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    Shameless

    By Brit Ryder

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    Fire Investigator Emery Pearson doesn’t have time for a relationship. Her career is everything, so the rest of her life is put on hold until she reaches her professional goals. Sex is always on the table, though. Finding the perfect woman who only wants a quick hookup seems like a fantasy, but when she meets Lily online, the fantasy turns to reality when they agree to meet. Their tête-à-tête at the museum is more than Emery could imagine—satisfying, exciting, and passionate. Can Emery walk away from sex this good with no strings attached? Or will the lure of lust keep her going back for more?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBold Strokes Books
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781635550061
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    Shameless - Brit Ryder

    Shameless

    By Brit Ryder

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2017 Brit Ryder

    This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Shameless

    Fire Investigator Emery Pearson doesn’t have time for a relationship. Her career is everything, so the rest of her life is put on hold until she reaches her professional goals. Sex is always on the table, though. Finding the perfect woman who only wants a quick hookup seems like a fantasy, but when she meets Lily online, the fantasy turns to reality when they agree to meet. Their tête-à-tête at the museum is more than Emery could imagine—satisfying, exciting, and passionate. Can Emery walk away from sex this good with no strings attached? Or will the lure of lust keep her going back for more?

    Shameless

    © 2017 By Brit Ryder. All Rights Reserved.

    ISBN 13: 978-1-63555-006-1

    This Electronic Book is published by

    Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

    P.O. Box 249

    Valley Falls, New York 12185

    First Edition: June 2017

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

    Credits

    Editor: Ashley Tillman

    Production Design: Bold Strokes Graphics

    Cover Concept Created by Deb B.

    Cover Design By Sheri (graphicartist2020@hotmail.com)

    By the Author

    Shameless

    Writing as Kris Bryant:

    Jolt

    Whirlwind Romance

    Just Say Yes: The Proposal

    Taste

    Forget Me Not

    Acknowledgments

    First of all, I had so much fun writing this novella for so many reasons. These characters are not like any I’ve written before so the challenge was to get into their heads and create something fresh and exciting. I have to thank Bold Strokes Books for humoring me and accepting my story. A shout out to Ashley for keeping it real, and my undying gratitude to the people I interviewed to get this novella done. Research is sometimes the best part of writing and, damn, this sure was fun!

    Chapter One

    I told her I don’t smoke. The tip of my cigarette glows as I inhale. I watch the wispy smoke, a snarling dragon, float up and disappear into the night. I indulge from time to time when I’m nervous or stressed. Tonight I’m both. This one cigarette is warranted—I justify—even though I already know I will smoke another. I tell people I don’t smoke because of my job and I know the dangers of fire. The truth is that I don’t smoke every day because I don’t like wrinkles. I’m thirty-five years old and I look like I’m in my twenties. I’d like to look ten years younger than I am for the rest of my life.

    Tomorrow afternoon, I’m meeting her for the first time. Not the best decision I’ve ever made, but her schedule is demanding, as is mine, and tomorrow is the only day in the near future that either of us can get away. I have a meeting first thing in the morning with my boss to review the case I’m testifying for this week, as well as discuss my findings about the city’s latest warehouse fire. After lunch, I have a walk-through in a building with new inspectors. I somehow think I can get everything done in time to meet her at the Caldwell Museum by four thirty.

    I met Lily online about two weeks ago. I saw her profile on a dating site, one that isn’t for finding a long term relationship, but more of a no-strings-attached hook up. I’ve tried my hand at a girlfriend. We dated for a year. She was beautiful, smart, sweet, and doted on me. She was perfect, but for someone else. I can’t afford the time. Nobody wants to date somebody who can be called away at the flick of a careless cigarette. My girlfriend wanted me home every night by six for dinner and no working on weekends. I slept most of the day and worked a lot of nights. She’s with an acquaintance from my old softball league. She deserves happiness.

    I deserve somebody who wants nothing from me but sex. I haven’t gotten laid in almost two months, but that’s my fault. I tend to burn bridges after I’ve fucked somebody because I never call them. I’m starting to get a reputation in the lesbian community and that’s not a good thing, so I decided to go off grid and online. One woman caught my eye. Lily. No last name, none required. Long brown hair, tight body, late twenties or early thirties from what I can tell. She doesn’t want a relationship either. She’s a lawyer and works seventy hours a week. I hit

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