STORY EXCERPT

“Excuse me, Miss White?”

Crystal pulled her gaze from her client’s family and turned toward the voice. “Yes?” She looked up into the most gorgeous brown eyes rimmed with thick, dark lashes. “Can I help you?”

His smile was fast, wide, and bright against the tan skin of his face. “Tommy Rain. You don’t know me, but I would like to invite you for a drink. I’d really like to discuss your defense of this client.”

Crystal tilted her head to the side. She’d seen him in the courtroom during the trial. He was hard to miss. Young, good looking with shoulder-length brown hair that had been streaked with blond highlights by the sun made him stand out in a crowd. He was dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and red tie. A power suit. And he wanted to discuss her case. Crystal could sense he was on a fishing expedition for a job. For some odd reason it didn’t bother her. Crystal smiled at him and took the hand he had held out to her.

As soon as she touched him, skin to skin, a jolt rushed through her, travelling up her arm and straight to her heart. The sensation almost took her breath.

“There’s a little pub called Ryan’s around the corner,” she said, slipping her hand from his.

“I know the place. Meet you there in twenty minutes?” His smile didn’t falter.

“That sounds wonderful.” She picked her briefcase up off the table. Giving him a nod, she walked toward the door.

Half an hour later, she sat across the table from him at Ryan’s. He had chosen a booth, getting there before she did. Crystal took a sip of bourbon, the flavor rich as it flowed over her tongue.

“I’ve been very interested in the case you just tried.” Tommy turned his glass in his hands on the tabletop, looking a bit nervous. “Why did you represent Dobbs in the first place?”

Crystal leaned back, resting one hand on the table. “I found the case interesting. Why would you ask something like that?”

“Well,” he looked down at his drink. “I’ve been following your career for a while and you normally don’t take on cases like this. Ones that don’t involve large companies. Representing Dobbs was more personal, since you were defending a person instead of a corporation. It intrigues me that you’d take the time to do this one. I was wondering what spurred you to do it.” He looked back up, meeting her gaze.

Crystal sighed. She wasn’t used to explaining herself to anyone. Then this handsome young man came along and she felt like spilling her whole life out to him. What was it about him? His warm brown eyes maybe? “I guess the reason I agreed to do it was because Dobbs looked so desperate when he came to my office. Also, I was surprised by him. It’s not often someone comes into my office and asks me to represent them and not their company. It’s not what my firm is known for.” She shrugged. “I wasn’t doing anything, so I took it on. Does that explain it?”

His smile slowly faded, and his expression became serious. “It would be nice someday to be able to do something for someone like that and still make a living.”

“I don’t understand,” she said. “Are you an attorney? Do you work for a firm?”

He let out a little snort. “Yes, I am an attorney. No, I don’t work for a firm. Actually, I don’t have a position at the moment.” He raised his drink, a bourbon like hers, and drained his glass. When he placed it back on the table, he flashed her a smile. “I’d like to find a firm who would take me on.” His eyebrows rose. “Would your firm have any openings?”

There it was. “And why would you want to work for us? I have to tell you, I get multiple queries every week about openings. I don’t take them all seriously. We’re pretty choosey about who we invite to join our firm.”

“I’d like to work with you because I’m impressed by your firm and especially by you, Miss White. Your style in the courtroom is amazing. You make them notice you. It must be hard even in this day and age to be a woman in your line of work. Your looks and your size must hamper your presentations, but you pull it off wonderfully.”

Crystal barked out a laugh. “You are forward, aren’t you? What is it about my looks that you think ‘hampers’ my career?”

He wriggled his fingers in the air, his eyes wide. He looked quite stricken when he realized he may have insulted her. “Don’t get me wrong, please. I didn’t mean…your looks…” He cleared his throat and dropped his hands, laying them on the table.

Crystal bit this inside of her cheek to keep from smiling. He was struggling, and she was enjoying every minute of it.

Tommy closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then he looked at her and a smile bloomed on his lips. “There’s no easy way to say this. I think you’re hot. And in the courtroom, a sexy woman is a distraction. Male judges notice you, but not necessarily in the way you want them to.” He reached across the table and took her hand. “I’m being forward but I don’t care at this point. Miss White, you are the most seductive woman I have ever laid eyes on. You’re very attractive in an edgy sort of way and you’re very smart and that in and of itself is like an aphrodisiac to me. I can’t lie. I’m attracted to you.” He rubbed his thumb slowly over the backs of her fingers. “To work for you would be a dream even though being so close to you would be a constant distraction.”

ADULT EXCERPT

His fingers were making their way toward her breast, which was making it very hard to think. “There are times when…mmm…” Her eyes closed when he slipped the top edge of the cup of her bra down, exposing her peaked nipple to his touch. Her fingers clenched, balling a wad of his T-shirt up in her hand as he rolled her nipple between his thumb and forefinger.

“There are times when you’d like a man to take control,” he whispered against her mouth, his nose touching hers. “I can see you lying spread out on this bed, naked, and me doing exactly whatever I want to that tight, compact body of yours.”

Heat swirled and singed her insides. His words wafted over her, drugging her with his seduction. “What would you do to me?” she asked, keeping her eyes closed and just allowing herself to feel.

“I would take you by the ankles,” he said, then trailed his tongue over her bottom lip, making her shiver. “Then I would spread those legs wide and bury my face in your mound so that I could taste the sweet little bud at your center.”

Crystal’s face was burning, her fingers itching to rip his shirt right from his body. “You would?” she breathed, barely able to speak with the yearning to have him take her right now tightening her throat.

“I would. And once I licked every fold of your pussy, I would catch that little clit in my mouth and suck it until you screamed. Would you like that, Crystal?”

“Mm-hmm,” she murmured, nodding her head.

“Then let’s begin our bonding.” He moved away from her.

She opened her eyes. Watching him rise from the bed, her mouth watered as he slowly stripped off his clothes, his eyes locked on hers. Her body felt frozen, her muscles tight. He was hypnotizing. Once he was naked, she took in the whole of him. His chest was all chiseled muscles, his stomach tight and flat. He had narrow hips but his cock was thick and fully engorged, pointing straight at her. She sat up on the bed, a slight tremble running through her. He was a beautiful specimen and she had to have him. She scooted to the edge of the bed, her legs dangling over the side.

He moved closer, coming to a stop at the edge of the bed between her knees. “Do you want?”

She looked up at him, feeling quite small. “Yes.”

He placed one hand on her thigh. “Then the only things I want to hear coming out of your mouth are sounds of pleasure.” With that, he lowered himself to his knees. “Stand up.”

She did as he asked and within seconds, he had her slacks and panties down and slipped them off. Once her lower half was bare, he placed one hand on her stomach and pushed her back onto the bed. Her bottom hit the mattress with a bounce. She didn’t have time to think about it because he grabbed her ankles and lifted, throwing her upper half backward on the bed.

Tommy manhandled her into position, placing her feet on his shoulders and grabbing her around the thighs to pull her ass to the edge of the bed. It wasn’t her ass he wanted though. Without preamble, he spread her legs wide and leaned down to sample her wet pussy.

“Oh,” she breathed at the first swipe of his tongue over her clit. With her feet propped on his shoulders and him leaning in so close, it caused her knees to splay wide, opening her to his hungry mouth.

Tommy had his arms wrapped around her thighs and used his fingers to part the cleft in her mound. With long swipes, he licked her folds, flicking her clit.

Oh, my God, he knows what he’s doing. Crystal grabbed handfuls of the coverlet and closed her eyes. When his lips closed over her swollen bud and he began to suck at it with loud, wet noises, she thought she’d come undone. His mouth pulled at her, giving her little pearl a flick with every suck of his mouth. She caught her bottom lip between her teeth and moaned. When he began a rhythm, bobbing his head while sucking her just like he was giving her a blow job, she matched him. Moving her hips in time with his ministrations, she fucked his mouth. “Holy shit,” she breathed, struggling to hold back the flood of pleasure that was coiling tighter and tighter inside her.

Suddenly, his mouth disappeared from her crotch. “What?” She raised her head to look down at him.

He smiled at her, his mouth glistening with her juices. “Delicious,” he said, taking her feet from his shoulders and moving them down to dangle over the side of the bed. “My turn.”