Girl After Dark - Book Two: Girl After Dark, #2

By Charlotte Eve

There's So Much A Girl Can Get Up To ... After Dark

Melissa Lane has it all: a beautiful flat in London, great friends, a cute boyfriend, not to mention the most amazing job ever. Because whenever Melissa turns on her video camera, she transforms into VintageHoney, one of YouTube's most popular fashion bloggers!

But one fateful day her whole world comes crashing down around her, and Melissa finds her squeaky-clean reputation left in tatters. Suddenly the whole internet is gossiping about her now and she just needs to escape.

So Melissa flees to New York, a city where she can finally be anonymous; a city where she can start all over again on her own. But what she doesn't realise is that love – and lust – are waiting just around the corner in the form of Carson, a mysterious hunky stranger that Melissa just can't seem to escape ...

From the author of the Taming Blake trilogy comes this brand new, smoking hot series. Due to adult situations and descriptions, this book is only suitable for those aged 18 years and older ...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Garden of Eden Press
• Release date: Aug 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393635390

Charlotte Eve

Charlotte Eve was born to English parents and grew up between London and New York. She returned to England to study, and has now settled in London, where she loves the history, the culture and the tea. Maybe not the rain though. Charlotte still visits New York as often as she can, to shop until she drops.

Book preview

Chapter One

I’m walking down a long dark corridor. I don’t know where I am. All I know is that I’m trying to find the way out.

All of a sudden I see the sign. Big green neon letters: EXIT.

I start heading towards it, but then, behind me I hear a now-familiar voice. His voice. A voice that stops me in my tracks.

Melissa! he calls.

But how do you know my name? I reply.

I know that I shouldn’t wait for his answer, that I should just leave, that I shouldn’t turn back.

But of course, I do.

I turn around and there he is, waiting for me.

Don’t leave, he calls out. Come back to me.

I can feel myself being pulled in two directions at once.

I know I should go, but at the same time, there is another force, even stronger, drawing me back towards him.

I take a first step, then another, and then, before I know it, I’m running back down the corridor towards him, throwing myself into his arms.

I knew you’d come back to me, he says.

I search out his eyes with my own, feeling that thrill all over again when his gaze meets mine, as if he’s looking right into the centre of me, right into my soul.

I lean forward to kiss him, our lips softly brushing and then …

---

I wake with a start. It’s a dream, of course. But it’s one of those dreams that feels so real, it actually takes me a moment to return to my senses, to work out where I really am.

I look around me, at the familiar environment of my bedroom here in New York, and I have to admit it: a little part of me feels disappointed, wishing I could have stayed in that dream world just a moment or two longer.

I sigh, suspecting I’ve not exactly got the hang of this ‘one night stand’ thing just yet. After all, I met this Carson guy once and already he’s turning up in my dreams?

But I suppose that with a little more practice, and a little more experience, things should get easier …

Once I’ve shaken the final few fragments of the dream from my head, I remember the blog post I wrote last night — all about my experience with Carson, my ‘mysterious stranger’.

I climb out of bed, wrap a soft white cotton dressing gown around me then sit at my desk in front of my laptop, opening its lid and quickly typing in the address for Girl After Dark.

I wonder if anyone’s even cares what I write these days, I think.

Or maybe I don’t care — maybe this time, I’m just writing for myself?

But still, even so, I check to see if there are any reader comments and to my surprise there are.

In fact, there are lots of them:

---

Abigail_X: Love this. So sexy. You’re my new hero. Can’t wait to see what fun you get up to next! X

---

BigGeorge84: Hot stuff. Would love to see some photos next time too.

---

MistressBelinda: Wow! That got me hot under the collar. You’re a great writer, GAD

---

Prince_C: I think it’s safe to say that you made this anonymous stranger as excited as the readers of your blog. I’m looking forward to getting to know you better, Girl After Dark. ;)

---

B_Freidrikson: Do you have agency representation? Email us if not!

---

JulietGreene: Absolutely loving this blog. Does anyone know who she really is??

---

I feel a familiar rush — the same little shot of excitement that I used to get, back when I first started posting my writing online. Back then, I couldn’t quite believe that people were interested in what I had to say. I mean, it was just clothes and shoes and handbags and things, it was all a bit trivial really, but my readers said that they loved my way with words, and it made them feel that maybe liking that stuff wasn’t so stupid.

But this is different. The stuff I’d written last night … Well, it was pretty personal and candid. And so it meant even more when anyone said they liked it.

I jump to my feet, ready to start my day.

I look at myself in the mirror, just as I do every morning. Except today, the question isn’t, ‘What do I want to wear?’

It’s: ‘Who do I want to be?’

The girl that stares back at me in the mirror is petite, with unremarkable 32B breasts, the kind of small waist that’s perfect for vintage dresses, and cascades of long, honey-blonde hair.

She looks ‘cute’ — no wonder Carson said she did in his messages.

Do I really want to look like that any more?

When I was running VintageHoney, my advertisers and sponsors warned me against any drastic changes to my appearance. They didn’t want it to tarnish my brand. But I don’t have to worry about them any more, now do I? And it’s not like I haven’t tried out new looks in the past. My hair was every colour in the rainbow when I was a teenager.

But there was one mark of teenage rebellion that I never did try out but was always curious about. And I realise that now is the perfect time.

So, just like that, I know what my next blog post is going to be.

Girl After Dark: Image overhaul

---

Welcome back, my dear new readers.

I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to my last post. I’ve so enjoyed reading your comments and your messages. I know some of you found my date incredibly exciting and want me to see him again. But I’m afraid I have to tell you: that’s just *not* going to happen.

There wont be any looking back on this journey, and I’m certainly not going to settle for the first guy I meet (no matter *how* good he is in bed). No, I’m going to find out who I am first of all; and I’m determined to take you guys along with me for the ride.

Speaking of which, I’ve done something slightly out-of-character.

In the past, I’ve been a bit