First and Ten

by Fran Lee

  “Oh, God, Jack…” she gasped as she fought to accommodate his thick shaft filling her to bursting. The pain was gone, but in its place was the discomfort of feeling stretched beyond her capacity…until she felt his lean fingers gently pinching her throbbing clit, and he began to slowly rock his hips to move gently inside her. Her breath caught in her throat as the slight shift of pressure inside her body combined with the heady caresses that tantalized her breast and clit sent her spiraling into a splintering orgasm that made her scream with pleasure. And still he kept up the sweet, gentle things that added to her throbbing pleasure.

  He felt her clamping tight around his cock, and he fought back his own orgasm with difficulty. The warm wetness of her virgin’s blood pressed against his groin as she subsided from her orgasm, and when she lifted her eyes to his face, he waited for her reaction to what they had just done.

  “You were right…you do fit.” Her voice was weak and shaky.

  “You want to stop now?” his voice felt thick as the feel of her tight body embracing him drove him to the brink of climax.

  “You haven’t come yet, Jack.”

  “I’ll live. If you’re sore, we should stop now.”

  “You would go without because I’m sore?” He stared into her face as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

  Unable to form a word, he nodded jerkily.

  “God, Jack. That’s why I love you.” She sighed, and pressed her lips into the damp hair at his temple.

  He opened his eyes and clamped his arms even tighter about her lush body. “What did you just say?”

  “I said…that’s why I love you, Jack…” She met his shocked gaze. “Does that make you uncomfortable?” The look in those chocolate eyes nearly floored him. He was buried to his root in her sweet body, aching to feel said delicious body rock on his until he came hard and hot…and she was asking him if the fact that she had admitted she loved him bothered him?

  “Am I hurting you?” His voice was ragged.

  Her eyes looked lost as she shook her head sadly.

  “That’s good, because as long as I’m not hurting you, I am going to show you exactly how I feel about what you just said.” He pressed her back onto the floor and began to thrust with long, slow movements, his lips seeking hers as she whimpered and clung to him.

  “I…love…you…” he whispered against her lips with each deep thrust. “I have loved you since before you told me to go to hell back in high school. I will love you as long as I live. I want to marry you and show you how much I adore you every day of the rest of my life. Any more questions?” He gave a groan of release and emptied, his body shuddering as she milked him of everything he had.

  As they lay in a tangle of arms and legs, his mouth moving over her damp skin as he lay in a daze, he heard her soft voice, ”Yes, Jack. I’ll marry you. But I do have just one more question...”

  He lifted his head and met that sexy chocolate gaze. “And what is that?”

  She wrapped her legs tightly around his hips and pulled his nose down to touch hers. “Would you please cook me dinner first?”

  About the Author

  I started writing horror and sci-fi stories at age eight (if you want to call a 25-page attempt a book!) At age fourteen, I became aware that Romance was the breath of life—lovely, subtle and delicious. So I began to write in earnest, putting each book or short story away carefully—hoping that someday I would find my books on the best-seller lists, along with Barbara Cartland and E. M. Hull. But life has a way of setting back dreams and plans, and for many years, I found myself engulfed in living life. School—marriage—three beautiful kids—and a career helping people in a job I loved.

  But I never gave up on my books, and I decided that it was finally time to toss my hat over the windmill! What was there to lose? I looked through my collected works and spruced one up for the 21st Century, and I somehow found the courage to try. I swallowed my insecurity and fear. I found a great publisher, submitted my novel—and—here I go!

  Just goes to show that you should never give up on your dreams! Sometimes the Magic truly works!

  You can find Fran Lee on the web at: www.franleeromance.com

  Fran loves to hear from readers. You can contact her by e-mail at: fran.lee.romance@gmail.com

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  IOU by Paris Brandon

  The morning after her final exams, Bliss Harper woke up in her own bed wearing only her underwear. She’s never remembered how she got there or why she found an I.O.U. tucked into her panties for one night of “Bad Boy Sex,” signed by her favorite pizza delivery guy, Nick Santucci. But she had a ten-year plan that didn't include any more bad decisions and handsome men. But all work and no play make for a dull life and she’s headed to her ten-year college reunion with every intention of collecting on a debt that's long overdue.

  Ten years ago, bad boy Nick hadn’t usually looked twice at shy, thrift-store fashion reject Bliss Harper. He just hadn’t been able to avoid it when she’d started doing a tabletop, drunken striptease at a frat party the police were raiding. These days Nick’s not delivering pizza, he’s delivering deals and he’s headed to his ten-year college reunion determined to negotiate one night into many with the woman who holds the marker on his heart.

  G-Spot by Taylor Tryst

  Lily Sutherland. No, Detective Lily Sutherland, a title she worked her ass off to earn, has returned to Heartwood Indiana for her ten-year college reunion. An ex-Lady Hawk, and a star athlete on the volleyball team, Lily used her competitive edge to win on the court. She dove into the male dominated world of law enforcement where she once again rocked the foundation and shot up the ranks to homicide detective in record time. As far as Lily is concerned, she’s just one of the boys until she reunites with Dakota Reese, the love of her life.

  Special Agent Dakota Reese has always been too smart for his own damn good. Specializing in serial cases, Dakota attends his college reunion at Western Indiana University for what he believes will be a reprieve, only to discover that his life just became much harder…literally, when he see’s Lily Sutherland at the grand old Victorian down the street. Dakota and Lily had split amicably ten years prior, each of them marrying for all of the right reasons. Unfortunately, they married someone else, and were now both divorced. There’s a natural animosity between the cops and the feebs, but can Lily put their differences aside long enough for her ‘G Man’ to find her g spot and rock her world, forever?

  Prisoner of the Heart by Anny Cook:

  When Rebecca Iversen graduated from college, she headed home with nothing on her mind but wedding plans. Less than a month later her plans were in ruins when she discovered she was pregnant the same week her fiance was arrested for selling drugs. Anxious to provide legitimacy for her child, she married Tom while he was still in jail. Years later, Becky finally divorced him, resolved to make a peaceful life for her children and herself.

  When the reunion invitation from Karen arrived in her e-mail, her Aunt Mary urged her to take the time to enjoy a little adult time at the reunion.

  Young Joe Harris lived across the street from the old Victorian where Becky lived during college. He spent those years secretly yearning for the “older woman”. Now that Becky is back and single, Joe plans to do everything in his power to convince her that he’s exactly the man she needs.

  Nailed by Cindy Spencer Pape

  When shy scientist Karen Sikorski meets up with her college crush, Warner Beckett, sparks fly, but she knows the handsome contractor would never fall for a plain nerd like her. Warner, though, has other ideas. Smart, voluptuous Karen is everything he's ever wanted in a woman, and this time around, he's enough of a grown up to appreciate it. Now all he has to do is convince the lady he really does want her--in every way possible.

  Training Randi by Tessie Bradford

  Miranda Ellson graduated from college with
a degree in design in one hand and a ticket to London in the other. Ten years, five job changes and three boring, unfulfilling relationships later she’s back at WIU to re-connect with old friends, enjoy the campus activities and take a break from…oh who the hell is she kidding?

  Jeff Briggs, former college neighbor and best bud, now successful gym owner, lives in town. He’s the only guy she has ever known who could set her panties on fire by simply walking into a room and Randi is sick and tired of only hooking up with him in her dreams. This may be her only chance to discover exactly what kind of personal training he has to offer.

  Smokin’ Ace by Regina Carlysle

  A college reunion and seeing her best ‘gal pals’ is just the thing widow and single mom, Chloe Wells needs to put a little oomph back into her boring, routine life. For her, those carefree years and the friendships she made with six other women in the old Victorian were unforgettable and, hey, what’s wrong with revisiting a past that was fun and full of laughter? But when she bumps into Michael “Ace” Banner other memories surface. Memories of hot nights and rumpled bed sheets. Memories of the loss of the one man who burned her to ash.

  Former college tennis star, Ace Banner, now a renowned sports photographer, has just one chance to regain the love of pretty, sweet, very sexy Chloe. Yeah, he blew it years ago by walking away but he’s a man now and not about to let her get away again. Ace is prepared to pull out all the stops in reclaiming what he lost all those years ago. It’ll take a slow hand and an easy touch but he’s up for the challenge.

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  Resplendence Publishing’s Erotic Romance Line of Law Enforcement Themed Stories

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  God really should have reconsidered making werewolves. That, or Lyssa needed to get better taste in men and stay away from those with wandering eyes—and other things. Drunk as a wolf, she stumbles to her best friend’s house to sleep off her whiskey induced haze and wakes to…cuffs?

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  Hailed by the bridal flower world as an artistic genius, Meli works long nights making bouquets for women lucky enough to find love, while she herself lives a life of solitude. She yearns to share her heart and body with someone other than Bob, her Battery Operated Boyfriend, but acute shyness keeps her from engaging the “living” world.

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  Wren Thornberry’s life isn’t going according to plan. She let her father talk her out of marrying Bryan Stockard, the man she loves, and moved halfway around the world. Now she’s back home in Texas, babysitting her grandmother while grandma and her boy-toy work through their list of sexual exploits, making themselves the talk of the town.

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  Going Commando by Catherine Chernow

  Bounty hunter Shyra Lawrence listens to her favorite radio station one morning where the DJ’s are discussing “going commando” —a.k.a wearing no undies. Captivated by their conversation, she decides to shed her panties in favor of the freedom that wearing no underwear brings.

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  Garnet Boudreaux is going home. Not back to her nice little apartment in New York City, but to he
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