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**Mature
audiences only 18+…contains darker elements and no HEAs**
This is
not a story about love, but a story about how love can consume you.
Heart, body, and soul. A story of loving someone so much that the
love you feel harms you.
Have you
ever loved someone so much, that before you realized it, they owned
half of your soul?
Raven
Sinclair’s first love had always been ballet until she met Remy
Peters. She fell hard and she fell fast and never looked back. He was
everything she always believed she wanted but he had other plans.
Remy
Peters didn’t believe in love and he wasn’t looking for it. He
just wanted to have a good time in between classes and swim team.
He’s been seeing Raven for over a year and a half and he’s not
sure how it’s lasted this long. It’s not like he’s made any
commitments but when he stumbles on the prettiest girl he’s ever
seen, he knows it’s time to let Raven go.
Matthew
Masterson has loved Raven since he first saw her in ballet class when
they were five. They have been best friends ever since and he’s not
content to stay there. He sees Remy for who he really is and wastes
no time in telling Raven every chance he gets but is Raven his happy
ever after or does fate have other plans?
Love,
lies, and obsession…three lives bound by twisted desires for what
they can’t have.
EXCERPT:
Remy
Peters felt her arms wrap tightly around him, and a playful nip on
his shoulder. He smiled to himself but made no indication that he was
awake. A cute little growl sounded behind him and he could no longer
hold in his laughter.
"You
think you're so cute, dontcha, Remy Peters?" Casey Summers
scolded.
Casey
was a gorgeous little blonde with bright blue-green eyes. She was
petite and extremely laid back. She knew what the score was and
didn't mind Remy being himself. She also didn't try to make him do
any more than he wanted to. She never asked him to commit, and didn't
hound him. Just the way he liked it.
His
laughing ended when he heard his phone chirp from the nightstand.
That sobered him right up. Raven.
It couldn’t have been anyone but her. It had always
been her, for the last year and a half now. He sighed and snatched
the phone. He didn't know what her deal was. They just hung out from
time to time. Nothing more. At least he hadn't led her to believe
that there was anything more than when he had time to stop by.
Morning
babe. Have a great day! XOXO Miss you…
"Let
me guess. It's Raven,” Casey said. “Why don't you just tell her
the truth?"
"There’s
nothing to tell. She's not my girlfriend," Remy said.
"It's
been a year and a half. Either just be with her or let her go. Stop
jerking her chain."
"Oh,
you're concerned now? Doesn't stop you from coming over, so mind your
own business."
"Whatever,
I'm going to shower. Asshole."
Remy
didn't need a damn lecture. He hadn't made any commitments. He was a
free bird.
Ding.
He
picked up the phone again to read the message.
Hey
babe…you awake yet?
Well, if
he hadn't texted her back the first time, what the hell did she
think? He placed the phone back on the dresser and decided to catch a
shower with Casey. The phone started ringing on his way in but he
ignored it. It was just Raven, and he didn't feel like talking right
now. He had other plans and they involved Casey, naked.
***
Remy
emerged from the bathroom fully dressed, in a comfortable pair of
faded blue jeans and a cool graphic tee. Casey had rushed out of his
apartment with the promise to call later, but it didn't matter if she
did or didn’t. That was the great thing about no expectations and
no commitments.
Remy
picked up his phone and noticed a voicemail from Raven. He would see
her at school no doubt, so he didn’t bother calling or texting
back. He was sure she would be sending another message shortly
anyway. If he didn't have the occasional feelings for her, he would
have ended it months ago. She was getting way too clingy. He honestly
didn't know why he hadn't stopped talking to her yet.
He
checked his watch and realized he had lingered too long. Damn. Late
again. He was glad that he had no classes with Raven this year. He
liked to keep their contact to weekends, preferably when no one knew.
There was no way he’d ever take her out during the day, let alone
at night. Sometimes she’d approach him when he was with his
friends, and that would really set him off. He wasn't ashamed of her
but he didn't want people thinking they were serious. Nor did he want
to be leashed and collared. He was a free bird, and Raven was too
clingy. She hadn’t started off that way, but she definitely was
now.
"I've
got to stop this before it blows way out of control," Remy said
out loud.
Problem
was, he had no idea how to get out of the mess it took him a year and
a half to get into. He would have to ask his buddies what they
thought he should do.
As Remy
locked his apartment door and headed to his car, his phone went off
again.
Ding.
Please
call me. I'm starting to worry. You never came over last night, plus
we need to talk.
Remy
grimaced. What had he gotten himself into with this girl? It never
got to this point with anyone else. Did she not know how to keep
things causal and fun? He did not want a girlfriend, ever. He'd never
had one and he didn't plan on having one any time soon. He was only a
sophomore in college, for god’s sake. He had years ahead of him
before he was ready to settle down with one girl. Only until grad
school would he even consider getting serious with someone. The two
of them were just going to have to sit down and have a long talk. She
would either get on board or find someone else to obsess over. It
could not be him.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Shakuita
Johnson is a 30-year-old Psychology major. When she isn't going to
school or working, she is doing what she loves most. Writing. She
started writing in middle school. She would write poetry in her room
or the middle of the night. Then she was introduced to short stories
in a creative writing course her senior year. Her love for paranormal
and supernatural started with R.L. Stine Goosebumps books and TV
shows, Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles, and Christopher Pike books. She
is an avid reader with over 100 books on her bookshelf and 1000 plus
on her iPad. She also loved to watch Charmed and Buffy the Vampire
Slayer with her mom.
Dark
Indiscretions is her first novel and is a Paranormal Thriller. She
has followed it up with Dark Indiscretions: Monster Unleashed, Dark
Indiscretions: A Prequel, Dark Indiscretions: Seer Destined and
Rumspringa (Dark Indiscretions #3.5).
She also
released her Dark Romance which has a bit of suspense entitled And So
She Waited.
She
is currently working on her first erotica serial Kiss and Tell:
Encounters of a Prostitute and the final two Dark Indiscretions
books.
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