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    Dreamer
    Dreamer
    Dreamer
    Ebook43 pages34 minutes

    Dreamer

    By Kate Austin

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    He had spoiled her for all other men. It would be a laughable cliché if it weren't so tragically true. But the mind–blowing sex Miri had experienced in her brief encounter with Jack had invaded her dreams and filled her with unquenchable longing. And she'd lost her orgasm! Nothing she did could bring it back.

    Her desperate need had driven her to reckless sexual adventures with dangerous liaisons. But they all seemed unbearably tedious compared to that singular electrifying experience...and the tormentingly delicious dreams that allowed her to relive it again and again.

    Her friend Heather had once told her to be careful what she wish for – she just might get it. How ironic that her one wish – that her night with Jack would never end – had come true...but only in her dreams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781460819982
    Dreamer
    Author

    Kate Austin

    Even though Kate is an Aries (the fire sign), she thinks of herself as a water baby. She can't resist the ocean; it sings to her. Every day, she spends at least a few minutes watching the water, and on good, or very bad, days, you can find her walking the seawall for hours, rain or shine. Kate Austin has worked as a legal assistant, a commercial fisher, a brewery manager, a teacher, a technical writer and a herring popper, while managing to read an average of a book a day. Go ahead, ask her anything. If she doesn't know the answer, she's more than happy to make it up because she's been reading and writing fiction for as long as she can remember. She's got loads of practice at making things up. Kate blames her mother and her two grandmothers for her reading and writing obsession, all of them were avid readers and they passed the books and the obsession on to her. And she reads everything, from fantasy to mysteries to literary fiction to romance. She's addicted to books, and buying them is her biggest expense. Kate Austin writes the same way...passion combined with a big dose of addiction. It's part of her day, every day. She loves writing, the process and the product, and is astonished and delighted that twenty years on, she's finally getting paid for it.

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      Dreamer - Kate Austin

      Chapter 1

      The dream comes, as it has for as long as she cares to remember, rolling over her like a tsunami. It comes despite everything she’s tried to stop it. Meditation, medication, fornication.

      Nothing works.

      Since the night he came into her life, the night he changed everything and then disappeared, the dream has haunted her.

      Her body weeps for him, damp and hot with the aftermath of the dream. She never comes in the dream, but her body aches for release, her nipples pebbling with desire for his lips.

      She wakes each time on the edge, her back arched, her arms reaching, screaming for it, for him, for the orgasm she’s done without for almost three years.

      Waking up hurts.

      She’s tried sex—well, of course she has. She’s tried deep-down dirty sex, sex with strangers, sex with friends, sex with toys, sex with almost anyone or anything. But like the dream, she gets so far and no further.

      She can hang on the edge for what seems like forever, her body dripping and reaching for more. Please, please, more, she hears herself sobbing, feeling more than a little like Oliver Twist and wishing—even with all the hell she’ll have to go through to get to it—for his happy ending.

      On the edge, her legs shake, her teeth score her lips until they bleed. She looks down at her body, at her rose-red painfully hard nipples, her blush-pink skin, her legs sprawled as far open as she can get them, and more often than not, a head she doesn’t recognize between them.

      No matter how talented the tongue—and she’s become an connoisseur since him—she can’t come.

      Now she understands the agony represented by the term blue balls—three fucking years’ worth of it.

      No medical reason for it, more than a dozen doctors have told her. GPs, gynecologists, psychiatrists—they do the tests, they hem and haw, and then they say, Sorry, nothing we can do.

      Except, of course, for the psychiatrists, who would love more than anything to put her through the therapy wringer until she bleeds her childhood, her extremely active and sometimes dangerous sex life, her dreams and desires.

      But Miri will not submit herself to that invasion. She’s full to the brim with self-knowledge.

      Yes, her childhood was shit—wasn’t everyone’s? Yes, it made her the woman she is today. No surprise there.

      Yes, she’s had a varied, mostly entertaining, occasionally frightening sex life for almost thirty years. And she wouldn’t trade it for anything. There were a few encounters—if she had it to do over—she might decide not to indulge in again. She might tamp down her darker side just a little bit, but having lived through them, she is more than content to keep the memories.

      As for dreams and desires? Only one of each.

      Not enough, she

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