Scarlett Fever

By Clarissa Darling

Scarlett Fever is book two in the Lessons series. Book three, the final installment, will be released July 2014.

Scarlett Kelly doesn’t mind having the super-hot Adam Greenstreet helping her discover her own sexuality, but she still doesn’t understand why Adam does not want to be physical with women. As their lessons progress, Scarlett finds it more and more frustrating that Adam can’t give her what she really desires—him.

**This novelette is for mature adults who enjoy reading about sexual situations. It contains approximately 20k words**

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clarissa Darling
• Release date: Jun 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311949592

Clarissa Darling

Clarissa Darling is not my real name and those sexy legs in the picture aren’t mine. If you look very closely at that picture, the woman with the gorgeous legs is reading a book. My hope is that each reader who happens upon one of my stories will feel as sexy as the reader in my profile photo. In case you’re wondering why I might not put my own photo up or use my real name, the answer is simply that I also write books for younger readers and I would never want my young readers to read my adult books until they are adults. Feel free to look me up on Twitter, Goodreads, or Facebook. You can also email me at [e-mail] Now, devour your sexy books!

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Scarlett Fever

Lesson #2

A novel by Clarissa Darling

Copyright 2014 Clarissa Darling

Published by Clarissa Darling at Smashwords

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Clarissa Darling

Scarlett Fever

By

Clarissa Darling

Copyright © 2014 by Clarissa Darling

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter One

Your first lesson will begin in just a moment, Adam shot me his best lopsided grin, sending a warm feeling to my core. His bright sea-green eyes seemed to glow against his messy dark hair and I realized that whatever this first lesson was going to be, I’d participate willingly.

First, I have a few questions I need to ask you. His serious expression and his choice of words almost led me to believe we were sitting in this bar doing something perfectly normal instead of exploring my sexuality.

I took a long sip of my cosmopolitan. Ask away.

How did you stay a virgin for so long?

Oh boy. Perhaps I wasn’t as ready and willing as I previously thought. I took another sip of my drink and remembered a promise I’d made to myself that I was going to start doing things differently. The first step in my promise was to start letting people in.

I’d already revealed enough personal information to this man. He’d seen a videotape of me losing my virginity in the office and none of this made him run for the hills, yet. Perhaps a little more information would be fine.

I have a fear of rejection, I said, hoping that would be enough information.

Well, that’s a start. A lot of people have that same fear and still manage to have healthy sexual relationships. Tell me more about this fear. His intense eyes were full of friendly concern and something about him made me feel comfortable in his presence. It might have been from the information he’d shared with me earlier about his own sexuality and the fact that he liked to watch people more than engage in physical activities, or maybe it was the fact that he’d saved me from a creepy guy the other night, but I was getting a comfortable vibe from him that was giving me the courage to admit things I’d only ever admitted to my best friend, Charlotte.

My mother abandoned me on my grandparent’s doorstep when I was an infant. I never knew who my father was. My grandfather passed away when I was ten and my grandmother is basically my only family, I said, followed by a deep breath.

Adam continued to watch me and nod his head as if he were beginning to understand why I was so afraid of being abandoned, again.

Before he could say anything, I continued. "My first real boyfriend in high school rejected me. We dated our freshman year through our junior year. I was at his house after school doing homework. I had already decided that I wanted to lose my virginity to him, but I wasn’t sure how to tell him, so when he got up to go to the bathroom, I took off all my clothes.

"I was so shy and embarrassed, but I knew that this would show him that I was ready. When he came back in the room, he stared at me for the longest time. He didn’t say a word, but walked away. I scrambled to put my clothes back on and never spoke another word to him.

The next year, our senior year, he came out of the closet, I choked, unable to stop the tears that were flooding down my face. Charlotte had to convince me that I didn’t make him gay.

Adam wiped the tears from my cheeks and soon I was laughing at my own stupidity. I know now that I didn’t have any part in his coming out of the closet, but my teenage self was convinced that there was something so horribly wrong with me, that I turned him away from women altogether.

Of course you didn’t have anything to do with that. You could turn a gay man straight, but never the other way around. Besides, I truly believe your old boyfriend was born gay and he probably dated you because he wasn’t ready to face the facts.

Adam took a sip of his martini and slipped his hand through mine. I stared down at our intertwined fingers curiously. Adam had blatantly told me that he didn’t want to have sex with me, but as far as I knew, he didn’t want to have sex with anyone. Why was he holding my hand and why didn’t this knowledge make me any less attracted to him? It made me want him more.

I was startled from my thoughts as what sounded like a tambourine began beating and clanging