Free Falling Hard by Marilyn Lee

seated at the bar staring this way.”
     
    He turned to look towards the bar.
     
    Both women smiled and waved.
     
    He inclined his head and turned back to her. “They’re persistent if nothing else, but I’m not interested in discussing them. Let’s talk about you.”
     
    “You have questions?”
     
    “Yes.”
     
    She smiled, pleased that he was interested enough to ask questions. “Shoot.”
     
    “I know it’s very indelicate to ask, but how old are you?”
     
    “I’m thirty.”
     
    “And very pretty, but I’ve already said that.”
     
    “So? You can say it as many times as you like.”
     
    He laughed. “Do you want kids?”
     
    She nodded. “I’d like one or two.”
     
    “Tell me about your ex. What happened with him?”
     
    Knowing he liked plus-sized women made her confession easier. “He wasn’t happy with my weight.”
     
    “What?”
     
    “I managed to lose some weight through diet and increased exercise, but it wasn’t enough to please him.”
     
    “Were you so…deliciously shaped when you married?”
     
    So deliciously shaped? “I’ve never been particularly slender, but when we married he called me voluptuous. By the time of our divorce, he considered me…he’d lost all sexual interest in me.” She pushed her tongue against her teeth and glanced away from him.
     
    He reached across the table to place his hand over hers.
     
    She felt a shock of delight.
     
    “I’m sure it must have hurt to have someone you love feel that way. You did love him?”
     
    Bringing her gaze back to his, she nodded, willing herself not to cry. “Yes. I did.”
     
    “So you didn’t want the divorce?”
     
    “No. No, I didn’t.”
     
    “I hope you can take comfort in the knowledge that there are men who will view his loss as their gain.”
     
    She sucked in a breath, recalling the many nights she’d cried herself to sleep after Sam refused to make love to her. “Are there? I haven’t managed to meet any of them since my divorce.”
     
    “You have now.”
     

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Blue Desert Tales: Courtesan Seduction
     
     
    As soon as he saw her, Delsin knew why he’d made his last job his first on this God-forsaken world he’d left so eagerly years earlier. In this wild corner of the Blue Desert where his lawless brethren ran rampant, fierce winds took one’s breath away one moment. Then seconds later, scorching heat threatened to deflate and then sear one’s lungs together, making breathing almost unbearable. Whatever ancient fool had said there was no place like home, had clearly never tried monogamy in the fuck-until-you-drop Blue Desert. Home? This world had never felt like anything but Hell for him because here he’d always been considered unnatural.
    Yet, he couldn’t deny a strange yearning from the moment his cruiser had touched down here. Returning so close to a full moon had probably not been the wisest decision he’d ever made. He’d need to remain vigilant and to keep a tight rein on his feelings. No easy task while on a hunt. To make matters worse, the irritability Renas had been exhibiting for nearly a week, had increased two-fold since their arrival on the world they’d once both called home. Nevertheless, he’d handle this