Author: Skye Warren
Series: Standalone Title
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: Mar 20 2018
Edition/Formats: 1st Edition ~ eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
There is no shame in pleasure. And no love in business.
I have a blind date tonight, and I know with 100% certainty
that I'm getting lucky. There shouldn't be any surprises, not for one as jaded
as me, but when I walk into the penthouse suite of L'Etoile, everything
changes.
1) For one thing, Bea is heartstoppingly gorgeous. Pale
green eyes and endless freckles. Curves I want to spend all night exploring, as
if her body was made for me.
2) Her innocence makes me want to use my entire inventory of
bedroom tricks on her and then invent a few more.
3) Except that... she’s a virgin.
I can initiate her into the world of desire without letting
her get attached, can't I? A few hours of tutoring, and at the end of the night
a small fortune will be deposited into my bank account.
Yes, you read that right. There are many words for what I
do. After all, mine is the oldest profession. I'm an escort, which means this
date is nothing more than a mutually enjoyable transaction.
But once I realize one night with her won’t be enough, I’m
the one who's screwed.
“Oh God,” she says on a groan. “I’m screwing this up, aren’t
I? There’s probably a secret handshake or something and I don’t know it. You must
think I’m insane.”
I shake my head, slow and slight. “No secret handshake, I
promise. There’s only you and me, having a conversation about pleasure.”
The word seems to take her aback. “Pleasure?”
“That’s the nature of my business, yes.” My body tightens,
because it would be pleasure indeed to touch this woman. To kiss her. To make
her moan for me.
Although I might have to rethink that plan, because the word
pleasure might as well have been medieval torture based on the way Bea looks at
me. “I thought we were going to have sex.”
She sounds so forlorn it could break my heart.
Instead I laugh, a small huff of breath, because I can’t
afford to have a heart.
“Sex,” I say, standing to full height, circling the scuffed
oriental coffee table, standing behind her chair. “And pleasure. Pleasure and
sex. They’re interchangeable.”
I brush my knuckles over the side of her neck, a
demonstration. Her wild curls tickle my skin.
It’s provocative, this. If she had agreed to dinner I would
have started with small touches, a glance of my palm against the small of her
back as I pulled out her chair, holding her hand while we talked over a glass
of wine. Perhaps being so bold as to run a finger along the inside of hers,
where it’s more sensitive. She would shiver; her gaze would meet mine.
There’s an order to these things. You can move fast or slow,
but there’s still an order.
“We can skip the pleasure part,” she says, her voice high,
her breathing faster. Her chest rises and falls in the black dress, made all
the more alluring by how much it covers. She’s a mystery. The black sky in the
city. I have to work to see her secrets.
“No,” I chide gently. “We focus on the pleasure. That’s the
point.”
“What if—” Her breath catches as I drop the back of my hand
over her collarbone, a reverse caress. That’s what one does for a skittish
creature like her. “What if I have a different point?”
“And what point would that be, my sweet Bea?”
“I want to lose my virginity,” she says, so fast it comes
out as a single word.
IWANTTOLOSEMYVIRGINITY. It takes my lust-warmed brain a full
minute to comprehend. She’s not only nervous, this woman. She’s a virgin.
My hand freezes. I yank it away. “Pardon me?”
I can’t have heard her correctly. There is no chance in hell
that this beautiful young woman, as strange and interesting as she is, is a
virgin. No chance in hell that I was the one tasked to be her first. I could
not possibly spread her legs and thrust inside her, knowing that no one’s ever
been there. It would be a physical impossibility. Never. No possible way.
“It doesn’t have to take long,” she says, suddenly earnest.
Almost begging me. “I don’t need…you know…whatever you do for other women. I
only want the sex.”
My God. “You are insane.”
A scrunch of her nose. “Well, you don’t have to sound too
surprised. It is what I requested when I called. The woman said that’s what you
do.”
“I’m not taking your virginity.” On some level I might have
guessed this about her. If I had considered it even possible, I might have.
Virgins don’t hire me. They stammer and giggle and turn away from me, their
protective instincts strong enough to send them in the opposite direction. So
perhaps I can be forgiven for not recognizing this one, so forthright.
Bea frowns. “Is that a different department or something?”
She’s mocking me. She’s mocking me for being, well, prudish,
and I feel strangely buoyant. I could float away with the absurdity of it.
“Yes, it’s a different department. The department of a frat boy who fumbles
around in the dark.”
“Are you seriously not going to do it?”
The irony is enough to flatten me that this is a woman I
might have pursued outside this job. She would have been too young for me, even
if I weren’t an escort and she wasn’t my client. That wouldn’t have stopped me
from wanting her.
But in another incarnation, if I had been one of those
fumbling frat boys, I would have followed this woman to the ends of the earth.
That’s a hypothetical scenario on multiple levels, but I’m good at
hypotheticals, which is another reason I’m good at my job.
So good that I please every single client I’ve ever had.
Until this one, apparently.
Skye Warren is the
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