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Lover's Scare Contest- JS Wayne AETERNUS

10/18/2011

35 Comments

 
Let the sexy scares begin...
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AETERNUS
By J.S Wayne

The photograph in the elaborate silver frame slipped from Bianca’s nerveless fingers to crash to the granite-tiled floor beneath. The glass protecting the photograph immediately developed a fine spider-web pattern of cracks on impact.

Maybe it was her imagination running away from her. But she could have sworn that Jake’s face, frozen forever in the smile she loved so much in the picture, took on just a hint of accusation at her clumsiness.

A tear slid down her cheek, unbidden. She had promised herself that she’d stop doing this to herself, break out of the endless cycle of recrimination that she hadn’t tried to keep him from leaving the house after that last, absurd fight. He’d been drinking, just a little, but enough. If she had stopped him, the potent cocktail of anger and alcohol in his system wouldn’t have spurred him out the door and into the path of that oncoming bus.

Everyone, even his own family, had said the accident wasn’t her fault. His mother had hugged her close at the funeral and wept with her. Wept with her son’s murderess.

The guilt had torn at her to such a degree that she had become a virtual hermit. She had found a job that she could do from home and left her well-paying career as an advertising artist without looking back. She couldn’t bear to look around the office and the empty desk down the aisle where Jake had sat, like an exclamation point on her guilt, drawing her eye no matter how much she wished to avoid the painful reminder.

But now Bianca cried out in anguish at the desecration of the only physical evidence she had left to her that Jake had ever existed. That he’d ever loved her, and been loved in return.

She knelt beside the frame and picked up the photograph reverently, as tears she swore to the outside world she was past shedding rained down onto the glass in a thunderstorm of grief, beading on the glass forlornly. One teardrop traced a jagged crack in the glass that followed the inside curve of Jake’s cheek, as if he mourned for the life he’d once had no less than Bianca herself did.

Heedless of the splinters of glass that poked out of the simple silver frame, she cradled the picture to her glass and sobbed.

“I’m so sorry, Jake. I wish I’d been strong enough to stop you.”

She sat there on the floor, curled around her misery like a gray ball of despair, while the grandfather clock in the corner ticked out its melancholy, dirgelike rhythm. Time seemed to leave her behind; in its wake was left only the remorseless promise of a colorless, cold, lifeless life that threatened to spin into eternity beyond endurance, and then further still, until she begged for a release that would and could never come. All that warmed her was the tracks her tears left on her face. Without them, she felt like an ice sculpture done in flesh.

A soft tapping at the door brought her head around, and she swiped at the tears on her face. She paid no attention to the havoc she wrought on her makeup, or what her unknown caller might think of the distress on her face. Everyone knew well enough to leave her alone, so whoever was waiting on the stoop was unlikely to be anyone she wanted anything to do with.

Bianca sucked in a deep breath, made a half-hearted attempt to make herself not look like she’d been mourning the destruction of her world, and walked to the door. She could feel the wavering, watery smile struggling to slip off her face as she opened the door to find . . . no one.

A chill, damp breeze that smelled of dead leaves and forsaken hope greeted her, eddying past her into the house. Suddenly furious, she slammed the door and screamed, “Fucking kids!” As if an invisible switch had been flipped, the tears began again, and Bianca whirled away from the door. Right into an impossibly warm, solid chest, where a second earlier there had been only empty air.

The first thing her gaze met was a black leather jacket. She’d always been a sucker for the bad-boy look, with its zippers and faintly ominous aura. Her eyes trailed down to faded blue jeans and biker-style cowboy boots, and then up past the white T-shirt and the narrow but strong neck.

Past the jaw, shadowed with stubble, and the graceful nose, to the blue-grey eyes she had stared at a thousand times in a photograph and the unruly shock of dark hair that always looked slightly windblown no matter how short it was cropped.

She flinched back, her heart hammering with terror. This was the fare of the stories she’d read back when she cared, before she entombed herself aboveground in her own home as penance. But the dead didn’t really come back. Did they?

Not trusting her voice, she reached out to touch him experimentally. The leather jacket creaked and flexed at her touch, but otherwise didn’t yield, or fade into smoke, or anything else she might have expected. It felt too real to her senses, unaccustomed these days to reality, and she felt the world spinning around her madly as conflicting urges arose in her.

One was a mad desire to go with him and find out what lay . . . Beyond. Another was the terrible certainty that this was a dream. And still another was to wish to be naked and feel him against her, one last time, to say with her body what she just had no words to convey.

Terror mingled with lust as she grew damp, staring up into those sad, loving eyes and the gentle, handsome face that framed them. Her mouth opened, to beg him to leave or stay.

Before she could say anything, he pressed her against the door, branding her mouth with his hot lips.

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35 Comments
R. Renee Vickers link
10/18/2011 02:58:19 am

Loved this J.S. I've been waiting to read it since you told me about the contest! :)
~Renee

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Riane link
10/18/2011 03:27:07 am

Wow. I've never read a J.S.Wayne book but I have to say, I wasn't ready for this little story to end!

Thank you for sharing and I look forward to finding out more about your stories.

-Riane
rianeholt at gmail dot com

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J.S. Wayne link
10/18/2011 06:06:51 am

@ Renee: Thanks! I couldn't resist making our lovely hostess the MC in this one ;)

@ Riane: *blushes* Thank you so much, Riane! Who knows...I might flesh this out *ahem* after the contest is over and throw it up on my site just for fun. If you'd like to see more of my work, you can go to http://nobleromance.com/authors/155. Glad you enjoyed it! :)

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Amy
10/18/2011 06:51:26 am

J.S. Wayne is also a new author to me. Thanks for the hot excerpt! Terror and lust is so erotic...all that adrenaline brings out the animals in us... :)

angeldream3[AT]gmail[DOT]com

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KevaD link
10/18/2011 08:20:43 am

Way to kick this event off, JS.
Nice. Very nice.

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J.S. Wayne link
10/18/2011 08:24:10 am

Hi, Amy!
It's true . . . and thank God! If it wasn't for that intimate link between terror and desire, I'd likely be out of a job. :D
Thanks for stopping by!

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J.S .Wayne link
10/18/2011 08:27:14 am

Thanks, David!
Looking at what I've got, I'm pretty sure I can spin it out to at least another 4k words. *flails around with spork, braining plot bunnies* AFTER I get a couple of WIPs off my desk!
Appreciate you stopping over :D

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DiDi link
10/18/2011 09:22:00 am

OMG..I'm a scardy cat..but I may just have to read more =)

Thanks for inviting me B =)

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J.S .Wayne link
10/18/2011 11:01:53 am

Hi, DiDi!

You just said the magic words :D So glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you'll like the rest of my work too!
Thank you for coming by!

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Shari link
10/18/2011 11:20:47 am

Wow! I loved reading this post. It gave me chills and excitement to read more!

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J.S. Wayne link
10/18/2011 12:11:47 pm

Thank you, Shari! I aim to please ;)
Thanks for stopping in!

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lisagk
10/18/2011 04:56:58 pm

Wow, what an opening. Intriguing. lisagk(at)yahoo(dot)com

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J.S .Wayne link
10/18/2011 04:58:19 pm

Thank you, Lisa! So glad you enjoyed it! :D
Thanks for hanging out. :)

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Lucy Felthouse link
10/18/2011 08:41:26 pm

Wow, totally spook-tastic. Beautiful descriptions. Well done J.S. - can't wait to read the full story :)

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Lisabet Sarai link
10/19/2011 01:41:14 am

Oh, wow! This is intense! Well done!

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Vanessa N.
10/19/2011 02:03:46 am

JS Wayne is a new author for me. This excerp was great. I can't wait to check it out. Thanks for the chance.

mythic021@gmail.com

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J.S .Wayne link
10/19/2011 08:55:42 am

@ Lucy: Thank you so much! Coming from you, that means a lot. :-D The plot bunnies just keep breeding!

@ Lisabet: I'm very pleased you enjoyed it! I know you by (formidable) reputation more than through your writing at the moment, but I appreciate you commenting!

@ Vanessa: Nothing a writer likes better than hearing that! Thanks for coming by!

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Renee Bennett
10/19/2011 10:10:41 am

J S Wayne is a new author for me. I liked the excerpt. Thanks for the chance to win. <^_^>
reneebennett35 at yahoo dot com

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Ashley
10/19/2011 10:12:10 am

First time reading J.S. Wayne and may I say that I wanted more. Great excerpt. It was hot with a halloween feel. Looking forward to finishing the book.

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J.S .Wayne link
10/19/2011 04:30:33 pm

@ Renee: Glad you enjoyed it! :D

@Ashley: Have I mentioned I LOVE hearing that? Tells me I'm doing something right. :) Guess I'd better get cracking on the full story! (My angels are going to be VERRA VERRA unhappy with me ;) )

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SiNn
10/19/2011 10:55:15 pm

man this soundslike an awesome book to J.S. your a new author to me and this sounds awesome ty for the chance


mortalsinn@yahoo.com

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J.S .Wayne link
10/20/2011 10:05:01 am

Hi, SiNn!
With any luck I'll have the whole story done within the next week. Glad you liked it! :)

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Anne
10/21/2011 02:05:35 am

That's the sign of a great excerpt, when it leaves you wanting more.


acm05atjuno.com

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J.S. Wayne link
10/21/2011 10:20:42 pm

Thank you, Anne! I won't post the full draft until after the contest is over, but I do hope you'll stop by my blog and have a look when it's up!

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Tamsyn
10/21/2011 11:43:55 pm

Scary but sexy! Love it! I really like this excerpt. Leaves me wanting to know what happen next!

tamsyn5@yahoo.com

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desi reilly
10/22/2011 12:23:20 pm

wow ilike this one a lot the color of the cover and the info
desitheblonde2msn.com

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J.S .Wayne link
10/23/2011 11:05:53 am

@ Tamsyn:
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the excerpt. :)

@Desi:
Fiona Jayde truly outdid herself with this cover. I LOVE it! Thanks for commenting!

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Christina Hay
10/24/2011 04:09:51 am

I am totally loving this excerpt. Gotta read more. I haven't read anything by JS Wayne, but it looks like I need to add some to my TBR list =)

mhay@panhandle.rr.com

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J.S .Wayne link
10/25/2011 02:10:14 pm

Thank you, Christina! I'd love to hear what you think about my work :D

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Tracey D
10/28/2011 01:49:42 am

Great, great excerpt. I'm adding this to my must have list.

Thanks,
Tracey D
booklover0226 at gmail dot com

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Andrea I
10/28/2011 10:04:33 am

Great excerpt and a new author to check out.

ainfinger@comcast.net

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J.S .Wayne link
10/28/2011 11:26:52 am

Hi, Tracey!
This was actually written specifically for this contest, but a longer work IS in progress. :) I'm so pleased you liked it, and I hope you'll check out the rest of my work!

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J.S .Wayne link
10/28/2011 11:27:48 am

Hi, Andrea! :D
Thank you so much. Can't wait to hear what you think about the rest of my work! :)

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MJB
10/29/2011 05:58:49 pm

Hey, JS! It's been awhile since we chatted bduring the last Nobel Romance Hop. I really liked this little story. Will you be involved in the upcoming Nobel Hop?
MJB a.k.a. Mara
msmjb65 AT gmail DOT com

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J.S .Wayne link
10/30/2011 03:28:08 pm

Hi, Mara!
Yes, I sure will. My offering for it, "Ancient Magic," is now available at Noble, and there's going to be lots of fun and cool prizes on tap. :)
Can't wait to see you there!

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