Alpha Male Blog Hop Oct. 19-22

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Information about the Alpha Male Blog Hop will be posted at the bottom of this post so be sure to read through the information carefully and leave a comment below to be entered to win some amazing grand prizes. Also, leave a comment below about Alpha Males to be entered to win a a free $10 Amazon gift card from me as well. So… let’s get started *wink* *wink*.

I’m an alpha male kinda girl. Betas don’t do much for me even though for the purpose of romance novel plot they are sometimes needed. Alpha males are the embodiment of the ultimate man and are usually extremely hot. But, to me, being an alpha male is much more about the mindset of the man than the way he looks. He’s the hero who always comes for his woman (pun intended) and kicks a lot of ass while doing so. He will never leave her for another woman because he can’t survive without her. Every romance novel I’ve ever read has an alpha male for the hero and I’ve read hundreds throughout the years. To me, alpha males are like superheros, with or without the powers.

Here’s a juicy excerpt from Forbidden Desires just to add a little sex to your morning…enjoy!

Diana vaguely heard Li announce she was leaving to get something but didn’t bother to answer, simply moaned her acknowledgment and rolled her limp head to the side, sighing in contentment. Only a few minutes had passed when a knock sounded on the door and she sighed, keeping her eyes closed. It had to be Li, although why she would knock was beyond her.

“It’s open,” she said tiredly, shifting her legs in the water.

The door creaked open abruptly. She heard footsteps on the wood floor, but they stopped suddenly followed by a sharp inhale. Diana frowned and then felt her heartbeat quicken as a sudden horrible thought dawned on her. Those footsteps had been too heavy to be Li’s. Obviously, Li wouldn’t have knocked either, so that meant that…

Her eyes flew open and she gasped, unable to move quickly to cover herself. Shang stood before her, shocked to have walked in on her like this. Her back was arched away from the basin, and she knew any quick movements would cause her great pain. Her breasts were thrust upward out of the water while her arms had been resting along the sides of the tub, and the light from the fire danced across her wet, naked torso. Neither moved, both seemingly frozen in their surprise.

Slowly, Diana was able to lift her head, and tendrils of blonde hair fell over her shoulders caressing the swell of her breasts enticingly. Her eyes were seemingly unable to look away from Shang as his black gaze bore into hers. She wanted to move or speak but couldn’t. The way he was looking at her made her entire body grow hot and mouth go dry. In a graceful fluid motion, he crossed the short distance between them and stood behind her, kneeling quietly in back of the tub. She froze, not knowing what was going to happen next.

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Shang didn’t know what possessed him to keep staring at her the way he did instead of leaving immediately, but there was no way he could now. She had caught him by surprise when he walked through the door and expected to find her abed still, safely behind the screen that he had made Li put up. Instead he found her naked and wet in his bath tub, breasts exposed to the air, and soft light dancing over them the way his hands longed to do. Instead of shrieking and flailing around as she should have done, she had simply stared at him, eyes full of confusion and shock, but also with something he never would have expected to find directed at him—desire.

As he kneeled behind her, the blood pounding in his head and lust twisting in his stomach, his fingers tentatively reached out to comb through her damp glorious hair. He had never touched hair this color or texture before, and it entranced him as did her blue eyes.

She drew her breath in sharply and tensed as he ran his hand over her head and through her hair. She should scream, or at the very least tell him to stop and try and cover herself up. But she was unable to do any of those. Everything inside her was paralyzed, and she knew it was because as much as she hated him, at the same time she didn’t want him to go away or stop touching her. She’d thought about their encounter a month ago every day since, and though she knew she should feel violated, the memory of lips on hers haunted her dreams at night.

Hesitantly, his hands stopped caressing her hair, and she tensed, desperately not wanting him to speak. It would do nothing but cause complications. She felt a fist curl gently around her hair and draw her head back so that she looked wide-eyed into the black eyes of her captor, her enemy. They looked slightly surreal, with nothing but firelight reflected in them. Diana’s mind was blank, unable to even think, until his mouth lowered onto hers, swift and urgent. Almost immediately, her lips parted to draw him in, and this tiny act of submission seemed to inflame him further. His tongue stroked hers, and this time it was met with fervor. He could not get close enough to her it seemed, though their mouths were fitted together as tight as physically allowed.

She lost herself in his kiss and the feel of his hand on her face, lightly putting pressure on the side of her cheek and neck. His mouth left hers, and she uttered a moan of protest only to have it swiftly caught in her throat as his lips grazed her throat, teeth lightly nipping her sensitive skin. A hard ball of lust slammed into her belly causing her to lose her breath and she gasped. She drew both arms up over her head to entwine her fingers in his hair and forcefully directed his mouth back to hers. He groaned, losing what little self-control he had, and moved from his position behind her to have better access to her mouth.

She kneeled in the water and ran her hands over his face and throat and chest. She was frustrated by the limited amount of his skin that was exposed and in her haste, ripped open the top of his tunic and slid the remains off his shoulders. The fabric hung at his waist, still belted together with his red sash. He didn’t seem to mind the ruination of his clothing.

His hand slid down to cup her soft breast. His fingers rolled over her nipple, causing her back to arch and her head to roll back as she gasped in pleasure. He kneaded the soft skin until he could stand it no longer and bent his head to suck and then lick it. Her hands pressed his head tightly against her breast, and she moaned, causing his cock to twitch inside his pants.

He wanted to be inside her mouth again and abruptly stopped sucking to make his way back up to her face. She eagerly took both sides of his face and opened her mouth to let him in. They both vaguely heard the door open but paid no attention to it. It wasn’t until they each heard a loud gasp that they broke the kiss off to look over.

Li was very red-faced and embarrassed by what she had interrupted and quickly turned to leave, but Shang stood up abruptly and without looking down at Diana, rattled off something foreign to Li and left, slamming the door. Li looked very embarrassed as she walked over to the tub, but shook her finger at Diana.

“I leave you for a moment and this is what I find?” She clucked at her and walked around the tub, motioning for Diana to stand up. She wrapped a towel around her gently and led her behind the screen.

Diana had never been so mortified in her entire life. How could she have done that? How could she desire someone like him, someone who had taken her life away from her?

Her face turned scarlet as she remembered the way he had touched her and kissed her, and the way she had latched tightly onto him, drawing him closer to her. It had felt as if she couldn’t get close enough to him.

Oh Lord, and he had touched her breasts, at least one anyway. It had felt so good she had never wanted it to stop. She still didn’t. She covered her face with her hands as she thought of what they might have done if Li hadn’t interrupted them.

A lady of her race and station simply did not take a man from the Orient to bed, especially when she still had a husband, wicked and vile though he may be. It had been rammed into her brain since she was a child in her father’s house that certain men were off limits to her simply because of the color of their skin, and she had accepted it without question. Now she was acting like a one of those girls who lived above a saloon and sold their bodies for a few coins. And for what? At least those girls were getting something out of it.

Li gently patted the moisture from the dark red stripes across the backside of her body. Diana was fortunate because once the swelling went down, her wounds hadn’t been that bad. Only a handful of the welts had actually swelled with blood. They itched right now, and she took it as good sign that they were healing well. Soon she wouldn’t have to sleep on her stomach all night. All night in that big, soft bed. Shang’s bed.

That’s it! I hope you enjoyed! You can get a copy of Forbidden Desires at any of the places listed below and remember to be sure and comment to be entered to win $10 Amazon gift card.

*Amazon.com

*Barnes and Noble

*Liquid Silver Books

*Allromance e-books

Keep reading for information about the grand prizes.

Now what are those prizes?

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $130 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize: The following Swag Pack!

PS-make sure you leave your email address in the comment so that when Carrie Ann picks the winners on Sunday she can get ahold of you for any possible shipoing questions. Everything can be shipped internationally except the swag pack. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to continue ont he blog hop for more Alpha Male goodness.

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