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Flashback: Breaking Leather (Contest)
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014

Hey there! I just looked at the calendar. Where has this year gone? I don’t know how 2014’s been for you, but it’s blown by me. And next week’s Thanksgiving, which means if I blink it will be Christmas. Another blink and it will be 2015! It’s time to start thinking about my New Year’s rez list. Do you do one? Do you always have “Lose weight” at the top like I do? Maybe I won’t even bother putting it on the list this year because I don’t want to bomb the first item on the first day. šŸ™

So, it’s Saturday, which for some means a day off and time to kick up the feet and spend some quality “me” time. Maybe read a book…? Is that what you do? Tell me about your Saturday!

If you post a comment today, youā€™ll be entered
to win a free copy of the story below!

Oh, and one last thing before I share a fun excerpt from one of myĀ favorite Lone Star Lovers novellas—I’ll be sending out a newsletter soon, filled with goodies you won’t want to miss. So, if you’re not already signed up, here’s the link: Newsletter Signup.

Breaking Leather

Breaking Leather

One for remembranceā€¦one for healingā€¦and one to seal her heart forever.

Lone Star Lovers, Book 4

Chrissi Page has tried to find one man who heats her bed the way the Kinzie brothers did one shameful night years ago. Sheā€™s failed miserably, leaving her with no choice but to bank that inner fireā€”and keep a lid on her inner bad girl.

Sheā€™d been weak, unable to choose between three men who appealed to her in different ways. And when theyā€™d confronted her as a tease, anger had boiled over into a passion so wild, sheā€™s still trying to live it down.

Since that night, Ezra, Cade and Joshua have individually sown their wild oats with pretty much the entire available female population of Two Mule, Texas. Yet nothing erases the attraction they still feel for Chrissi. And when she ends up stranded on the road near their ranch, itā€™s their last chance to turn their mutual obsession into an unusual proposition.

One weekend, three on one. If she canā€™t stand the heat, theyā€™ll let her go on with her life. And try to find a way to live with the hole sheā€™ll leave behind in theirs.

Warning: A girl who thinks she canā€™t have it all, and three brothers who set out to prove otherwise. One on one, two on one, and three on one; bondage in the wild; a bit of riding crop action. And a pickup truck load of emotion.

Chrissi Page raised her cell phone in the air, staring at the screen. No bars. Not even a hint of one skinny, green nub. ā€œOh, come on,ā€ she moaned as her radiator hissed behind her. ā€œDamn, damn, damn.ā€

Sheā€™d been tempted to ignore theĀ CHECK ENGINEĀ light when it first appeared, wanting to take the chance she could limp back into Two Mule. However, the steam seeping from under the hood had pretty much killed that hope.

Today was not the day for her car to break down. Not so far from town. Not so close toĀ theirĀ ranch. Any minute now one of the Kinzie brothers might happen by.

Theyā€™d stop because theyā€™d never leave a woman stranded.

They might not let her go because of their shared past.

And she didnā€™t know if she had the strength anymore to fight fate or her own inexplicable needs.

Macy Pettigrew, her best friend and boss, had sent her to the Dunstan house to make sure the owners had followed her suggestions to increase the houseā€™s curb appeal. Never mind that there wasnā€™t a curb. Not really even a roadā€”more of a caliche-covered goat trail that meandered up a steep hillside, rutted from runoff during recent summer storms.

Something must have happened to her car on the run up that hill. Sheā€™d heard the rocks pinging against her undercarriage but had been too busy thinking about Ms. Dunstanā€™s handsome neighbors. Sheā€™d been afraid sheā€™d pass them or that they might stop in to see old Lettie Dunstan, the widow selling off her roughhewn, century-old home.

Chrissi had forced a smile on her face, looked at the potted plants the old woman had placed in pretty window boxes and admired the paint sheā€™d used to spruce up the weathered door and window frames. The junk the old womanā€™s husband had accumulated, and that she hadnā€™t had the heart to part with after his passing, was gone from the front lawn. And lo and behold, grass was beginning to grow to fill in the brown patches where engines and tires had lain.

Macy would be pleased. They had a potential buyer. One whoā€™d relayed an offer via email, which had checked out with the mortgage lender. Details Macy had been eager to handle herself, leaving the showings to Chrissi.

Chrissi heard a powerful engine rev. She slowly lowered her arm and glanced nervously over her shoulder. A metallic sage pickup truck pulled off the road behind her, and her stomach dropped to her toes. Sheā€™d known the moment herĀ CHECK ENGINEĀ light had shone that this was going to happen.

And good Lord, it had to be Ezra Kinzie. His dark gaze narrowed on her through the windshield, the intensity of it feeling like the hissing heat of a brand against her skin.

He opened his door and stepped down, slamming it with a decisive shove. Everything Ezra did was deliberate. He never wavered once a decision was made.

Long ago, heā€™d decided he wasnā€™t going to fight his brothers for her. If she wasnā€™t going to decide among them, then sheā€™d have to take them all.

And, Lord help her, she had.

Sheā€™d never gotten over that night, had never been able to push it to the farthest corner of her mind when she lay down to sleep. Just the memory of it made her hot, cold,Ā wetā€¦

And horribly ashamed. Anyone could have seen them beneath the bleachers at the homecoming game. Gossip hadnā€™t followed, but that didnā€™t make her any less self-conscious when she strode down the sidewalk on Main Street.

Someone might know. Someone might tell. The thought of that sordid night being revealed left her feeling nauseated. Her life had been circumspect ever since, her love life nonexistent.

Theyā€™d left her scarred. Unable to move on.

Not because theyā€™d harmed her physically, but because she hadnā€™t been able to shake off the terrible attraction that tempted her every single day since that fateful night.

Boots crunched on the gravel at the side of the road. The brim of Ezraā€™s straw cowboy hat left his ice-blue eyes in shadow.

She straightened away from her car and squared her shoulders.

ā€œHavinā€™ trouble, Chrissi?ā€

ā€œIt just showed up,ā€ she said under her breath, determined not to let him see how flustered she felt.

One side of his mouth quirked up. He glanced up at the sky, squinting against the bright Texas sun before leveling that devastating stare on her again.

Her belly clenched, and she fought hard not to give him any clues about how he still affected her. Just the rumble of his deep voice always made her think of crisp, cool sheets and hot, slick skin.

Her glance flicked over his body-hugging dark tee, noted his well-developed chest, the bulge of his biceps, his taut abdomen. She started to sweat. ā€œWill you call a tow truck for me when you get home?ā€

A frown dug a deep crease between his dark brows. ā€œGet in my truck, Chrissi. Iā€™m not leavinā€™ you on the side of the road.ā€

ā€œIā€™m not goinā€™ anywhere with you, Ezra Kinzie,ā€ she said tightly.

A muscle rippled alongside his jaw. ā€œIā€™m just offerinā€™ you a place to wait out of the sun. And a cool drink. Nothinā€™ more.ā€

His features were stern, his jaw rigid, but the heat blazing from his eyes mesmerized her, made her want to sway toward him. The intensity of that unblinking stare made her wish heā€™d take the decision right out of her hands. Sheā€™d never willingly take that first step. Her days of following his commands were over.

Chrissi swallowed hard and broke from his glance, looking down the road and praying someone else would appear over the crest of the hill. She needed rescuing from the deep emotions roiling inside herā€”from the temptation his large, hard frame embodied. However, only the shimmer of heat waves rose off the black tar.

A trickle of moisture dripped between her breasts, gliding along one curveā€”and just like that, her imagination replaced the slide of that hot little bead with the tip of his tongue. She turned away from him and dragged in a couple of deep breaths, trying to stiffen her resolve, but the only things hardening were the tips of her breasts. She crossed her arms over her chest and lifted her chin, then turned to aim a glare at the one man who had the power to make her knees quiver.

So many memories swamped her as she stared into his handsome, rugged face. So many regrets sat like soured milk in her gut. Heā€™d been ā€œthe oneā€ until sheā€™d succumbed to a dark sensual greed.

Too bad she couldnā€™t turn back the clock about seven years. Sheā€™d make damn sure sheā€™d never let him take her hand and pull her into the shadows.

14 comments to “Flashback: Breaking Leather (Contest)”

  1. brenda witcher
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 9:18 am · Link

    Very hot



  2. Delilah
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 10:15 am · Link

    Glad you enjoyed it, Brenda!



  3. Eniko
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 11:07 am · Link

    Ooh-la-la that was hot!
    Saturdays are for puttering around the house for me, but. I sneak in some reading too.
    Thanks for the chance!



  4. Pat Freely
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 12:04 pm · Link

    That just set off the smoke alarm, WOW!!! Today I will be going to work at a concert. Oh the life of a security officer.( not bad for a 71 year old broad.))



  5. Galina Sulaiman
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 1:26 pm · Link

    Saturday is a mixture of being lazy, reading, catching up on shows then by late afternoon I get laundry and some cleaning done, it’s also a day my kids want to go do something with friends soi usually have to drive them someplace.



  6. Shirley Long
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 1:34 pm · Link

    Even tho I’m retired, Saturday is the day I take for ME.
    College football is always on my TV in the kitchen but me, my head is ALWAYS buried in my kindle. My husband says I’m an addict and I suppose he could be right. I’d rather read than eat and believe me, that’s saying a lot.
    I might cook an evening meal and then again I might not. There’s always take out.
    Enjoy your Saturday. You deserve a day off. šŸ˜†



  7. Elizabeth Andrews
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 4:04 pm · Link

    Sadly, my Saturday was spent mostly at the evil day-job, before I ran a few necessary errands. I hope everyone else had a better, and more fun Saturday!



  8. Gail Siuba
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 10:44 pm · Link

    I remember this story, I bought it a couple of years back. Hot stuff! It’s definitely a re-read book. šŸ˜‰
    It’s a cool drink, read in one sitting kind of book.



  9. Ginger Robertson
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    · November 22nd, 2014 at 11:40 pm · Link

    Hi Delilah

    I loved reading the synopsis and excerpt for Breaking Leather.

    My Saturday was a little lazy. However, my niece and sister helped me work in my back yard with weeds and such. Afterwards a nap for me and watching football this evening.

    G



  10. Sharon Chalk
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    · November 23rd, 2014 at 12:27 am · Link

    wow,I have to read that book,I usually stop at 2 men and 1 women cause 3 seems like a lot to handle but that blurb was hot and they hadn’t even done anything!!! what a way to suck somebody in lol as for my Saturday,this one I had to catch up on my computer,I had to be offline for 4 days and when I saw all the email,facebook comments,and messages plus the groups I belong to and the blogs I follow I have been on the computer for almost 7 hours,so now my legs,fingers,and brain are numb so Im going to click off and pick a book and read for the next 4 or 5 hours!!!!!



  11. Toni Whitmire
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    · November 23rd, 2014 at 1:53 am · Link

    I thought it was very hot and can’t wait to read it bibbiespareks@yahoo.com



  12. Debbie Watson
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    · November 23rd, 2014 at 10:04 am · Link

    Sounds awesome!



  13. Yvonne
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    · November 23rd, 2014 at 10:54 am · Link

    Loved the excerpt. Thanks for the giveaway!



  14. Mary Jo
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    · November 23rd, 2014 at 10:55 am · Link

    Loved the excerpt!



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