Coming Back Tour with Raffle!
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I'm excited to have Lauren Dane drop by for a short Q&A. We also have two delicious excerpts for you. Don't forget to check out my review and enter the raffle!
La Crimson Femme: Tattoos seem to be entwined with multiple characters in your stories. Do you have any tattoos and if so, what are they?
Lauren Dane: I don’t! I have a few small designs I plan to have done with symbols that are meaningful to me, but the right exact time/artist/design hasn’t happened yet.
La Crimson Femme: Some of your stories carry a delicious undercurrent of domination and submission, will you be bringing more kinky erotica out in future books?
Lauren Dane: D/s has such a depth of intimacy and connection and I truly love to write it in my own way. When the story and the characters call for it, heck yes, I’ll definitely be writing more.
La Crimson Femme: What character is screaming in your head for their own story but you aren't ready to write about him/her yet? And can you share a little about that character?
Lauren Dane: I have plans to write more in my Federation Chronicles – specifically Wilhelm Ellis. But I need just the right story and the time! He’s complicated and has a very dark and twisty backstory. He came to be in such a powerful position after a lifetime of pretty heroic stuff. Wil’s at the point in his life where he’s seeing just how much effort he’s put into everyone else’s happiness and can envision his own someday with the right person.
I'm excited to have Lauren Dane drop by for a short Q&A. We also have two delicious excerpts for you. Don't forget to check out my review and enter the raffle!
La Crimson Femme: Tattoos seem to be entwined with multiple characters in your stories. Do you have any tattoos and if so, what are they?
Lauren Dane: I don’t! I have a few small designs I plan to have done with symbols that are meaningful to me, but the right exact time/artist/design hasn’t happened yet.
La Crimson Femme: Some of your stories carry a delicious undercurrent of domination and submission, will you be bringing more kinky erotica out in future books?
Lauren Dane: D/s has such a depth of intimacy and connection and I truly love to write it in my own way. When the story and the characters call for it, heck yes, I’ll definitely be writing more.
La Crimson Femme: What character is screaming in your head for their own story but you aren't ready to write about him/her yet? And can you share a little about that character?
Lauren Dane: I have plans to write more in my Federation Chronicles – specifically Wilhelm Ellis. But I need just the right story and the time! He’s complicated and has a very dark and twisty backstory. He came to be in such a powerful position after a lifetime of pretty heroic stuff. Wil’s at the point in his life where he’s seeing just how much effort he’s put into everyone else’s happiness and can envision his own someday with the right person.
Excerpt
“Things
just unraveled for me when Mick left. Watching Jessi try to process, trying to
be there for her and not managing it very well. I felt like an asshole, felt
like I’d been tossed away. Felt like I needed to be someone else to see if
that’s what I should do for the rest of my life,” Adam said.
His
leaving—the way he’d done it—had been a way to allow himself the space to take
what he wanted and gorge on it.
Jessi
lifted her face from where she’d been buried in Mick’s shirt, locking her gaze
on his.
Adam
hated that she’d been hurt. Hated that it had been necessary in any case, to
step away and be Adam in a completely different context.
“And
did you like what you found?”
Adam
took her hand. “It was something I had to do. I’m back to you now. For keeps.”
Which
didn’t make it any less harsh, he knew. He had a lot of fucking sins to make up
for when it came to Jessilyn Franklin. He just had to hope he was man enough to
do what it took.
And that
she found it within her heart to understand. One day.
As for
Mick, that was still complicated, only in a different way.
“For
keeps like we’re all close friends again? We hang out and share our lives?”
Mick asked, wariness in his voice.
Jessi
wore the sweetest confused expression, and Adam refused to think about how terrifying
it was that she got to him the way she did just by being herself.
“I
didn’t want to assume,” Adam said.
Jessi
rolled her eyes. “You realize that all three of us showed up after years of
being apart. We all clicked back together pretty much immediately. And now it’s
like we’re all shy? After all we’ve shared? That’s what this is, then? We’re
all friends but not like before? We just forget those times? You two want to
see other people?”
“Is that
what you want?” Adam asked carefully.
“You left, Adam. After you left, Mick. I didn’t want to walk
away. You two did. So asking me that question sort of makes me mad.”
“You’re
the one who lived with someone else and was going to get married,” Mick
mumbled.
“You
guys are such assholes sometimes. Despite what you both put me through, I
accept that you needed to step away. But you come back to me with this? No,
thank you. If you want to just be friends, all right. I can deal. But you need
to be up front and you can’t be kissing my fingers and Mick needs to stop grinding
his cock into my ass. Friends don’t do that.”
“I just
wanted you to know I didn’t expect you to hop into bed or anything. I didn’t
want to assume,” Adam repeated.
Jessi
looked up to Mick. “And you?”
Mick was
smarter than Adam, though, because he hugged her tight. “If it was up to me,
I’d want us to all be together. Really together.”
“Suck
up.” Adam rolled his eyes.
“She’s
on my lap though, so I declare that a win.”
Adam
reached out to snatch her from Mick’s lap, bringing her to his own. “Looks like
she’s in my lap now.”
“Something
friends don’t do,” Jessi reminded him. Adam took her cheeks in his hands and
then claimed her mouth before she could say anything else.
It
slammed into him so hard—a wave of regret that he’d put this aside—that he
gasped, sucking in the sigh she gave him.
A sweet
enough kiss. For now. Hunger, barely leashed, filled him. He wanted. Wanted
what had been freely offered before he’d truly understood how rare and special
it was.
“I’m
always your friend,” he spoke against her mouth. “But I’d be a liar if I
claimed I didn’t want everything from
you. Being away from you only underlined it.”
“I was
so lonely without you both.” She closed her eyes a moment to avoid his seeing
all that pain, but he saw it, felt it cut him to the bone.
“I’m
sorry. I was lonely too.” Adam had filled every moment with a pursuit of
pleasure, but this was something totally different. Something he might not have
really recognized if he hadn’t been without it.
But what
he did see was he’d have a job of earning her trust back, even if she was being
easy enough right then.
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