Tuesday, 25 August 2015
The Scotsman
I've fallen head over heels. And that should worry me. Because I've tattooed Nick's surname on my body, it would be shameful to tattoo anyone else's name next to or in the vicinity of the Da Canaveze. But Bren MacClellan is vying for a patch of skin. It's my own fault.
I mean I looked at the picture of Jai Courtney and thought, yeah that's Bren, definitely! Now, this man plagues me. He believes in the power of good tailoring and how it emphasizes the very best of a woman's figure. A man who knows clothing better than I do? Check. Confident to the right degree. Did I mention he's Scottish? I don't know what to do, he's constantly in my head. Whispering naughty nothings in my ear.
It is horribly easy to be Wynne to Bren MacClellan's persuasions, trace that mouth of his, admire his boy booty (baby got back), listen to him curse modern fashion practices that undermine the skill of a tailor in that divine accent of his. He's fucking ambidextrous! Arrrrghhhhhh!!!
Bren wants to ruin me for everyone else, and all of them, from Nick to Tais, Luca to Beppe, Cain to Auden - they are all nervous about the pecking order, because of the Swagger of the Scot. (Ooh, good title...) That's by the by. He needs to give me some breathing space. I've got other dudes to deal with. And yet, I can see him framing my face, fixing me with those whisky eyes, and saying, "Keep your knickers on Billy. We've got ways to go before I'm finished with you."
Bren, I am really, really trying to....
Monday, 24 August 2015
Under Your Spell
Fair warning; this is bonkers. No two ways about it. It's a paranormal fairy tale, so you're going to need to leave logic to one side for a bit. Until you reach the end. Maybe until well after it's finished. I do love these two though. Strength through adversity. And love as a well deserved reward. Most of all, Kent is NOT boring!!
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Eye of blurb
Auden
Garceau is a musical beast in a golden cage. As the son of an aged rock star,
to anyone else his life has always looked perfect. Decorated with awards and
accolades, the shiny exterior doesn’t compare to the grim reality. He is
without family, money, or even control over his life. Permitted a reprieve from
his curfew, he’s booked to play at an employees’ only retreat just with the
expectation of being paid at the end.
He
never for a moment believed that he’d meet a woman like Dr.
Helena Sarpong, who gate crashes her sister’s work event. One kiss with the
beautiful doctor is enough to make him want not just more kisses, but
everything she can possibly give him. As a man used to being told he has an
addictive personality, he is more than willing to start a new habit -
Helena.
Essence of excerpt
He
lifted the jumper from her torso and gave pause to admire her, briefly wishing
he lived in a time of the Renaissance artists who would have fallen to their
knees in gratitude for a muse such as her. They would have been allowed to
look, feast their eyes, but never, ever allowed to touch. Only him. His hand
slid inside her jeans and he hardened instantly at his discovery. Scalp
tingling at the tug she gave on his hair when his fingers slid inside her, he
curved them with insistence. His mouth touched her neck, the swell of her
breasts and back to her lips. She tasted like ecstasy, he thought, his mouth
trailing to her earlobe, biting down as she began to tighten around his soaked
fingers.
“Auden,”
she gave a gasping cry.
Satisfaction
pulsed through his sex at the need in her voice. He wanted her to give herself
completely to him, like she had only a few hours ago.
“Auden,
stop.” She pushed at his shoulders, her eyes round with surprise, looking just
beyond his shoulder as her orgasm took her. With Helena still shaking beneath
him, his fingers caught in the grip of her body, he turned his head. His heart
froze. Romely stood there, her mouth parted in horror.
“What
are you doing?” Romely whispered.
Helena
struggled from underneath him and righted her clothing. “What’s going on?”
Auden
opened his mouth to speak, and found his throat closed up. Goddamn you, Romely!
She
turned to Helena. “Do you know he’s in a relationship? With me? We have been
for years.”
Helena
looked at Auden, her eyes narrowed. “Is that true?”
No! He wanted to scream.
Not a sound emerged from him.
Romely
spoke again. “We’re trying to work things out. At least I thought we were. Do
you like stealing other women’s men?”
“Wait
a minute.” Helena got to her feet. “I didn’t know. I’m not psychic. I didn’t
see or hear anything from Auden that you even exist.”
“But
I do,” Romely said. “He can’t get away from that simple fact. I do exist. He
and I are meant to be together.”
“I’d
dump him if I were you,” Helena said harshly. “He obviously didn’t think about you
once.” She turned back to Auden, her palm connecting painfully with his cheek,
the sound echoing in the hallway. “You don’t seem like a coward. But I know
better than anyone how appearances can be deceptive.” She started up the
stairs. “I’ll just get my things and leave.”
Romely
inclined her head. “I think that’s best. I can give you a lift to the station,
if you like.”
Helena’s
mouth parted in surprise before she said, “I’ll be all right. Thanks.”
As
Helena hit the top step, Romely spoke. “Well, that was really inconsiderate of
you.”
“Fuck
you, Romely.” Auden blinked the water from his eyes, caused by Helena’s slap.
She had a right to be angry; he wished he could correct her. He wanted to
change her mind so badly. This was such bullshit.
Romely
snorted. “If you had, it’d be a different story now, wouldn’t it?”
Furiously,
he got to his feet, fully intending to strangle the life from her.
“Ah
ah!” she held up a hand—preventing Auden from moving any closer. “You still don’t
understand, do you? Even after all this time. You are mine. Just as I’m yours.”
“I
don’t want you!” he shouted.
“I
don’t believe you. We can do this dance for eternity, or you can start thinking
smart. No more girls like that.” Romely gave a sneer. “She seems scared of her
own shadow. Why would you waste your time?”
“You
wouldn’t understand.” He sat back down on the step in defeat. “You’re a sith.”
Her mouth tightened in disapproval. “We can carry this on as much as you like.
I’ll still hate you.”
Her
eyes danced with joy. “You know where that comes from, don’t you? It’s only the
other side of love.”
He
sent her a look he prayed conveyed how fucking stupid he found her. “It comes
from the fact you have stolen everything good in my life because I don’t see
you as anything more than a spot I could bleach out. You’re strong, but you can’t
change our rules. You can’t make me love you.”
“I’m
leaving you alone to get there by yourself.” She sighed. “You will. Just,
focus.”
“Lift
the curse.”
“No,
Auden. It’s for your own good.”
“What
do you know about what’s good for me?” he asked, perplexed. “That’s the
problem, Romely, you don’t know me. You just have this fanciful idea about me
that isn’t true.”
“It
is! You just won’t admit what you are. I know you deep down. I saw it all those
years ago. I saved you from a life of waste.”
“And
keeping me a prisoner in my own home isn’t waste of life?”
Romely’s
temper flared. “If you weren’t fucking strange women, you’d be meditating on
how to make yourself a better man, the man that deserves me!”
“Oh
Jesus Christ, no!” he bellowed.
Romely
watched him, wide-eyed. He hadn’t displayed that much emotion to her in years.
She gave a small shrug. “Then we’re back to the beginning.”
Helena
hurtled down the stairs. “I’ll post the clothes back to you,” she said, barely looking
at him.
No, don’t leave, please!
“Helena,”
he started, before Romely locked his jaw with a single look. Helena murmured an
apology to Romely.
“How
will you get back to the house?” he ventured.
Still
not looking at him, she indicated the door. “I’ve called a cab. It’s waiting
outside.” Her gaze lifted, connecting with his own. “Oh… Go to hell.”
There
was his salvation, walking away from him. Romely closed the door behind her and
turned back to him. “How shall we work through this?” she asked with an expectant
smile. “I mean I’m upset, but I forgive you.”
The
lights inside the house dimmed, the clouds darkened the sky. Every single piece
of furniture in the vicinity rose from the ground and launched toward Romely.
With a scream, she held up her hands as the furniture exploded into dust.
Covered in powdered wood and grit, she heaved at him, “You did this to
yourself!”
“Get
out.” Not waiting for further argument, he trudged upstairs to his bedroom and
closed the door. His hand tightened on the handle and he slammed the door into
the frame again and again and again until the wood splintered and the handle
came away from the door altogether. He threw the handle to the carpet and lay
down.
Closing
his eyes he envisioned Helena, looking like a fairy princess, hunting for
rosemary. No. He wouldn’t allow this. There was no way he’d give her up. He’d
had the briefest taste of freedom on Helena’s lips, and he wanted it all.
Now
was not the right time to defy Romely’s curfew and get up to London. But he
absolutely would. Find Helena and try to get around the impossibility of his
situation. He had to.
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Rock The Casbah
Hot Muse Hank and I are grafting. Well I'm doing all the graft, Hank is doing all the backchatting. To give me a little nudge in the right direction, I'm giving a little sneak peek of this story. It's Wynne, who you've all been introduced to. Last story of Season of Love Vol. One. Valentine's Day, an absent boyfriend and a friend who wants more and he knows just the place to go and get it...
Wyyne's Surprise © Billy London
She woke up with a jolt, tucked between the velvet
softness of her sofa and the dense muscles of Bren’s chest. He stirred above
her head.
“Are you okay?”
“I had the weirdest dream.”
“About?” he asked on a yawn.
“I had three tits and you were fondling all of them.”
Bren burst out laughing. “Why on earth would you
dream about that?”
“I don’t even know.” She lifted her head and
squinted at the clock. Midnight. It honestly felt like days had passed.
“Some nap,” Bren yawned again, untangling his arms
from her body to stand up. He looked adorably rumpled. “Do you want some
tea?”
“Yeah, and maybe a snack or something.”
“Yes madam,” he sarked, strolling into the kitchen
and leaving Wynne to sit up. The sensation of oddness hadn’t abated with the
nap, and the strange dream only compounded matters. Who needs three breasts?
The overwhelming emotion that came from the dream was how much she’d enjoyed
Bren’s manipulations.
She noticed her phone on the table by the lamp.
Masochism forced her to her feet and to pick up the mobile. While Bren made tea
in the background, Wynne stared at the screen. Okay, maybe she’d crossed a few lines,
perhaps a page or a notebook of lines, or rather they both had, but at least
they hadn’t crossed it all the way. Six missed calls from Robert, seared her
with guilt. Discomfort forced her to read the text messages he’d sent:
I’m sorry
about today. Can you call me?
Wynnie it’s
Valentine’s Day. Why won’t you answer?
Have you
gone out?
You’re being
really disrespectful.
“Tea,” Bren said and Wynne jumped in fright. She
whipped around and saw him holding two mugs, an eyebrow curled. “I did tell you
I was making it.”
“Yes, yes you did. Sorry.” She repeated the apology
before taking the mug into her hands. Bren glanced down at her phone.
“Robbie?”
She hesitated. Bren took the tea and nodded her in
the direction of her bedroom. “Go and call him.”
Wynne blinked, leaning away from him. “What?”
“Call him and tell him you’re going on a break. You’ll
be back in a week, and you can talk then. If you want to.”
Word for word exactly what she wanted to say to
Robert. Clearly, Bren was a better friend to her than to Robert. “Okay. I’ll be
a few minutes.”
She scampered to her bedroom and gently closed the
door behind her, resting against the wood for some semblance of reality to lock
her to the ground. That line she’d crossed with Bren a few hours ago seemed
more and more blurred. Technically, not calling your girlfriend on Valentine’s
Day until after she agreed to a holiday with her male friend she had intense
sexual feelings for, could be considered as a break up. Right?
With a deep breath, she dialled Robert’s number.
When he answered she had to hold the phone away from her ear to understand what
the devil he was shouting about.
“...inconsiderate bullshit I’ve ever come across!
Where the fuck are you?”
Wynne’s mouth tightened, her chest heaving with
indignation. “Don’t you dare speak to me like that. How dare you?”
He was silent for a moment, but launched back in. “You
haven’t answered my calls for five hours. Where are you?”
“At home. To be honest, I didn’t want to speak to
you and you’ve proved me right.”
“Look, I was going to say that everything’s clear
now for us to take the holiday now...”
“I don’t want to go with you,” she said bluntly.
“What?”
“You heard me. I don’t want to go with you. The
inconsideration has come from you, it always comes from you and you have the
temerity to call me and say I’ve been inconsiderate? I am always apologising to
you. I am always saying sorry. For what? I haven’t done anything, except try to
do something good for us, as a couple. And you Dragon’s Den-d me. So, I’m going
on that holiday. But not with you.”
“Who are you going with?”
“Think of it as none of your business any more. You’ve
got what you want Robert. You’re single again.”
She ended the call and threw the phone onto her
bed, where it collided with the side of her suitcase. Well, that made it
official. Single and ready to mingle. Under
Bren...
Stop and be quiet, she told herself firmly. The
case had been packed for the better part of a week, and now, she wanted to
change everything inside it. She chucked out her old faithful, thinking that
Robert wouldn’t mind, and decided to buy
some new bikinis at the airport. Instead of the tried and tested linens that
were smart and cool, she packed in floaty silk shirts and maxi dresses that she’d
worn to weddings. The fancy cardigans that were studded, edged with pearls or
with sequins, ones that were too nice for anything else, went inside the case,
along with four different pairs of sandals and three varying heels of different
heights, finally she shoved in two flip flops. That would be sufficient, unless
something else at the airport took her fancy.
A knock sounded on her door and she reached back to
open it, only to body slam her suitcase, to try and close it.
“Wynnie, what are you doing?” Bren asked.
“Packing, chum.” She turned her head to grin at
him. “I may have overdone it.”
He scooped an arm around her waist and lifted her
from the strained case. “Stand up. I’ll close it and you zip. All right?”
“Teamwork,” she said giving him two thumbs up of
approval. “Got it.”
With his two large hands, Bren pushed down on the
case, his arms framing Wynne. He traced a kiss in her hair and said, “Go. Quick
now.”
Reaching forward, Wynne found Bren’s groin pressed
into her bottom and her face flamed with embarrassment and lust.
“You’re not zipping.”
“You’re sort of grinding me.”
He sighed. “I’ve already done that tonight. It wasn’t
like this.” Accurate. “Zip, woman. Zip!”
She did as bid, the metal teeth catching her lone,
acceptable bikini. Reversing, she shoved the material into safety and continued
until the case was closed. Bren turned her around, one arm around her waist and
kissed her all too briefly.
“Everything all right? You’ve made quite a mess.”
Mess of my life or my room? She instead murmured in agreement. “What time’s the flight?”
“Seven am.”
“Can we leave early? I need to do some shopping.”
He looked over her head to her case. “And where
will you fit it?”
Wynne grinned at him. “Isn’t that what your case is
for?”
“No, but I’ll let you this once.” He lifted the
case from her bed. “Do you want another nap, or do you want to stay up?”
“I could really do with some more sleep. I’m all
sorts of tired.”
Bren placed the suitcase at the end of her bed, and
wrapped an arm around her shoulders. “You go to sleep. No flatmates tonight?”
“They’re all out with their significant others.” He smelled so lovely. Familiar and comforting.
“Then you’ll have all the rest you need. I’ll get
you up in a few hours, especially if you want to shop.”
“I do,” she admitted, looking over his arm at the discarded pile
of old bikinis. “I really do.”
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
My Girl Is A Dime
Me and duplication! That's what happens when I listen to the same music writing different stories. It's like I'm cheating. It means I have to sort out new soundtracks which don't feature elsewhere. One hopes. I figure I can jiggle things around. And anyone who tells me that Bieber track wasn't out in November 2013, I know. It's one of the few I can stand - only because it has a 90s R&B feel to it that appeals to the teenager in me. 90s R&B caused teenage Billy soooo much trouble...
The soundtrack for Sweet Child of Mine goes a little like this....
- Kings of Leon No Money
- David Bowie I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix)
- Bruno Mars Gorilla
- Nelly Furtado Turn Off The Light
- Arcade Fire Ready To Start
- Rudimental feat. Emeli Sandé Free
- James Blake Voyeur
- Lorde Royals
- The xx Islands
- John Legend Save The Night
- One Direction Best Song Ever
- Alicia Keys Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)
- Little Mix Wings
- Connie Britton No One Will Ever Love You
- Armand Van Helden You Don't Know Me
- Janelle Monáe Dance Apocalyptic
- Bombay Bicycle Club Always Like This
- Edwin Star War
- Janet Jackson feat. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell Got 'Til It's Gone
- Justin Bieber All That Matters
- Ellie Goulding JOY
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
The Witches Promise
I've stopped tinkering around with Addicted to Witch. Really, honestly, truly. All that remains is the cover, which the fabulous Bree Archer is working on, and the soundtrack, which I have also stopped tinkering with. Really, honestly, truly. I should have done the soundtrack first. It would have reassured me of every word I wrote as being batshit crazy.
- The Arcade Fire - Ocean of Noise
- Lupo Fiasco - Superstar ft Matthew Santos
- Generationals - Put A Light On
- B.o.B - Ghost in the Machine
- Take That - The Greatest Day
- Elton John - Your Song
- Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
- Damien Rice - Volcano
- One Republic - Secrets
- Emeli Sande - Where I Sleep
- Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
- Wendy Rene - After Laughter
- B.oB - Airplanes ft Hayley Williams
- Editors - The Weight of the World
- Timberland - Undertow ft The Fray and Esthero
- Coldplay - Paradise
- Florence and the Machine - No Light No Light
- Madonna - Live To Tell
- Alicia Keys - How It Feels To Fly
- Kings of Leon - The Immortals
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