Taste of Candy (6 page)
Authors: Shoshanna Evers
The following evening, Candy cheered from the wings of the stage, singing along with the every song. The tunes never got old, even after hearing them over and over again. Maybe because the vibe from each audience was different, and that played into the effect of the music. The very
loud
music. She had taken to wearing little foam earplugs to protect her hearing since she was so close to the amps. She could still hear everything as if it was being downloaded directly into her head.
That night’s performance was insane—people were practically climbing over each other to get closer to the band, and everyone was having a great time.
Dave looked at her from the stage and winked, and she smiled back. He’d been acting so secretively lately that she knew their time together was almost up.
May as well smile and dance while she still could.
“New York!” Dave yelled into his mic, and the crowd went wild. “Wanna hear a song no one has ever heard before?”
The crowd roared and Dave grinned, nodding to his band
. Candy raised her eyebrows in interest. A new song? She didn’t remember hearing him rehearse any new songs.
“This is a love song,” Dave said
. “I call it ‘Taste of Candy’.” He closed his eyes and sang, gripping the mic tightly as the band started rocking out.
Candy I don’t know what to do
You’ve made me fall in love with you
I’d give up food forever—let me die of thirst
I just need the taste of Candy
Now you know I’m cursed
Candy I don’t know what to do
You’ve made me fall in love with you
Candy’s jaw dropped. Had he really just sung her a love song? Her eyes filled up with tears and she brushed them away with the back of her hand, smearing her mascara.
Suddenly it all came together. Everything made sense now. He’d been rehearsing and planning a song
—a song he couldn’t have her hearing ahead of time. No wonder he’d been acting like he had a secret to keep.
Relief washed over her like rain.
Dave looked over at her and the crowd went nuts, lighters in the air, swaying to the beat as he gestured for Candy to come out on stage.
O
verwhelmed with emotion, Candy shook her head. She couldn’t go out there in front of all those people. But then she saw the concern in Dave’s eyes. He had laid his soul bare in front of a thousand strangers, and she was leaving him hanging.
She ran on stage before she could talk herself out of it and jumped into his arms
. The lights were so bright she couldn’t see the audience even if she wanted to, which she didn’t. She just wanted to be in Dave’s strong arms.
He clutched her to his chest, threw the mic on the ground, and kissed her
. She was vaguely aware of the screaming fans but Dave’s kiss was so all-encompassing that it blocked any thought from her mind other than
I love you.
“
That was a great song,” she whispered in his ear.
“It’s true
. I love you, Candy. For real. Forever.”
“
I’m so glad, because I never want this to end,” Candy blushed and looked around the stage and the packed theater. “We can talk about this later.”
“Now’s good,” he said, dropping his mouth to her neck and nibbling it in full view of the crowd
. “And I never want this to end either. I want you to marry me.”
Candy laughed
. “Yeah right.”
Dave dropped to his knee in front of her and it seemed as if every single fan in the audience screamed at once, a loud swell of applause and noise as Dave picked up the mic
. “Marry me, Candy.”
He had a ring
. A huge, blingy ring!
Wow.
And he had an expression on his face of complete, honest love.
“Yes,” she said, and the crowd went wild.
This time when the band started to play again, Dave sang the chorus of
Taste of Candy
as he looked directly in her eyes…and Candy could feel the music pound through her very being.
This was a forever type of love.
The End
Critically-acclaimed author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy stories including Amazon Erotica Bestseller
s
Overheated
, and
Enslaved, Book 1 in the Enslaved Trilogy
. Her work has been featured in
Best Bondage Erotica 2012
and
Best Bondage Erotica 2013
, the Penguin/Berkley Heat anthology
Agony/Ecstasy
, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas including
Chastity Belt
and
Punishing the Art Thief
from Ellora's Cave Publishing.
The non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to,
How To Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors
, is a #1 Bestseller in the Authorship, Erotica Writing Reference, and Romance Writing categories on Amazon.
Her BDSM erotic romance series, the
Enslaved Trilogy
, released in April 2013 from Simon & Schuster's Pocket Star imprint, and will be followed by
The Pulse Trilogy
in November 2013.
Reviewers have called Shoshanna’s writing “fast paced, intense, and sexual…every naughty fantasy come to life for the reader” with stories where “the plot is fresh and the pacing excellent, the emotions…real and poignant.”
Shoshanna used to work as a syndicated advice columnist and a registered nurse, but now she’s a full-time smut writer and a home-schooling mom. She lives with her family and two big dogs in sunny Los Angeles.
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He’s about to get the hottest punishment of his life… SPANKED (Dominatrix Fantasy 1)
He's in a chastity belt & at her mercy until he submits…DENIED (Dominatrix Fantasy 2)
Will he submit to being lent out to her friends? COLLARED (Dominatrix Fantasy 3)
Dominatrix Fantasy Trilogy: SPANKED, DENIED, & COLLARED plus bonus short story TAPE
She’s ready for some down and dirty sex with the hot cowboy who comes to her rescue after her car gets OVERHEATED.
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The security guard won’t let her go without PUNISHING THE ART THIEF for her crime.
With ginger-figging as punishment, it’s more fun to be bad. GINGER SNAP
She’s undercover as a movie star’s professional submissive in HOLLYWOOD SPANK
The best way for him to show this virgin that her bald head is beautiful... is in bed. BEDHEAD
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Bedhead
BEST BONDAGE EROTICA 2012 (
Melting Ice
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BEST BONDAGE EROTICA 2013 (
Plastic Wrap
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AGONY/ECSTASY (
The Wooden Pony
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SMOKIN’ HOT FIREMEN
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Falling Ashes
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The Pulse Trilogy (Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Erotic Romance)
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THE PULSE, Book One in The Pulse Trilogy, November 2013
THE ESCAPE, Book Two in The Pulse Trilogy, January 2014
THE THRUST, Book Three in The Pulse Trilogy, March 2014
THE TYCOON’S CONVENIENT BRIDE…AND BABY (Entangled Publishing/Indulgence)
Anthologies
BABY GOT BACK (
Body Heat
) Cleis Press anthology, August 2013
THE BIG BOOK OF ORGASM (
Forced Orgasms
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