Title:
Exposed (Unguarded, #1)
Author: Ivy
Stone
Genre: Erotic
Romance/ Romantic Suspense
Release Date:
October 13,. 2015
Synopsis
One explosive encounter brought them
together.
One
infatuation led to a love like no other.
One secret
tore them apart.
As head of the
NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau in Manhattan, Chief Detective Mason Cole
walks in the line of fire every day. Between dodging bullets and braiding his
daughter’s hair, Mason is tormented with haunting memories that refuse to
relinquish control over him, no matter how hard he tries. After a bust gone
wrong, he’s thrown for a loop by a woman who will fill his life with more chaos
than ever before.
Lindsey
Jenkins is a self-made woman. Bold and independent, she lives unapologetically
in a life of deception. That is until her facade is threatened by a force
stronger than anything she’s ever felt before—love.
Leaving their
hearts unguarded could lead to destruction. Even worse, it could expose them
both to a war they never saw coming.
In a city
coerced by corruption and treachery, what happens when your greatest passion
becomes your biggest weakness?
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Excerpt
Lindsey
A light,
calloused touch scorches up my side, waking me from sleep. Goose bumps rise
from the touch of fingertips and just as I’m about to scramble away, his
signature scent hits me with a force of desire and I instantly calm. My
shoulders fall and I relax my body back into the hot wall of pure muscle
plastered behind me. Feathery kisses trail over my shoulder blade and I quiver
at the tingling sensation freezing my body in place. His whiskered jaw prickles
my skin, along my shoulder all the way up to my neck. It heightens my senses as
lust shoots through my core, and I clutch my pillow, fighting the fire in my belly.
I yearn to yank him over me and drive his cock right into me as far as it can
go. His hand slides from my waist to my ass and as he squeezes firmly and I
can’t help the moan from slipping past my lips. My own sounds of desire echoes
through the room much louder than intended, and as soon as it’s left my mouth,
Mason spreads his hand over my ass cheek and hip, clutching tightly, and with a
quick jerk, he pulls me backwards pressing his jean-clad cock into my ass,
rubbing his hardness against me.
“Fuck,” he
whispers near my ear, his voice breaking. His head leans on my shoulder and I
reach back, gliding my shaky hand up his thick firm thigh, over his ass and
bringing it up behind me to his head. Pulling at his hair, I angle my head and
bring his up closer to mine. We’re nose to nose, body against body, and
breathing so rapidly it’s like we’ve both just run a marathon.
“We shouldn’t
do this.” I whisper, staring into his lust-filled eyes. We both know we
shouldn’t. I can’t do it, not now. He wants too much, I don’t want enough. It’s
too risky, too dangerous. What if one night ruins it all? What if after, my
body and my heart want more? If once isn’t enough, denying him again will be so
much harder. His job, my job, if our worlds collide, it’ll be one fucked-up
mess we’ll never survive.
He shakes his
head and rolls swiftly over on top of me, pushing me on my back. “Didn’t plan
this when I came in here, Linds. But I sure as fuck don’t want to stop now, not
now that I know you want it too.” His lips crash to mine, his tongue searching
for an opening. My lips part and his tongue slips inside, caressing my own in
one powerful kiss, so gentle and long, so passionate. Pulling him closer, he
deepens the connection and his hand trails down, fingering the edge of my
panties.
“Stop.” I
break the moment, panting heavily. “I can’t give you what you want,
Mason.”
His eyes reach
into mine and my heart pumps harder. He wants the unattainable.
He scoops the
side of my face in his hand, brushing his thumb back and forth. The movement is
so intimately sweet that my fingers twitch to cover my own hand with his. He
makes resisting him so much harder by simply being him.
“You can come up with whatever excuse you want, Lindsey. But that’s all they
are, excuses. You’ll run out of them at some stage, and I’ll be here waiting
when you do.”
I can’t speak.
My lips seal shut. Mason rolls off me, enveloping me in his arms as he
moves.
Spooning me in
my bed, I ignore everything else. I shut off my mind, shut out the world.
Closing my eyes, I sink into nirvana, hoping to avoid this inconceivable
feeling tearing me in two. I’m conflicted by the comfort of his arms: I’ve
never felt so safe, yet stripped bare, all at the same time.
About The
Author
"Mother. Lover.
Dreamer."
Ivy Stone is
an Australian author and self-confessed lover of alpha males and happily ever
afters. Getting lost in a fictional world is how she discovered her passion for
writing. When she isn’t daydreaming up new romantic stories she’s likely to be
found spending time with her family.
Ivy’s debut
novel ‘Exposed’ is to be released on October 20th 2015. This is the first
instalment in the Unguarded series.
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