Best Erotic Romance 2014 (26 page)

His laughter stops suddenly and he's pulling me down to him, kissing me softly even as he thrusts up into me. I gasp into his open mouth and he thrusts again, hitting that sweet spot he knows so well.

“No fair,” I mumble against his lips. “You're playing dirty.”

He licks my bottom lip, then sinks his teeth into it just hard enough to make every nerve tingle. “You like it dirty.”

He's right, of course. I may be on top, but there's no doubt who is controlling things at the moment, and I love it that way. His teeth tugging at my bottom lip, his hands tugging my hair, his cock unrelenting in stroking my G-spot. I'm straddling that exquisite line between pleasure and pain in the same way I straddle him; knowing that if I can just let go, it'll be amazing.

I'm on the cusp of coming almost before I realize it. Some things get better with age and that, at least for me, seems to be one of them. I press my mouth to his shoulder and grind against him, feeling wetness flowing from me and soaking us both. And then I'm there, right there, biting his shoulder harder than I should be to keep from screaming. I succeed—almost—and the squeak-moan that comes out of me would be funny if it wasn't a verbal testament for every single emotion I feel for this man.

He's whispering in my ear, a string of nonsensical obscenities and encouragements, meant to drive me higher—but I'm already there, as high as I can be, looking down at him and wanting him to join me. My eyes are heavy-lidded with lust and I see him almost as a blur, intense blue eyes staring into mine,
his mouth quirked into a smile that is part amusement at my arousal and all male satisfaction to be the one to cause it.

“Your turn, baby. I want you to come inside me,” I whisper, sounding like a siren, a temptress, a vixen. I am all these things with him, for him. “Please.”

It's the
please
that does it. I know this, of course. His orgasm was a foregone conclusion the minute we closed the bedroom door, but knowing I want it—want him—and am willing to ask or even beg for it, sets him off. He digs his fingers into my hips, anchoring me on him as he thrusts up harder and deeper than before. With him buried inside me, I feel his pulse and then release. His jaw is clenched, that vein throbbing in time with his cock, as a guttural moan rises up deep and primal, sending a shiver up my spine that makes me tighten around his cock.

We're both sweaty and panting as I collapse on top of him, feeling his heart pounding in his chest much as mine is pounding. That's what I needed—what I always seem to need and can never get enough of. I'm trailing kisses along his shoulder, still not able to get enough of him, always wanting more. I don't realize I'm crying until he shifts his weight and rolls me over on my side so he can look at me.

“You okay, babe?”

I laugh softly, rubbing the tears away. “I'm great. My body just turned on the waterworks—everywhere.”

He doesn't laugh with me. “Are you sure? You'd tell me if something was wrong, right?”

It's my turn to reassure him, and I do. “Of course. You're the first one—the only one—I'd tell. I'm good. I'm great. I needed this, that's all. Needed it more than I realized.”

“Me too,” he confesses. “It's been a hell of a year.”

“Hell of a decade.”

He nods, staring at me still. It's as if we both are afraid to
look away, afraid to break the spell. But that's silly. It's always there, between us, even when we're not together. We just need to find more of these times, whatever it takes.

His serious expression shifts to playful when his mouth quirks up into a smile. “Well, it's only nine-thirty, you know.”

His smile is contagious. “Yeah? What were you thinking? Ice cream and an episode of
Game of Thrones
?”

His semi-hard cock suggests something else. “Maybe later,” he says, rolling me onto my back and pressing the head of his cock against my still-sensitive clit. “We have to make the most of the alone time we get, right?”

Wrapping my legs around his waist and digging my fingers into his well-muscled ass, all I can do is nod. Yes, yes, yes.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

LAILA BLAKE
(
lailablake.com
) is a linguist, working as a translator and English teacher in Cologne, Germany. She has yet to find a genre to settle down with but most prominently enjoys writing romance and erotica. Her first novel,
By the Light of the Moon
, was released in April 2013.

VICTORIA BLISSE
(
victoriablisse.co.uk
) is equally at home behind a laptop or cooker and loves to create stories and baked goods that make people happy. Passion, love and laughter fill her works, just as they fill her busy life.

The story goes that while on pregnancy bed rest,
LAUREN DANE's
(
laurendane.com
) husband bought her a secondhand laptop. She wrote her first book on it and never looked back. Today, Lauren is a
New York Times
and
USA Today
best-selling author of over fifty novels and novellas across several genres.

EMERALD's
erotic fiction has been published in anthologies edited by Violet Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel and Kristina Wright, among others. She is an advocate for reproductive freedom and sex-worker rights and blogs about both at
thegreenlightdistrict.org
. At age fifteen, she started wanting to dye her hair purple.

LUCY FELTHOUSE
(
lucyfelthouse.co.uk
) writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over seventy publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. Anthology appearances include
Best Bondage Erotica 2012
and
2013
, and
Best Women's Erotica 2013
.

A naughty girl on a journey of self-discovery as an erotic writer,
TAMSIN FLOWERS
(
tamsinflowers.com
) is as keen to entertain her readers as she is to explore every aspect of female erotica. Hoping to touch you on your most erotic zones, she writes light-hearted stories that are sexy and fun.

JEANETTE GREY
started out with degrees in physics and painting, which she dutifully applied to stunted careers in teaching, technical support, and advertising. When none of that panned out, she started writing. In her free time, Jeanette enjoys making pottery and playing board games. She lives in upstate New York.

A. M. HARTNETT
(
amhartnett.com
) published her first erotic short in 2006. Since then, she has been featured in several anthologies, including Cleis's
Irresistible, Going Down, Sudden Sex
and
Best Erotic Romance 2013
. She has also written three novels as Annemarie Hartnett.

CRYSTAL JORDAN
is originally from California, but has lived all over the United States. She currently serves as a librarian at a university in her home state and she writes paranormal, contemporary, futuristic and erotic romance. Her publishers have included Kensington Aphrodisia, Harlequin Spice Briefs, Ellora's Cave and Samhain Publishing.

ANNABETH LEONG
(
annabethleong.blogspot.com
) knows a timing belt from a steering wheel, but just barely. She writes erotic romance for Ellora's Cave, Breathless Press, and others and has contributed to more than twenty anthologies, including
Best Bondage Erotica 2013
and
Passion: Erotic Romance for Women
.

NIKKI MAGENNIS
(
nikkimagennis.com
) is an author, artist and poet. She has published two erotic novels and over thirty short stories—erotic, literary and romantic. She lives in Scotland with her family and is learning the art of stopping time.

KELLY MAHER's
(
kellymaher.com
) published works include the story “Homecoming” in
Duty and Desire: Military Erotic Romance
. She currently lives in Washington, DC where she is working on a historical adventure romance and an urban fantasy series in addition to her erotic short stories.

CATHERINE PAULSSEN's
(
catherinepaulssen.com
) stories have appeared in the 2012 and 2013 editions of
Best Lesbian Romance, Girl Fever
and
Duty and Desire
(all published by Cleis Press), in Silver Publishing's
Dreaming of a White Christmas
series and in anthologies by Ravenous Romance and Constable & Robinson.

Award-winning erotica writer
GISELLE RENARDE
is a queer Canadian, avid volunteer, contributor to more than one hundred short-story anthologies, and author of numerous electronic and print books, including
Anonymous, Nanny State
and
My Mistress' Thighs
. Ms. Renarde lives across from a park with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.

D. R. SLATEN
began writing at a very young age. She spent most of her childhood with stories running in her head side by side with real stories in her life. Raising children and practicing law sidetracked her from her stories. Now, her stories have revolted and found a way out.

ANJA VIKARMA
is an author living in the boondocks of upstate New York. Most recently, she was published in the anthology
Stretched: Erotic Fiction that Fondles the Imagination
and her work can be found on
GoodVibesBlog.com
. In addition to writing, Anja teaches yoga and creative writing, plays in a rock band and is an amateur tap dancer.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Described by The Romance Reader as a “force to be reckoned with,”
KRISTINA WRIGHT
(
kristinawright.com
) is the editor of the best-selling
Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women
, as well as several other Cleis Press anthologies including
Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic
Romance;
Steamlust: Steam-punk Erotic Romance; Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance; Duty and Desire: Military Erotic Romance
and the
Best Erotic Romance
series, as well as the author/editor of
Bedded Bliss: A Couple's Guide to Lust Ever After
. She is also the author of
Seduce Me Tonight
for HarperCollins Mischief. Her erotica and erotic romance fiction has appeared in over one hundred anthologies and her articles, interviews and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, both print and online. She received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from Romance Writers of America for her first novel
Dangerous Curves
. She holds degrees in English and humanities and has taught composition and world mythology at the college
level. Originally from South Florida, Kristina is living happily ever after in Virginia with her husband Jay and their two little boys.