Title: Candlemoth: A
Holy City Romance
Author: Pauline West
Series: Candlemoth: A Holy City Romance (Book 1)
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: June 23 2016
Edition/Formats: eBook
Blurb/Synopsis:
A bold and independent free spirit from the foster system of small town South Carolina, Lily is a survivor with skeletons in her closet. She knows what she wants and how to get it. And a spoiled rich playboy is not part of her plan- but Ry is irresistible.
The bad boy heir to the Calhoun fortune, Ry is a notorious
Lowcountry playboy who's never met a challenge like gorgeous Lily Inoue.
How can someone so wrong feel exactly right?
I fitted my leg around Ry’s so that there was nothing
between us but my panties and his linen pants, and he kissed me so savagely it
sucked the air from my chest.
Oh, I wanted him deep inside me.
“I want to get on my knees for you,” Ry said, and everything
in me tightened at the cultured, raspy purr of his voice.
“I think I’d like to see you on your knees,” I said, my
voice raw and strange.
Ry, paused, smiling, his eyes slitted with lust. He kissed me differently then, with slow,
lush slides of his tongue that made me ache to feel his mouth between my
legs.
“Mm…”
His fingers curved roughly down around the front of my
thigh, pushing the silky fabric of my dress up as he hunted towards my panties,
lingering at the hem teasingly. His eyes
danced, watching mine, as I moaned. My
hips curled towards his and I felt the tips of his fingers slip beneath my
panties.
I was the wettest I’d been in all my life, as if the whole
center of me had melted into hot, silky lava.
I cried out, pressing into his touch, plunging Ry’s fingers deep inside
me, and he began to stroke with searing accuracy, the expression on his face
both hot and tender.
“Ohhh,” I said, hanging from his sweet mouth. I stared up at the stars, crying out as their
light slurred down over us.
I felt a fullness in me beginning to build, felt myself
dizzily falling back, but Ry caught me in his other arm, propping me there
against the wall as he drove his fingers into me again and again, rhythmic,
relentless. His knuckles bit perfectly
into my clit as he worked the tiny apple of sensitive flesh inside me. I almost screamed, feeling my orgasm flood
forwards.
“You want to come for me?” Ry murmured, pressing his face
into my hair possessively. I bit his
shoulder, trying to stifle my cries.
This sweet, layered agony-
“I want to come for you,” I gasped, “Please, please.”
“Come for me, Lily,” Ry said, pressing himself close as his
fingers continued to work inside me, and I let the sensation crash through the
gates of me, washing through again and again as I fell bonelessly against him,
jerking a little with the aftershocks.
Ry smiled wolfishly, his eyes pale in the moonlight, their
contrast delicious beneath his dark tan, his dark eyebrows. I thrilled again at how little there was
between us, even as it terrified me how helplessly I’d fallen for him. I threw my arms around Ry’s neck, burying my
face in his soft hair, locking my legs around his waist.
“You could make me do anything you want,” I said,
softly.
He pinned me back against the wall again, his eyes
shining. The fullness of his cock
against me sent another shockwave through my body, and I leaned back, shivering
with his touch, looking up at him.
“I’m drunk with you,” I whispered.
Ry began to grind into me, moaning in a low, strangled voice
that made all the hair on my body lift with arousal. We kissed again so hungrily I thought we’d
slide down and fuck there on the rough cobble stones.
But he put me down gently and led me by the hand through the
gate. I followed, tugging my dress
down. We were laughing soundlessly
again, still a little breathless, and when we stopped at the door, Ry held his
hand to his face and closed his eyes, breathing in the smell of me on his
hand.
His eyes rolled slightly with pleasure, and then he bumped
open the door with his hip, tugging me inside.
The silence of the house instantly folded around us. It felt different to kiss him there, in that
unfamiliar dark. Ry lifted me off my
feet against him and then sat me onto the kitchen counter, burying his face
against my breasts. He squeezed my
breasts savagely, until they began to feel heavy and swollen. Then he bit and sucked at my nipples through
the wet silk of my dress.
The hot darts of pain made me hiss with lust.
“I need to make you come again, Lily,” he said, his hands
forcing insistently between my thighs.
“I can’t, I can’t so soon,” I said, trying to close my legs,
but he forced them apart with a strength that just rode the edge of violence. Ry sank his face into me hungrily, taking my
hips firmly into his hands, the pressure from his fingers spreading my flesh so
that the center of me was all the more bared to him as he opened his mouth
against me.
I gasped, so slippery wet that I was soaked all down my
thighs, my body begging to sheath him even as it couldn’t take any more
arousal. My senses were so exquisitely
tortured that I was afraid I’d pee on his lovely, hard-sculptured face.
But Ry’s tongue began to work in expert, slow circles
against my clit. One of his hands found
its way warmly between my thighs, drawing me tight, stretching me raw. I bucked against his face, my hands clawing
at the counter.
“Please please no,” I said, “I can’t, I can’t take this-”
Ry held me steady, the hot, hard velvet of his tongue
relentless against my swollen achy flesh, his eyes locking on mine
greedily. My nerves sizzled raw. I felt microscopic shooting stars race up the
insides of my thighs as he stroked at me continually, restlessly, brinking me
to orgasm, letting me slide back down again.
I was panting with lust, both our bodies misted wet with sweat. I could see droplets of it on my bared
thighs, on the backs of his forearms, his neck.
Ry’s eyes glinted mischievously; he knew exactly what he was
doing to me.
That turned me on all the more, even as it made me wildly
jealous to know all the women he must have perfected his skills on. Every dial on my body was cranked farther
than I’d ever dreamed I could go. The
bliss of it was tortuous, unending. With
every raw swirl of my nerves, I felt myself sucked all the deeper into his
orbit, losing any control I’d ever imagined I’d had.
And then finally, Ry Calhoun decided to let me come. He sucked me up to the precipice of orgasm
again, but this time dropped me over the edge with a hard lick. He stuck his tongue inside me as I came in a
long, rolling orgasm around him.
“Oh god, oh god-” My
cries were animal now, my body so wet that I slid on the counter. Ry dug further into me, his fingers opening
me deeply. The effect was
shattering. I lost my mind, bucking
wildly, and almost blacked out with pleasure.
He lifted my legs up onto the counter so I was securely supported as I
pulsed hard and then began to sob, utterly released.
Ry moved his face back and forth as light as a butterfly on
my thighs, tracing up my electrically lit body with his mouth, pausing gently
at my tortured breasts, and then again at my lips.
As I curled inwards, he leaned over me, kissing me sweetly
while I sobbed with relief, the gentleness of his kisses smoothing my ragged
sense while his hands continued to stroke me lightly. After a moment, he pulled back, biting his
lips, as if tasting me again. I looked
up at him, too limp to move or speak.
“Now,” he said, “I’m going to fuck you to death.”
I couldn’t even speak English anymore.
I shook my head, trying to move away from him and his
vampiric ecstasy. But even as I was
overcome, I still felt a clawing, insatiable need for his body. Ry was like some unnameable drug; I was
hopelessly addicted.
He began to unbutton his shirt, revealing the tight cut of
his abdominals and upper arms. The
immediate bolt of lust I felt for his touch drove home how much he already
owned me. Ry tossed his shirt to one
side, pulling me by one leg open to him again, and undid his pants.
His cock was enormous.
“I’m going to make you come so hard you can’t walk,” Ry
said, darkly, pulling me into him like a slack doll. “You’ll have to stay here with me. Then I’m gonna nail you all morning...” His mouth on mine was like hot stone, and I
couldn’t resist kissing him back, feeling myself heat up for him all over again
as he slid me down to his cock. He ran
his thumb inside me again, drawing my skin taut so savagely that I cried out
and fell against him, raw and exquisitely stretched.
I throbbed with grinding lust, pulling myself upright
again.
“Come fuck me.”
Ry drove himself inside me with a force that made me see
stars, fitting his mouth over mine in one of his hungry, soul-sucking kisses,
and I wanted all of it; I wanted him to batter me loose, fuck me to death, I
didn’t care.
It felt so good that I couldn’t feel anything of myself
anymore except a sheer, shooting, bodiless pleasure.
Our bodies were both drenched now, and it felt so good to
clutch his hard, naked skin, to see the flash of his tattoo under my hand as I
rode his thick cock to Kingdom Come. I
let my head fall back, wanging it hard on the cupboards, but it didn’t matter. Nothing mattered except-
I heard someone clear his throat in the doorway.
My eyes snapped open.
Silhouetted in the dim light from the
street, an old man stood in the kitchen doorway. He was coolly drinking a cup of tea, his robe
loosely belted so I could see the crisp white hair on his chest; his face was
craggy and seamed from a lifetime of too much sun and rich food.
Even though his thick white hair was crazed on one side, as
if he’d been unable to sleep and now was wandering aimlessly around the
mansion, I recognized his face from the oil portrait I’d seen the day before.
Mr. Calhoun.
He was watching us as if we were stray dogs he’d caught
fucking in his house for the thirtieth time.
“Christ, another one?” Mr. Calhoun said, finally. He went back out into the hallway.
Another
one.
What did I
expect?
But my heart sank through the floor and dissolved. I was humiliated.
I’d been more emotionally exposed than I’d ever felt in my
life- and just as suddenly, all the new flowerings in me folded up and died
off.
I shoved Ry away, trying to cover myself with the damp ruins
of my dress. But Ry had already
half-turned, zipping up his pants hastily in a way that filled me with
disgust.
“Dad-!” Ry said, rushing after him. Then, torn, he whirled in the doorway,
heading back towards me. “Lily, wait
here. Dad!”
But I was already out the door.
Ry chased me outside.
“Please, please, you don’t understand.
He didn’t mean it like it sounded-”
I was
crying, and furious with myself for crying.
“I do, I understand you perfectly.
You just want-you just wanted to get laid.”
Ry tried to
kiss me, to take me into his arms. I
wouldn’t let him.
“Baby, don’t you remember any of the things we’ve said? How I’ve made you feel?” Ry said. “I know you feel this, too, I know you do, I
could feel it. Everything in you answers
everything in me, Lily. You keep forgetting
all of that whenever something-”
“Bullshit! I can’t believe anything you say! I can’t believe any of this; I don’t know who
the fuck you are- why are you being so fucking nice to me, anyway? I don’t like people doing things for me,
remember? You know why? Because I can’t fucking trust anybody! I don’t trust you, I can’t, I won’t!”
Somehow, I was screaming.
“Lily,
enough!” His voice cracked my name like
a pistol shot. I felt my body respond to
the command in his voice, instantly hating myself for it.
“Don’t. Just don’t.
All right?” I said.
“At least
let me walk you to your-”
“Don’t fucking touch me.
I don’t want you to follow me, I don’t want you to touch me. Leave me alone!”
I ran into the dark.
I drove home with all my windows down, needing air in my
face.
Cold, clean air.
Hungry black air. Anything to
wash away the electricity, the unrelenting connection that still remained like
an unbroken thread between me and Ry Calhoun.
No matter how far away I was from him.
