It's #MidWeekTease time...
As it's cold, snowy and time to get warmed up, what better book to take my #MidWeekTease from than the one that goes on preorder on February 6th. (That's next week yee haa)
Secrets Dispatched...
blurb...
What's a girl to do when she finds herself
stranded in a snow storm, in a BDSM club in a castle, with a Dom she's lusted
after for years?
At some time in their life, everyone has
choices to make.
For Shane it could be a chance to
rediscover her love of kink.
For Ross it’s the chance to tempt her to be
his kitten.
But Shane has to settle some demons before
she can move forward.
Until then, well a little playing wouldn't
matter—would it?
However, play can become serious, and
decisions have to be made that could change both their lives for ever.
This is their chance, to be together as Dom
and sub or wave goodbye. But at Diomhair, nothing is as straightforward as you
hoped, and Ross and Shane have a lot to do, before they can say yes…or no.
And I've got to take the tease from where Shane in in the snow...
However, the one problem with sleet, Shane
decided ten minutes later, was that it turned to snow. Heavy fat flakes that
rapidly covered the windscreen, which the wipers had a hard time to dispel.
Snow wasn't something she encountered very often. By then, she was travelling along a narrow
drive, which according to the now annoyingly cheerful Sally, and a tiny
discrete plaque on the gatepost, was the entrance to Diomhair, and was a
private road—no trespassers. It was irritating to have to get out of the car to
brush the snow off to read it, and debate on the wisdom of turning on to it.
However, Shane was sure she'd read somewhere that there was no law of trespass
in Scotland, even if Katrine hadn't actually agreed with her when she'd asked
the question earlier. Therefor, she ignored that bit as a warning to tourists
and itinerant sales people.
Do you even get those these days? Isn't it all
telephone calls and spam emails? She
was somewhat hazy on the subject and after all this was Scotland, not
Australia. How was the net around here? Her phone, as well as the one she'd borrowed
from the hotel was hovering on one bar of reception, and the radio in the car
delivered very little music and almost total static.
Shane rounded a bend with care, and was
relieved she had done so when the back of the car fishtailed and slid into a
skid. She drove into the skid with competence and corrected it. She wasn't an
outback girl for nothing, even if she did live in the city now.
Ahead, almost hidden in the gloom, she could
just make out a tall dark stone building with a turret.
A
turret? Wow. It was a real castle
it seemed and not some mock Victorian monstrosity. Shane hadn't had time to
research the history, or even if this Jess lived in it as her private home. Was
it one house or apartments? Was it offices and a health club as well? Whatever
it was, it was big and imposing and austere against the white of the snow.
Shane fell in love with it there and then. How fantastic to live in it in any
way.
The brief information she'd found on the net
had been vague in the extreme. The car lurched over some unseen object, well
hidden in the snow, and Shane brought her mind back to the alleged roadway.
Wool gathering wasn't a good idea in that sort of weather. She realised she was
probably driving over the verge and not on the tarmac surface. If it was even
tarmac, she had no way of knowing.
With hindsight she regretted setting off
from the hotel without bringing an insulated mug of tea or one of the delicious
looking cookies she'd spied to sustain her. Even though she'd had that big
breakfast not long before her tummy rumbled
and
her mouth was dry. Apprehension or Excitement? A bit of both probably.
Nevertheless, by the time she pulled up
outside a big wooden door, she was shaking and it wasn't all down to the
weather and lack of food. She decided she was scared. Scared that Jess might
not be there, scared she was. Scared that Jess would hate her, not be prepared
to talk and leave Shane unable to find completion. Shane switched off the
engine, and watched the snow fall. It better slow down soon, or she'd be hiking
back. Was it quicker cross country? How dare the snow defy the weathermen and
come a day too soon?
Wuss,
get out of the car. Or turn on the engine and go away for good and try to enjoy
a cold wet holiday. She
took a deep breath, did her coat up, pulled her hood over her head and stepped
out of the vehicle. A blast of icy wind rocked her on her heels and almost took
her breath away. The temperature had dropped considerably, and the snow was now
so heavy her tyre tracks were almost obliterated.
Shane hoped to hell someone was at home, or
she'd more than likely be found in spring as a frozen corpse inside her buried
car. She moved toward the castle door with her breath making white, misty,
spirals in the air and with snowflakes on her eyelashes. Thank goodness for
contact lenses. Specs would be useless. Mind you she patted her pocket to make
sure her lenses case and her glasses were there. She'd lost too many lenses in
the past and ended up half blind not to carry specs around, annoying though it
might be.
She looked at the walls of the castle and
groaned. She had to get in there? Why not try something less challenging like
breaking into the Royal mint wrestling with a croc.
Okay you can do it. Deep breath and go.
The snow was piled up higher near those
forbidding walls and even though she only had a few yards to trudge through it,
her jeans were soaked by the time she searched for the doorbell. To her
amusement it was an old fashioned tug rope type. Not that she felt much amused.
Pissed more like. Could they not have an ordinary bell like everyone else? It
would take a giant to get a good sound from it, not a five foot something
woman.
She hauled and after a second or two, heard
a deep clang echo inside the building.
"Come on, hurry up." Shane pulled the
bell again. "Please, please someone answer the bloody door." She
stamped her feet, and for the first time thought what an idiot she'd been to
continue her journey to the castle once the snow started. Shane dipped her head
to pull her hood further over her head in a vain effort to keep her hair dry.
Already frizz-head hair had begun, and she'd have a devil of a job with it once
she got it dried again. Not for the first time, Shane wished she'd kept it
short in the style she'd cut it after the asshole experience, as she now called
it. Instead, she let it grow, more as a way to show herself that Poisonous Pete
the Plonker and his only long hair is acceptable diktat, wasn't why it was
long. The one thing she did do now, which he'd objected to, was using straighteners
on it. Hence knowing that all her hard work was about to be ruined if no one
answered the door.
"For fuck sake, open won't you. What if
I say open sesame? Or get on my knees and beg? Will that work?"
There was a grating noise, and a blast of
heat hit her. Before Shane looked up someone spoke.
"Open sesame won't. But I do like the
idea of you on your knees and begging. I won't make you do in in the snow
though."
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Happy Reading,
Love R x
OH! I love the setting, very enchanting. I'd like to go see this castle :o)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lot of fun coming up for Shane lol
Enjoyed this excerpt and I can't wait to see what happens.
ReplyDeleteOh ho. Great opener to a big ole can of worms. Great tease, Raven. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a great icebreaker. LOL. Fab teaser, Raven.
ReplyDeleteYey, not long now. Love this series :-)
ReplyDeletelove the last line! Great tease! (:
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