Title: Quintessentially Q
Series: Monsters in the Dark, Book #2
Author: Pepper Winters
Genre: Erotic/Dark Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: December 15, 2013
SYNOPSIS:
“All my life, I battled
with the knowledge I was twisted… fucked up to want something so deliciously
dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world.
Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two
wrongs make a right."
Tess is Q’s completely. Q
is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the boundaries of their
unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the men who sold
her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and that’s
just what he’ll do.
He may be a monster, but
he’s Tess’s monster.
EXCERPT
“Tess,”
I growled, charging for the bed.
She
let me come. She didn’t move away or try to hide under the covers. She cocked
her head. “I didn’t think you’d be sleeping with me. Not after what I said.”
She
wore the same white T-shirt of mine to bed, and all I could think about was her
undressing before I strapped her to the cross—it felt like a century ago. We’d
been happy then. I’d been tormented and scared, but happy as Tess promised
she’d never leave.
I
pinched my brow, trying to get my thoughts under control. “I’m not coming to
bed, esclave. You and I need to
talk.”
She
eyed me but nodded. “Okay.”
Goddammit,
where was the fire? The argument that she didn’t want to talk because I woke
her in the dead of night. I needed to see tenacity and boldness. Nothing shone
on her face, no ounce of emotion.
I
squeezed my eyes, trying to understand what the fuck I was doing here.
“Q…”
Her
soft voice wrapped around my heart and I struck.
I
didn’t mean to. I didn’t give my hand permission to strike her cheek. It just
happened. The force of her power over me made the monster fucking crazy. Denied
for so long, it’d done what I was terrified of happening all along. It took
away my control—made me hit her.
The
soft sting in my palm and the resonating noise of connecting with Tess’s cheek
was pure heaven. I’d missed it for far too long. I opened my eyes, looking at
the red handprint on her skin. My cock instantly hardened.
The
first fucking erection I’d had since I found Tess so ruined and weak.
Her
eyes popped wide as she touched her cheek with gentle fingertips.
I
waited, licking my lips—waiting for her crystal tears that tasted so sweet, but
her eyes remained dry. No salt, no amazement, or accusation.
“I
know you’re trying to get an emotion out of me, Q. But…it won’t work.” She
broke eye contact. “I’ve tried. I hate what I’m doing to you. I loved you and
can’t stand to be the reason for your pain, but they made me—” She swallowed.
“My thoughts aren’t safe anymore. I can’t be myself because everything is
wrapped up in such evil.” She looked up. “I’m truly sorry but you have to let
me go.”
The
alcohol rolled in my stomach and I lost it completely. I’m not proud of what I
became. I never wanted to be so out of control, but I lost all elements of the
man and showed her just how much the beast fucking wanted her.
I
ripped the sheets off and shoved her into the middle of the bed. The T-shirt
rode up, showing her flat belly, and I had to bite her. Had to mar that
slightly bruised flesh.
With
a snarl, I buried my mouth against her stomach. She flinched as I bit hard. I
didn’t break the skin, but only because some miracle intervened.
I
spread my entire weight over her, smothering her into the mattress. Eyes to
eyes, mouth to mouth, hips to hips.
I
thrust hard against her, groaning at how good my hard cock felt. It’d been too
long. Way too long since I’d had this woman…since I’d wanted this woman. “Feel that, Tess. That’s for you. I want you.
So. Fucking. Much. Please come back to me. You will come back to me.” I smashed my mouth against hers. Her taste
intoxicated me more than any alcohol.
AUTHOR
BIO:
Pepper
Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife.
She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the
hero the better and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her
characters. Oh, and sex… her books have sex.
She
loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby (who speaks French—hot!) who
puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She loves to hear from
her readers so hit her up at pepperwinters@gmail.com
AUTHOR CONTACT INFO
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ReplyDeleteI loved the excerpt! I have not read Tears of Tess but I want to. I have read many teasers about your books. How did you come up with the idea of this series. It sounds so great and I really want to check it out.
ReplyDeletethanks so much the book looks really good cant wait to read it denise smith
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