Something Wet: Beach House Nights Book 2 (6 page)

Throwing a summer party at the beach house
she inherited from her grandmother is just what Dayna needs to take
her mind off her two-timing ex. After his best friend arrives to
check up on her she realizes her desire may have been focused on
the wrong friend. When they share a late night walk on the beach,
it’s clear he shares her lust. Now, Dayna is determined to take
advantage of their mutual attraction. What’s a little revenge sex
among friends?

Dayna reached out, touched his chest, and
willed the butterflies zinging around in her stomach to settle. She
stroked him right above the slit before the buttons began, moving
her finger in a slow, sensuous circle. What she wanted to do was
tease
him,
tempt
him, but instead she struggled for breath as her skin connected
with his. Every cell in her body blistered with unbridled need.
“Who says I don’t?”

He grabbed her forearms and squeezed. It
didn’t hurt, but it let her know that she was playing with a fire
she might not be able to put out or contain once it started. “He
could come crawling back. If we do this, how will you feel when he
does?”

Slowly, she began to unbutton his shirt.
Eager to see him naked, her tongue snaked out over her bottom lip.
“I wouldn’t take him back if he came to me crawling across a pile
of diamonds and gold.”

He enclosed both of her hands in one of his
and tilted her chin up with the other. “Are you sure about
that?”

She moved around him to return to the blanket
and glanced around. She took off her tank and removed her shorts,
carrying her panties down with them. Once she stepped away, she was
completely naked. “I’ve never been surer of anything in my life.”
His mouth was slightly open when she passed him and walked into the
water, her back to him. The not altogether uncomfortable coolness
of the water energized her body and made her feel like a sexy sea
nymph.

Dayna stopped when the water covered her
hips. She didn’t turn to look at Jared, to see his reaction, to see
if he was still standing by the shore. She smoothed the palms of
her hands over the water in a wide arc and watched as her fingers
glistened over the surface.

Even though it felt like hours, she knew it
was only seconds when he came up behind her and trailed one of his
hands down the middle of her back. Her reaction was instantaneous,
hot, needy, want. The cold between her legs didn’t ease the fiery
ache she felt, the desire to have him inside her.

Jared moved her hair to the side and applied
a series of scorching, delectable kisses from her shoulder up to
the underside of her ear. “I’ve wanted to do this for so very
long.”

His words thrilled her, excited her as his
lips moved across her shoulder blade, the back of her neck, the
other shoulder, up to her other ear where he bit and tugged it into
his mouth. “You are so beautiful.”

Pure and swift, pleasure bloomed inside her,
and a delicious languor spread through her limbs. His slow, easy
touch curled her toes and sent tingles to her belly. Like a cat,
she rubbed her backside along his warm, muscular body. He groaned,
and she felt his dick harden against her bottom.

Coming May 2012 from Lyric James

Stella and
Ian’s Story

Stella Lewis is excited when she receives a
weekend invite to a friend’s beach house, especially when the beach
house’s attic is full of priceless furniture she can sell at her
struggling antique store. The last thing she expected was to be
sidelined by her attraction to playboy millionaire, Ian Hollis. The
two have nothing in common, except their insane but inexplicable
attraction to each other.

After winning a multi-million dollar lottery
when he was only twenty-five, Ian Hollis has been living the high
life. But the first time he saw Stella, he knew there was something
about the prim and proper miss. Proving it to the workaholic beauty
is a whole different story. Stella is running scared, but if she
thinks she can rebuff Ian’s advances that easily, she’s in for a
surprise. Ian is willing to prove to Stella he can stay up all
night to prove she’s the woman of his dreams.

Lyric James began writing romance after the
stories in her head just wouldn’t shut up…and that’s really a
problem when you’re standing up in front of a bunch of middle
school students. She graduated from high school, went to college
and quit because she had a car note to pay. She’s held such jobs as
receptionist, administrative assistant, medical clerk, and
lifeguard. After she had her first child, she decided that she was
an adult and was ready to go back to college. After receiving a
Bachelor’s in Organizational Management and a Master’s in Library
Media and Information Technology, she now spends her days
surrounded by one of the things she loves most…books.

Lyric has been married to her own hero for
over fourteen years and has two daughters, one son, and a Doberman
named Blue because her husband loves the Duke Blue Devils. She has
one brother, several rather adorable nieces and nephews, super
parents, and a wonderful grandmother who always reminds her that
enduring love is possible even after 50 years of marriage to
Lyric’s grandfather.

In 2006, Lyric sold the first story she ever
finished to e-publisher, Cobblestone Press. Since then, she’s sold
contemporary, romantic suspense and paranormal African American and
Interracial romance to Samhain Publishing and Ellora’s Cave.

Lyric is an avid reader and “listener” of
books and her private book collection includes her favorite
authors: Catherine Coulter, Nora Roberts (J.D. Robb), J.K. Rowling,
Kate Collins, Janet Evanovich, Cinda Williams Chima, Charlaine
Harris, Rick Riordin, and Brenda Jackson.