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About Drop:
Whenever
I used to tell people I had a fear of falling, they would correct me to say I
had a fear of heights. Maybe it was the
sensible cardigan collection my mother preferred for me or the nerdy girl
glasses—exchanged eventually for more
intellectual and refined gold-rimmed frames for the necessity of actually
seeing the chalkboards and projection screens in my university classrooms. Maybe it was a lifetime of honing that church
mouse demeanor, head always slightly bowed against the buffeting winds of
gentle but pervasive familial criticism.
Yeah, people used to correct me a lot.
No,
the heights never scared me. I never
looked down from a lofty balcony or a bridge over rushing water and felt what I
had heard other people describe as a creeping desire to leap over the edge.
Instead, I felt a white-knuckled and sweaty-palmed fear, a terrible certainty
that something, someone, some circumstance or force would fling me down in that
precarious moment of vulnerability. Just
imagining the drop made my stomach bob and churn inside me. And the thought of breaking against the cold
ground….
No, my fear was that out-of-control plummet, not heights.
Or
at least I would have insisted until the night that black chauffeured town car
steered me smoothly, inevitably up the winding lanes of the exclusive
residential conclave of Jasper Hill and that singular Mediterranean estate
crested in my view above the overabundant landscaping of lesser contemporary
palaces to god-like lineage and ungodly wealth.
That night, I tripped and fell into a convergence of dark lust and
tragic loss a decade in the making, populated by the favored sons of some of
the most privileged families on the West Coast.
That night, I locked gazes with the brilliantly blue-eyed Royce Lauder,
the man who was about to help me understand that the only thing greater than my
fear of falling was my fear of the heights he would show me.
College junior Sabrina Cole should be concentrating on
getting the money together for her final year of school, landing the right
internship, networking with the right people. But first, for just one evening,
she’ll indulge in temptation, knowing it never feels as good as it looks. The
part of her that surrenders to pleasure is long gone, with the man who
introduced her to the sensual torments of domination and submission. So what
harm could come of just one night, just one dinner?
Far too blunt and rebellious for his own good, airline CEO
Royce Lauder should be heeding the advice from his company’s board of directors
and working on his public image before they move on a major acquisition.
Instead, he has joined the men who have been his closest friends since
childhood at a dinner party where they will assess candidates for training as their
personal submissives. A flippant decision on Royce’s part, but it’s not all
about the decadent pleasures afforded men of power and wealth, because these
aren’t just any women. These are the birds with broken wings, damaged and
betrayed by people they’d loved. This time, however, there is only one wounded
dove, only one woman, and only one thought in Royce Lauder’s head: mine.
An unexpected proposal from Lauder stirs unexpected desires
for Sabrina. She tells herself acting as the personal assistant by day and
sexual submissive by night for seductively dark Royce Lauder is about money and
a recommendation on her resume—a career move. He reminds himself it will be
temporary—train her, heal her, and release her.
Will Royce be so willing to train and release Sabrina when
it’s the man who broke her that wants her back? Will Sabrina maintain her
emotional distance when she learns it’s guilt over another woman that set Royce
out on the path of becoming a Dom, her
Dom? And who catches whom when Master and servant are both falling?
Drop is intended to be the first in a series of standalone stories featuring those "favored sons" of privilege grown up into captains of industry and Doms of both passion and compassion.
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In return, they'll give you everything your heart desires and take you to impossible heights of pleasure.
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In return, they'll give you everything your heart desires and take you to impossible heights of pleasure.
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