Austin's Lost Bride (The Sterns) by Mindi Winters

“I love you.” A groan escaped her lips as they kissed and she attacked his mouth. Her tongue charged past his lips before he broke off and pulled away.
    His eyes flashed dangerously. “If you don’t mean it. We can’t do it. Not like last time,” he said in a voice so low it rumbled through her like an earthquake. “How could you love me after what I did?”
    His eyes were burning her skin with their intensity and she gently kissed him again.
    “I know what really happened. When Mannus turned me our minds touched and I saw what you did. It was the right thing. I never should have doubted you.”
    “But I was too late to save him.”
    Rebecca shook her head. She wasn’t going to let him believe that he failed her or her father. He hadn’t. He had saved them both, and now it was her turn to save them and their future together.
    “My father was there in the basement with me. I felt him giving me strength to fight the beast, to turn on Mannus.” A tear fell from one eye and then another as she spoke. “You did what he wanted and you saved him. He loved you and so do I.”
    She pulled him off the chair and down to the floor with her, kneeling in front of each other. His hands grabbed her waist and instinctively she placed a deep, passionate kiss on his succulent lips as a moan of pleasure came from her throat.
    Austin pulled away, running his tongue across her lip as he went.
    “I love you too. I always have. I …”
    “You need to stop talking and take me. Now,” she said.
    Even for a hunter, Austin had both of their clothes off in record time. Kneeling naked in front of each other he took her and pushed her back onto the floor, moving himself in between her legs. Rebecca ran her hands along his shaft, kneading is slowly, guiding it to the entrance to her pussy. He held it there, his tip just inside her folds.
    “Will you still marry me?”
    She pulled him into her, locking her legs tightly around his waist.
    “Yes.”
    They gave each other all the love they had held deeply inside, letting go of all the pain and regret of lost time or hurt. It was the kind of passionate love that binds through life and death, and lasts forever.

Author Note
    In German mythology, Mannus lived in the 1st Century AD and was the father of three sons who founded three great Germanic barbarian tribes. These tribes eventually spread across Europe and Scandinavia, and participated in bringing on the fall of Rome. In some literature, Mannus is also referred to as the Norse god Heimdall or his close kin.
     
     
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Excerpt - Shades of Love

Chapter 1
    “Ohmygod, Casey that was amazing. It was like taking a trip to heaven. I can’t believe how good you are.” He paused. “Seconds?”
    Casey Miller smiled. She loved making people happy the way she knew best.
    “I’ve got plenty to go around, so help yourself Mr. Richards,” Casey said.
    Mr. Richards didn’t need any further encouragement. He had the serving spoon in a second and was piling more shrimp on his plate. The sounds of chewing, gulping, licking fingers were all around her. She felt intense satisfaction that her gourmet food gave people such pleasure when they ate it and she just couldn’t help but smile.
    Casey sighed and remembered the conversation she had with her accountant: Catering sales are going well but your fixed expenses are too high .
    She wasn’t smiling and wasn’t sure what to do. As the owner of The Practical Gourmet it was her responsibility to figure it out. It just wasn’t possible to work any harder. Right now she had catering events booked months in advance and she was doing everything herself. There was just no time to figure out what else to do to make more money. Hiring additional help made sense, but