Love and Desire in Paradise: Love and Desire, #3

By J.C. Fairbanks

The Saenz sisters have all found love, but will it be destroyed when the past comes back into their lives?  It's been a year since the roadtrip that changed everything.  And just when things have seemed to settle down, they're off on another exciting, intense, and erotic adventure.  Love, romance, and steamy nights await in the final volume of Love and Desire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.C. Fairbanks
• Release date: Jun 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393521297

J.C. Fairbanks

I love to write about love. True love, passion, and romance are the best things about life. I fall in love with all of my characters in every story, and I hope you will, too. In my real life I am living my happily ever after every day with the love of my life and our four little ones.  But let me tell you the story of how I started writing. One night I had a dream. It was incredible and I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks. This dream was not your usual dream. It was so real that it felt like it had actually happened. In it I met Julia, Camile, Anika, Leo, David, and the whole family. I now knew these people and I was dying to find out what happened to them after I was yanked from my slumber by the alarm clock. It was nearly impossible to get out of bed that morning and even harder to stop thinking about them. My first novel, Two Days In Florida, was born. But I still had to know more. The stories just keep getting steamier and more romantic. I can't wait to see what happens next!

Book preview

1

Julia

E stoy desesperadamente enamorado de ti, mi sirena, Leo whispered in my ear, nibbling my earlobe.

That tickles! I giggled, squirming in his arms.

Good, he said, holding me tighter.

I pressed my lips to his, savoring the feel of his firm, smooth mouth.  His lips parted and his tongue slipped in, softly touching mine.  A shiver ran through my body.  No one had ever kissed me the way Leo did.  His kiss was fervent and tender, full of raging desire and devotion.

I laid back on the blanket, pulling Leo onto me, and sinking into the soft sand.  The sand was cool in the dark of the night, but the fire we had going was hot, though it was dying down now.  His hard body pressed onto me and I molded myself to him.  I broke away from his mouth to kiss down his neck.  He smelled of salt air, the fire, and his own, masculine scent.  I breathed him in.

Are you happy to be home? Leo asked.  It was so dark I could barely make out his features by the red light of the embers.

So happy.

Home.  That’s what it was to me now.  I kissed him again and his knee came up between my legs, spreading them, so his hips could nestle into me.  An ache grew deep in my belly.

It was paradise here, literally.  Our own little slice of the Florida coast.  The tiny beach we were lying on was only accessible by going through the breezeway on the property.  Usually we were the only ones here, unless we had guests staying in the rental house.  And we took full advantage of it when we were alone.

Over the last seven months Leo and I had been through so much.  From the moment I saw him, an invisible force had pulled me to him.  

Leo’s hand traced my body as he kissed me, running over my ribs, down my waist, pushing my skirt up to caress my bottom, finally grabbing onto my thigh and squeezing.  He pulled my leg up to his waist and pressed onto me.  I could feel him through his thin swim trunks, hard and ready.

Quiero hacerte el amor, Leo whispered in my ear.  I didn’t speak Spanish very well, but I knew that one.  Make love to me.  Oh, yes.

I reached down and freed him, grasping him in my hand firmly.  Leo moaned.  I guided him to me, running the head of his cock up and down my wet slit.  I was so ready for him.

I let go and wrapped my arms around him.  Leo grasped my thigh and pushed into me in one long thrust.  I cried out in pure ecstasy.  He filled me with his heat, my body spasming in response.  He kissed me deeply, moving slowly out and back in again, each stroke filled with desire and intense longing.

The ache grew in me.  Leo’s strong bicep flexed as he held me, then his hand slid to my breast, grasping it, his fingers fondling my nipple through my thin dress.  I was dripping wet now, and Leo began sliding in and out faster.  With each thrust he pressed onto my clit and my muscles began to throb.

My orgasm began slowly, the ache becoming intense.  The first throb was deep, slow, and a low moan ripped from my chest.  Leo held me tighter, thrusting deeper.  Another spasm, this one faster, then another and my pussy throbbed.  Leo! I breathed, my hips thrusting against him.  He bucked hard into me sending me into an abyss of pleasure.

Te amo, Julia, te amo! Leo moaned.  His cock swelled in me and I felt his body go rigid.  He throbbed in me, cumming deep inside me, sending another wave of pleasure through me.

We lay there, breathing hard, sweating despite the cool January air.  Leo released my thigh, caressing down to my knee and back up the length of my body.  His hand moved slowly over every curve.  My skin burned where his fingers touched me.

Tu ternura me encanta.  You are so soft, Leo whispered.

"And I love your hardness," I responded, giggling at the double entendre.

Leo chuckled a deep rumble against me.  I’m so happy we’re back for a while.  Not that I don’t love visiting your family.  It’s just been so much these last few months.  I feel like we haven’t gotten to spend any time at home.

Mmm, I know.  Camile and Anika already have plans to come down this weekend.  And I can’t believe classes are starting again next week, I grumbled.

Then we’d better make use of these last few days, mi amor...

2

Miranda

Five years ago, I’d been in a bad place.  I was eight months pregnant when Miguel had finally left me.  Not that it was much of a loss.  He had no job and had been living off my parents for months.  He treated me like an afterthought most of the time.  But I had been hopelessly, devotedly in love with him.

I met him at my office.  He came in one day for a cleaning and he had the loveliest set of teeth I had ever seen.  After four years as a dental hygienist I'd started to recognize people more by their smiles than their faces.  One smile from Miguel and my heart had been his.

We’d been together a year when I got pregnant, quite unexpectedly.  I’d always been careful with birth control, and yet, there I was.  Miguel had immediately promised to marry me, and I was ecstatic.  But it didn’t last long.

My little brother, Leo, walked into the kitchen one Sunday morning.  My tummy had really popped out and I was feeling enormous.  Leo sat down at the kitchen table, his huge frame dominating the small space.  He had a serious and worried expression on his face as he asked me to sit down next to him.

"So, I went out to Cuba Libre last night with some friends after work.  El Ritmo was playing," Leo said.

How did you even get in there? I asked.  Leo was only twenty years old at the time.

They never card me, Miranda.  Look at me.  He motioned to his broad chest.  He had a point.

I wish I could have gone.  I would love to dance.  But I’m a whale now.

You are not a whale.  Leo reached over and took my hand.  You are beautiful, and glowing, and creating a life.  Any decent person would be awed by you.

I didn’t like the way he said decent person.  I knew he didn’t like Miguel and I felt like it was an insult to him somehow.

Miranda, Miguel was there.

Leo looked into my eyes and I felt tears welling up.  Miguel hadn’t come home last night.  Sometimes he stayed with friends, or that was the story I chose to believe, and I didn’t want to hear what Leo was about to say.

He was with a woman.  I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he didn’t deserve it.  I watched them for a while.  He was all over her.  Leo’s jaw tightened and his teeth ground together.

What did you do, Leo? I asked, terror seeping into my heart.

That’s why he didn’t come home last night.  He won’t be coming into this house again, I already talked to Papi.  I can’t tell you what to do with your life, Miranda.  But I told him if I ever set eyes on him again it wouldn’t be healthy for him.  Please, don’t marry that cabrón.  You can do so much better.

I was pissed.  You talked to Dad before you talked to me?!?!  How could you, Leo?!?!  I slammed a fist against his chest.  It felt like hitting a brick.  My tears spilled out.  I was embarrassed and hurt.  How could Miguel do this to me?  He was supposed to love me.

Leo pulled me to him and wrapped an arm around me, stroking my hair.  I cried into his chest, sobs racking my body.  He held me until I calmed down.

I love him, Leo.  I don’t know what to do.

We’re all here for you.  We’ll help you.  Whatever you and Selena need.  She’s going to be one spoiled little princess.  You know how much Mami and Papi always wanted another daughter.

I stopped crying and sat up, wiping my face.  I guess I’ve known for a while.  I just thought he would come back to me after the baby was born.  He used to love me, too, you know.  He wasn’t always this way.

Leo looked like he might cry.  Can I talk to you about something, Miranda?

Sure, hermanito, of course.

Alicia was there last night, too, he said, tears coming to his eyes now.  She left me.  Said she never really loved me and that she’s been seeing someone else.  She left with him.  That was after I’d tossed Miguel out into the street.  Alicia didn’t like it.  She said she was embarrassed, and I should just mind my own business.  I thought she loved me, Miranda.

He put his face in his hands and slumped over.  Leo and Alicia had been together for two years.  I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.  She seemed so devoted.  I knew his feelings ran deep for her.  I started to cry again for my little brother’s pain.

I’m so sorry, Leo.

The worst part is I know the guy.  I introduced them.  He’s not a friend or anything, just someone I know from work, but it sucks.

I know.  Guess we’re both going to have to start over.  At least you won’t have a kid when you hit the dating scene again.  You don’t, right?  I poked him in the ribs and tried to smile.

No, he chuckled.

So much had changed in the five years since we’d both had our hearts crushed.  Selena had come into our lives and upended everything in the most wonderful way.  But one thing remained the same.  Leo was always there for me, and then for Selena.  My little brother, who was not so little at a full foot taller than me, was my rock, and I hoped that would never change.

3

Camile

Ifelt David’s lips softly touch mine.  Wake up my sleeping beauty, he whispered to me.  I opened my eyes and gazed into his emerald irises.  His smile still took my breath away.  I inhaled quickly and his smile widened.  I blushed.

David laid down next to me on the bed and kissed me deeply.  I can’t resist you when you blush like that, my love, he said.

I’m sorry I fell asleep; I didn’t mean to.  I really had been trying to stay awake until he got home.  What time is it?

A little after midnight.  I’m sorry, I didn’t want to be out so late.  The clients needed a little more time, though.  The case is getting a bit more complicated. David ran his hand down my shoulder, down my arm, over my hip, his eyes following along my body.  "Please