Synopsis:
Nicole Langley’s #1 Crush has always been Gabriel Roberts,
but settling for being a friendly acquaintance has had to be enough.
Gabriel has always seen Nicole as his good friend’s very
pretty, but extremely off limits baby sister.
Then a hot summer day and an even hotter discovery pushes
them over the lines of friendship, over the lines of unrequited desire, and
into each other's arms.
Will they indulge and move on? Or will this crush turn into
something more, something deeper? Something that leaves loose ends begging to
be tied…
EXCERPT
Gabriel's room.
She paused, peeking through the slightly closed door to the
bed within. She had been in there once or twice when Gabriel had a new CD for
her to download, or a book he’d recommended she read. He’d moved in a little
over a year ago when Jackie and her boyfriend Ian had to get rid of their last
roommate, who had almost set the couch on fire when he’d invited his loser
friends over to get high. That guy had been crass, sloppy, and late on the rent
more than a few times. Gabriel was none of those things. He had a relatively
decent job at an employment recruiting firm while he saved up money to play
music full time and get his own place. He tried to keep his messes inside his
space, though he wasn't usually around much to make any. And if he did smoke,
he had yet to set anything on fire.
He put all the guys she dated to shame and served as the
image she used to relieve sexual tension more times than she could count. In
her mind he was tender and sweet, touching her skin reverently, laying gentle
kisses all over her body. He would take his time making her wet, unlike the
last asshole she had gone out with who thought a few licks and a dry finger was
all that was required before he could stick it in. Gabriel would know better, would
ask her if she was ready and then ease himself in carefully. He would tell her
he had been waiting so long for this moment as he stroked her into a frenzy,
making her come over and over again with the power of his strong body and
gentle words.
Just the thought of it made her body shiver, and before she
knew it she was pushing open the door and stepping inside his personal space.
Her body hummed just thinking about how he slept in that bed, the sheets
rumpled and unmade from when he woke earlier that morning. She thought of the
glimpse she caught of him when he came out of the shower. Those tattoos stood
out red and black against the sides of his v-shaped torso, the towel riding low
on his narrow hips.
Thank goodness he had been oblivious to the pair of brown
eyes surveying him from over the edge of the couch.
Now she was standing where he had been when he closed that
door. She let her hand run over the dresser as she walked quietly inside, her
fingers tapping over his brush, his comb, the deodorant he used. She picked up
the bottle of cologne he used and opened it, breathing in the intoxicating
scent.
She put the cap back on, careful to place the bottle back
where it belonged, and surveyed the rest of the room. Beside the dresser was a
pretty nice entertainment center, and on the other side of that was his
bookshelf. She had nearly creamed her panties when she found out it wasn't just
for show, that he did in fact read when he got the chance, and that they shared
similar taste in books. A ridiculously huge rack of CDs and his propped up
guitar filled the far corner of the room. The walls were lined with posters of
his favorite musicians, as well as mementos from shows he and his band played.
Below those posters was the bed, which was simple. It had
metal rungs for the headboard with white sheets and a steel grey comforter. She
could still see the indent of his body in the mattress, the curve in the center
of the pillow where he rested his head each night. On either side of the bed
were small tables with a few drawers each, where pictures of his family and
friends rested. She was tempted to open up those drawers and see what he kept
in them, but she resisted. She didn't intend to go snooping through his things.
All she wanted to do was be in his space, to see the side of him she wasn't
usually allowed to see, at least not for long periods of time. Instead she
swept her hands over the sheets, letting her legs brush against them where they
drooped to the floor.
Nicole wondered as she brought her knee up onto the bed what
it must be like to be a girl in this bed with him. Did he sleep with a lot of
girls? She knew of at least one girl when he first moved in, his ex-girlfriend
Marta. At the time she asked herself what the fuck kind of name was Marta? In
this case, it was the type of name a gorgeous half-Indian, half-Spanish girl
would have, the kind with long dark hair, golden, almond-shaped eyes and a
tall, lithe frame with curves in the all the right places. Her skin was rich
toffee compared to Nicole's milk chocolate with red undertones, her height and
build making Nicole feel like an overly curvy dwarf, even if she was average in
terms of height, and her curves were welcomed by plenty.
What kind of girl did he sleep with now that his ex, Marta,
was out of the picture? Nicole only got to visit her sister occasionally during
breaks from school, so she never got to see exactly what kind of girl besides
Marta could make Gabriel take a second look.
She brought her other knee onto the bed. Resting on all
fours, she pretended she was that girl, the one that he wanted. What would it
be like to have him lying in this bed next to her, his hips barely covered by
these sheets? She crawled closer to the center of the bed, smiling seductively,
pretending she was crawling toward a deliciously naked Gabriel instead of the
cold indent of his body, when her knee landed hard on something tucked under
the sheets. The sound of the TV turning on startled her, as did the image that
popped up on the screen. Her mouth dropped, her eyes widened…
About the Author
Kaia Bennett is a native of New Jersey, a college graduate
and U.S. Army veteran who loves music, movies, astrology, tattoos, martial
arts, animals and, of course, the written word. She heard the siren call of the
writer as a teenage girl, but took her sweet time answering it until she had
lived and loved enough to share her work with the masses.
She is an erotic author who loves to write stories with
diversity, depth, realism and viscerally hot encounters that flirt shamelessly
with the taboo. A lover of all genres and a voracious reader, she aims to write
stories that are transformative for her characters and readers alike.
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