Natural Impulse
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I leaned against the bottom post on the staircase, cocking my hip. "I bet you'll change your mind after a date with me. What have you got to lose? I'll buy you a nice meal, we'll have some laughs, and then you can decide how badly you want to get me naked."
"Oh please. Does that kind of talk really work for you?"
"Usually." I slanted toward her and lowered my voice. "I can give you the best time of your life, and I'll even talk dirty if you beg me for it." I grinned. "Actually, you won't have to beg. I love whispering filthy things into a woman's ear."
"I'm not into that." She crossed her arms over her chest, elevating her tits. "I'm not interested in dating or sex at all."
"Come on, you must be joking. Aren't you the girl who loves to be naked and loves to suck every ounce of marrow out of life?"
"I'm not a silly, wild girl anymore. I've changed, for the better."
Right. In the space of a few months, she morphed from a party girl into a serious, cargo-pants-wearing woman. Sure, she'd humiliated herself with Ollie last time they saw each other. But that was no reason to shun hot sex and wild times.
"Don't you miss having a good time?" I asked. "I guarantee I can make you feel good."
"I'm not having sex with you."
"We can start with a date, then."
She shook her head, trying to frown but not quite accomplishing it. "You really are persistent, aren't you? Maybe I'm not being clear enough. I'm done with men, at least for a while."
"Have you defected to the other side?"
"What?" She shook her head again, almost smiling. "Oh, I get it. I'm not a lesbian. I'm taking a break from dating, that's all."
"Hmm." I inched closer to her. "We can start with getting it on, and upgrade to dinner once you're over this no-dating thing."
"Do you have concrete for brains?" She made exaggerated lip movements to match her exaggerated enunciation when she said, "I am celibate. No sex. No dating. No men, except for platonic friends. Get it?"
"I can read lips, you know. You could've just mouthed all that, and I would've understood."
"You're so pigheaded, I figured you needed extra emphasis."
Heidi Mackenzie was off dating. Off men. But I wanted her on me. Something about her frumpy clothes made me want to rip them off even more than if she'd been wearing a skimpy outfit. And her celibacy vow only increased my lust for her.
Seducing her into breaking her vow could be lots of fun.
"How about a kiss?" I asked.
"No, Damian. We can be friends---platonic, which means no sex, no kissing, no fondling---but that's it."
I sighed with all the melodrama in my Rom soul. "Have it your way."
"Thank you."
"We'll be friends, until you drag me into the woods and ravage me."
Heidi smiled just enough to create dimples. Her eyes twinkled too. "You're going to be a handful, aren't you?"
"Oh yeah. I always am."
I kissed her hand and walked away.
Life at the Au Naturel Naturist Resort was about to get wild.
Damian and Heidi will return in Natural Satisfaction.
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NATURAL IMPULSE
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Names: Durand, Anna, author.
Title: Natural impulse / Anna Durand.
Description: Marietta, OH : Jacobsville Books, 2020. | Series: Au naturel trilogy, bk. 2.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020910189 (print) | ISBN 978-1-949406-34-4 (paperback) | ISBN 978-1-949406-35-1 (ebook) | ISBN 978-1-949406-36-8 (audiobook)
Subjects: LCSH: Nudism--Fiction. | Nudist camps--Fiction. | Japanese Americans--Fiction. | Man-woman relationships--Fiction. | Oregon--Fiction. | Romance fiction.
| BISAC: FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy. | FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. | FICTION / Romance / Multicultural & Interracial. | GSAFD: Love stories. | Humorous fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3604.U724 N38 2020 (print) | LCC PS3604.U724 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23.