Commercial real
estate agent, Ava Baldassari, is done with being a good girl. Recently
having revamped her self-image, home and wardrobe she finds there is one thing
left that needs updating; her sex life. She runs into her friend and
running partner, Cole, one night when she is out with a friend.
A bit drunk she flirts with him and is surprised by the enthusiastic response
he gives back. Things reach a point where she has to make a
decision whether or not to cross a line she never has
before. Ava is forty and Cole is twenty-five, is she really ready to
become a cougar?
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“I’ve been wanting to do this for a while,” he
whispered in my ear, still pressed against me as he unzipped my dress.
Me too, I wanted to say. But I
didn’t. I was adrift in the onslaught of sensation as he slid the fabric from
me, trailing kisses down my back as it went. Making me aware as I never had
been of how sensitive the skin there could be. When he reached the small of my
back, he lingered, kneading my skin with his tongue and teeth. His hands ran
down my legs and then back up to my breasts, and I savored the feel of his
fingers. My breaths came heavier. I had been needing this for too long.
He rose and turned me toward him, towering over
me. His cap was gone and his dark hair was askew, as though he had run his
fingers through it, giving him that sexy just-woke-up look. I slid my fingers
from the waist of his jeans, underneath his shirt, to his muscled back. The
ridges of strength there were too tempting beneath my fingertips. How did he
find the time to work out that much? I had to see with my own eyes. Fisting the
hem of his shirt in my hands, I pulled his t-shirt up to remove it. Why should
I be the only one standing here naked? With a chuckle, he complied, lifting the
shirt over his head and flinging it away in the casual manner of an underwear
model on TV.
Sure, I had imagined what he looked like with his
shirt off, but the reality was ten times better. He had a runner build, but
that was filled out with muscle. The planes of his chest were topped by strong
shoulders and arms, which seemed to blossom over the lean ridges of his
abdominals, creating a definite contrast. I couldn’t help reaching out and
touching him. I ran my hands over his skin, tracing my way upward to the light
coating of black hair on his pectorals. He leaned his pelvis into me, forehead
on mine, his erection pressing into me, making me shiver with anticipation.
We were on the brink of something oh-so-good, and
I was dying to plunge ahead. Yet, I hesitated. Questions burned in my mind. I
tried to hold them back, knowing serious talk would ruin the moment. That
lasted about two seconds before I gave in.
“Um…” I said.
He lifted his head from mine and looked at me.
I cocked my head at him. “Did you just say you’ve
been wanting to do this for a while?” Had he been scoping me out all this time?
He nodded. “Who wouldn’t? Look at you. You’re
gorgeous.”
The smoldering look he gave me trumped anything I
observed on the physical plane. The messages coming from him on a subliminal
level promised pleasure that made me squirm with heat.
“You know it’s going to be good between us, Ava,”
Cole said.
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Restless by nature,
Jewel Quinlan is an avid traveler and has visited 16 countries so far. Lover of
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