The Softest Kinksters Collection by Ali Williams

Author:Ali Williams [Williams, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: CLAficionado Press Ltd
Published: 2022-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

HITTING ON

She was back again.

It had to be her.

No one else’s shoes made quite such a distinctive clip clip clip sound. In fact, the sound of most people’s footfall was deadened by the terrible acoustics in the library, but somehow hers managed to remain distinct. The only sharp sound in a chorus of hushed muttering.

He pressed pause on reshelving some science fiction to sneak a look around the corner of the bookshelves. Yup. That was her. Sat at the same table as ever, high ponytail swaying from side to side as she leant down to her bag to take out her notebook.

The first time she’d come in, it had been a Tuesday. He remembered that because it had also been ‘Books with Tots’ which he usually avoided like the plague, but on that Tuesday he’d been roped into covering for the resident children’s librarian.

‘Books with Tots’ meant nursery rhymes and that adorable Julián is a Mermaid book, but also sticky fingers and lots of crying, and children clambering all over the place and wanting hugs and though – ugh, sticky fingers – he wasn’t heartless. He wasn’t going to turn them away. So there he was, trying his utmost to turn chaos into a nice serene reading group, and when he looked up, there she was.

Long blonde hair swooped up high in a ponytail, plaid shirt paired with blue jeans, and this look on her face as if she couldn’t quite work out what to make of him.

He’d been about to roll his eyes at the chaos surrounding him, when some rapscallion of a toddler rugby tackled him around the neck and he faceplanted onto the beanbag especially selected for this session.

There was a short, throaty chuckle, but when he finally managed to disentangle himself from the would be rugby player she was gone, and he found himself feeling vaguely disappointed.

The next time she’d visited, he hadn’t even realised that she was there until she dumped a towering pile of books on the checkout desk with a thump.

They’d been trying out a few new displays – ‘BookTok’ in the YA section, and ‘SpicyTok’ at the very back of the adult section – and he recognised some, if not most of these from the latter as he scanned them.

“Oh,” he’d said when he scanned one with a bondage-lite cover.

“Oh?”

He’d stumbled over his words then. “I mean, interesting…no, I…that looks, I-” He gave up, ducking his head and abandoning any attempt at conversation.

“Oh wow, you really are just too precious, aren’t you?”

Her head was slightly on one side and she looked as if there was a smile lurking just behind her eyes.

“I, er…” Then he realised in a panic that she might have taken his words as a come on. “I’m so sorry, whatever you want to read is-”

“It’s okay,” she started placing her books in a tote bag, before slinging it over her shoulder, “I know what you meant. You weren’t being inappropriate.”

His sigh of relief brought a glint of amusement back to her eyes.

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