Summer Heat (20 page)
Authors: Jaci Burton
“Yeah, baby,” he
murmured against her lips, his flesh hot beneath her probing fingers. She tore
his shirt up and over his chest, burying her fingers in the crisp hairs until
she found his nipples, then rolled them between her thumb and forefinger until
he groaned. All the while he pulled back and thrust repeatedly inside her,
their passion building to a crescendo that rocked her senses.
When he reached between
them to caress her clit, relentlessly driving his cock deep inside her, she
screamed. She watched overhead as her orgasm shattered her like the splinters
of lightning across the skies.
Aidan came with her,
howling like a beast and clinging to her. She held on, delighted in the joining
of their souls, their minds and their bodies.
When it was over and
they’d righted their clothing, she smiled at him, kissing him tenderly on the
lips. The clouds around them dissipated and the sun peeked out once again.
“What happens next?”
she asked, taking the hand he offered and walking back toward his car.
“Beats me. But I want
it to happen with you.” They reached the car and he pressed her against it, his
kiss full of love and promise. “I don’t know where we’ll end up or what the
future holds, Lissa. All I know is that I can’t spend a day without you by my
side.”
“I love you, Aidan, and
I feel the same way. I don’t want to go back to Boston. There’s nothing for me
there anymore. Everything I’ve ever wanted, desired and needed is right in
front of me. Whatever happens, we’ll figure it out together.”
He smiled tenderly at
her, brushing his knuckles against her cheek and pressing a light kiss to her
lips. When they separated, she looked up and spied a rainbow ending at the
park.
“I’ll try to give you
as many days without stormy weather as I can,” he said, pressing a kiss to her
lips.
She caressed his cheek,
so full of the love she didn’t think was possible. “Let the storms come, Aidan.
As long as the rainbow follows, I’ll always be happy.”
As they drove off and
headed for home, the rainbow followed them the entire way. And she knew she had
finally found the pot of gold.
In April 2003, Ellora’s Cave foolishly offered me a contract
for my first erotic romance and I haven’t shut up since. My writing is an
addition for which there is no cure, a disease in which strange characters live
in my mind, all clamoring for their own story. I try to let them out one by
one, as mixing snarling werewolves with a bondage and discipline master can be
very dangerous territory. Then again, unusual plotlines offer relief from the
demons plaguing me.
In my world, well-endowed, naked cabana boys do the
vacuuming and dishes, little faeries flit about dusting the furniture and doing
laundry, Wolfgang Puck fixes my dinner and I spend every night engaged in wild
sexual abandon with a hunky alpha. Okay, the hunky alpha part is my real-life
husband and he keeps my fantasy life enriched with extensive “research”. But
Wolfgang won’t answer my calls, the faeries are on strike and my readers keep
running off with the cabana boys.
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Summer Heat
ISBN 9781843607793
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Summer Heat Copyright © 2004 Jaci Burton
Edited by Briana St. James
Cover design by Syneca
Cover photography by Guryanov Andrey, RIRF Stock/
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