Make Me: A Sexy Contemporary Romance

By Tracy Wolff

New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff continues the scorching Art of Pleasure series with Make Me

Seven days, seven nights…

One week of passion.

One week of submission.

One week where anything—and everything—goes.

Pose for me.

The words both thrill and terrify museum curator Grace Parker.

Thrill her because the way he asks—and the way he looks at her—warns that he wants so much more than a few pictures.

Terrify her for the exact same reasons.

British photographer Jaxon Silva isn’t considered the rock star of the art scene for nothing. His latest project? Photos of bound women captured at the height of ecstasy.

Inspired by the magnetic artist to take a risk for the first time in her life, Grace leaps…into Jaxon’s ropes and his arms.

One week together is all it takes to change everything.

Jaxon—and the woman she is when she’s with him—is what Grace wants forever.

This book is approximately 35,000 words



The Dirty Bits from Carina Press gives you what you want, when you want it. Designed to be read in an hour or two, these sex-filled microromances are guaranteed to pack a punch and deliver a happily-ever-after.

One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carina Press
• Release date: Apr 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781488053764

Tracy Wolff

Tracy Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks. At six she wrote her first short story and ventured into the world of girls’ lit. By ten she’d read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so started on romance novels. And from the first page, she'd found her life-long love. Tracy lives in Texas with her husband and three sons, where she writes and teaches at the local college. She can be reached online at www.tracywolff.com.

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New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff continues the scorching Art of Pleasure series with Make Me

Seven days, seven nights...

One week of passion.

One week of submission.

One week where anything—and everything—goes.

Pose for me.

The words both thrill and terrify museum curator Grace Parker.

Thrill her because the way he asks—and the way he looks at her—warns that he wants so much more than a few pictures.

Terrify her for the exact same reasons.

British photographer Jaxon Silva isn’t considered the rock star of the art scene for nothing. His latest project? Photos of bound women captured at the height of ecstasy.

Inspired by the magnetic artist to take a risk for the first time in her life, Grace leaps...into Jaxon’s ropes and his arms.

One week together is all it takes to change everything.

Jaxon—and the woman she is when she’s with him—is what Grace wants forever.

This book is approximately 35,000 words

The Dirty Bits from Carina Press gives you what you want, when you want it. Designed to be read in an hour or two, these sex-filled microromances are guaranteed to pack a punch and deliver a happily-ever-after.

One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!

For Sherry Thomas, because you really are the best

Contents

Thursday: Jaxon

Friday: Grace

Saturday: Jaxon

Sunday: Grace

Monday: Jaxon

Tuesday: Grace

Wednesday: Grace

Acknowledgments

Also by Tracy Wolff

About the Author

Thursday: Jaxon

There are a hundred different women in this bar, but she’s the one I want.

The one I can’t take my eyes off of.

The one I’m going to photograph and the one I’m going to fuck...even if she doesn’t know it yet.

I’ve watched her since she walked in here ten minutes ago and I’ve reached the conclusion that she’s nothing—and everything—like I expected.

Buttoned-up suit.

Long dark hair wound into a tight bun at the top of her head.

Guarded eyes.

No-nonsense expression.

It’s all there, just like I anticipated. Just like the online photographs prepared me for. But what those photos didn’t show—what I didn’t expect—is the way she moves.

Like a wave crashing against the shore—slow, voluptuous, commanding.

The slide of her shoulders, the swing of her hips, the slight quirk of her lips...all tailor-made to captivate. All tailor-made to turn what was a want into a desperate need.

I can already imagine how she’ll look.

Naked. Vulnerable. Bound.

I’ll let her hair down from that terrible bun myself, then I’ll bind it behind her, so that nothing distracts from the gleam of my dark red ropes against her alabaster skin. So that nothing draws attention away from how gorgeous she looks with my ropes across her breasts, between her thighs, around her throat.

My dick hardens at the thought and my hands aren’t quite steady as I reach for the glass of tequila on the table in front of me. I swallow it down in one long sip, use the burn to distract me from the impatient need clawing at my insides.

Patience, I remind myself as I set the glass back down on the burnished wood. I’ve wanted to photograph her from the moment I first saw her picture online six months ago. I can wait eighteen more hours until we’re properly introduced. Even if what I want now is so much more than a simple shoot...

Patience, I tell myself again. It doesn’t work any better the second time. How can it when she’s moving, her hips swaying as she winds her way toward the bar on those long, long, long legs?

She slides onto a barstool with a smile, orders a drink from the bartender. I expect wine—something red and dry—but when the bartender reaches for a bottle of mezcal, I take it as a sign. And cross the room to slide onto the open barstool next to hers. Maybe there’s a reason she walked into this bar, one that has nothing to do with expediency and everything to do with fate.

I’ve got it, I tell the bartender as she opens her purse and pulls out her wallet. I reach past her to hand him my own card.

That’s really not necessary, she responds. Her tone is cool—cold, even—but her voice is all Mezcal. Rich and smoky, with hidden depths that make my dick throb and my blood run hot. I can buy my own drink.

Of course you can. But I’d really like to buy it for you. As a thank you.

I expect her to turn then, to see who’s thanking her and for what. But I underestimated this woman’s resolve, because instead of looking up at me, she reaches out her left hand and smoothly moves my hand away from the bar...and from her. At the same time, she uses her right hand to press a twenty dollar bill into the bartender’s waiting hand. Keep the change.

The ten dollar tip does the trick, because he turns away and heads straight for the cash register before she can change her mind. Or before I can intervene.

And just like that, she’s gotten the best of me and I don’t know whether to be amused or annoyed. In the end, I go with amused, because I can. And because every small refusal on her part helps me learn her more.

Deliberately, I allow a little of my British roots to creep into my voice. We moved to America when I was ten and I’ve pretty much lost the accent after nearly three decades in the States. But that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten how it feels on my tongue and in the back of my throat. I guess I’ll have to think of another way to thank you now.

You have no reason to thank me. The coolness has become downright frigidity and that’s when I decide to end the game. I want to see her eyes, want to know what she’s thinking. Want to know if meeting me here, tonight, is a surprise or an intrusion. But the last thing I want to come across as is a guy who can’t take no for an answer.

I disagree, luv.

Just like I suspected, it’s the accent—or the very British pronunciation of the endearment that comes with it—that does it. Her spine stiffens from ramrod to steel and she turns, slowly, slowly, slowly, to see if it’s just a coincidence. Or if she has just insulted the artist she spent the last six months moving heaven and earth to get to her museum.

Our eyes lock and hers are so much more beautiful than they appeared in the photographs. Not gray like I expect, but a swirling, sexy silver that look into me more than at me. At least until they widen and darken with what I’m very afraid is horror.

It’s not the look I was going for—not the expression I want to see in those eyes or on her strong, powerful face when she looks at me. But it’s a little bit delicious, too, seeing this powerhouse of a woman discombobulated, especially if it’s only for a few seconds...and over something that can so easily be fixed.

Mr. Silva? Her voice quivers a bit on my last name as she all but leaps from the barstool.

Jaxon, I tell her with a smile meant to soothe. Or Jax. It’s nice to meet you, Grace.

Nice to— She falters for a second, then clears her throat before sticking out a hand for me to shake. Her voice is much stronger the second time around. It’s nice to meet you, too. I didn’t expect to see you until tomorrow.

I take her hand, relishing this small chance to touch her. The back of her hand is soft but the fingers that wrap around my own hand are calloused and a little rough. An artist in her own right, I wonder as I rub my thumb against her skin. Or someone who doesn’t mind picking up a few tools in the course of her job?

Either way, it’s sexy as hell. Then again, everything about her is.

It’s nice to meet you, too, I say as I reluctantly allow her to pull her hand from mine. I was wandering the city this afternoon and found myself in front of your museum, so I decided to check it out. See what you’ve done with the permanent collections. As if I hadn’t checked that—and her—out thoroughly before I agreed to let her use this exhibit as a full retrospective of my work to date. You have some beautiful pieces and you do a beautiful job of displaying them.

She flushes a little, her pale skin turning a dusty pink that makes me want to kiss her all over even as I wonder if she’ll turn that same shade when I tie her up. I’m the assistant curator. It’s mostly Richard who deals with the permanent collections.

A little snap of annoyance runs through me—at the way she’s downplaying her own abilities and at the sound of another man’s name on those ridiculously plush lips of hers. Which is absurd, I know, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Especially when she still hasn’t said my name.

I’ve been around the art world long enough to know it’s the assistant curator who does ninety-nine percent of the work—and the curator who takes ninety-nine percent of the credit.

She laughs as I intended, her insanely straight posture relaxing just a little. In our museum, it’s more like eighty-twenty.

Modest as well as talented, I see.

She laughs again. More like honest.

I’m not so sure about that. I tilt my head and study her through narrowed eyes. I think you regularly undersell yourself.

You don’t know me. She snaps the words out, fast and vehement. Then flushes even more as I lift a brow at her. But she doesn’t apologize and she doesn’t look away, those crazy sexy eyes of hers almost daring me to say something else, to push her—to push us—even further beyond the boundaries of normal, polite getting-to-know-you conversation than we already are.

I’d like to change that—which is the real reason I came to your museum today.

You came to...meet me?

She sounds surprised—truly, deeply surprised—and I don’t know why. I’ve read several interviews with her online, have even read a few of the papers she’s written for art journals. She’s brilliant, incisive, and has a deep, instinctive understanding of art that is hard to come by. Plus, she’s gorgeous.

Hers may not be the conventional type of beauty—her nose is a little too aristocratic for that and her jaw a little too strong—but that’s what makes her face so interesting. Well, that and her sky-high cheekbones and those wildly fascinating eyes.

All those angles are going to photograph like a dream. She’s made for the camera, made for center stage. She just doesn’t know it yet.

I did.

Her gaze turns wary. Why?

Because anyone who chooses the pieces you did to put together an exhibit of my work is someone I want to spend more than five minutes talking to in the middle of a crowded cocktail party.

Her cheeks get even rosier and fuck if that doesn’t make me want to pull down her pants and drop to my knees in front of her, just to see if she turns that pretty pink all over.

Mr. Sil—

Jaxon.

Jaxon, she says reluctantly and I’m charmed as well as aroused by the dichotomy of that no-nonsense tone coming from that gorgeous, smoky voice.

Then again, everything about her is a contradiction.

Lush body covered by a too-prim suit.

Miles of thick, honey brown hair trapped in a ridiculous bun.

Careful eyes