Excerpt: the Zodiac Queen Shower Fun
Happy Tuesday! I’ve got another excerpt to share, this time from book five in the Zodiac Queen. This scene from Leo is one of my favorites. The lighthearted moment between Sebastian and Novalee is a sweet morsel in a story full of passion and angst. If you haven’t started the Zodiac Queen yet, you can download the first book in the series for FREE! Be sure to check out the links at the bottom of this post to download.
Excerpt
Trapped in the weight of his gaze, I swallow hard as I lay the clean dress on the mattress before removing the sand-caked one shielding my modesty. He’s touched me in intimate places, studied every angle of my nude body so he could bring me to life on his canvas…he’s seen inside my soul in a way no else has, not even Liam.
Yet undressing in front of Sebastian, with the afternoon sun bathing my skin while he watches from across the room, fully clothed, leaves me more bare than all the above combined. It’s intimate—the air between us. The promise of things to come.
“I need to shower. I have sand in my hair.” It takes all of my willpower not to cover my breasts as I face him.
His gaze roams my body before lifting to my eyes. “So do I.”
He stands and removes his T-shirt, unzips his jeans, and shoves them to his ankles. Working the shoes off his feet, he steps free of the denim and strides toward me, naked as the day he was born and without shame, his cock semi-hard.
With a gulp, I take a step back. “I thought you said we have to be there in an hour.”
“We do.”
“If you get in the shower with me, we won’t make it.”
His knowing grin disarms me, freezing me to the spot. “Are you worried I won’t be able to control myself?”
“Maybe.”
“What if I promise not to touch you?” Even as he says it, he fingers one of the tiny braids woven into my strands. “Except for your hair. I want to wash it.”
He’s too close, too naked, too…unguarded. His carefree behavior is messing with my head.
“I didn’t expect this,” I say, echoing his confession from earlier on the beach.
“What didn’t you expect?”
“You…this…” I’m at a loss for words as I gesture at the private setting. “You’re being kind and attentive and…” I trail off, stumped for a way to explain that won’t come out wrong.
“I have my moments.” His lips tilt into a half-smirk, half-smile. I can’t decide which.
I don’t have time to examine the intent on those sexy lips. Suddenly, he lifts me, and I wrap my legs around his waist as he carries me into the adjacent bathroom, clinging to his warm body out of fear of falling. Though deep down, I know it’s too late. He shoved me off the precipice months ago, and I’ve been in a state of flailing surrender ever since.
Comments: 1
I’ve just started reading the zodiac queen series and I am now at Cancer and I can’t say I like the direction the books seem to be heading. You have created a Queen whore and after she is auctioned like a slave, her whoring duties are not over. I haven’t seen the last book, Pisces as yet, so I am hoping that the curse or tradition will be broken and she will not be passed around like a ganja spliff. I also do not like the relationship with Sebastian, which implies that no matter how a man humiliates a woman, she will still love and want him and to hell with the consequences. That is the relationship that the whore queen seem to have with Sebastian, whom she wants no matter how he treats her. I guess poor Liam treats her too much like a lady. I will read on however, to see what other sickness and humiliation you can drum up for the whore queen.