went to the place where he never
wanted to leave. Nestled between the soft forest of hairs at her thighs, he
began his magical stroking, his gaze never leaving her face as he lowered his
head to kiss her passion-swollen lips.
.
. .
The early morning light of dawn tiptoed into they sky, kissing the bodies of
the lust-filled couple as they slept.
Chapter
6: It's Official!
"It's finally official, my book will be on shelves just in time for
Christmas. December 1st."
"Oh Gatlin that's great!" Kylie said, jumping up and down and
wrapping her arms around him. "I'm so proud of you!"
Gatlin immediately thought of his mother and father. It was the first time in
his life he'd ever heard those words from anybody. " I'm so proud of
you."
"… Now the newest, best-kept, crime writer will no longer be a secret. I
don't know how you managed to stay quiet about it. I would have been shouting
it from the rooftops!" Kylie was saying.
"So, what do you want to do to celebrate? Anything. Anything at all she
said … it's my treat and don’t you dare refuse."
"Whatever you want to do, really Kylie, is fine with me. I just have one
request. I would like to invite my friend — the screenwriter who introduced me
to the agent. He's going to be in town next week, so if you wouldn't mind
holding off on celebrating for a week or so, that would be great."
"Anything you won't. But all that means is that you get two celebrations
mister. … I'm taking you out for dinner tonight. Then, I have a special
surprise for you later," she said seductively.
"Well I'd like my surprise right now, then we can go to dinner," he
said, grabbing her and pulling her to him.
"It's not that!" Kylie said, playfully batting his hand away from the
opening of her blouse. "But then you are so deserving," she said,
pulling him back to her. "A girl can never celebrate her man's dream
coming true too much, now can she?" she said, sliding her hand between his
jean-clad thighs.
This woman, Gatlin thought, had invaded every aspect of his life. Her smell was
on his sheets. Her toiletries were in his bathroom. Her books were in his
living room.
Her love was in his heart … and it scared the hell out of him.
Chapter
7: Too Close for Comfort
"Gatlin
is something wrong?" Kylie asked. "You've seemed a little bit out of
it all week," she observed.
"It's nothing. Just a story I'm working on is all," he said as they
mounted the stairs to his apartment.
They'd had a lovely dinner with his agent friend who was visiting from Los
Angeles, and taken in a show afterwards.
"Can I help with the story? Maybe a fresh perspective will shake out some
kinks," she said. "I know it helps me when I'm stuck sometimes."
"Nah. I got it," he said.
"I'm gonna put on the TV. Anything in particular you want to see — news,
movie?" she asked cheerily, ignoring his monosyllabic answers in her
effort to be understanding.
They'd been dating for more than three months now, but Gatlin had been pulling
away from her lately, which she wasn't used to. And, when she'd try to engage
him in conversation about it, he just shut down even more.
"Whatever you want," he said, taking off his dinner jacket and
disappearing into the bathroom.
Kylie grabbed her ringing phone. "I'm already in Brooklyn," she said
to Katrina, who was on the other line.
Her friend said she needed someone to talk to and to be honest, so did Kylie.
"You