by Karin Tabke
“Ohhh, I know that look! Did you meet someone else already?”
“I’m done with men, Rosie. I pick lousy ones. And I’m tired of getting hurt.”
“You just haven’t met the right man yet, sweet-pea. Did I ever tell you how many lovers I had before I met Elliot?”
“Surprisingly no,” Katy chuckled. Rosie never held back details. The more sordid the better.
“I stopped counting after thirty.”
“You stopped counting after thirty? Oh, my God, Rosie!”
“Most of them were frogs. A few had prince potential but I never settled for any of them because I knew they weren’t the one for me. But I knew the minute Elliot walked into my restaurant he was the one. I told him so too. It took about a year before he believed me. And that was thirty-one years ago.”
“I can’t believe you had sex with over thirty men!”
“How else was I going to know if we were compatible? If you aren’t compatible in the bedroom, chances are you won’t be out of it.”
Katy swallowed loudly. If that was an indicator, she and Simon were soul mates. “Sex isn’t everything in a relationship, Rosie.”
“If you’re not getting good sex, it ain’t. But once you have great sex, there’s no settling for less.”
Then Katy was doomed to be disappointed for the rest of her life. Simon had ruined other men for her.
She turned on her bedroom light and tossed her suitcase onto her bed.
“We’ll talk more later, Rosie. Right now, I’m exhausted.”
“You look like you’ve been crying, sweet-pea. I’m sorry about Evan. He seemed like such a nice man, although Elliot thought he was a bit of a bore.”
“Elliot was right.” She hugged her friend goodnight and told her to lock up after herself. When she heard the front door open and close, Katy stripped and took a long hot shower.
Afterward, as she stood naked looking at herself in the steamy mirror, she touched the small bruises along her jugular, compliments of Simon. Her body trembled, and despite her anger at him, her nipples tightened and her womb constricted with desire. God she was going to miss the crazy sex with that talented stud. She wrapped herself in a big fluffy robe. She was going to miss his warmth and his deep voice. Goose bumps erupted along her arms and chest, ending at her nipples as she heard the deep husky timbre of it in her imagination. Dragging her feet into the kitchen, she warmed a can of soup and stared at her cellphone on the table while she ate in silence.
Piercing green eyes that looked past her beige exterior to her core, flashed before her. A deep-seated loneliness gripped her. She choked on a noodle. There was more to Simon, the hot cop, than met the eye, and damn if she wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to get to know all of him better.
Hating the fact that she kept glancing at her cellphone, Katy scolded herself. It wasn’t like Simon had her number. Even if he did, he wouldn’t call her. He had gotten what he wanted and as much as she wanted to be angry that he took what she was offering, she couldn’t stay mad because if she had it to do all over again knowing how lonely she would feel without his larger-than-life presence beside her, she would. In a heartbeat.
“You’re pathetic, Katrina Winslow.” She turned on her cell, still blinking that she had a text. Her belly dropped as her brain registered the symbolism of the icon identifying the sender of the text. It was the set of handcuffs Simon used on her.
Hand shaking, she tapped the view icon. The time of the text was roughly fifteen minutes after she left the hotel that morning. It read: Did you think I’d let you get away?
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About the Author
National bestselling, award-winning author Karin Tabke isn’t just another author with steamy stories to tell, but a cop’s wife who has “seen it all and heard it all.” Some of the hottest stories come from behind the blue wall of law enforcement rather than from in front. Married to a street cop, now retired, Karin is intimate with both and proves it with her sizzling tales of hot cops. Not only are her cops hot, but so are her sexy knights and bad boy werewolves. Karin’s Blood Sword Legacy series is a must read for anyone who loves tales of yore when men were men and women were women, and love did conqueror all. Her dark, erotic Blood Moon Rising paranormal trilogy is best described as “Sons of Anarchy meets Rise of Lycans”. Her L.O.S.T. series (w/a Karin Harlow) is paranormal romantic suspense at its “chilling and sizzling”* best. You don’t want to miss any of Karin’s deliciously edgy tales of danger and passion!
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Discover Other Titles by Karin Tabke:
The Chronicles of Katrina
The Dare
Double Dare
The Truth
The Consequence
The Chronicles of Katrina (Complete series, Books 1-4)
Blood Moon Rising Trilogy
Blood Law
Bloodright
Blood Vow
Blood Sword Legacy
Master of Surrender
Master of Torment
Master of Craving
A Knight to Remember (Novella)
Hot Cops
Good Girl Gone Bad
Skin
Jaded
Have Yourself a Naughty Little Santa
Wanted
Love Uncovered
L.O.S.T.
Writing as Karin Harlow
Enemy Lover
Enemy Mine
Rebel Yell
Rebel Rose
Wicked Reads
Bad to the Bone
Anthologies
You’ve Got Murder
What You Can’t See
Italian Stallion
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BREAKING BAD
Copyright © 2014 Karin Tabke LLC.
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THE DARE
Copyright © 2013 Karin Tabke LLC. All rights reserved.
Editor: Christina Trevaskis
Copy Editor: Martha Trachtenberg and Karen Matheny
Cover Design & Ebook Production: VMC Art & Design, LLC
This book is an original publication of Karin Tabke LLC
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments or locales is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwis
e) without prior written permission from the copyright owner.
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