#MWTease this week comes from
Finding Love: Incident at the Candy Apple
Jake’s a member of an elite club, the
Candy Apple. Years ago, it used to be a gentlemen’s club, but now it caters for
other needs. When he first sees Ellie
sitting alone at one of the tables near the dance floor, he makes it his
business to find out about her.
Jake’s enchanted by Ellie. He wants
to give her what she needs.
Ellie takes him up on the offer.
The trouble is, Ellie’s needs will shock
Jake and set him on a quest to find her, when after a night of passion and
rescue, she slips away into the night.
Finding Love–a contemporary, erotic
romance with a twist of suspense.
What would you do to find love?
(Some bondage and BDSM club settings, low level violence)
Read the teaser: 18+ low level violence
Jake watched for a moment, then drove
the short distance to the traffic circle, and turned to drive along the street
again going the correct way, and join another road to go home. As he approached
Ellie’s apartment block, he saw a man and woman in some kind of altercation.
The woman was on her knees and the man held her hair keeping her bent. With
sudden clarity, Jake knew this was Ellie and the guy had to be her former
boyfriend.
Jake stopped his car even though it
was double-parked and just about in the middle of the road. He leapt from it
and left the door hanging open in his haste to run to Ellie’s aid. Jake’s anger
rose in red-hot spears as he saw the man drag Ellie by the hair and kick her up
the bottom step of the apartment building stoop.
Jake reached the guy in a haze of
fury. He grasped the man’s shoulder and dragged his hand from Ellie’s hair. His
anger boiled as Ellie cried out when the guy tried to grab back her hair. Jake
drew away and punched the guy in the face with a force he didn’t know he had
and never used before. Jake followed as the man went down backwards onto the
sidewalk and he leaned over the guy.
Jake hadn’t ever been in a fight and
his fury blocked any fear he might be hurt. He took the guy by the throat with
one hand and punched him across the face again. He had to gasp out his words he
was so furious about this man’s attack on Ellie. “What the fuck are you doing?
You need to leave Ellie alone. You’re that disgusting low life boyfriend she’s
told me about aren’t you? You fucking bastard.” He smashed the guy’s head onto
the sidewalk, realized he could kill the sucker, and pulled the guy’s head and
shoulders up by the collar before the man’s skull cracked on the pavers. “Get
up.” Jake spat out the words as he stood.
Tyler slowly got up and gestured at
Ellie who cowered on the stoop.
“She’s my girl and this has nothing
to do with you. I’ll have you arrested for assault.”
Jake laughed aloud. “And open
yourself up to be prosecuted for the things you’ve done to Ellie. I don’t
fucking think so, buddy. You’d better get lost and remember this. I’ll give you
such a beating if Ellie even thinks
she’s seen you anywhere near her place. Touch her one more time and I’ll kill
you. Got it?”
Tyler took a step toward Ellie. He
screamed at her. “I’ll find you again. You just wait.”
Jake grabbed him, and threw him with
a huge push against the fence rails of the next apartment block. The force of
Tyler’s body hitting the fence made the whole row vibrate. A light went on high
up in the building.
“Go now.” Jake’s anger threatened to
bubble over. He stood between the man and Ellie who had crawled to the top of
the steps. Jake genuinely felt murderous. Flashes of Ellie’s pretty face and
lovely body flew through his mind. Horror and sadness at what this guy had done
to Ellie made his stomach churn.
Tyler took off down the street.
Jake only knew he was shaking when
Ellie dashed down the steps and flew into his arms.
Copyright Elodie Parkes 2016 Hot Ink Press
