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Danika Bloom
Dylan Rhodes. Media darling. Up-and-coming lawyer.
And an unapologetic player who treats women like teabags—gets them wet, then tosses them out.
Everything about this man warns me not to trust him. Tells me to kick his breath-taking body to the curb. Get him out of my study.
But I need the data for my college thesis. And he’s the perfect man to prove that the dating mind-tricks I’m testing, work.
At least we’re on the same page about one thing: neither of us is looking for a relationship.
By the time I figure out why he keeps showing up—even though I’ve told him I won’t give him what he wants—he’s mind-tricked me.
Falling in love with the enemy? That's not a research result I can defend.
Second Breath is a steamy, stand-alone, full-length, opposites attract romance featuring a BBW and a HEA.
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Excerpt:
My breathing was ragged, and my voice didn’t sound like my own. “Same deal as your back. I’ll start at your feet and move up.”
I
exposed her right leg up to the hip bone, making sure to keep her pubic
area fully covered. I’d let my hands slide there, but I couldn’t let
myself see. Not yet. I reached for the massage oil and dripped a line
from her ankle up to the blanket, poured more in my palm, then rubbed my
hands together to warm them. I started by rubbing the line of oil into
her skin in long, slow strokes, never allowing skin contact to break.
While I raised one hand to start the slow draw up her leg again, the
other gently caressed the spot where it had stopped moving.
I
looked up at her face. Her eyes were closed. The duvet was rising and
falling over her chest, showing me that her breaths were slow and deep.
This was trust. This was vulnerability. This was a connection I’d never
expected. I had to close my eyes to settle my breath, which had become
shallow.
It
took several minutes before I could let myself relax into a space where
time had no meaning, where I was no longer Dylan Rhodes, the lawyer who
lived in his brain, but simply energy moving from one body to another
and back. Thoughts came and went. Images appeared and disappeared.
Feelings rose and fell.
When
I finished massaging Kama’s left leg, I had to fully come back to the
room to adjust the duvet so I could massage her abdomen, ribs,
shoulders. That’s when I registered the music in the background, and
Kama quietly humming the love song duet by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
I lingered at her hip bone longer than I’d planned, listening. And when
she reached the part where Bradley’s character sings, I hummed the part
with her. I didn’t plan or expect to. In fact, before this moment, I’d
have said I hated the song.
Her
eyes opened slowly, and she smiled, humming a little louder. She lifted
her arm from under the duvet and motioned with two fingers for me to
come closer to her face. I was wholly, unconditionally under her spell.
She kissed her own fingers, then placed them lightly on my throat.
“Keep humming,” she whispered. “Put your fingers here.” She showed me the spot on her own throat.
This
was next-level sensual massage. My cock, which had settled down once I
was in the zone, remained soft. The strange thing was, at that moment I
wanted to be on Kama, inside her, and wrapped around her, with every
inch of my body touching hers. But not in a horny way.
My
free hand touched her shoulder, and I looked at the empty side of the
bed. She understood. Without letting our fingers move from each other’s
throats, she wiggled to the side, and I slid in beside her. Two naked
bodies. Such a familiar thing, and yet like nothing I’d ever
experienced.
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Author info and links:
Danika Bloom believes in love at first sight, happily ever after, and that the hottest sex is make-up sex, which she and her volunteer, firefighter husband of fifteen years engage in a healthy amount of.
When she's not writing about her imaginary friends, Danika shares creative non-fiction stories about her real life loves, relationships and family on https://medium.com/love-and-stuff.
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My review:
My review:
4.25 stars
Second Breath by Danika Bloom centers around Kama Ray (no,
her name does NOT rhyme with gamma ray) , who is studying male expectations
connected with dating a woman, and Dylan Rhodes, whose professional advancement
depends on destroying her research. Neither one is looking for a life-changing
relationship, but that may be just what they’ve found—for better or for worse?
This contemporary romance story is part of ‘The Mixed
Six-Pack’ series and provides lots of intriguing twists and turns. I love the
elements of multiculturalism that enrich the tale, and I thought the story did
a great job of unfolding various elements gradually. The premise of Kama’s
research is very relevant to any person who has been subjected to the pressure
of expectations in exchange for having entertainment and/or a meal being paid
for, while Dylan’s dilemmas are familiar to anyone who has to juggle personal
preferences and job requirements. Both main characters were personable and easy
to relate to, and the story was engaging and easy to read. I look forward to discovering
more fun stories in this series.
A copy of this title was provided for review.
The first book in the series:
Great review - can't wait to read this one as well.
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