I’m going insane.
Your jaw’s taught, eyes barely open, brow furrowed in your effort to hold back. “You’re… so… tight,” you whisper, sounding like you’re in pain.
I can only make incoherent noises in response between gasps of pleasure.
You lay back, and I clench around you tighter, desperate to keep you so deep. But when your thumb presses and rubs against my clit, I lean back and brace my hands on your thighs, grinding and bucking. Release is so close. A delicious, tingling burn smolders in my core. “Oh God. Right there.”
“That’s right, baby. Come for me.” Your thumb continues its maddening assault, while the fingers of your other hand pluck and squeeze my nipples.
On the brink of exploding, I raise and lower faster and faster, slamming you deeper inside me. Your hips come off the lounge chair, meeting me thrust for thrust. “Fuck. I’m so close, Rachael.”
“Oh! Oh, God!” I throw my head back as the first orgasmic wave crashes over me. “Come, Merrick. Come with me.”
Your fingers dig into my hips as you thrust hard twice and groan in release. “Fuck.” You throb inside me as you come and I continue to ride you.
My orgasm runs rampant. My fingers take over for your thumb, and I set loose the last pulse of my climax before falling limp on top of you.
We lie panting with the sun beating down on us, the distant buzz of a saw blending with the chirps of birds and rustle of leaves in the gentle island breeze. “I couldn’t have dreamt this.” I kiss your chest, slick with sweat. “It’s too perfect.”
You comb your fingers through my hair. “It’s more than perfect. Promise me something.”
I prop myself up on your chest to look at you. “Anything.”
Your face is so serious, so… wide-eyed and wistful. “Never leave.”
There’s a fear in your eyes I’ve never seen before. It worries me. “I won’t. I promise.”
You hold me tight against you and kiss my temple. With your father trying to take everything you own, all of the real estate you’ve acquired as CEO of Rocha Enterprises, your primal need to grasp on tightly to what’s yours is understandable.
But seeing you, confident-to-a-fault Merrick Rocha, falter on your axis, leaves me shaken.
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Contents
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Epilogue
About the Author
A Preview of Taken
A Preview of No Takebacks
Acclaim for Taken by Storm
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Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Kelli Maine
Excerpt from Taken copyright © 2012 by Kelli Maine
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Table of Contents
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Epilogue
About the Author
A Preview of Taken
A Preview of No Takebacks
Acclaim for Taken by Storm
Newsletters
Copyright