WILD WAVES EXCERPT - CHAPTER 3 (and a bonus from book 5!!! )

          For the third time that day she ran smack dab into Thomas. This time though it was right into his side. Her room was two doors down from his and as he backed out she was once again not paying attention.
           “Whatever has your mind preoccupied must be something big,” he laughed.
           “You could say that,” she teased, letting her eyes roam over his body and settle at his groin. “Big is one way to describe it.” She laughed when she saw him briefly duck his head in embarrassment. Just a small glimpse of the old Thomas, the shy geek she’d first fallen in love with. She was happy to see he was still there inside the grown up, gorgeous, confidant man he’d become. When she grabbed his hand, she gave it a reassuring squeeze. Neither of them let go all the way to deck nine.
           “I need to stretch my hip. Go ahead and get in. I’ll be there in a few.” Thomas took her cover-up from her and laid it next to his t-shirt on a deck chair. He watched her as she walked to the edge of the pool and lowered herself in. His mind raced and his body ached with what he wanted to do to her.
           Vanessa sighed as she let the water envelop her. It was the perfect temperature. She could spend all summer in the water if she had time. When she was a kid that’s exactly what she’d done.                    
           Swimming deftly to the middle of the pool, she just stood there enjoying the feeling of the water lapping at her chest. There were a lot of people sitting around the pool, but there weren’t many people actually in it. She was enjoying the quiet, the gentleness of the water when she suddenly felt ripples around her. Before she could even turn to see what was causing it, she felt a big strong hand on each side of her butt.
           She automatically spiraled back in time to when Thomas, in all of his teenaged awkwardness had initiated their pool house tryst in the same way. The feeling of his hands on her, separated from her skin by only a thin strip of fabric, had turned her on more than anything else ever had. And now, five years later, it had the same effect on her.
           “We need to stop meeting like this,” she heard the deep, sexy voice from behind her. “Nothing good ever comes from it.”
           “Speak for yourself,” she mumbled. “I remember a lot of good.”
            His hands left her butt and traveled around to her stomach. He dipped one inside her bikini bottom while the other held her waist.
           “I still owe you,” he whispered. “Would this form of payment be okay?”

BONUS FROM BOOK 5 - DECEPTION IN DENALI!!!  Many of you love Jackson so I thought I would give you a very rough sneak peek!!! :)

"Good night son," Jack whispered to the sleeping little boy. "I love you." He was closing the bedroom door when he heard a noise coming from the living room. There was no mistaking that someone was in the house. There was no mistaking who it was.

"Mama there's been a strange care outside all day. Who are you letting around my son?"

Jackson opened a blackout curtain and stepped out of the shadows. "His father," he thundered.

Deborah was framed in the doorway, her long blond hair replaced by a shorter more practical cut for a woman on the run. There were a thousand emotions crossing her face. "Mama, I'll have to take him back now. How could you?"

"You won't take him anywhere Deb. It's time to end this. Now." Jackson seethed.

"Stay out of it Jack, this isn't your business."

"He's my son. It is my business. This all ends now damn it!"

Deborah turned and fled. Jackson hesitated for only a moment until he realized Angela had come up behind him and could take care of Maryann. He ran out the door just as Deborah was starting to drive off. He slipped into his rental car and headed after her.