Love Me Hard (Take Me Hard #2)

By Cleo Peitsche

LOVE ME HARD is an erotic romance story of 9,000 words.

When Rachel hikes into the mountains for a weekend away from everyone and everything, she never imagines she’ll be sharing a cabin with one of the hottest, richest men in the country. Maxwell is a gentleman, charming and kind. He’s also a perceptive Dom, and to her humiliation, he notices Rachel’s arousal. Soon she finds herself stripped, serving the handsome stranger’s pleasure while she tells herself—and him—that it’s just for one night.

This BDSM romance contains explicit sexual content and graphic language that may be objectionable to some readers. Includes sexual dominance and submission, bondage, spanking, aggressive fellatio, sexy humiliation and many other delights. For adults only.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cleo Peitsche
• Release date: Sep 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301442836

Cleo Peitsche

If Cleo isn't writing (or reading!) erotica, she's probably sitting on her balcony, watching the wind blow through the trees. She loves snowstorms, piña coladas, horses, and pasta primavera. If she won the lottery, she would hire an assistant to take care of the technical side of e-publishing so that she could write all day.Some random facts about Cleo:1. Thinks life's too short to forgo HEAs and HFNs.2. Sprained an ankle joining the mile-high club. (Never again!)3. Favorite writers include Cormac Mccarthy, Junot Diaz and Rachel Caine.4. Gets weak-kneed for bookish guys who know how to fix things with their hands. *swoons*

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LOVE ME HARD © 2012 by Cleo Peitsche. All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without permission in writing from the author. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, events, locations and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. This book is for entertainment purposes only.

This book contains mature content and is solely for adults.

Cover Photo ©2012 by Pouch Pictures

Dear Reader,

Thank you for purchasing this ebook. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, and I look forward to sharing more of my stories with you.

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xoxo,

Cleo

The hiking boots piled atop each other looked how Rachel felt: filthy, abused and in need of a long rest. But while her closest friends, Tina and Harry, would be turning back after their lunch stop, Rachel was going to press on, alone. She needed to summit by 5:00 if she wanted to reach her reserved cabin on time.

Five more hours, all ascent—and four hours of it above the tree line. She groaned and leaned back onto the sun-warmed boulder, dragging an arm over her face to protect herself from the noon glare. A weekend in the mountains had seemed like a fantastic idea the day before. Though in fairness, she had hatched the plan minutes after getting yelled at by her boss for another one of his screw-ups. Digging a well with a teaspoon would have sounded good at that point.

You know … you can hike back down with us if you want, Tina suggested, not for the first time.

Rachel sighed. No way. I'm staying in the woods all weekend. She hadn't meant it to sound like an excruciating punishment, but it did, and all three of them cracked up laughing.

Eventually she dragged herself up to sitting, applied moleskin to a few hot areas on her feet, and pulled on her hiking boots. Tina and Harry were doing the same. Rachel watched as Harry tied Tina's laces, his movements both caring and possessive, and an unfamiliar longing twisted in her stomach. She was happy for Tina. Tina and Harry had been in love forever. They endured a long separation and would soon move to Europe together. But for the first time ever, she wanted someone, too.

It didn't have to be a husband or even a boyfriend. A good, dependable servicing would suit her just fine, provided it was the right kind of servicing. She wanted to be