by Lauren Wood
ONE LAST CHANCE
LAUREN WOOD
Contents
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One Last Kiss
1. Prologue
2. Ten Years Later
3. Danielle
4. Danielle
5. Mack
6. Danielle
7. Mack
8. Danny
9. Mack
10. Danielle
11. Mack
12. Danny
13. Mack
14. Danny
15. Mack
16. Danielle
17. Mack
18. Danielle
19. Mack
20. Danny
21. Mack
22. Danny
23. Mack
24. Danny
25. Mack
26. Danny
27. Danny
28. Mack
One Last Touch
29. Prologue
30. Cal
31. Mariss
32. Cal
33. Mariss
34. Cal
35. Mariss
36. Cal
37. Mariss
38. Cal
39. Mariss
40. Cal
41. Mariss
42. Cal
43. Mariss
44. Cal
45. Mariss
46. Cal
47. Mariss
48. Cal
49. Mariss
50. Cal
51. Mariss
52. Cal
53. Mariss
54. Cal
55. Epilogue
One Last Time
56. Prologue
57. Matt
58. Anna
59. Anna
60. Anna
61. Matt
62. Anna
63. Matt
64. Anna
65. Matt
66. Anna
67. Matt
68. Anna
69. Matt
70. Anna
71. Matt
72. Anna
73. Matt
74. Anna
75. Matt
76. Anna
77. Matt
78. Anna
79. Matt
80. Anna
81. Matt
82. Anna
83. Matt
One Last Love
84. Prologue
85. Frank
86. Gemma
87. Frank
88. Gemma
89. Frank
90. Gemma
91. Frank
92. Gemma
93. Frank
94. Gemma
95. Frank
96. Gemma
97. Frank
98. Gemma
99. Frank
100. Gemma
101. Frank
102. Gemma
103. Frank
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by Lauren Wood
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
This book is for mature readers. It contains sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some.
All sexual activity in this work is consensual and all sexually active characters are 18 years of age or older.
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One Last Kiss
Blurb
* * *
Mack, my first love ever, was a sexual mastermind.
He could do so many things to my body that I didn’t know were possible.
I thought it would never end, this magical time, but it did.
Our love couldn’t withstand reality.
Now he’s back and his charm is being used on me.
He’s trying to pull me back in.
* * *
I almost didn’t recognize him at the reunion.
Things changed and Mack was dressed impeccably in a three-piece suit.
He looked magnetic and our eyes met from across the room.
* * *
He comes towards me and I’m shaking.
Mack is more than a man to me.
He was everything to me at one point.
* * *
Now he’s back in my life and I can’t say no.
I never could.
Those dark blues eyes.
Hard chest and deviled grin.
Got me every time.
Every single time.
* * *
He wanted me back in his bed and there’s no way to deny him.
* * *
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Prologue
Mack
* * *
“I don’t even know you. What makes you think that you can talk me into anything?”
I smiled at Danny and told her that I was going to talk her into everything.
“It’s doubtful Mack. I know that you have a reputation in school, but not with me. I’m not like other girls.”
I’d heard things about her as well and I knew that she was telling the truth. She was not like any other girl that I’d met, namely she wasn’t giving me the time of day. I didn’t usually have to ask more than once.
“That’s a good thing. I wouldn’t be talking to you if you were.”
“You sound a bit too sure of yourself Mack. You’re kind of coming across like a jerk.”
I grinned at her and started to relax. This was the sort of banter that I could get behind. All I could think about was taking her into my arms and kissing her. A bit of her bottom lip was trapped between her teeth and so helped me it made me want her more.
“Cause I am sure. I know things.”
“What do you know?”
“I know that you’re going to help me cut class by pretending to be my mom on the phone and then we are both going to get out of here.”
She had this look that she didn’t believe me and I was fully prepared to prove her wrong. I knew that there was something in her eyes. She was interested and if I didn’t know any better, the bad boy in me was bringing out the bad girl in her.
“There is no way that it is going to happen, Mack. You need to find someone else to do that for you.”
I knew that she would, even as she protested that it wouldn’t happen. She still had that curiosity in her eyes and I wondered if the preppy girl had ever done anything out of the ordinary. She always followed the rules and I wanted her to break them for me.
I handed her my cell phone and dialed the number for the school. We were standing in the hallway and the bell was a couple of minutes from ringing. I already had too many demerits against me and I couldn’t get anymore. If I had any more unexcused absences, I wasn’t going to graduate and another year in this place wasn’t an option.
She took the phone, the whole time giving me a dirty look while I just grinned at her. I didn’t want to push it at the moment, but I wanted to point out that I told her so.
Her voice changed and she sounded like an
older fifty year old woman. She was clip with her answers and I couldn’t tell it was her, Danny standing right in front of me, looking at me with daggers in her eyes.
“You’ve been excused.”
Danny hung up and I thanked her for the help. “I knew you would be good at a life of crime. I think you are perfect to come to paradise with me.”
“Well that’s my last little touch with the other side of the law. You’re going to have to find someone else to do your dirty work and to go to paradise with you Mack. I’m not the girl for you.”
She started to walk away and I stopped her with an arm on her hand.
“Let me repay you.”
By the time she’d turned around about to answer, I was pressing my lips against hers, my grip pulling her to me until she yielded from our bodies touching. Her body melted against mine and it was the first time that Danny reacted the way any other girl would.
She didn’t let me kiss her long though. She pushed back and I relented. Danny’s eyes were glazed when she met mine and the innocence that I’d heard about was staring back at me. It was a temptation that was hard for me to go back for more.
“Was that my repayment?”
Danny acted like she wasn’t impressed, but she was. I could tell by the way she was smiling at me now.
“No, not if that wasn’t enough. I can give you more.”
I started to move towards her and she stopped me giggling. “Do you think of anything else?”
“Standing here, next to you? No way.”
“Buy me some lunch since you’ve interrupted mine and dragged me into your seedy lifestyle.”
I was more than happy to do just that. I already knew that it was going to go somewhere else. She was going to be mine. I knew that it was going to take a little persistence, but for the right reasons, I could be quite patient.
We walked out of school and to my car. From that point on we were inseparable.
Ten Years Later
Mack
* * *
I flipped the card in my hand and smiled to myself. As soon as I saw it in the mail, my high school logo on it that I’d once had on a Varsity jacket that I’d jacked from one of the football players for a debt, I knew it was about the reunion. It was about time for our reunion and I couldn’t believe that it had been almost ten years since I graduated by the skin on my teeth. Sure enough of what it was, I opened the envelope and smiled to myself. I was thinking of simpler times as Ernest drove me to meet a buyer.
It was the first time I was meeting Candace and I was anxious as I was for each new venture. This letter was a welcomed distraction as I thought of the possibilities of this one night.
“Are you okay boss?”
“Yeah, I just got some good news.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah, we have a reunion coming up and I’m going to run into my ex there. I haven’t had some of that ass for ten years. I wonder if it will still be as good.”
“I can’t remember one chick from that long ago. She must have been something special.”
That was the understatement. Danny had been something else altogether and the more I thought about her, the less I worried about the meeting coming up in a few minutes. It was good to think of something else besides work. It was good to think of Danny again. I didn’t realize until now how much I missed her.
“Yeah Danny was something special.”
“Then why did you stop talking? Did you cheat on her or something?”
Ernest was being chatty and I knew it was from nerves. It appeared that he needed his mind off of it as much as I did.
“No, it just, hell I don’t know. It just wasn’t working all of a sudden and then she was gone.”
I thought about what I said and the truth wasn’t all that. It was complicated, but I was ready to push it to the side and see what we could create now. I wanted back in her panties.
I knew that I wanted there to be something between us again. I could still feel the wetness as she was pleasured. The screams as she came. I missed the intensity that we had for each other. It hadn’t been found with anyone else and this damn card from high school was bringing it all back. It was a month away. It was a long time to wait.
Ernest stopped and waited for instructions on what to do next.
“Just drive around a four block square and I will be out soon. Stay close the first couple of minutes to two block squares.”
He agreed and I got out. I didn’t like Ernest opening the doors for me in this situation. It would make him an instant target. He was my driver, not my bodyguard.
I walked up to the bungalow and I could tell that there were several people inside from the shadows in the windows. It threw me off immediately because it was just supposed to be me and a buyer. This woman was obviously nervous and I found out just how much so when I knocked and I was pulled in by thick fingers, catching me off guard. Two guys with guns started to frisk me and I was affronted with their touch.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Just checking for wires and things, weapons. You know as a woman I have to be more careful.”
The black-haired Caroline was not at all what I’d expected. She couldn’t have been more than thirty and she had a pretty face. Usually I dealt with old men with too much money looking for an outlet that they could dump it in without paying taxes on the cash.
“I didn’t sign up for that. Get your goons or I’m out of here.”
“For someone with so much experience and recommendations, I can’t believe that this is new to you.”
“It is. I won’t work with someone if this is how it’s going to go.”
Caroline smiled and nodded to the two men that were manhandling me. “Very well, let’s see what you have for me Mack. I hear good things.”
If this is how she acted with good news, I would hate to see how it was with bad news.
“I have pictures. You pick out what looks good to you and I will have some of my guys bring them to you.”
“Some of your guys?”
“You don’t think I have it with me, do you?”
“Well it would fit if you wanted it to.”
Caroline was interested in jewelry, namely a diamond that I was recently pressed upon to sell. It was one of a kind, like many of the larger ones I dealt with were and it had a beautiful yellow hue. It was worth millions, but we both knew that she was going to get a bit of a deal because of its origins. I didn’t know much about Caroline or her wealth, but with three of my clients vouching for her, I was going out on a limb.
She flipped through the book and found her prize.
“I want that Mack.”
I told her the price that I had in mind and she didn’t even flinch. I’d started a little high because I figured she would try to haggle me down, but she didn’t and I was left with a much higher price tag.
“Good, when can I have it?”
She was anxious and I told her I could have it to her very soon, as soon as I had money.
The amount was quickly bagged up and if I wasn’t so experienced in this, I would have been amazed at the amount of money I was handling. It was a lot of cash and I noticed that she had a little more there. It meant I could have asked for more and she would have gone for it. That was my biggest mistake and I was kicking myself for not upping the price more.
“Now, when do I get my diamond?”
She was looking at me expectantly and I took the money in the case. I reached into my pocket and handed her the ring that she was looking for.
“You kept this in your pocket? Do you know how much this is worth?”
I lifted up the case a bit to let her know that I did. I found it rather funny that her guys hadn’t found it before, but they were looking for wires and guns, not a little ring in the inside pocket.
“You’ll be in touch if you come across anything else that I might like?”
I told her that I would. The transaction had gone pretty smooth, save for the beginning and I could
foresee us working together in the future. She had a certain smile that I knew well. Maybe I would be calling her for more than pretty little stones in the future.
Ernest picked me up not far from the place and I heaved a sigh of relief. If I didn’t get stopped in the next five minutes, I would consider the sale a good one. But that next five minutes felt like thirty. It was the worst part of the job, but the most necessary.
