His lips quirk into that smirk, and he steps forward when the barman disappears again. He rests his hand on my waist, his fingers flexing against the lace of my dress, and drops his eyes to mine.
“No, you have no idea of the effect you have on men simply by walking past them.”
“Not at all.” I run my fingers up his stomach, ignoring the feeling of solid muscle there, and tweak his bow tie. “It’s not my job to know the effect I have on them, rather, merely to affect them.”
“Well let me say you do it…” He bends his head toward mine. “…Spectacularly.”
“Thank you.” I pull on the tie harder and it unravels, hanging loosely around his neck, and I undo the top button of his shirt.
“What are you doing?”
I lean up and rest my mouth by his ear. “Giving people something to talk about. Isn’t that what I’m supposed to be doing?” My thigh brushes against his as I cross my legs.
“It’s absolutely what you should be doing.” Aaron says his words into my hair, and I turn my face into his.
“Then you should stop questioning me and allow me to do it.”
His hand flattens against my back, drawing us closer. “You play a dangerous game, Dayton.”
“It’s only dangerous if you don’t trust the person standing in front of you – if you don’t know their breaking point.”
“What makes you think you know mine?”
I smile against his cheek. “Have you forgotten? I know your breaking point and your tipping point, and I know exactly how to get you there.”
“It’s been seven years, as you keep reminding me. What if it’s changed?”
“I’m very good at adapting.” I pull back so a whisper of air hovers between our lips. “But it hasn’t changed a bit.”
“She think she’s so smart.”
Another smile tugs at my lips, and I whisper, “She knows if she drops her hand and brushes it against your groin, you’ll be hard and ready to take her in the first possible place.”
“Is that right?”
“Mhmm. A wall is the likely choice…” I rest my fingers against his belt, and he tenses. “Looks like she’s as smart as she thinks she is if you’re tense at my fingers sitting here… nowhere near the erection you’re failing to hide.”
He chuckles low, a raspy tone to it. “Your game is very, very dangerous, Miss Black.”
“And you get to play it for a whole six weeks. Aren’t you lucky?”
He curls his fingers around mine at his belt. “The only luck here will be if we leave Vegas without me fucking you against every wall of our suite.”
Where do you
draw your ideas for characters from? Are they ever based on real people?
The characters
really form in my mind on their own – it’s that easy and that hard to create
them! I never base them on real people, especially not anyone I know, but I
tend to take certain phrases/quirks/likes from people and apply those. You may
have noticed my female MCs are all kind of sarcastic and snarky, and that would
be a bit of my own personality creeping in. ;)
What gave you
the inspiration to write your first book?
I’d been
downloading endless free books of iBooks before I moved to Kindle, and I
started to realize they were all self-published. Around the time I was
seriously considering starting to write myself, Mr. H turned around and said,
“Why don’t you write your own book instead of bloody reading all the time?” And
the rest is history.
Have you ever
used a moment of your own life in a book? If so which book?
Not a moment,
exactly, but THE RIGHT MOVES is loosely based on my own past and my struggles
with depression.
How do you
think up ideas for your books?
They come to
me randomly. The GAME series started off because I dreamed the first few
chapters of THE LOVE GAME and had to know how it ended. NEVER FORGET was
inspired by the song Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. And LATE CALL was one of
those random ideas that came from nowhere – it was actually sitting on my
laptop for a year before it morphed into anything solid enough to become a
story.
How do you
deal with deadlines and fan expectations?
I thrive off
of deadlines. If I don’t have them, I tend to procrastinate to the nth degree
and do sweet FA. They’re a must for me, so I deal with them fairly easily.
Fan
expectations are a funny thing-I never really know what they’re expecting. Not
because I don’t pay attention, I do, but because I don’t let myself dwell on
it. I’ve had several mini freak outs over Final Call (the sequel to LATE CALL)
because I don’t know if it will live up to the first book, but there’s nothing
I can do about them. I can only write my best, so that’s exactly what I do!
What’s the
book you’d take with you to a desert island?
*grins* My
electronic one, of course. My Kindle.
Who is your
favorite author and what are you currently reading?
I have several
favorite authors, so I’m not going to answer that in case they read this and I
forgot them, ha. I’m not currently reading anything, but my next reads will be
an early copy of Make It Count by Megan Erickson, and a beta reads for
Elizabeth Otto and Delancey Stewart.
Do you prefer
paperback or ebook?
Despite my
choice to take my Kindle to a desert island, I’m a paperback girl. I love the
smell of proper books.
Would you like
to see one of your books made into a movie? If so, which one?
I think every
author dreams of seeing their books on the big screen, so yes. If the
opportunity ever arose, I’d love to see one of my books as a movie! And I think
at this point I’d have to say LATE CALL.
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Twelve year-old Dot is not a dancer, but after her mother’s sudden and senseless death, she finds herself dancing on the edge…of everything. After her whole world unravels in seconds, Dot is propelled on a voyage to discover the meaning of her past, and of her mother’s greatest gift to her.
Kit Bakke spent the last half of the 20th century as a political radical (SDS and the Weather Underground), a pediatric oncology nurse, and an information technology consultant. In the 21st century, she became a published writer. Her MISS ALCOTT'S E-MAIL has led to further writing adventures, including being a founding member of Seattle7Writers (www.seattle7writers.org) and a chapter in HOTEL ANGELINE. Her latest book, DOT TO DOT, is a story of travel, discovery and possibly magic. Young teens, if they are good readers, like it, and so do adults.
