TITLE – Wrecked
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She started out
watching the movie on the opposite end of the couch, but pretty soon she found
herself flush against him, needing to feel human contact. They shared her blanket, but it wasn’t a
sexual thing. It was comforting to feel
his warmth pressed against her body. To
her delight, he jumped when she did, but when she looked at his face to see if
he looked scared, he showed very little emotion. Only his eyes held the fear that she knew her
entire face was projecting.
At some point, one of
his arms crawled around her shoulders and he pulled her close to him. At
another point, she reached for his other hand, holding it to her chest and
squeezing it when she closed her eyes against the soggy girl in the movie. His warmth and comfort was something she had
never experienced, though had often wished for.
She tried not to dwell on that thought too much. In Renae’s experience, dwelling on the
positive was inevitably a mistake. It
always set her up for a let-down.
After it was over,
Jason let out a pent up breath. “I
forgot how freaky that damn movie was.”
“Not me, I
remembered. I won’t be sleeping
tonight.” She laughed nervously and
unfolded herself from the ball she’d curled up into on the couch, standing and
stretching.
Jason stood too. “I guess I should go. As much as I would like to stay… I don’t
think you want a repeat performance.”
He sounded hurt, and
she wanted to reassure him. He’d been so
agreeable all night, and they’d gotten along so well. Renae touched his arm. “It’s not that I don’t want that, Jason, I
do. As long as we’re talking about that
amazing night we shared.” She watched as
he nodded. “But I was really drunk that
night, and I want a real relationship with you.
Not like a marriage or anything, but I don’t want something based on
great sex. Does that make sense?”
He nodded soberly,
waited a beat, then his face cracked into that grin that made Renae willing to
do anything. “Great, huh?”
She laughed. “Stud-muffin caliber sex.”
He stilled, a
perplexed expression on his face. “I
don’t know what that means.” She
answered with a shrug, secretly amused by his confusion. “But sex in the future is still on the table,
right?”
Renae nodded. “Yes, I think so.” It was something she’d considered,
repeatedly. Especially at night when she
was supposed to be sleeping.
“Good.” He lowered his head to hers and kissed
her. It was such a sweet and tender
kiss, considering they’d just been talking about how great the sex between them
was, that Renae was caught off guard.
She’d been preparing for a conquering kiss of triumph, since she’d just
agreed they might have sex someday. But
this kiss was a consuming kiss, his warm lips softly nibbled on her lips and
when she opened, he slowly swept his tongue inside, softly overwhelming her
senses, until yet again she was a trembling mass of nerves. He seemed to sense it, and his hand came to
her lower back where he supported her.
He didn’t pull her closer, or press himself against her, he just held
her, kissing her softly. When his other
hand reached for her face, she couldn’t stop herself from melting into him.
Her own hands tugged
on his hair, adjusting the position of his face so she could deepen the
kiss. As much as she loved the tender
kiss, Renae wanted more. She whimpered
into his mouth as she pulled his hair, and something seemed to snap inside
Jason. He hauled her against his body
and a primal sound came from the back of his throat. He trailed kisses across her cheek and down
her neck, whispering about her smell and the things she did to him.
“No control around
you… so fucking perfect… want more.”
She pulled his head
back up to her face to keep kissing him and wrapped one arm around his neck
while her other hand snaked down his chest.
She felt like a volcano had erupted inside her and her veins were
filling with molten lava. The only thing
to quench it was Jason.
My Review: 5 stars
What a ride this book was! I loved every bit of it. I could totally feel for Renae, her only real relationship was so long ago, and so awful. Yeah, she had issues, but who wouldn't after that? There were a lot of things that could have been avoided if Jason and Renae only talked, but I can definitely see where Renae was coming from, and even though Jason turned out to be a great guy, he should have given her the benefit of the doubt. That's a difficult enough thing to deal with, but to think you're doing it alone again?? Jason coming in the way he did to most women would be amazing, not to Renae. He only scared her more. I know it wasn't intentional, but seriously - talk to a woman! I seriously wanted to kick Les's ass for stepping over Jason and doing what he did. That was wrong on so many levels. I was really glad that Renae didn't go for the comfortable, known but instead chose the unknown. The man who made her feel so many things. I loved that they finally got their act together, because they had some serious chemistry. It all came into perfect clarity for me when Renae had the talk with her brother, and he told her how things in relationships were supposed to go. Here's to more from Serendipity, Texas! (Seriously, is there a town like this?? Cause I want to live there.)
AUTHOR
BIO:
Anne has written her entire life and has the
boxes of angst-filled journals and poetry to prove it. She’s been writing for public consumption for
the last four years. Currently she is
writing two romance series. In Stories of Serendipity, she explores real
people living real lives in small town Texas in a contemporary romance
setting. In The Four Winds, she chronicles God’s four closest archangels,
Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael, falling in love and becoming human. She lives in rural East Texas with her
husband and children in her own private oasis, where she prides herself in her
complete lack of social skills, choosing instead to live with the people inside
her head.
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