What is it about the Alpha Male that makes him such a delicious romance hero?
I love paranormal
romance and one of the reasons is because the hero is often a tough Alpha male.
Somehow, I don’t mind an Archangel or vampire or
shapeshifter shaking his Alpha ass, whereas for me such behaviour just wouldn’t
wash with a contemporary hero.
It doesn’t hurt that these paranormal guys have bodies to
die for, eyes that mesmerize at a hundred paces and bedroom skills that make my
heart flutter (then again, since these guys are immortal they’ve obviously had
lots of practice in this area!)
These Alpha heroes are hot, gorgeous and they invariably
know it. Maybe they’re a tad arrogant at times, but so long as his heroine can
give as good as she gets, I’m fine with this because let’s face it, there’s
nothing quite as delicious as watching an Alpha male fall—irrevocably and
forever.
Here's an exclusive excerpt from my upcoming erotic paranormal romance, Archangel of Mercy.
Over 18s only, please!
A muscled bronzed shoulder greeted her.
Definitely male. His face was buried in the curve of her shoulder and neck, and
a mass of tangled golden hair teased her cheek.
She hitched in a ragged breath, but not
enough to clear the stupor that once again crawled through her brain. He wasn’t
dead. She could feel his heartbeat, and it was strong. Gingerly she raised her
right arm, the one that wasn’t pinned beneath him, and attempted to push him
off her.
It was like trying to push against a
mountain. A warm, living mountain, and with horrified disbelief she realized
that her fingers were clinging to the taut flesh as if they were magnetized.
He didn’t move, but something stirred.
Fingers still glued to his shoulder, Aurora felt her
face burn as the unmistakable length of his cock thickened and nudged against
her tender core.
The insane urge to part her legs whispered
through her mind and if it hadn’t been for the fact it was physically
impossible for her to move at all, she had the awful feeling she would have
done just that.
Of course she wouldn’t. What
was she thinking? Clearly she was oxygen deprived. Her dry spell was
catching up with her, and her unexpected thrills on the astral planes were
still creating havoc with her libido. There was no way
she wanted to shag this stranger. She didn’t even know what he was doing there.
But she knew exactly what
he was doing. His erection, even through his
jeans or whatever he was wearing, was hard and demanding and angled across her
swollen clit. A strangled groan escaped even as she dug her teeth into her
lower lip and tried to block the spiraling need that claimed her womb.
She was being turned on by an unconscious
man. It was sad and also, if she thought about it, slightly depraved, but she
couldn’t help it. He might be out cold, but his cock was the hottest thing she’d
felt in years.
His naked chest crushed her and even
though she was still wearing her tank top and shorts, her fevered mind imagined
them away. Her fingers trailed across his exposed shoulder and hovered over the
tempting tangle of golden hair.
This was madness. She needed to pull herself together. Perhaps she could wriggle
free? But even as disjointed escape plans hammered through her mind, she wound
a silken strand of his hair around her finger.
This couldn’t be happening. Maybe she’d
catapulted back into her body too quickly and this was all a hallucination? Did
that mean that in reality she was lying unconscious on the ground? Was she
seriously trying to convince herself that this was all in her
mind?
His weight shifted; a slow realignment of
heavy limbs as if, in the depths of his unconsciousness, he was slowly becoming
aware of his surroundings. She froze, his hair still twisted around her finger
in damning evidence, as his knees languidly eased her thighs apart.
Her heart thudded against her ribs and she
tried to ignore the erotic tremors that claimed her sensitized clit. He wasn’t
doing anything on purpose. There was no need to get so excited.
But there was a great need for her to drag
back control, to squash this crazy lust distorting reality and—
He lifted his head from her shoulder and
looked down at her. And her tangled thoughts vanished. For one eternal moment
an overwhelming sensation of déjà vu quivered through her. As if his perfectly
sculpted face, enhanced by a sexy five o’clock shadow, was as familiar as her
own reflection. Mesmerized she gazed into his astonishing eyes, a swirling
kaleidoscope of blues, greens and silvers. She had never seen anything so
captivatingly beautiful and yet threaded through the awe was a faint echo of
haunting recognition.
She might have continued to stare into his
eyes forever if he hadn’t once again kneed her thighs farther apart. She gasped
and deliberately broke the mesmeric contact as he settled himself more securely
against her vulnerable pussy.
“What—?” Her voice was husky, a
humiliating reminder of how horny she was for this complete stranger. Why
wasn’t she petrified? He could be a crazy ax murderer for all she knew. And yet
fear was the last emotion scalding her blood. She glared at his jaw, but his
jaw was a thing of masculine perfection and it didn’t calm her skittering
pulses in the least.
“Hmm?” The questioning rumble vibrated
over her skin as he lowered his head and grazed his jaw along the curve of her
cheek. Her mouth dried, throat closed and mind jellified.
For the life of her she couldn’t remember
what she’d wanted to ask him.
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