Ohhh, I'm so glad when a favourite author goes all seasonal like Alexa Riley with her cookie-sweet SNOW AND MISTLETOE. If you like sweet and sexy all in one packet, have a bite of this novella!
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Alexa Riley’s newest release in Snow and Mistletoe!
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Noelle's voice has captivated Alex, and she's become his greatest obsession. Since he hired her to read audiobooks, listening to her is the only thing that makes his lonely world bearable. Thank God she's never seen him. His scars would only scare her away.
Alex has starred in every fantasy Noelle's had since she first heard his voice over the phone, and reading erotica samples to him only fuels her desire. Listening to him on the other end of the phone is the best part of her day, and she's willing to do anything to please him.
On Christmas Eve a storm comes through, sending Noelle in search of her reclusive boss. Once she's at his cabin with no place to go, there's only one way to keep warm.
Warning: This is the sweetest, cheesiest, most Christmassy book ever! It's filled with late-night confessions, dirty deeds, and a lifetime of love. If you love this time of year, I've got some cheer for you!
Read a Snow and Mistletoe Excerpt
“I…uh…” I say, trying to break the silence between us for the second time today. I’m totally getting fired. Hell, I kinda knew that when I popped on my audiobook and my voice wasn’t even on it. As much as I want to ask, I don’t feel like poking the bear he seems to have turned into.
I knew he was the silent broody type, but I didn’t think he bit. Now I’m not so sure. He could rip my heart to shreds with a few harsh words. Maybe this is why I spend so much time with my head in the clouds and my nose in books, dreaming in my own little world. This real-life romance shit is hard and scary.
“Follow me. I’ll show you where you can put your stuff,” he says without looking at me as he heads towards a hallway. It’s as if he wants to shove me into a room as quickly as possible. He won’t even look at me, and a lump starts to form in my throat. Forget it. I can’t do this.
“Maybe I should just…” I turn to grab the door handle, but I remember I don’t have my shoes on so I can’t make as quick of an escape as I’d like. Before I can turn to grab my shoes, big arms shoot out on either side of me, landing on the door. His warm body presses into mine.
“Don’t go.” His words are soft this time, and they tickle my ear. He doesn’t move, and I can’t seem to form any words with him pressed up against me like this. “Just let me show you to your room. You can take a warm bath if you like.”
“Okay.” The fight leaves my body at his deep, sensual voice. My answer comes out breathy, and it takes every muscle in my body to stop myself from leaning into him. I want to rub against him like a cat in heat. I’ve never done anything wanton in my life, but Alex makes me do a lot of things I’ve never done before. Like drive three hours in a snowstorm, pretending it was all about saving my job, when really I’m being a low-key stalker.
Maybe I can just say I’m cold or something if I rub against him. Oh my God, I’m totally trying to cop a feel! My cheeks burn with embarrassment at my own thoughts, but Alex still makes no move to release me. I can’t move until he drops the big arms that are caging me. God, how I wish I was facing the other way and staring into his dark blue eyes. I was so sure they would be brown when I pictured him, but my thoughts didn’t do those eyes justice.
“Don’t try to leave again.” The firmness in his voice is one I know all too well. I am about to tell him I’ll do whatever I want, but feeling him pressed against me banishes any thoughts I have of leaving this cabin. “It’s dark, the snow is falling thick, and the coyotes will be out.”
With that caution, the warmth of his body leaves mine, and I miss it instantly. Sadly, I think I could have stood like that all night and been utterly content. I turn, following him down the long hallway. The cabin is cute. It’s hard to make out much with so few lights on, but all the walls and floors are wooden. It’s rustic and homely and utterly perfect. The place looks like it was plucked right out of some catalogue. It would be the perfect place to spend Christmas.
The thought reminds me that it’s Christmas Eve. I haven’t heard anyone else, but I feel bad, not only for intruding but for possibly putting someone out of a bedroom. “Are we alone?” I’m prying for information, but I’m wondering if a girlfriend or someone like that is going to pop up.
“I’m always alone.” That makes me happy until the words really sink it.
He takes me upstairs, and we pass one door before we stop outside another. He turns the knob and pushes the door open. He half-turns to me, but the light is off, and I still can’t really make out his face. I can tell he has a strong jaw and nose, but seeing so little only makes me long to see more.
“Get some rest. I’m sure it was a long drive.” With that, he turns and heads down the stairs, his big body disappearing into the shadows of the cabin.
I go into the room he told me to take and flip on the nearby lamp. I ignore everything but the bed as I toss my bag onto it and let myself fall into its softness.
I’m always alone.
**Chapter One **
“‘Please,” she
begged. “I need to feel you inside me now. It’s been too long.” Annabelle
pleaded with Sam before taking matters into her own hands, grabbing his hard
c*ck and guiding it to her wet p*ssy. Wanting to make them whole once again, to
never be apart from the only man she’d ever loved. Would ever love.
“I’ll give you
what you want. Just give me what I want,” Sam demanded, pulling back just a
little from her, the head of his c*ck barely touching her opening. She knew
what he wanted, and she was sick of fighting these feelings. She’d find a way
to make them work, no matter how different their worlds were.
“I love you.
Only you.” She gave him the words he wanted because they were true. She knew it
down to her soul.
Samuel thrust
home into her welcoming body, his hard c*ck just as hungry for her as he was.”
The heavy breathing through the phone pulls me from
my narration “Mr. Lockwood, are you okay?”
“Alex,” he grunts, sounding irritated with me. “Say
it.”
“Alex,” I whisper. He’s been correcting me for
months now, but for some reason I always still say ‘Mr. Lockwood.’ It reminds
me of who he is—that he isn’t a friend I’m talking to on the phone. He’s a
client and nothing more, no matter what my late-night fantasies tell me.
I hear a grunt, then the line goes quiet. I wonder
if he’s mad at me, and I inwardly curse myself. I had steady work before I
started narrating books for his company, All for You, but with him offering me
more and more projects, he’s been my only client for well over two months now.
It sounds silly, and I’m sure I can get more projects elsewhere, but I like
working for him. He handles things a little differently than most clients I
work with, but I like his way. Seems I like a lot of things about Alex, despite
knowing very little about him.
The silence hangs in the air as I wait for him to
speak again. His words do things to me. Things they shouldn’t. I’ve somehow
latched myself onto him recently. Waiting for our daily calls has now become a
little bit of an obsession, one I’m sure my mother would tell me was just as
unhealthy as my lack of a social life.
“Hmm,” I mumble, trying to break the uncomfortable
silence. I can’t bear the tension, but all I hear is his heavy breathing,
something that reminds me of the many erotica books I’ve read. The hero would
breathlessly pant into the heroine’s ear after a hard round of sex. It’s a
sound I’ve never actually heard myself, but I find myself imagining what it
would be like if Alex made the sound in my ear, his body on top of me.
“I think that’s enough for today,” he finally says,
his deep voice rolling over my skin like a warm rough caress, like it always
does when he speaks to me. If anyone one should be narrating a book, it’s Alex.
He has a voice like I’ve never heard before, and I’ve heard many in my line of
work. Voices that are supposed to be the best aren’t anything special compared
to his.
“Okay, Mis— Alex,” I correct myself quickly, once
again making myself look like an incompetent fool who can’t remember anything.
“I’ll have the Scott book sent over this afternoon. Just a few more touches and
it will be finished. Then I’ll start on this new one, if you liked the sample I
just did.”
Alex likes to do the samples over the phone and also
likes to check in daily on my project status, something that’s not normal with
audio work. Almost everything could be done over email, but Alex says he likes
to do it this way. For what he’s paying me to voice audiobooks, I’m happy to
jump through hoops for the projects. Okay, that’s only partially true. I would
jump through the hoops, but our phone calls mean more to me than just work.
Sometimes our calls dip into personal life, mainly
about me and my life. Every now and then, I find myself rambling on, and he
just listens. Maybe he’s really polite and feels sorry for me for having to
carry on conversations with someone who is virtually a stranger. Though he
doesn’t feel like a stranger anymore.
“That sounds perfect. I have a lot going on
tomorrow, so I want this taken care of tonight and off both our to-do lists,”
he says, slipping back into business talk. It’s crazy how he does that.
Sometimes I wonder if maybe he has a crazy sex life, because my narrations
always seem to run on the dirty side and they never affect him.
I usually end up in a pile of goo when we we’re
done, with hard nipples and wet panties. We’d hang up and I’d have my hand down
my pants before the line even cleared. It wasn’t narrating the books that
turned me on. I’ve been doing romance narrations for years. Normally I did them
alone so no one would hear. But somehow, reading aloud to Alex has me beyond
turned on. It could be that the pieces he selects for samples are always the
dirtiest parts, or it could just be him.
I told myself it was because Alex was playing with
me. I thought maybe he even had a little crush on me like I did him, but after
time went on, he never seemed affected. He never tried to be more friendly to
me like I was with him, and after a while I thought maybe I made it up in my
head. My mother always told me I live too much inside myself, and it seemed to
have happened again. I’d built something up in my mind that wasn’t really
there. Worse, the thought of not having this interaction anymore was terrifying
in some weird way.
“Okay. I’ll send the file right over.” I try to keep
my tone just as causal as his, but I’m still chewing on the fact that he has a
lot going on tomorrow. It’s Christmas, so I should expect him to be busy. All I have planned is a TV dinner and Netflix.
“Have a merry Christmas, Noelle.”
“You too, Alex.” I hit End on the call, promptly
wanting to disconnect from him. I drop the phone onto my desk and bring up my
emails. I want to go ahead and send the file, but my internet won’t connect.
After restarting the modem and my laptop, I make my way over to the window
while everything reboots.
It really is a perfect Christmas Eve. Snow has
already begun to fall, and the Christmas lights on my tree behind me reflect in
the window. It’s as if they’re mocking me. My house is decorated like I’m
hosting a Christmas party tomorrow. There isn’t a spot that isn’t covered in
some kind of Christmas decoration. Why I do this to myself, I have no idea.
I’m an introvert and always have been. I made a
couple of friends in college, always preferring to have my nose deep in a book.
But since then they’ve dropped off one by one, slowly losing contact over time.
No one wants to be friends with the girl who rarely leaves the house.
Who knows where my parents are this time of year. No
one likes to travel more than they do. I still have no idea how I came from
such social butterflies. I like things small and intimate, and I always wanted
to spend a Christmas like that with my parents. When I was a kid, my mom would
go all out, kind of like I did in my own home, but she always filled the day
with people I hardly knew.
It’s almost laughable now. I hate how she’d do that,
but now here I am in a house all made up for Christmas and not one soul to
spend it with. I’m not sure which is worse.
My mind wanders back to Alex, wondering what his
plans might be. Would he have a special person to spend his Christmas with? The
thought sends an irrational surge of jealously through me.
Maybe I can come up with a reason to get in touch
with him, or just call to wish him a merry Christmas. I chastise myself for the
silly idea. Considering how fast he got off the phone moments ago, he probably
has plans tonight.
Growling at myself, I pull my hair from my ponytail
to relieve some of the tension I’m feeling.
Pull it together, I tell myself. I’ll finish this
project for Alex, get into my Christmas pajamas, eat those cookies I spent all
day baking and decorating, and watch my favorite holiday movies. I will not let
myself have a pity party.
I'm Alexa Riley! Mom, wife, and business woman by day and smut writer by night. I specialize in the Dirty Date Night reading. I wrote my first book, Owning Her Innocence, because well, I just couldn't find any daddy books to my liking. So I sat down and just started writing, bringing the fantasies I find myself often dancing to in the dark of night to life, one page at a time.
Alexa Riley is my alter ego. I can't let the other soccer moms know what I'm up to or the guys at work for that matter. Little do they know that they've got nothing on my dirty talk.
I'm here to give you a quick fix of filthy dirty smut. Got a few hours to kill? Then I'm what you're looking for.
Never stop writing, Alexa! :o)
Happy holidays.
