Title: I Won’t Say (I’m in Love)
Author: Evee Lamb
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Erotica
Blurb
Blurb
After being stuck in a dead end
relationship with her abusive ex-boyfriend, Zelda wants to say goodbye to
relationships and say hello to no-strings sex. Preferably with a man who owns a
lingerie collection larger than her own. So when Pytor Valentine pings into her
inbox after Zelda decides to navigate the world of online dating, Zelda thinks
she’s found the perfect man. He’s everything should could as for: handsome,
well-read, owns an extensive collection of lingerie, and is looking for
unattached sex.
But after seeing Pytor wrapped up in
silk, all of his hard muscles and sharp curves trimmed with lace, Zelda isn’t
sure one night of white hot passion is enough. But with Derek muscling his way
back into her life and Pytor not looking for a relationship, Zelda doesn’t know
if she’ll ever get more than sex.
If Zelda wants to survive with her
heart in tack, she can’t fall in love. Too bad she’s pretty sure she already
is.
Author Bio
Evee Lamb lives in Columbus, Ohio
with her two cats Mo and Cheedo. She publishes male x male romance under the
pen name Evelyn Shepherd. Between writing and working as a graphic designer, she
spends her free time expanding her library and traveling.
Zelda snatched the tequila bottle
from Antonia and took a quick pull. The liquor burned down her esophagus.
Usually she wouldn’t be drinking. But then again, it wasn’t every night that
she was dumped by her boyfriend of three years. She eyed the amber liquid in
the bottle and took another swig. Technically, Derek had dumped her a few days
ago, but the pain hadn’t lessened any since Monday. She passed the bottle back
to Antonia. The lingering fire in her gut made her wince.
“Fuck him.”
“You’re right,” Zelda retorted.
“Fuck him. I don’t need him—or any man!”
Antonia paused, her hand stretched
out for the bottle. “Any man?”
“Damn straight!”
Antonia wrapped her manicured
fingers around the neck of the bottle. “What about sex?”
“Who needs sex? It wasn’t like we
were having it in the end, anyhow.” Zelda’s stomach rolled. By the end, she’d
barely even been seeing Derek. She reached for the bottle, but Antonia hugged
it close. Zelda shot her a glare and waved her hand. “Hand it over.”
Antonia took a drink and passed it
back. Zelda tipped the bottle, made a noise, and shook her head as if that
would help ease the tequila down. She caught sight of herself in the mirror
hung on the dining-room wall. Her already rouged cheeks were flushed even more
from the alcohol.
“So, wait. You weren’t having sex?
Like any?”
Zelda clutched the bottle. Antonia
gawked at her. Zelda saw the disbelief in her eyes, watched her mouth fall
open. Zelda bit her bottom lip, wishing she could snatch back the words. They
were out there, though, and from the look in Antonia’s eyes, she wasn’t going
to let it go.
“Yeah, like any.” Zelda chased the
confession down with another drink.
“For how long?”
Good question. She scrunched her
eyebrows together. Zelda eased the bottle from her lips. How long? Long enough
for Zelda to establish a much deeper relationship with her vibrator. She
shrugged. “Six months, I guess?”
“You guess? Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Gordon-Levitt! How did you not leave him?” Antonia reached for the bottle.
Zelda let her take it.
A black cat jumped onto the table
and sat down. Zelda picked him up and deposited him into her lap. “No,
Tolstoy.”
Tolstoy wriggled out of her grip and
leaped back onto the floor, his tail up and twitching. Zelda watched him go,
her alcohol-filled stomach sinking to the floor. Why hadn’t she left Derek?
It’d been evident before they’d stopped having sex that things were going
downhill. His temper had grown shorter. He had become petty and jealous. And he
was never there for her. He was always busy. How many times had he worked late?
The precinct couldn’t need him that
much.
“I’m an idiot, aren’t I?” Zelda
choked out. She covered her face with her hands, trying to stave off tears.
“Christ, I wasted half a year trying to salvage something that was already
gone!”
“You aren’t an idiot.”
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