CHAPTER ONE
If she’d thought about it, then it might have happened differently. Kara didn’t think. She acted.
That was why she stood crushed against the railing bordering the canal with her knickers around
her ankles. The sweet caress of cool air barely had time to stir against her skin before two warm
fingers had replaced it. A thumb swept the line of her slit, driving her up on to toes that were
already squashed into ultra-high heels. Hell, that was good. Relief swept through her muscles,
replacing the tension there with sweet, sweet bellyache. She needed this. Needed it so much she
was hard pressed not to grab hold of his hand and mash the whole lot against her clit. Instead,
she writhed against the tease, determined to manipulate his fingers into the exact spot she needed
them.
‘Eager for this, aren’t you?’ She felt his smile rather than saw it, as he mouthed along the
edge of her jaw. He had an interesting smile, a bit too big and more than a little wolfish. It was
that grin that made her pause long enough to accept the drink he offered her, and then to accept
being tugged out on to the dance floor, where they’d bumped and ground their way into
companionable bliss. When they’d walked outside, it hadn’t mattered who led, or that they’d
practically spoken in monosyllables all night. Thumping club hits tended to transform anything
more eloquent into a series of ‘eh?’s and ‘what?’s. Body language was key. Body language was
all that mattered now.
‘Less talk,’ Kara barked. There’d been too much talk in her life the last few days. She
drove her mouth hard against his lips, ready to worship their generous curves. His perfect cupid’s
bow moulded to her wide mouth with charming precision. In response, he pressed into her,
connecting them from chest to shin save for a little space occupied by his questing hand.
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Back and forth, his thumb continued to sweep, until her moisture coated his fingers and
turned the motion into a glide. She might be insane for this, but by God he knew how to treat her
right. Her clit perked up, hard as a nut, until it was peeping from between the lips of her pussy all
desperate for some direct action rather than the elusive pulls on the skin around it.
‘Oh, now what have we here?’ Mirth flashed from the depths of his eyes as he circled her
pearl as though he were drawing a thread around it. ‘Could it be I’ve found something
important?’
Oh, lord! He’d found it all right. Damn, it was almost too sweet to tolerate.
Intense arousal flushed Kara’s face. Her own need was a metallic taste in her mouth,
sharp and bitter like freshly cut lime. Her nipples poked up against the fabric of her dress,
desperate for a share of the action.
Jack – was it Jack? She’d never really caught his name over the pounding bass inside the
club – cupped one breast. He mouthed the nipple through her dress and bra until all that
remained of her was ache and need.
‘Enough with the tease.’
His eyes shone with the fact that he was on to a winner. ‘What tease would that be?’ The
devil slid two fingers into her as he spoke, provoking a groan. ‘I’m sure you wouldn’t want me to
be lazy.’
‘What I want,’ she said smiling back at him, ‘is for you to put that pretty mouth of yours
to better use.’
‘Yeah?’ His wing-like eyebrows briefly lifted. The quick flicker of boyish adulation in
his eyes was ridiculously endearing.
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Kara wrenched aside the materials covering her breast and guided his head into place. His
breath tickled her skin first, then the tip of his tongue, before he fell to working the whole nipple.
‘Yes, yes, just there. Harder,’ she insisted, as she wove her fingers into the back of his hair. With
a mouth this good, no way was she letting him escape. She could only imagine how his mobile
lips and that tongue would feel against her clit. As it was, a spark stream now connected her
nipple to her cunt, where his hand continued to work. Hell, much more of this and he’d bring her
off before he ever got anything out of it.
Jack seemed to realise that too. He shook his head to dislodge her grip and shifted his
feet so that he could rub up against her hip. She supposed it was quite a subtle move in the
scheme of things; there was certainly something enticing about having him writhe against her
like that. His erection lay like a sturdy brand behind his fly, already one hundred per cent ready
to satisfy. It had to be uncomfortable all caged up like that, which just made her like him all the
more for not taking his hands off her to ease his own discomfort.
‘Let me,’ Kara insisted. She might be many things, fricking crazy, jobless, homeless as of
7.30 this morning and tipsy as fuck, but to her way of thinking sex was definitely about give and
take. Otherwise you might as well cosy up with a vibe and a good book.
Jack made no protest. She grabbed him hard around the arse, grinned in delight as his
muscles tightened. He was tall and big-boned, but sleek as a panther beneath his black jeans and
equally black top. The sort of man whom you could imagine creeping across the rooftops as a cat
burglar or delivering boxes of Milk Tray. Not the sort of rogue that normally wetted her
knickers. Fuck, but he tasted more delicious than any chocolate, peppery and citrous, mingled
with the sharp tang of salt. It took a moment to release his buckle, less time to open his fly and
expose his cock. Kara palmed him through his briefs, teasing him in the way he’d tormented her.
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She couldn’t keep it up, much as she wanted to make him sweat. She was too antsy and
he was already close, that much was evident from the sharp noise he made in the back of his
throat when her fist tightened around his shaft. The reflection of the fairy lights strung from the
trees lining the quayside glinted in the depths of his eyes. She watched their sparkle a moment,
until his eyelids drooped. ‘You got something?’
His eyes snapped open immediately. ‘Back pocket. Think you can reach it?’
She copped another good feel of his butt as she wrestled the foil from his pocket.
‘Want to do the honours?’ he asked.
‘You betcha.’ She was going to go stark raving crazy if she didn’t get him inside her
soon. Jack – Jack who was showing the first traces of a shadow around his jaw and who was
going to feel fucking amazing inside her.
Jack sagged against her shoulder as she split the wrapper. The curve of his lips clove to
the pulse point in her neck. He nibbled, began to suck. Damn! Kara bit her lip. It was difficult to
concentrate when he was distracting her like that. Still, she took her time dressing him. She liked
that he didn’t rush her, which meant she got to explore his whole length as she rolled the sheath
into place. His cock curved sabre-like towards his body. He was uncut, the skin drawn back like
a collar around the silky-smooth tip. A small tattoo of a pentacle occupied the space just below
his right hip, the ink dark against the white of his skin. If there was time and somewhere
comfortable – if, if, if. She wanted to explore him more thoroughly, get him properly naked.
Suddenly it was important to see if the brown thatch of hair around his groin extended upwards.
She followed the silky trail to his navel, shoved his ribbed T-shirt out of the way to see the rest.
Golden-brown hairs circled his nipples and filled all the space between. Beneath that sign of
masculinity he was tautly muscled and every bit as sleek as his outfit suggested. Part of her
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actually longed to step back and admire him. If she commanded him to stay would he do it?
Would he stand exposed against the iron railings, with the dark, mirrored surface of the canal
behind him, and let her gorge herself on the visual feast of him? Hairy men turned her on. It
didn’t matter if was an unruly mass of curls upon a man’s head or just thick tawny hairs upon his
arms. There was something exciting about a man with some body hair, particularly a goodlooking
one. So many of them shaved or waxed.
She was so done with Mr Metrosexual.
Jack, perhaps sensing a growing distance between them, shimmied right up close to her,
and bent his head so they were looking into one another’s eyes on a level. ‘Ready?’
Like hell they were, she had no idea how they were going to accomplish anything in this
position.
‘Hold yourself on the railings.’
Kara grasped the blue-painted metal. She gave a screech and a giggle as Jack hoisted her
off her feet and dealt with her knickers. She guessed she was going home bare as they floated
away on the canal. She wrapped her legs around him as he lined them up. They were in a public
place, but there was nothing coy about his actions. No hesitation and definitely no
embarrassment as his cock bucked eagerly at her entrance. That lack made her cheeks colour a
little for both of them.
‘Tell me.’ He held them mere millimetres apart. ‘Tell me exactly how you want it.’
Was he a talker, or just making sure he stayed out of trouble? She could hardly cry
coercion if she’d begged him for it.
Kara squeezed around his hips with her thighs, dragging them a fraction closer together.
‘I want you to fuck me.’
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‘No – I never would have guessed that.’
Sarky bugger. Shit! He’d probably drop her over the railings into the canal if she
admitted any of the stuff in her head, like visions of nipple clamps and chaining him to the
railings. Surely the only things that mattered here were that he turned her on and she needed him.
The whys and wherefores were irrelevant; the bounty of her inner life more so.
‘Nothing more than that to say?’ he queried, lifting one of his wing-like brows again.
‘You just want me to slide up and fill your cunt.’ The way he said cunt made her literally ache
with need. ‘You’re not after anything flashy, just a straight hard fuck.’ He delivered as he
punctuated the last word, filling her up so completely it took her body a moment to respond to
the shock. Heavenly didn’t come close to describing it. It just felt right – so goddamned
incredibly right. She clamped tight to his body as he drew back to give her what she’d apparently
asked for. ‘You know, I’m kind of surprised. I never took you to be such a vanilla kind of girl.’
He was right. She so wasn’t. What sort of strait-laced girl fucked a stranger up against the
backdrop of the murky canal? Why had it taken her so long to admit that to herself, instead of
constantly trying to be good?
‘So why don’t you tell me what really gets you off? Shall I pretend I’m a vampire and
sink my teeth in? Do you like a fingertip in your arse?’
‘Hold me tighter.’ Their position meant they were already pretty much jammed together
with no space between. Kara bent her head to his ear. She mouthed around the lobe before
breathing the words. ‘Come and then I want to lick you clean.’
The muscles in his face tightened into a grin, and then he picked up her and the pace
again, pounding into her like it was a race they had to win.
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Kara continued to mouth the side of his neck where the skin was thinnest and his pulse
raced just below the surface. He was slippery and hard between her thighs. Her clit, already
prepped by his earlier teasing, shot out darts of pleasure each time he made a forward thrust.
Why wasn’t it always this good? Why could she only get this sort of relief with a stranger in a
seedy venue? Why hadn’t her life worked out, and did that matter when she could get sex this
good?
‘Ooohh!’ The buzz built and suddenly burst. She screamed, panted, scored a few lines
across his back. He continued to fill her up the whole while, until the moment passed and she
realised he was still hard and hadn’t come.
Kara shook herself free of his arms. She knelt down on the quayside. Took a little risk –
what the heck – and closed her mouth over the length of him. She’d said she was going to lick
him clean. Well, instead she was going to suck him off.
The plan met with no resistance from Jack. Nah, his knees buckled a bit, but he had some
handy railings to cling to, which was good, because she wasn’t letting him go. He tasted too nice:
part her, part him, the whole ridiculously sexy.
Kara steadied herself, with one palm flat against his inner thigh, the other wrapped
around the base of his cock. She liked that he wasn’t too long. He was nicely proportioned and
she got one hell of a kick out of roving her tongue over the flare of the head and tickling the
sweet spot just below the eye. When he started trying to claw at her hair in order to drag her
closer, she worked with the roll of his hips.
‘You’re good at this. Oh, sweetheart.’ His knuckles were white against the vivid blue
railing.
‘Are you going to come?’ she asked, grinning up at him in a facetious manner.
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‘So close.’
They were back to the depth of discourse they’d shared inside the club. ‘I want to watch.’
Actually, not just watch. She wanted to watch and do. Kara rose and stood beside him with her
back to the railing. She cupped his length with one hand and shoved her other hand inside her
skirt so that she could rub herself in time with the thrust of his cock through the ring of her
fingers. The low-level spark of her previous orgasm rekindled immediately. They almost raced.
Who could cross the finish line first? Who could ejaculate the furthest? OK, he won hands down
on that one. He was beautiful as he came, his face kind of screwed up and tortured looking, eyes
closed, teeth gritted, as if he was doing something painful or hideous. Yet in those few moments
he belonged to her totally.
Jack opened his eyes and stared at her. ‘You’re a dirty minx,’ he scoffed as he watched
her give in to a minor explosion. The second big O of the day just never lived up to the first.
Then he hitched up his jeans and tucked his cock out of sight. ‘Got somewhere to go?’ he asked.
By which he meant: let’s continue this somewhere more comfortable.
‘Yeah – yeah, I have. I’m good.’ She dropped a kiss upon the tip of his nose, backed off,
then returned to press another to those delicious lips of his. Then Kara was off, trotting across the
tarmac back towards the club. She couldn’t face an awkward parting in the morning; better that
they went separate ways now. And she definitely wasn’t looking for a relationship. No way. Not
for a good long time.
‘Hey, where are you going?’ He moved forward as if he were about to jog after her.
Kara laughed and waved. ‘Back to my wedding party.’ She hoped he got the emphasis on
my. The girls were probably scouring the dance floor for her by now. Being tipsy and high on the
aftermath of awesome sex meant she could just about tolerate the thought of being found. As far
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as celebrations went, this one sucked, and sucked in a truly pointless, ridiculous way. It wasn’t a
hen night, a point on which she’d had to correct several people. It was the fill-in party for what
ought to have been her wedding night and an orgy load of sex in a hotel room before jetting off
to Hawaii. Only Gavin David ‘Tosspot’ Covey had gone and ruined that by being a clingy
control freak who insisted on knowing her whereabouts 24/7. More importantly, instead of
apologising when she’d called the wedding off, he’d gawped at her in horror over the deposits
they’d lose. No way was she signing up for a lifetime with him. She hoped the plane carrying
him and Gemma – you are so not my best friend considering how fast you jumped in to console
him – over the Atlantic was hit by lightning and dropped out of the sky. It seemed appropriate
punishment somehow, except that she didn’t want to hurt anyone else on board so maybe they’d
have to accidentally fall out of an open door or something.
Damn! And now her good mood was gone. Time to reinstate it with alcohol. A lone tear
trickled down her face as she slipped back into the nightclub via the fire exit. At least she’d just
had the most glorious sex she’d had in months, far better than that painting-by-numbers crap
she’d been enduring with Gavin.
‘Hey, Kara, there you are.’ Her sister clamped a hand tight around her arm. ‘You’ve
about thirty drinks lined up.’
She hoped that was Karen’s usual exaggeration.
‘Come and play catch up.’
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