A
contemporary/paranormal erotic-romance for Halloween.
Excerpt:
It had been one hell of a day.
The leads on development properties
that Ian Hannigan had wasted his afternoon tracking down turned out to be
bogus. Then the drizzle that had been coming all day had grown into torrents.
Finally, as darkness fell, he made his way back to where he remembered parking
his car only to discover it gone. His call to the police resulted in an
inordinately long response time, so he deduced the Halloween whackos were
starting their fun early. The twenty minutes he’d been on hold left him just
barely enough cell phone battery left to call a cab that hadn’t arrived. This
was how he found himself wandering around in what looked like the worst
possible neighborhood for someone wearing a Rolex.
Now, soaked through his conservative
suit right down to his underwear from the bitter rain, he sought out a semi-dry
refuge to regroup. It looked like his only recourse was to huddle in the deep,
covered doorway of a darkened ‘Occult and Curio’ shop to wait in case the
police managed to come by. This wasn’t a part of town in which cabs would troll
for fares.
When he selected the seemingly
unoccupied alcove, he hadn’t expected company. So when the temptingly rounded
figure of a young woman appeared to pop up out of nowhere beside him, he
jumped. He stifled a small curse and thought to say hello, but she began
working her magic on Ian without saying a word. There was a look in her shining
eyes that stole the words out of his mouth. When she palmed his stirring cock
without invitation, his instinct was to pull away, but the rapid intensity of
his reaction seemed to paralyze him. He leaned against the entrance hall in a
fog and rode the wave.
The woman was ethereal, dressed in
floaty feminine clothing with unbound hair and wild motion. She looked like a
red headed angel who’d fallen from heaven just for him. She rode his
trouser-clad thigh as if in heat as she traced his neck with her lips. Ian
thought it would be ungentlemanly of him to disoblige. Always a savvy
businessman, he was never one to turn down a good offer, or perhaps he’d simply
gone too long without a woman. Grasping her breast through her hippie linen
peasant blouse, he felt where his drenched jacket had soaked her to the skin.
Sex with strangers might have its
appeal for some men but it didn’t normally happen to Ian, not since his glory
days on the college swim team, in any case. Still, here he was – with what
appeared to be a flower-child nymphomaniac plastered to him like some horny
variety of a clinging vine. And something in his pulse carried him along
without protest. It was out of character for him, he'd always been so cagey and
in control, but her passion seemed to overtake him. Perhaps it was recent
disappointments or the stress of the day, but Ian was unable to resist.
Before the sex starved siren tackled
him, Ian believed absolutely nothing could possibly make this day any better.
Just before he captured her unpainted, coral lips and let his animal instincts
take over, he thought to bless the taxi driver who never showed up.
He didn’t even know her name, but at
that moment he figured it didn't matter.
What’s in a name, anyway?
~*~
LIKE MAGIC is available as a single in ebook, and also in Anne’s
new Rebel Ink Press anthology, ALL I WANT: THE ANNE HOLLY-DAY COLLECTION.
http://annehollyholiday.webs.com/thehollydaycollection.htm
Anne Holly is
a Canadian writer of romance and erotic-romance. She has been published by Wild
Horse Press, Decadent Publishing, Rebel Ink Press, and Pink Petal Books. You
may visit Anne at her blog or
website, or find her on GoodReads, Facebook and
Twitter (@anneholly2010).
Email: anneholly2010@gmail.com.
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