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Instead, I
text back.
CollinsM:
All this pleasure for me? I should ask you for more favors, Judge.
CS:
Lover Boy, you are the best. Can’t wait.
I sent the
text thread over to me. Then deleted her text messages.
I
knew Collins would be upset if he found out what I planned to do, but it was
for his own good. This woman would no longer have an emotional and physical
hold on him, if I can help it.
It
was time to set Collins free. This was the first step. He’d helped free me from
my imprisonment, now it was my turn to return the favor.
Epilogue
I
stepped into the lavished club done in
Italian Renaissance décor. This was the Casanova Club. I didn’t know what I was
doing here, except I wanted to confront the woman who was Collins’ own version
of Billy. From the conversation I gleamed that day in the courthouse, this
woman took away Collins’ innocence; she abused him, took advantage of him when
he was a minor and she was the judge of his case. It was time to put a stop to
her hold on him.
I
asked where the usual spot was for Colleen Seevers from one of the hostesses
dressed in a Burlesque outfit, and she directed me to a table where the woman I
came to confront sat in a tight black leather corset top and leather black
pants. I gulped. She was a Dom. I was so out of my league. Did I actually think
I can talk her out of seeing Collins?
Colleen
Seevers took one look at me and smiled. “I was expecting you, Kitty,” she said.
“What?”
I croaked. What had I gotten myself into. How did she know I was coming?
“Collins
never answers me by text,” she said. “So I thought it was you. So you want to
play, Kitty?” She got up and came over to me, towering over me in her six-inch
heels. “Looks like you need to be taught a lesson. Collins hasn’t trained you,
yet,” she said, “or you wouldn’t have any problems with him. But you see, you
being what you are, an innocent is causing him a lot of pain. He can’t have you
this way. Sooner or later, Kitty, he’ll leave you or get tired of you…so the
choices you have are: leave him now and go away or join us here and be trained
to be exactly what he wants and needs…consider it a lesson in love.” She ran
her emerald green eyes down my face, neck, and cleavage, looking like she
wanted to devour me. “Collins sure knows how to pick them. You are a treat. A
virgin, gorgeous, and just what I had wanted to play with for years. No wonder
Collins latched onto you like a possessive puppy. You are a catch. It would be
my pleasure training you.” She licked her lips before she brought down the rod
in her hands hard against the table. “What will it be?”
I
gulped, wishing the floor would swallow me whole. What have I gotten myself
into now all for the sake of love?
You & Me
Series continues with Sam, Daggers, Derek, and Collins in Book 3
Freeing You
Freeing Me
Summer 2013
About Kailin Gow
Kailin Gow was a peer counselor
at the Women’s Center during her undergraduate years. She produced and hosted a
women’s issues radio show and ran workshops and seminars in the community for
women covering women’s issues including self-esteem, sexuality, identity, and
gender roles. She was an intern at Juvenile Court, working for the public
defenders with teen charges. As an undergraduate at UC Irvine, she was also
teacher’s assistant in Criminology and Constitutional Law.
Never thinking she would be
interested in the topic, she took her human sexuality class in college, and aced
it, being voted by her group as the girl most of the classmates wanted to be
stranded with on an island. She’d like to think it was because she knew so much
about the subject, of course, not just because the college class was made up of
mostly men.
Kailin Gow today is the author of
several books for women, New Adults, and Young Adults. She divides her time
living in the OC, Las Vegas, Dallas, and London, England with her Alpha husband
and her Bad Ass in Training little girl.
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Resources
Saving YOU
Saving ME
brings up several social subjects since it takes place at a
crisis teen and young adult call center. While the advice given through the
scenarios Samantha Sullivan encounters at the fictional Sawyer House is a good
starting point to explore the actual issues, here is a list of resources to
help you or a friend learn more about some of the issues brought up in this
book:
Cutting/Self-Injury
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/self-injury/DS00775
http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/cutting.html
Bullying
http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/bullies.html#cat20139
Peer
Pressure
http://teenadvice.about.com/cs/peerpressure/a/blpeerpressure.htm
http://teens.webmd.com/peer-pressure
Teen
Pregnancy
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/
Drug
Use
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/infofacts/understanding-drug-abuse-addiction
Alcoholism
http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/alcohol/coping_alcoholic.html#cat20139
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/alcoholism/DS00340
Self-Esteem/Self-Image
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/self_esteem.html#cat20139
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/self-esteem/MH00128
Abuse
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/domestic_violence_abuse_help_treatment_prevention.htm
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EXCERPT
Falling for
Summer
kailin
gow
A Loving
Summer Novel
Prologue
Love hits
you when you least expect it, grabs you, sucks you in whole, and twists you
around until you could hardly breathe. Love hurts like a sucker punch, that's
both glorious and beautiful. Falling for Summer was like that for me, every
time. -
Nat Donovan
Nat
Several Months After Summer
T
here are demons in my family.
I
know that because of what came down during the summer we returned to the Pad in
Malibu and stayed with Aunt Sookie and Summer several months ago.
.
Plenty
happened, and that’s another story. What I’m here to talk about is what
happened afterwards and how we’re all trying to pick up the pieces the best we
can. By “we,” I mean me, my younger siblings, Drew and Rachel, who are
fraternal twins, and my parents, who I refer to as Mom and Dad. We’re the Donovans,
and although it seems we have the perfect family on the surface, it’s far from
perfect. I’m the first to attest to that…as I’ve learned last summer. Me,
Nathaniel Donovan, the oldest of the three Donovan siblings, the older of the
Donovan Brothers, had a meltdown. It was brief, but it happened, and if it
wasn’t for Summer being there, it would have been worse. She made things better
by being there for me, like always, selfless and giving, very loving. Like her
Aunt Sookie, she is the most giving person I know, emotionally and
demonstrably.
And
with Summer, also physically. There’s where I feel bad about the whole thing,
like I’m not supposed to feel so attracted to Summer, but I am. I’ve known her
since we were toddlers, but now it’s different, and as soon as I’ve tasted her
mouth. It tasted like honey and cinnamon as soon as my tongue met hers, I
couldn’t get enough of her. I wanted her, wanted to tear off her clothes and
run my tongue up and down her body and fill her with all of me. By sheer will
power I was able to pull back. But now there is that awkwardness between us,
and that tension, and mostly that
guilt
. She was the angel who could
calm my demons, yet arouse them at the same time, and I don’t think I will be
able to hold back the next time we get that close.
So
I’ve been avoiding her, except for an occasional email or text about how she’s
doing or about Aunt Sookie’s Acting Academy, which she inherited. According to
Sookie’s will, we Donovans have the obligation as partners to help out. But
avoidance only makes my heart search harder, and although I’m trying to avoid
her in all controllable aspects of my life, I can’t stop thinking and dreaming
of her. As it is with the one I’m having right now.
The
air around me is as hot and thick as a wool blanket pulled up over my face.
Sweat glistens on my skin… I can feel the stickiness form a film where my skin
is exposed to the cooling night air. It’s too hot, and so I work to kick off
the sheets entangling my body, placed there a few hours earlier, more suitable
for a cold fall evening in San Francisco. I’m too tired to keep my eyes open,
caused by a marathon of all-nighters, preparing for my first semester exams. Except
for the way my body’s reacting, I could sleep like a zombie, but I can’t. My body’s
reacting too much to the dream. If I were awake, if I weren’t so damn tired, I
could open my eyes and take control over the situation, but I’m not. So I’m still
in the middle of that dream again…the dream that ends in a nightmare.
It’s
the one where I’m with Summer in her room the night she has on that slinky
barely-there peach dress going out to see that actor Astor Fairway at his house
for dinner, and maybe something more. Yup, it’s that night a few months ago
last summer when my life once again converged with Summer’s in such a way, it
seems like the three years of not seeing her before, never happened. When
you’ve known someone for so long, practically grow up with them, live with
them, stay with them, every summer for a decade or most of your life as it is
for us Donovans and Summer, missing three years, can be erased in a heartbeat.
And
in its place is the same feeling you felt three years ago, at your last
encounter. Seeing Summer this past summer, brought back all of my memories…the
good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful.
Seeing
her dressed like that for some guy she just met, albeit a famous guy, just
brought out the crazy side of me. It’s irrational, but I guess that’s what it’s
like for me when I feel so much for her, yet I can’t have her. She may have a
childhood crush on me, but she’s off-limits. Not like Drew is off-limits to her
because Rachel wouldn’t want Summer hurt by Drew, but because she’s Aunt
Sookie’s niece, and because Aunt Sookie has instilled it into my head to watch
out for little Summer and the twins. That hasn’t stopped me from falling for
her, though.
