Saturday, June 28, 2008

All Shades of Blue Paradise ~ Excerpt


An excerpt from All Shades of Blue Paradise ~ Savanna Kougar

~ "Lady Sheridan Kayla Woadeir," Clarence intoned in his best aristocratic voice. A broad smile broke over his face, brightening his countenance to near jolly. He widened the door, inviting her entrance.
She stepped into the cobalt and pearl foyer, smiling in return. "How are you, Clarence?"
"Sunny azure days ahead now, Lady Sheridan. He’s up in the grand office. Go on. I’ll ring up your arrival."
Her high heels clicking on the alabaster brilliant floor, Sheridan watched her image in the nouveau shimmer panels. The panels reflected the immense entry room’s light creating a crystalline ambiance.
Sheridan had resorted to dressing in the way he used to passion smolder over. She had no idea if that was still true.
Sapphire blue, gleaming sapphire. The luxury satin dress fit her curves, bared her arms, bared her legs from the knee down to her matching high heels. The pearls around her throat matched the moon’s color of last evening and provided a tiny touch of comfort.
Sliding her fingers along her pearls, Sheridan moved up the long curving sweep of stairs, low steps designed for a woman. Butterflies battled to escape her stomach once she stood at the top on the wine red carpet.
Keeping her feet moving, she glided toward the open office door, as if she moved inside a pocket of air. Reality seemed a horizon away.
He didn’t speak when she entered. He casually leaned back on his chair, one foot propped up on the dark shining wood of his enormous desk. Potent power and grace, he stood, silently moving to one side.
He motioned to a swivel cushioned chair before his desk. His presence had always made her feel sultry. Once his sultry woman. It was no different now. Her whole body was a sultry sizzle rhythm. She felt it to her core as she approached the chair and sat.
Her legs crossed, she steepled her fingers, watching him pivot. Lithe, powerful as a cougar, he returned to his chair. She’d seen the media’s view of him, unavoidable in her ‘horse show’ circle. Confronted with him, her breath demanded freedom from her body.
Like a cougar, the way he moved, his fierce intense nature, that was how she’d always seen him. Cougar in male beautiful form. Cougar spirit incarnated to man.
Goddess behold! She had loved him.
Sheridan didn’t blame the women who wanted him, not just for his status or his wealth but for the primal and the aristocratic blend he was as a man, as a lover, the way he made a woman feel.
Pure sensual desire. Pure sensual need. Pure ferocious passion for him.
She waited, knowing that was his cougar-and-prey game with her. She waited, her gaze fondling the burnished waves of his dark mahogany hair, streaked with wild sunlight.
"Sheridan."
The rough grazing purr of his voice made her shiver inside. She met his gaze boldly. Never flee before a cougar. Always stand your ground, even if faced with the most gorgeous eyes she’d ever seen.
Pale emerald, so ice crystalline, his eyes were always startling, always stunning.
"Baron Vettura," she returned, her tone icy cordiality. Sheridan knew her eyes glowed hot. She felt it. She shook back her hair. "It has been a while."
“Ten years, forty-three days...and ten minutes. Approximately.”
He leaned toward her slightly, cougar raw intensity. She didn’t allow his piercing gaze to pin her.
“Impressive remembrance, Baron. No woman cares to be forgotten.”
Electric as an arriving storm, the air between them. Sheridan remained ice calm. His gaze glittered storm.
“Do I kiss your mouth first, Sheridan?” His savage soft purr touched up her spine, up the back of her neck. “Or do I put my mouth on your breast first? Suck, tease your nipple, until your thighs part.”
From the corner of her eye, she watched him stand, watched him stalk her. She remained still except for her fingers stroking over her pearls.

“Or do you want to bend over, Sheridan? Lean over my desk. I’ll take you.”
He moved closer, sex stalking her.
“I’ll take you where you desire. Lift your dress, Sheridan.” He arrived behind her. Every male atom of him wanted possession of her. She felt it. Felt it swelter through her, potent, mesmerizing, paralyzing.
“I smell you, Sheridan.” He bent near her ear, ready to pounce, ready to make her carnal prey. “Bend over my desk.”
Sheridan forced calm collected breaths while her flesh boiled and rose in desire’s steam. Up to him.
“I’ll let Brad know my attempt to help him was unsuccessful. If you’ll pardon me, Baron, I do realize your time is commerce valued.”
Suddenly, he deserted her, the emptiness behind her palpable. He faced her across his desk once again, his gaze brutally enigmatic. She glimpsed the large mating strength of him. Before her he sat, cougar―lean and hard
and poised.
She quivered between her thighs, wet heat and desire and hunger. She began to rise, hoping, forcing herself to walk. To leave.
“I will forgive your brother’s entire debt to me.”
Sheridan paused before the chair, then slowly sat again and waited. Waited for the heart-deadly cougar to pounce. She watched the savage art of his features. She waited for long moments, then slowly spoke. “Not for a mere lust tryst, bent over your desk.”
“Agree to be my slave lover for a year and Brad is free.”
Sheridan couldn’t swallow. Her throat tightened ruthlessly. She could barely breathe.
“By ancient rite as the tradition exists now. I own you as my slave lover for a year.” ~


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