A Lesson in the Storm: Season of Desire: Part 1 (Seasons Quartet) (9 page)

 
The fevered kissing is too gorgeous for us to let it end, but we also want more. He pulls away from me, his lips wet. His eyes are hard with lust but questioning.

 
‘Freya,’ he says, panting. ‘Is this what you want? I mean it, I have to know for sure.’

 
‘How can you ask that?’ I say huskily. ‘Of course I do. Don’t you?’

 
‘Yes… God, yes.’ He closes his eyes for a moment, as though he’s fighting some kind of internal struggle. ‘You’re a mystery but you’re also irresistible.’ He gazes down at me again and says throatily, ‘Now I’ve had a taste of you, I don’t want to go back.’

 
‘So don’t.’ I pull one of my wrists free from his grasp, put my hand behind his head and pull his face to me, so that I can feel his lips again. I push my tongue into his mouth, and we consume each other with a hunger that seems to grow stronger the more we feed it. I want everything: his hands, his skin. I want to run my nails over the flesh on his broad back, I want to feel his hard thighs and the muscled bulges of his biceps as he pulls me to him. I want to release that stiff shaft I felt this morning and feel it hot and hard in my hand. Even more than that, I want him to taste me, feel me, caress me and drive me wild with his lips and tongue before he gives me what I really want.

 
‘But what will happen after this?’ he asks, pulling away from me again. ‘I don’t want you to regret it.’

 
‘I won’t regret it,’ I insist. I’m dizzy with lust now, all I can think about is answering the call of my body for his.

 
‘It will change things between us.’

 
‘Who cares? I want them changed.’

 
His mouth is on mine again. He drops his weight onto me, and my hands snake around his back to pull him tightly upon me. My legs open to let him lie between them, and for the first time I feel that electrifying hardness right on the heart of my sex. He’s as fevered with longing as I am. I’m swelling and wet with sweet juices and I moan. This is almost too much to bear, and we’re still fully clothed. He drops his mouth to the tender junction of my neck and shoulder and bites there, driving me wild so that I can’t help arching my back, pressing myself against his hard body. I run my hands through his hair, as one of his reaches for the bottom of my sweater and finds the soft flesh of my belly beneath. The feel of his fingers on my skin is electric, taking my excitement to yet another level. I want him to touch my breasts, squeeze them, suck the nipples, kiss me again, press his fingers into my depths…

 
I groan with the intensity of my desire.

 
He lifts his head to me and says, ‘No turning back, Freya…’

 
‘No turning back,’ I reply, my eyes burning into his. ‘Please… no turning back.’

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The After Dark trilogy

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About the author

 

Sadie Matthews is the author of six novels of contemporary women's fiction published under other names. In her own work, she has described decadent worlds of heady escapism and high drama.
Fire After Dark
was her first novel to explore a more intimate and intense side of life and relationships.
Secrets After Dark
and
Promises After Dark
complete the
After Dark
series – her first provocative romantic trilogy. She is married and lives in London.

 

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It started with a spark...

 

Everything changed when I met Dominic. My heart had just been broken, split into jagged fragments that can jigsaw together to make me look enough like a normal, happy person.

 

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Ours was a love bound by power...

 

Falling in love with Dominic changed me. I relinquished myself completely and placed my heart and my trust in Dominic's hands, but in one exquisite, excruciating moment he abandoned his control. Anguished by his actions, he has locked those darkest desires inside, unable to share my conviction that it would never happen again.

 

Now it's not only Dominic who craves that delicate, seductive game of give and take, of walking the line between pain and pleasure, abandon and release. Persuading Dominic to let those secret parts of himself unravel will be the biggest risk I've ever taken, but I can't resist. Even if it means we fall apart...

 

 

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Can a fractured love be salvaged?

 

Parting with Dominic has left me broken in a way I could never have imagined. We held elation in the palm of our hands, but one misunderstanding brought it crashing down around us. Now the hurt and sadness follows me like a shadow and makes choosing the right path to take impossible.

 

But one moment with him and the pulsing heat is singing in my blood again; his touch lights a fire that my body refuses to ever forget. I'm hopelessly lost in him. Finding our way back to one another will take trust and a leap of faith - only then we will know whether we have a chance at forever.

 

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