Lightning Strikes by Bianca D'Arc

Author:Bianca D'Arc [D'Arc, Bianca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
Publisher: Bianca D'Arc
Published: 2021-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Mandy was lost in Wil’s kiss. Again. For a split second, she wondered if she was out of her ever-loving mind, then sensation took over, and she didn’t think anymore. She could only feel. The solid warmth of his shoulders under her hands, the slight rasp of his cheeks against her skin. The wonder of his lips against hers. It was all just too much for her to process and still be able to think clearly.

Thinking, she decided, was overrated.

She reveled in his touch, leaning into his embrace when, for months, she’d flinched from every other form of human contact. She had thought she might never be able to bear a man touching her in even the most innocent of ways, but she’d been wrong. Ever since she’d met Wil, she hadn’t minded casual contact—much less this kind of more intimate touching. She almost felt like her old self. The person she’d been before the incident. Almost.

Before too long, the kiss just wasn’t enough. She wanted to touch his skin. More importantly, she wanted him to touch her. How long had it been since she’d been touched with care, respect and passion by a man?

After being kissed by Wil, she wasn’t sure she’d ever had that trifecta of affection from any man in her past. Oh, they’d been nice enough, but the few men she’d allowed past first base, so to speak, hadn’t had the enticing combination she felt when Wil kissed her.

Maybe she was imagining it, but she felt as if he truly cared, in some small way, and that he also respected her boundaries. He didn’t push. He waited for her to increase the tempo, the pressure, the intimacy. He let her set the pace, for which she was so incredibly grateful. It was almost as if he knew what she’d been through, but nobody knew the full story. Not here. She’d left all that behind when she’d started over—as much as she could. The people around her might not know every detail of what had happened to her, but she carried it around with her like a dark cloud, just waiting to rain all over her new life given the least provocation.

Shoving that thought aside, Mandy decided to live for the moment…and this moment was delicious in every way. Turning more fully toward Wil, she practically climbed over him to straddle his thighs. The move took her a little off-balance, but Wil was there to support her back, holding her steady. It was a metaphor, really, for this entire thing. He was there, steadying her as she tried to push past the boundaries that had been imposed on her by life. By the terrible things that had once happened to her.

Wil might not realize it, but in that moment, she began to trust him. Really trust him. He didn’t know about her past, but he was sensitive enough to realize something about her was a little different. Rather than steamroll over her—something he could easily do with

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