Torment Me (Rough Love Part One) (28 page)

Love lies.

I understood it. I didn’t like it, but I understood it. His sexy charisma had blinded me to reality. He’d made me imagine he cared about me, made me believe he might want an actual relationship. God, so embarrassing. He’d wanted sex; that was all. I’d gotten carried away by my fawning, needy fantasies, just as I’d done with Simon a decade ago. Simon seduced me with painting, W seduced me with poetry, but the outcome was the same. Thank God W had been kind enough to save me from my idiocy and fuck off out of my life.

Jesus, this was so hard. My eyes ached from crying, but my heart ached worse. I stood and walked to my window, and made a promise to myself as I looked out at the darkening cityscape. No more relationships. No more co-dependence on others. No more fake emotional shit.

From now on, Chere was going to be in a relationship with Chere, and the rest of the world could go fuck itself. I’d keep his poetry as a reminder, a warning about how awful and wonderful people could be, and how easily they could leave you.

This was it for me. I was finished. I was never, ever letting go of my heart again.

**to be continued**

It’s been two and a half years since the mysterious W disappeared from Chere’s life, and things are getting better. Sort of. She’s nearing the end of her design program and looking forward to a new career, even if her heart is shuttered for good.

But loneliness is a powerful thing, and she finds herself tempted by a no-strings-attached BDSM partner who happens to be her former professor. She knows it’s a terrible idea, and that he could never live up to W’s level of passionate mayhem, but she’s been waiting so long to be bound and hurt. She’s been waiting so long to feel something…

Unbeknownst to her, someone from her past has been waiting too. And when that someone realizes she means to move forward with this new partner, he barges back into her life to express his displeasure in the only way he knows…

W and Chere’s story will continue with more ups and downs, more passionate sex and passionate denials, and general fucked-up longing. There’ll be more poetry, and more complicated emotions to sort through. Most of all there will be fear about what comes next in their dauntingly unconventional relationship. Her fear…and his…

Taunt Me (Rough Love Part Two)
is now available for preorder and will be released in November 2015.

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