‘Gabe I need to look away, please let me look away. The way you’re looking at me … it’s too much.’
‘I need you to see it Mia, to feel it. See how much I love you.’
‘Gabe … please. I feel like I’m on fire, it’s intense, it’s too … intense.’
‘Stay with me baby, just a bit longer,’ he groaned. I felt my body start to react, there was no turning back now, my orgasm was coming at me and nothing could stop it. ‘I can tell you’re coming your cheeks have gone flushed. Don’t fight it, give it to me Mia. Let me have you, let me love you. Keep looking at me Mia, please.’
‘Gabe,’ I sobbed as I ignited inside and my body started to tremble. ‘What’s happening? Why’s it so … much more? I can’t … Gabe I .… just can’t.’
‘Don’t look away baby,’ he ordered, his voice low and husky, full of emotion. My hips rose up to meet his as I quaked. I wanted to scream, but it was suddenly like someone had just muted my volume control, he was making me show him with my eyes what he’d just done to me instead of with my voice and I felt my mouth opening and closing as nothing came out and he kept looking at me, with the most tender expression I’d ever seen on his face. ‘That’s it, let me have it baby, keep looking at me. You’re so beautiful, I love you Mia.’
‘Gabe … I … love you,’ I whimpered as the aftershocks tore through my body, every ounce of energy being leeched from me as he held my gaze.
‘This is it Mia, this is us connecting. It’s not about me fucking you, it’s not about you screaming my name, it’s not about how many times I make you come. It’s about you looking into my eyes and seeing how much I love you and me seeing the same thing in yours.’ I felt warm and wet inside and as my eyes merged into his I realised he’d come too, no groans, no expletives and no panting. ‘I love you so much,’ he sighed.
‘Gabe,’ I sighed as I looked up at him, a few stray tears rolling down my cheeks. He rolled onto his side and took me with him, my back to the fire, him still hard inside me. He managed to manoeuvre one of his legs between mine, without coming out of me and kissed me as he stroked my hair and continued to look at me as I lay there in his arms, completely sated and exhausted.
‘Ok baby, close your eyes now, you can sleep. I’ve got you. I’m never letting you go Mia.’ His arms tightened around me as I put my palms on his chest and my forehead to his shoulder and shut my eyes. I felt him pull a blanket over us and I felt my body shutting down, as sleep crept up on me while listening to him breathing and the fire crackling, with one overriding thought running through my brain. He came back to Westhampton for me, it seemed he really did love me, maybe as much as I loved him.
I smiled as I felt myself slipping into a deep and blissfully contented sleep, all thoughts of chronic conditions, looming operations, financial problems, pregnant best friends and heartless detached fathers temporarily forgotten.
Tonight I just wanted to lie in the strong arms of the man I loved, to feel him protecting me from everything that could cause me pain. Right now, in this moment I was loved and that was all that mattered.
Tomorrow was another day and we’d deal with all those issues together.
Hopefully.
Thank you so much for reading Baggage and Buttons, the second book in the Austin Erotic Romance Series.
The third book, entitled Forever and an Engine, continues with Mia, Gabe and Lexi’s stories where Baggage and Buttons left off.
Mia and Gabe’s ingrained personality traits continue to rub each other up the wrong way, while Mia’s formal diagnosis creates even more tension in their relationship. It forces them to start facing up to whether their love and raw sexual chemistry is enough to overlook their fundamental differences. Meanwhile Lexi starts having doubts about her plans for her pregnancy and she has to give the ever persistent Doug an answer.
Just when it seems that Mia and Lexi have made their decisions, something happens that will turn one of their worlds upside down.
Release date planned for 18th April 2014 - Please check my website or Facebook page for updates:
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my dear friend Karen, who read the first draft of New Leaves, No Strings and gave me the confidence to believe that the characters and storyline had potential. Without her encouragement and support, I may not have had the courage to fine tune the original manuscript, let alone to continue writing this series.
Thank you too to all my personal Facebook friends, as well as my nom de plume Facebook friends and website followers. Your comments and support have never been taken for granted and have inspired me to keep going.
I also need to thank my beloved cat. For without her lying across my keyboard every few hours, I would probably have typed for days and ended up with repetitive strain injury. I may also not have taken the time to recharge and come back and re-draft sections with fresh eyes.
Finally thank you everyone for purchasing this second book, I hope you enjoyed it and will be back for the third.
CJF x
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