Paranormal Attractions Sneak Peeks!
Today's Sneak Peek is at Instinct
by J.A. Belfield
Excerpt:
Beside the forest stream, a fallen trunk
from winter last provided a sufficient resting place for Jem. If James detected
the hint of a human alongside a trail of my own, he would be furious, so it
seemed the best area to take her, as the hunts rarely stretched that far to the
northeast.
Her skirt splayed around her to drape over
the log and moist ground, as her outstretched hands offered balance to her
bowed back. The sun seeping through the branches lent a glow to her cheeks and raised
chest.
Head resting against my linked fingers, I
lay upon a blanket of twigs and scattered fern beside the riverbank and watched
her face tilt toward the sky.
“It is quite beautiful here,” she said. “I
have never been surrounded by such silence.”
“The forest is never silent, Jem.”
I heard plenty: the breeze and the
susurrant whispers of its passing, the gurgles of the river as it travelled its
merry journey, the chirp of fledglings in the highest of branches, scurrying,
wings, pecking, the faint and distant gobbling of a fox.
“I hear nothing but the wind.”
“Because that is all you expect to hear.” I
rolled up and knelt before her. “Close your eyes.”
Her chin lowered, and she narrowed her
stare, but I brushed my fingers over her lids until they dropped and held my
hand over them.
Leaning close to her ear, I whispered,
“Trust me.”
“Is that another of your attempts at
humour?”
“Do you find me amusing?”
“Not at all.”
I chuckled before hushing her to be quiet.
“Listen carefully. What do you truly hear?”
It took immense effort to show restraint
whilst so near. A tilt of my head revealed the hint of her small breasts, peeking
from the bodice of her dress, and each intake of her scent sent shivers down my
spine.
“The wind,” she whispered, her breath
skating over my cheek.
“Not good enough. Try harder.”
The breeze she spoke of blew through on the
river’s current and toyed with her hair. At that moment, I wished I were the
wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore
the forbidden depths of her body beneath.
“Birds,” she said, her murmur drawing me
back.
“What else?” I asked.
She gave a sigh before falling quiet.
Pulling back to study her, I smiled at her
frown of concentration, and had urges I wished I didn’t have to suppress, as
her lips parted to allow the passage of her breaths. When I moved back to her
ear, her hair blew around to tickle my cheek, and her artery drummed against my
jaw, matching the throb of my own below. Considering tasting her pulsation, I
tilted my head toward the flesh there.
“I hear you, Mr Holloway,” she whispered,
causing me to pause. “I hear your breaths and the beat of your heart.”
Leaning back, I removed my hand from her
eyes, but she did not open them.
“There is gentle thunder somewhere deep
within your chest,” she continued, and when she lifted her lids, her moist eyes
glistened like two pools on a winter’s eve.
The urge to tear at her clothing, and
relieve myself of the pressure her presence encouraged, rushed at me with the
force of a malignant wolf. Yet, taking a deep breath that shuddered my
shoulders, I did not. Rather, fingers cramping against fulfilling my needs, I
took her hand and introduced her to more that the forest had to offer.
Oddly, my first day with a female I did not
devour turned out to be one of my most favoured.
About the Author:
J.A.
Belfield lives in Solihull, England, with the best husband in the world, aka Mr
B, a couple of back-chatting but pretty cool kids, a pooch she treats likes the
baby of the house, and a couple of scrawny cats that like to vomit in
unnecessary places.
Although
best known for her Holloway Pack series: DARKNESS & LIGHT (July 2011, J.
Taylor Publishing / September 2014 J.A. Belfield), INSTINCT (February2012, J.
Taylor Publishing / January 2015 J.A. Belfield), ETERNAL (July 2012, J. Taylor
Publishing), BLUE MOON (December 2012, J. Taylor Publishing), RESONANCE (April
2013, J. Taylor Publishing), CAGED (August 2013, J. Taylor Publishing), and
UNNATURAL (April 2014, J. Taylor Publishing), amongst other titles, she is
currently trawling her way through a New Adult Post-Apocalyptic and would LOVE
to try her hand at YA. Maybe she will.
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