Forbidden: A Standalone (51 page)

Theresa Drazen wants to know one thing.

Is there something wrong with her?

Because from what she can see, she has money, brains, a body that does the job. Yet, she keeps getting shelved. Most recently, by her fiancé who happens to be the DA.

And she'll get over it, really. No problem. She'll just have a nice, short encounter with a mysterious Italian named Antonio who may or may not be involved with some kind of alleged criminal activity...blah blah...

Let's call a spade a spade.

He's a mobster.

Let's face a few more facts.

He's hot. He's smart. And if anyone breathes on her the wrong way, he's got no problem beating their head against a Porsche until they're willing to lick up their own vomit to make it stop.

Just about everything about that turns her on.

Yeah. There's something wrong with her.

**MATURE AUDIENCES--Rough sex. Dirty talk. Criminal activity. Cursing. Fisticuffs. Closed course. Professional driver. Do not try this at home.**

Spin
,
Ruin
and
Rule
are full length and ready.

Have you read the
Submission Series
?
No?

Because Fiona’s brother, Jonathan has this whole thing happening with Monica, a singer with a short-circuiting mouth, and it’s all kinds of epic length.

1)
Beg/Tease/Submit

2)
Control/Burn/Resist

3)
Sing/Coda/Dominance

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I never forgot her. Not for one minute. Not from the last time I saw her, at seventeen, to today. I measured all women against her and all women came up short. But being with her was unfeasible in high school, and it's taboo now. I see her sometimes, but I've never spoken to her. She runs, or I run. We're in the same town, on the same block, in the same building, and the gulf between us is just too wide to cross.

Until tonight.

***

He was my high school crush, back when I lived in a world that didn't want me. He was the perfect boy, and I was the outcast kid from the other side of town. And when he held my hand I thought I could fit in, just a little. I thought I could be his and he could be mine. Then he left, and my life fell apart. Now we are the king and queen of opposite sides of Hollywood. And we haven't spoken a word to each other.

Until tonight.

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Dash Wallace is a pro baseball player with a problem, and Vivian Foster is just the woman to make it worse.

I cannot describe to you how difficult I am to work with. I do everything by the seat of my pants and every person here not only understands and tolerates that, they make it their business to do their jobs under the worst circumstances (that worst circumstance being…me).

Angela Marshall Smith, Cassie Cox for editing the hell out of this thing when it was a mess, thank you.

Erik, my formatter is the balls. He actually pokes me and asks me if I’m done yet, then, after I act like he woke me from a deep sleep, turns around on a dime and hands me something perfect.

Sarah Hansen – thank you for the original covers. They were amazing and I loved them. I’m sorry about the prudes.

My Canaries and Goddesses, Tony, Diana, Dana, Kaylee, Jean, for tolerating weeks of silence while I finished, thank you.

Christy, I can get on the Dash Wallace website now I swear.

My friends at Fab Four, Kristy, Laura, Lauren, BGP, and the Erotica Consortium keep me together. It’s beautiful to have such a support system. I don’t know how anyone works without it.

Lisa Schilling Hintz and Jenn Watson for the PR and blasts and everything. I learn so much from you guys.

A big thank you to certain group at a certain company who cut me off promotions because I put a book where you didn’t want it. By keeping it “not personal” but only cutting me off, not any other authors for the same "transgression," you tacitly gave me permission to do this with other books and make money without guilt. You keep those lemons. I have enough lemonade.

A big thank you to the blogging community. I have no idea how you juggle it all.

I saved my fans for last. I’ve thanked you guys a hundred times for this and I’ll thank you a hundred more. You waited a long time for Fiona, and never complained while I did other things. I don’t know any other writer who has had such a long wait and never got a nastygram. You are the cream of the crop.

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She just got out of Westonwood, where she was raped anally by Warren Chilton an hour before release. Her sister, Margie came to get her and Elliot met her at the door, but she decided to go with Deacon because he felt safest after what just happened.

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This is what Elliot asked her to do in Use – to be the first catalyst to changing who she was by changing the way she spoke to herself.

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Maundy Street is where Fiona lived with Deacon. Number two was the private BDSM club.

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These are the words Elliot said at the door as she was leaving Westonwood.