Baggage & Buttons (51 page)

‘Gabe … I … love you,’ I whimpered as the aftershocks
tore through my body, every ounce of energy being leeched from me as he held my
gaze.

‘This is it Mia, this is us connecting. It’s not about
me fucking you, it’s not about you screaming my name, it’s not about how many
times I make you come. It’s about you looking into my eyes and seeing how much
I love you and me seeing the same thing in yours.’ I felt warm and wet inside
and as my eyes merged into his I realised he’d come too, no groans, no
expletives and no panting. ‘I love you so much,’ he sighed.

‘Gabe,’ I sighed as I looked up at him, a few stray
tears rolling down my cheeks. He rolled onto his side and took me with him, my
back to the fire, him still hard inside me. He managed to manoeuvre one of his
legs between mine, without coming out of me and kissed me as he stroked my hair
and continued to look at me as I lay there in his arms, completely sated and
exhausted.

‘Ok baby, close your eyes now, you can sleep. I’ve got
you. I’m never letting you go Mia.’ His arms tightened around me as I put my
palms on his chest and my forehead to his shoulder and shut my eyes. I felt him
pull a blanket over us and I felt my body shutting down, as sleep crept up on
me while listening to him breathing and the fire crackling, with one overriding
thought running through my brain. He came back to Westhampton for
me
, it
seemed he really did love
me, maybe as much as I loved him.

I smiled as I felt myself slipping into a deep and blissfully
contented sleep, all thoughts of chronic conditions, looming operations, financial
problems, pregnant best friends and heartless detached fathers temporarily
forgotten.

Tonight I just wanted to lie in the strong arms of the
man I loved, to feel him protecting me from everything that could cause me
pain. Right now, in this moment I was loved and that was all that mattered.

Tomorrow was another day and we’d deal with all those issues
together.

Hopefully.

Thank you
so much for reading Baggage and Buttons, the second book in the Austin Erotic
Romance Series.

The third
book, entitled Forever and an Engine, continues with Mia, Gabe and Lexi’s stories
where Baggage and Buttons left off.

Mia and
Gabe’s ingrained personality traits continue to rub each other up the wrong way,
while Mia’s formal diagnosis creates even more tension in their relationship.
It forces them to start facing up to whether their love and raw sexual chemistry
is enough to overlook their fundamental differences. Meanwhile Lexi starts
having doubts about her plans for her pregnancy and she has to give the ever
persistent Doug an answer.

Just when
it seems that Mia and Lexi have made their decisions, something happens that will
turn one of their worlds upside down.

Release
date planned for 18
^th
April 2014 - Please check my website or Facebook
page for updates:

www.cjfallowfield.co.uk

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my dear friend Karen, who read
the first draft of New Leaves, No Strings and gave me the confidence to believe
that the characters and storyline had potential. Without her encouragement and
support, I may not have had the courage to fine tune the original manuscript, let
alone to continue writing this series.

Thank you too to all my personal Facebook friends, as
well as my nom de plume Facebook friends and website followers. Your comments
and support have never been taken for granted and have inspired me to keep
going.

I also need to thank my beloved cat. For without her
lying across my keyboard every few hours, I would probably have typed for days
and ended up with repetitive strain injury. I may also not have taken the time
to recharge and come back and re-draft sections with fresh eyes.

Finally thank you everyone for purchasing this second
book, I hope you enjoyed it and will be back for the third.

CJF x