Page 1 of Stage Dive: Short Stories & Novellas
Short Story with Mal and Anne from The Stage Dive Series
“I’ll be taking all of these, thank you, ma’am.”
The redheaded fox behind the counter sized up my stack of books, a pen tapping against her pretty pink lips.“That’s a lot of books.”
“I don’t like to do things by halves.Not my style.”
“Mm.”
“Read much yourself?”I asked, setting an elbow on the counter and leaning in.Just getting comfortable.Also, it gave me a great line of sight for checking out the curves beneath her staid black dress.Very nice.Then again, everything about her was.
With a cute little line between her brows, the babe looked at our surroundings.“I work in a bookstore.”
“Right.Sure.”
“There seems to be a theme going on here.”She inspected my selection.“The Kama Sutra.The Joy of Sex.Sex: How to do Everything.The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex.Guide to Getting It On.The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex.Did you just empty out our sex section?”
I grinned.“Yeah.”
“In need of some help in certain areas, huh?”
“No!”I scowled.Why the nerve of her.“Absolutely not.I’ll have you know, Miss, that I am very much experienced in the carnal secrets and delights of the bedroom.And various other rooms of the house, as required.”
She delicately wrinkled her nose.
“I am,” I insisted.
“Whatever you say, Sir.”
“Why, I’ll have you know a number of young ladies have informed me I should pen a book on the subject.One even insisted that I owed it to the world to do so.”
She frowned at my collection.“So you’re surveying the existing literature to see what’s already out there?”
“Exactly!”I nodded, pleased that she’d seen straightaway what was going on.“Great minds think alike, and it’s possible some of my less outrageous inventions might already have been stumbled upon by some sex aficionado from an earlier age.Unlikely, but possible.”
She seemed to hiccup in response, as if clamping down on a cough.
I detected a hint of skepticism.“Indeed, the fact is…”
This time, her brows rose.Waiting.
“I’m too much for most women.”I puffed out my chest with pride.All of those hours spent sweating my ass off in the gym ought to be good for something.“It’s sad really.A burden of mine.”
“Are you talking about size?”
I nodded.It was the plain God’s honest truth.
“Ego, or…” She jerked her chin in the direction of my crotch.
“Are you calling me arrogant?”
“I don’t recall mentioningthatword exactly.”
I tilted my head.“Perhaps you think I’m lying?”
“Perhaps I’m not thinking anything about you at all.”
“Impossible.”I scoffed, flinging back my long blonde hair.Such golden waves of awesomeness combined with rugged good looks.Oh, she could pretend otherwise, but I know she got off on it care of the dilation of her pupils.Women loved me.Some dudes too.When you were this hot, it just couldn’t be helped.“Who could ignore all of this goodness?”
