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  “I didn’t want you to change your mind.” I tell him honestly.

  “You’re too fucking good for a man like me, Em. I shouldn’t have been your first.” I hate how hot and cold he gets. I’d like to smack it out of him. “But I’m damn fucking glad you chose a real man to give you everything you deserve.” His tone softens and so does my raging heart.

  “Make it a night to remember, Noah, please.” It’s all I wanted to begin with.

  “You can bet your sweet ass I will.” He vows before his hips begin to slowly move. The thrusting getting easier with each pass and soon I can feel my pleasure rising like a tidal wave once again.

  I gasp as Noah’s fingers tighten on my hips and his breaths come harsher in my ear. I can hardly breathe as my body lights up like New Years in times square. White dots crowd my vision and my head swims with adulation. I want the moment to last an eternity but all too soon it’s coming to an end, and the sounds of our bodies as Noah makes slow love to me is all I hear.

  I could live like this forever. “Em,” he groans, his hips begin to slow their pace, almost like he wants to draw it out too.

  Kissing the side of his neck, I murmur, “Let go for me, Noah. Let yourself feel me.” And it doesn’t take but a minute before he stiffens, and I feel him fill the condom with his release.

  Regret slams me in the chest because I wish we had more time. I wish we had a life time.

  Collapsing on top of me, Noah places light kisses along my shoulder until I’m relaxed, and he rolls off, pulling me into his arms.

  Sleep pulls me under, and I’ve never been happier.

  Or more terrified.

  Waking up alone in the morning, I have a mix of emotions.

  Happiness that we finally gave into our desires.

  And sadness that I’ll never have Noah Brennan again.

  3

  Noah

  Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

  It’s midnight.

  I just finished an eighteen-hour shift.

  I’m exhausted.

  I shouldn’t fucking be here.

  Ember deserves better. But one night wasn’t enough. It will never be enough, and I knew it the minute I took her to bed last night. I’m addicted to her.

  Her sultry sighs.

  The soft moans when I kiss behind her ear.

  My name on her lips.

  Like an addict, I need more.

  Working with her brother, my best fucking friend, all day and not telling him, not begging for his permission, has been eating at me.

  For the sake of my sanity, I need to get Ember out of my system and move on. Allow her to move on. She deserves someone who can give her the world. Not someone who’s tainted. Who doesn’t believe in love and happily ever after’s.

  “Noah?” Her soft voice draws me out of my inner turmoil, and I look up to see her standing inside the screen door in nothing but a tank top and tiny fucking panties.

  “What the hell Em?” I snap. Immediately pissed someone could see her.

  “You rang my doorbell, Noah, not the other way around.” She huffs. She’s probably pissed I left without saying goodbye this morning.

  “I shouldn’t be here.” I say, rubbing a rough hand down my face.

  A flash of her, lying on her bed, legs spread, plays behind my eyes and I’m hard pressed not to drag her off like a fucking caveman right now.

  “So why are you?” Her head cocks to the side and I take a step forward, pulling open the screen door, she doesn’t retreat.

  “I have no fucking clue.” I tell her honestly and hurt flashes in her light eyes.

  “You said one night.” It was a fucking lie.

  “I know what I said, Ember.” My hot temper flashes.

  “You don’t get to play with my emotions, Noah. It’s not fair.” She whispers.

  “Neither is what you do to me.”

  “And what’s that?”

  “You’re fucking crack, Ember, and I’m your goddamned junkie.” I prowl forward and don’t allow her to say anything as I pick her up and slam her back against the wall.

  Her hands go to my hair and tug, but I can’t let her go. I don’t want to. I want her lips on mine for the rest of my fucking life and I can’t have that and it fucking pisses me the hell off.

  Wrapping her legs around my hips, I work quickly to undo my pants. I’m desperate to be buried in her heat, to mark her as mine, even if I shouldn’t.

  “Noah,” she breathes, “Noah, wait.” I stop and look at her. “What is this? What are we doing?”

  “This…” I stall, unsure, but take a chance, “Is us.” It’s complicated and simple all at once. But I don’t know what else to say.

  With a slow nod, she smiles, and I take that as my cue to continue. Pushing her top up her body, I don’t hesitate to remove it, tossing it behind me. Gliding my hands down her frame, I stop at her little panties and with one sharp tug they fly off her body like a slow breeze.

  For the first time in my life, I take a woman without protection and I can’t bring myself to regret it or even think about it too hard.

  Rubbing my cock along her wet core, I savor the searing heat as she sucks me into her tight channel. “Holy fuck.” I groan, watching as she takes me to the hilt.

  Her head hits the wall and she moans, “yessss, Noah.”

  Slowly thrusting in and out of her core, I take my time driving us toward ecstasy because even though I’ve made the decision to push our relationship further than what I’d been expecting, I want to devour every moment with Ember like treasure.

  Just because I have her, doesn’t mean I can’t take my time. Learn where she likes to be touched, what makes her sigh louder. How she likes me to fuck her.

  “More,” she whines in my ear, biting down on the lobe and scratching her nails into my hair.

  “Feisty.” I tease her and she nods eagerly.

  With a lifetime to learn more about her, us, I look forward to all her quirks, her kinks, and if I’m lucky enough, her love.

  Ember

  We made love long through the night. He took me over and over until we both collapsed from exhaustion and now as I read his little love note, left on my pillow when he left, excitement rolls through me again.

  Em,

  Meet me at the station tonight at six.

  I won’t hide from Kol, he’s going to know you’re mine.

  Yours, Noah.

  I never expected him to give in so easily. I wanted him to, but I thought I would have to wait for Noah to realize how perfect we were for each other.

  I couldn’t be more thrilled with the outcome. I always knew that when I gave myself to a man, it would be the one I spent the rest of my life with. I’m pleasantly surprised things worked out so sweetly for us both.

  Not to get Kol on board. Ever since our parents passing, he’s been protective. Arsen too. But now that they have their own women, I think they might be a little easier on me.

  At twenty years old, I never expected to have my life so perfectly set out before me. The man of my dreams by my side, a dance major in college, and happier than I’ve ever been, I couldn’t be more ready for the future if I tried.

  It just goes to show that you should always shoot for the stars and go after your dreams.

  And to think, it all started with a kiss.

  The End…

  For Now…

  One click the rest of Ember and Noah’s story, Before Noah, now.

  Thank you for reading Embers Falling.

  Other books in the Daniels Family series are:

  Until Arsen | With Kol

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  Until Arsen

  Daniels Family Book 1

  Arsen Daniels is a family man through and through. The oldest of the Daniels siblings, he knows
what it takes to provide for his family. What he doesn’t have is the one thing he’s always wanted…

  A family of his own.

  Marina Parks longs for a normal life. After a tragic accident seemingly robs her of the chance to have a family of her own, she gave up on love. Refusing to seek it out when all she’s found in the past, is heartache.

  Until Arsen…

  Love is a novel creature, grabbing on and never letting go when two souls collide.

  A collision course is about to happen as Marina and Arsen discover what love truly is.

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  With Kol

  Daniels Family Book 2

  Kol Daniels has spent years raising his sister after their parents passed away. Finally gaining the freedom to live his own life, he meets a girl…

  Who runs away.

  Thea Andrews only wants to be normal. She wants to drop the scars of her past and move forward. After finding a friendship with a woman who didn’t demand to know all her secrets, Thea feels comfort in her surroundings.

  When her friends brother, Kol, begins to show an intense interest in her, she runs. Not as far as she should have and for nearly a year, regret and fear hold her hostage from reaching out to the only friend she had.

  After finding Thea, Kol makes it his mission to obtain her trust and eventually her love. Discovering how much agony she tries to hide away from the world, Kol pushes until Thea lets her guard down and starts to open up.

  With Kol…

  Thea begins to believe in love again, but will her secrets haunt them forever, or is there a light at the end of the tunnel leading to a bright future for them both, together?

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  Before Noah

  Daniels Family Book 3

  Noah Brennan was sure of two things in his life: his marriage ruined him for other women, and he was in love with his best friends’ little sister.

  He also knew he couldn’t resist Ember from their first kiss to the first night together. When he finally decides he can’t resist the woman he loves, his past comes knocking and ruins everything.

  Ember Daniels is tired of being treated like the orphaned girl filled with sadness. She wants big things, starting with her brothers’ best friend.

  Ember has loved Noah from the first time he kissed her. Her dreams grew into reality when she confronted him about their kiss. Noah’s will power snapped and soon they were sharing a bed.

  All good things must come to an end though and theirs came crashing down with the return of his wife.

  Feeling shattered and betrayed, Ember sinks into depression and Noah’s silence doesn’t help. After a shocking discovery and a violent act, will Noah step up to the plate and finally claim Ember or will they live with their heartbreak?

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  About KL Donn

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