I'm sharing a shorter excerpt from Call Me Yours today than I have been sharing, but I wanted you to get to know Caitlin and Simon a little better. They aren't always having sex all the time.
At this point Caitlin is realizing she might be in a little over her head with this alpha male. She's just dropped the bomb that she wants to pursue a career in the phone sex biz, Simon is not so eager about the prospect.
"What
are you talking about?" Simon asked Caitlin.
"Phone
sex," she responded. "I'm good at it, right? Liz knows some
girl who does it and makes tons of money."
"No."
Simon shook his head as he unlocked his car.
Caitlin
stopped walking and looked up at him. "What?"
"I
said, no. You aren't doing that," he said. He opened the
passenger door and gestured for her to get in. "Come on, let's
get you home."
She
remained where she stood and folded her arms, "I don't believe I
was asking your permission."
"You
wouldn't like doing it. I'm just saying, it would probably make you
uncomfortable. Come down to the bar tomorrow, I'll show you around
and we can figure out some shifts for you."
She
shook her head, "How is flaunting my cleavage and getting guys
drunk so they'll tip me any different?"
"Who
said anything about flaunting your cleavage?" Simon began to
raise his voice.
"That's
how waitresses get tips!" she shouted at him.
"Says
who?" he yelled back.
They
were interrupted by Amanda flinging her arms around Caitlin. "Gotta
go, Ben says it's time to leave."
Caitlin
said goodbye to her friend and waved to Ben. She reluctantly got into
Simon's car and refolded her arms across her chest.
"Did
you have fun tonight?" Simon asked, breaking the silence.
"Yeah,
until some Neanderthal thought he could tell me how to live my life,"
she bit out.
Simon
sighed, "I'm not telling you how to live your life. But if you
need some cash then working as a waitress is a lot better than
whoring yourself out."
She
rolled her eyes, "Whatever." She was too tired to fight
with him, she didn't agree, but she knew this conversation was going
nowhere. She had plenty of practice from living a life with her
father to know when a pig headed man would not be swayed.
"Keep
it up," he warned.
Caitlin's
body responded to the edge in his tone. "Keep what up?"
"If
you're trying to push my buttons, you're succeeding."
The
drive was mercifully quick and Simon leaned over, giving her a heated
kiss before he exited the car. He was high handed and a know-it-all
to boot, why the hell did she find that so sexy?
Caitlin comes from a privileged
upbringing and has the reputation of being a bratty, spoiled
princess. Her father cuts her off financially when she refuses to
enter law school. Now she needs to figure out a way to make it on her
own, with no help from anyone. When her friend mentions taking on a
job as a phone sex operator, Caitlin has her misgivings, but when her
rent gets hiked and her bills start piling up she figures she has
nothing to lose.
Simon is the boy next door, literally.
He's a few years older than the recent college grad and he has no
time for immature girls who don't take life seriously-- especially
ones full of sass. But when Simon finds Caitlin in a dangerous
situation he is not above rescuing her, then scolding her, and
threatening her with a spanking.
Despite his old-fashioned ways, Caitlin
is head over heels for Simon, and the feeling is mutual. Can she come
to terms with Simon's methods for dealing with disobedience? Can
Simon curb his high-handed ways enough to not lose the girl he is
hopelessly falling in love with?
Buy it today!
I love Simon - he just really seems like the stable, solid guy she needs! It's a completely relatable story.
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