Ecstasy (A Contemporary Romance) Read Online Free PDF Page A

person what you already
know. It’s a good chance for me to see if I actually know what I’m
talking about, or if I’ve just been faking my way through my last
eight books.”
    Belatedly, Charlie realized he was going on
and on about utter nonsense so he added, “Does that make
sense?”
    His palms got slick and sweaty on the handset
of his cordless phone as he waited for her response.
    Clearly trying to put him at ease, she said,
“I know exactly what you mean, Charlie. And by the way, I’ve been
thinking we should probably be upfront about things.”
    “What things?” Charlie asked, so suddenly
nervous his heart was going clackity-click and he could swear he
heard a heavy metal soundtrack in his head.
    “I want you to know that you don’t need to
worry about the vocabulary you use when we’re talking about work. I
know you’re a complete gentleman and that everything we do during
our lessons is purely professional.” She cleared her throat and
then added, “Even if we do happen to deal with things like dildos
and kinky sex in our books.”
    Charlie forced a chuckle, but inwardly he
felt like the world’s biggest scum. Sure, his intentions were
honorable. He was going to teach Candace how to write great
erotica. But he couldn’t deny the fact that in the privacy of his
imagination he had already devised twenty different ways he wanted
to make Candace scream with pleasure.
    But no matter how strongly he felt about her,
he had decided to put the lid on his desire until their mentoring
sessions were through—jumping her bones during their lessons would
be a complete betrayal of her trust. He only hoped it didn’t kill
him in the meantime.
    “Good,” he’d said. “I’m glad we are being
completely upfront about everything right from the start. I knew
you were the right person to work with.”
    “Frankly, I was afraid that Sheba Queen of
the Sluts wouldn’t have left you in one piece by the time she was
done with you. I had no choice but to save you by offering up
myself.”
    Charlie let himself savor the vision of
Candace tied and bound to an altar, naked and gleaming, in
sacrifice for him, before he said, “I appreciate that. More than
you know.”
    “So, what’s on the agenda?” she asked him,
and just like that his entire body broke out in a sweat as he
unfolded the piece of paper he’d written their lesson plan on.
    Trying to keep his voice light, he said,
“I’ve broken our mentoring sessions into five different lessons.
Lesson one will be how to set a romantic scene.”
    “That sounds great. I love the way you paint
pictures with words in your books.”
    “Thanks,” he’d said, and then swallowed
loudly as he prepared to continue spelling out his list of lessons.
Lesson one was the easy one, and he knew things were only going to
get harder from here. Especially if the rock-hard bulge in his
pants was any indication.
    “Let’s see, for lesson two I thought we’d
work on varying positions.” He had to pause, clear his throat. “I
mean, we’ll take a look at...uh, you know study the different ways
that...”
    Suddenly he couldn’t think of any way to
rephrase the sentence that wouldn’t sound like he planned on
screwing her brains out the minute she walked through his door.
    Thankfully, she reminded him in a gentle
voice, “Charlie, you’ve got to stop worrying about offending
me.”
    “Okay,” he said, but his trepidation must
have been clear in his voice, because she said, “Say fuck ten times
to me.”
    “Huh?”
    “Just say it,” she demanded.
    “Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck, fuck, fuck.”
    “Good. Now say, ‘I want to lick your juicy
pussy.’”
    Charlie choked on an intake of breath, but he
did as she asked. He repeated, “I want to lick your juicy pussy.”
Even as he imagined how amazing she would taste, he braced himself
for her disgust, expecting her to say, “You’re scum and I never
want to talk to you again.”
    “Feel better