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    Seduction in Riverside: Riverside Romance Short Story Collection, #1
    Seduction in Riverside: Riverside Romance Short Story Collection, #1
    Seduction in Riverside: Riverside Romance Short Story Collection, #1
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    Seduction in Riverside: Riverside Romance Short Story Collection, #1

    By Maggie West and Bella Jayne

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    Luke says Callie has his heart but sultry Victoria is back to reclaim his heart as well as his body. Now Callie must decide for sure if lies or love is his game. 

    For six months, Callie has been living with Luke, her seemingly perfect man. But after having lunch with her friend Heather, Callie sees Luke with another woman. 

    When Callie confronts Luke about this mystery woman, he brushes it off as if nothing happened. But Callie knows what she saw. When Heather sees Luke with this woman the next day in a compromising position, Callie doesn’t know what to think. 

    Can their relatively young relationship survive? 

    Romance short story suitable for most readers. Book 1 in the Riverside Romance Short Story Collection: 

    1: Seduction in Riverside 
    2: Temptation in Riverside 
    3: Deception in Riverside

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaggie West
    Release dateApr 23, 2015
    ISBN9781513072746
    Seduction in Riverside: Riverside Romance Short Story Collection, #1

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    Seduction in Riverside - Maggie West

    Chapter 1

    Callie Rogers gazed out the front room window waiting for Luke to get home from work. She’d been home for a few hours, but the thrumming in her chest that Callie had felt when she’d first seen him with her was as acute now as it had been then.

    ~*~

    Earlier in the day Callie had met her friend Heather Thomas for lunch at Della’s Diner, a local Riverside favorite, where they’d gossiped and generally caught up on the comings and goings of just about everyone in their small town. Heather worked at the real estate office in town and always had the scoop on just about everyone and everything in a thirty-mile radius. Since Callie worked from home creating websites for customers that she only ever met virtually, she felt isolated and needed the occasional gossip fix that only Heather could provide.

    I love the streaks in your hair, Cal, Heather had told her friend between their discussion of the Collins twins both dating the football star at college. Since the semester started, the girls had been fooling with his head by both pretending to be Mandy Collins. Being identical twins had made it easy for Maura to jump in when Mandy was in class or otherwise busy. Heather added, When did you get them done?

    Oh, no, I didn’t, Callie said, touching her long blonde hair. This is from the sun. I’m a natural blonde unlike some people I know. She’d laughed and touched Heather’s arm.

    Hey, I’m mostly natural. I only get a little help, well, a few times a year, Heather had replied. She had taken in her reflection in the shiny napkin dispenser on the table and smiled. In fact, it looks like I’m due for a little help, I see.

    Heather had a house showing at two in the neighboring town of Rawlings Mills, so when she left at half past one, Callie decided to enjoy the day and moved to the diner’s patio with her coffee. Callie had lingered over a few cups of coffee taking in the excitement of the town, that is if you could call watching a dozen or so cars and a tractor drive by in the space of half an hour excitement. Oh and there was the random dog and person walking by, but Callie liked the small town where she could come and get a fix of civilization when home felt a little too isolated.

    Callie let her mind wander as she enjoyed the early autumn day. The leaves on the trees were just beginning to turn in anticipation of another beautiful fall in Vermont, and the air with just a hint of crispness was the perfect temperature as the sun shone down on the restaurant patio. Although evenings were beginning to cool, the days were still warm, and she enjoyed her afternoon breaks in the sun. She planned to head home and put on her bikini and take one of those short breaks before she got back to work for the afternoon.

    She took a sip of coffee and let herself drift back to last night. When Luke had gotten home, he’d surprised her with a bunch of wildflowers he’d stopped to pick for her.

    When they first met, one of the things Callie had told Luke was that she loved fresh flowers, but not the perfect fake looking ones from a florist’s shop. No, she preferred flowers from her garden or simple wildflowers with interesting grasses mixed in. The bouquet Luke presented to her, from behind his back, like the sweetest surprise, had made her smile. She took the bouquet with the mix of black-eyed Susans and purple asters from him, and then took his hand. Callie pulled him into the kitchen where she put the flowers in a glass from the sink that she filled with water as an impromptu vase. Then she reached up and kissed him lightly on the lips as she began unbuttoning his shirt. She smiled now remembering their slow, steady lovemaking. They hadn’t even made it to the bedroom because she’d pulled him to the floor where she wiggled out of her jeans. Then she unfastened his, feeling him through the soft, worn fabric.

    A crow’s call broke her reverie, and Callie smiled at the memory.

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