Bliss and Delight

By Candice Christian

Shellie Davison is basking in the thrill of her very first NYT bestselling book. Sitting in an upscale restaurant drinking coffee, her attention is drawn to a young lesbian couple making out, in the seats in front of her.

The young girls are an odd assortment, Dee a Native American physical fitness trainer and Bliss, a plump, middle eastern college student. Shellie gets called out by Dee for staring at them, suspecting she is homophobic, and Shellie explains that she likes Dee's tattoo.

Mollified for the moment Dee and Bliss move to pay their bill and leave the restaurant, while Shellie tries to apologize for the misunderstanding. Bliss seems to be amenable to Shellie's overture and they introduce each other. Then Dee and Bliss head about their business, Dee grumbling all the way.

Later in the afternoon in the same Shopping Mall, Shellie and the couple from the restaurant bump into one another again. Dee having cooled down and realized her brash behavior; invites Shellie back to their place for an afternoon of fun. Something Shellie readily accepts and seizes on the opportunity to end her long period sexual abstinence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tenth Muse
• Release date: Jun 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463596401

Candice Christian

Candice was born in Paris KY on 9 January 1988. Her parents, George Bertrand Christian, an attorney who once aspired to be an actor, and Frances Hollowell insisted that Candice and her sister Simone, be sent to a Catholic school. Candice was deeply religious as a child, at one point thought of becoming a nun.

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Bliss and Delight

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18+

'Author's note: All characters depicted in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

About Candice Christian

Other books by Candice Christian

Connect with Candice Christian

Acknowledgement

Sammy Lightyear

Chapter One

The waitress, her name tag identified as Rita, smiled as she totaled up the check, leaving it on the edge of the table checking with her customer, before heading off to check on another of her customers.

Can I get you anything else? the blonde haired waitress asked.

No thank you, the darker haired young woman in the booth replied as she looked up from the contents of an envelope she had been reading, glancing as she did at the half filled coffee cup to her left. I'm fine.

It had been the third time the twenty-six year old had read the contents since coming into the Cheese Cake Factory for just a coffee. Not that she didn't already know every word by heart before she'd even opened the envelop. The most important of which were the simple words in the number six spot, Paradox Lost - by Shellie Davison.

After four years of doing all the grunt work that every fledgling writer had to endure, it felt good to finally see her own name in bold print. Having their own best seller was a dream that most of the friends she'd gone to journalism school had yet to see.

Congratulations, Polly Walter, her writing agent had said only a few hours before when she had presented Shellie with an advance copy of this week's NYT Best Seller List, with Shellie cracking the top ten, to have as a memento. "Now go out and do something to celebrate, because come Monday morning I'm going to have a new idea for you and I'm