips
open to stroke against mine. My body melts against him as he explores my mouth,
leaving nothing untouched. Tongues wind and tangle. Two years of fantasies
coalesce in a single rasping breath.
“’S not so dirty,” I mumble against his lips.
“Oh, you don’t know how dirty I can be.” Jake grips my hair
and tugs my head back with a firm, hard yank, sending little bolts of lightning
straight to my core. Then he kisses me hard and fast. Rough. His teeth scrape
my bottom lip as his tongue dives deep, filling me, taking what I have to give
and demanding more. The pounding of my heart shifts from lust to fear as he
consumes me, and for a moment I worry he has forgotten I need to breathe.
When he breaks the kiss, I draw in a long, ragged breath.
“You never kissed me like that before.”
“You were never like this before,” he murmurs, his fingers
easing up my shirt, his thumb tracing over the crescent of my breasts. “Raw and
open, vulnerable, needing my help. So fucking real.”
My breath catches in my throat as he explores, cupping and
squeezing my breasts and then teasing my nipples through my lace bra until they
are tight, aching peaks.
“My clothes. Take them off.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Sarah Castille, worked and traveled abroad before trading her briefcase and stilettos for a handful of magic beans and a home near the Canadian Rockies. She writes erotic contemporary romance and romantic suspense featuring blazingly hot alpha heroes and the women who tame them.
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Other books in the series:
The first book in the series (all standalone stories), Against the Ropes, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Pick for Romance & Erotica for Fall 2013 and was also a #1 Erotic Romance Best seller on Amazon. It also won the JABBIC contest for sexiest cover http://bit.ly/1k87FTh
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