Just Once More
By Kyra Davis
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“If you won’t be ruthless for love, how valuable is that love?”
Robert Dade is a man who knows what he wants and never hesitates to go after it. Money, power, and—at long last—the woman he loves, Kasie Fitzgerald, are now his. But after so many years of living by his own rules will he really make the compromises necessary to keep Kasie by his side? And when a man even richer and more ruthless than he is takes an interest in Kasie, will Dade be able to protect her? Or will his controlling nature drive her toward the very danger he seeks to shield her from?
The seductive second tale in the New York Times bestselling Just One Night series, Just Once More introduces some of the fascinating characters from the wild new Kyra Davis novel, Just One Lie—the long-awaited next full-length work in the internationally beloved series.
Kyra Davis
Kyra Davis was born in the San Francisco Bay Area where, with the exception of a brief stint in New York, she has spent her entire life. She majored in business and humanities at Golden Gate University and, after graduating with her bachelor's degree, began a career in fashion merchandising and marketing. At age 27 Kyra gave birth to a wonderful son and stayed home with him for the first 18 months of his life. During her hiatus from work she managed to spend just enough quality time with her husband to motivate her to file for divorce. As a single mother on the verge of bankruptcy, Kyra felt it was irresponsible to drown her sorrows in Cosmopolitans so she drowned them in Frappucinos and writing instead. The Frappucinos (complimented by a healthy dose of anxiety) lead to insomnia, which lead to more writing time and it wasn't long before she realized that she had found her calling. Two years later Kyra had an agent, a finished manuscript and bids from two New York publishing houses. She feels the secret to living a happy life is to pursue your passions and learn from your mistakes, which is why she has quit her day job to become a full-time writer and will only spend quality time with her son, her friends...and Juan Valdez.
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Just Once More - Kyra Davis
To my readers.
You continue to motivate and inspire me.
IT’S SAID THAT we are all products of our upbringing. Parents mold people the way the army molds soldiers: with discipline, training, and copious amounts of rules and regulations, all with the understanding that their efforts will make the difference between a Pulitzer Prize and a twenty-year sentence.
Of course, it’s all utter bullshit.
Fine, I was affected by my experiences as a boy, and I certainly learned from my parents’ mistakes, but I’m not a product of anything. My name is Robert Dade, and I am a self-made man. I never aspired to be a rebel—and I sure as hell was not going to be a follower. To take on either of those identities would be to bind myself to other people’s definitions, definitions that have never interested me. I’ve simply chosen to be the person I am. I created my business, I continue to achieve the success I covet, I live in the city I want to live in, and if I choose to spend my limited free time with someone, it’s not out of obligation, and it’s certainly not because I think I can use them for networking or anything else. No, if I spend time with someone it can only be because I genuinely enjoy their company—and there are very few people whose company I enjoy.
Kasie Fitzgerald is the major exception. I don’t just enjoy her company. I’m in love with her.
I’ve had salt-and-pepper hair for almost half a decade now, I’ve traveled to more than twenty countries, and yet this is my first experience with love. I believe I’m the first person who has ever loved Kasie for who she really is.
Kasie’s parents did try to mold her, using the excesses of Melody, her older sister, to scare her into submission and turn her into an uptight Stepford Wife with an Ivy League education used only to elevate the men around her. Melody died of an overdose a little over fifteen years ago, when Kasie was only fourteen. And that did scare her. So she tried to be the person her parents wanted her to be for a while.
But I saw right through that.
Now she doesn’t even try to hide her true self and I’m the only one she’ll submit to; even then it’s only in the bedroom.
I stand now in the doorframe of my living room, quietly studying her as she lounges across my antique leather sofa, taking in the lean curvature of her legs as she stretches them out across the cushions, the waves of dark hair that brush against her back, the swift movement of her brown eyes as she reads her book, a scholarly account of the vicious love affair between money and war. She’s . . . she’s more than lovely. She’s the personification of what art is. Everything from her perfectly toned body to her razor-sharp mind has been finely crafted with the skill and training of a master, and she is that master and the canvas.
She raises her head from her book, her gaze now mine. You’re staring,
she says, her voice sensuous, teasing.
As long as you’re near me, I’ll be looking,
I say simply. Because I can.
Rather entitled.
She places her book on the oak coffee table, careful to put her bookmark in place.
I walk over to her, between the coffee table and the sofa, and place two fingers under her chin, raising her face toward mine. You’re in my house,
I remind her. Everything here is mine to look at.
I could leave,
she says lightly, a smile playing on the edges of her lips.
You could. But you won’t.
No.
She takes