Appearances
can be deceiving though. All is not perfect in Allison’s world. Since her move
to Virginia she’s had a stalker in the shadows.
Marine
Corps Captain Rocco “Rock” Raimono has spent his life defending and protecting
others. Now he must protect the woman he’s falling in love with from an
obsessed stalker who wants Allison for himself. For Rock, failure is not an
option.
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I started writing at the age of 10 on
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Excerpt:
Not counting when she asked Rock to
act as her stand in boyfriend for the night, had she ever asked a man on a
date. She’d never needed to. Tonight an urgency to know him better gripped her.
It had started the moment he picked her up and grew as the night went on. Now
with him about to leave, she needed to do something while she still had the
opportunity. Once he walked out the door, she might not get another chance.
His face remained expressionless.
Had she miss read him tonight?
No. She might have imagined
the glances she thought he sent in her direction, but she hadn’t imagined the
hard erection she felt when they’d danced. No it had been quite real.
“Not to another event like tonight’s
promise. Something more casual. There are some nice restaurants in town.
There’s also a comedy club not far from here that Jake and Charlie love.”
Allison moved into his personal space. “Or we can do something closer to you.
We don’t have to stay in this area. Anywhere is fine.”
His expression changed, and he
nodded.
When she opened the door for him
earlier, she’d thought him panty melting hot, but now as he smiled at her she
realized how wrong she’d been. Wow. Maybe it was a good thing the man didn’t
smile too often.
“How’s next Saturday?”
She’d kind of been hoping for
something sooner, but she wouldn’t complain. He’d agreed. “Whatever works best
for you?”
He smiled again. Oh, yeah. He was
protecting the female population by not smiling on a regular basis.
“I’ve got your number. I’ll call ya
later in the week, and we can work out the details.”
Well, she’d already done a first
tonight and asked him out. She might as well do another first and kiss him
because it didn’t look like he planned on doing it. “Great,” she said leaning
closer and pressing a kiss against his lips. Since everything else about the
man appeared hard, she expected his lips to be too. Instead, they were warm and
pliant against hers.
Rough callused hands settled on her
bare skin and traveled lower sending a tingle down her spine, and she rubbed
her tongue against his lips. On cue his mouth opened, and she didn’t hesitate.
Right away she slipped her tongue inside.
He tasted like coffee and cherries.
She’d noticed him popping hard candies on the ride into and DC as well as the
ride home. She guessed they were the
source of the cherry flavor.
Rock’s hands moved again, settling
on her butt and an ache started between her legs. She hadn’t had sex since
before Halloween when she’d still been with Charles and until this moment she
hadn’t been the least bit aroused once in all that time. Now she was
considering another first and asking him up to her bedroom. Never in her life
had she had sex on a first date. She left that type of behavior to her
brothers. Before she got intimate with a man, she liked to know more than just
his name. Right now anything else about Rock seemed irrelevant. She wanted him
and it was evident he desired her. There was no missing the erection pressing
against her.
Then just like that his hands
settled on her waist and he put space between their bodies. Cool reason
immediately washed over her and heat warmed her face. She’d just been
considering sex with a man she barely knew. If her brother Trent ever found
out, he’d never let her live it down. She’d given him a hard time for doing the
very same thing too often.
“I gotta go. We’ll talk this week.”
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