Replay Book 9: Gladiator
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Leda glanced down. Lukas was half-hard again.
She relaxed her grip and slipped her fingers free. Antonio’s hand stayed where it was, over Lukas’s heart.
“Once,” Antonio said, “I had a wife…and a son. Emilio. Our angel. Bright. Beautiful. Perfect. Except there was an enemy inside him. Cancer. One day he grew tired of fighting it. He was only three when we buried him. Months later, when we still couldn’t look at each other without hurting all over again, we agreed to go our separate ways. She eventually remarried, and I threw myself into my work. I became one of the best. People wanted me. Men wanted me. I had never been with a man, either, but I liked it very much. No offense, querida, but having a man’s mouth on you is different. It is hard to explain, but a man knows how to give another man pleasure. Words fail me. Lukas, you understand now what I mean.”
“Ja.” He blew out softly. “It was…”
Leda smiled. Words failed him, too.
“I will wait for you, querido,” Antonio said. “However long it takes. In the meantime, the four of us have a beautiful Greek goddess to worship and adore—and to kidnap when she is walking out of work. No more farmer’s market, comprende?”
“No more farmer’s market except for shopping. We still have to eat.”
“We have leftover tomato bisque,” Leda reminded them. “I could bake some brie to go with it, or I could make my version of bruschetta. I slice a loaf of French bread, brush it with melted butter and olive oil, and grill it. Once it’s sealed, I top it with marinated Roma tomatoes and cheese and broil it for a hot version.”
Marco groaned. “You’re making me hungry.”
“I aim to please. I don’t want anyone left unsatisfied,” she said meaningfully. “Two of you have yet to come. Sir Djiman? Sir Antony? How may I serve you? What is your pleasure?”
Antonio glanced at Lukas’s erection. “I would like to see that buried in your ass, while Djiman takes your pussy and I take him. Your mouth and hands will be free to handle Marco if he cares to join us.”
Lukas nodded. Leda smiled broadly. Her four gladiators had come through a crisis and emerged stronger than ever. Their bonds had been tested. Their roles, redefined. This new understanding would continue to impact them. Lukas could only resist it for so long. He and Antonio were destined to be lovers.
Djiman prepared her for Lukas’s possession, then joined in sharing her body between them. Antonio lubed his length and tunneled into Djiman. Over the brown tattooed shoulder, she could see the pure pleasure shaping Antonio’s face.
Not to be left out, Marco shed the rest of his suit and joined them, filling her mouth and making her feel complete. After being alone for so very long, she’d nearly given up hope of finding her happily ever after with one man, let alone four, yet here they were, taking pleasure in each other, chasing their releases and finding them one by one.
Her last thought before falling asleep surrounded by her gladiators was that they were going to need a lot more coconut oil.
Epilogue
Leda rushed home from work, dressed in the toga that she would wear to this afternoon’s fight. Like on other Roman Orgy weekends gone before, she would stay until it grew too hard to watch, then slip away to make sure that the banquet hall was ready to receive the crowd who’d come ready to play.
She met Marco on the way into their private quarters and nearly had a heart attack. Blood had run down the left side of his face. Dirt and more blood smudged his close-cropped head.
He caught her before she hit the floor and helped her to a chair.
Marco grinned. “I take it, I did a good job with the makeup. I’ve been practicing. I wanted to up my game.”
She thumped a fist against his shoulder. It bounced off ineffectually. “Jesus, Marco! You should know better than to scare me in this condition! Do you want to traumatize our baby for life?”
“It’s too little for that,” he tsked. “Just a speck.”
“A bit more than a speck,” she said. As of this morning, she had the picture to prove it. “Are the others wearing makeup, too?”
“Lukas is. I’m sure that Antonio and Djiman will next time, once they see how real it looks.”
“Just give me a warning, is all I ask. Don’t scare us like that again!”
Antonio and Djiman came into the living room, dressed in their gladiator clothes. Antonio’s hips were girded in a white loincloth. A sexy leather harness banded his chest, holding his layered leather shoulder pad in place.
Djiman wore a metal-studded leather apron over his loincloth and a welcoming grin until he saw Marco’s face.
Marco laughed. “I’m good. I’m good. It fooled Leda, too. Just wait until you see Lukas.”
As if summoned, Lukas stepped into the room, looking ten times worse than when he’d been beaten by the police. His injuries had required him to cancel his upcoming photo shoot. When the advertising firm sued him for breach of contract, Ms. Bryan had advised him to initiate a civil suit against the officer who’d beaten him and the police department where he still worked. Lukas had resisted at first but had filed it on principle. He didn’t want anyone else to experience what he had gone through.
Since going public with his story and sharing how he’d been bullied as a child, he’d been in demand as a motivational speaker. Every cent of the money awarded by the jury had gone toward creating a charitable foundation that provided training to identify at-risk children and adults and paid for assistance—whatever help they needed—to survive and to heal.
In telling his story, Lukas had shared hers as well. Being featured on a cold case television show had renewed interest in her mother’s unsolved murder. Thanks to improved technology, a fresh DNA analysis came up with a match for her mother’s killer, who was already serving one life sentence. The second conviction ensured that he would never be paroled.
Leda had more news to share but now was not the time. The men needed to focus on their fight. They had to remember their choreography and make sure that everyone stayed safe while making it look convincing.
Tonight, after the orgy, there would be time enough to gather her husbands and show them the picture.
She couldn’t wait to see the look on Antonio’s face when he learned that he’d soon have another little gladiator to train.
Author’s Biography
Nia Farrell is the author of one of The 50 Best Indie Books of 2016, a 2016 Golden Flogger Finalist, and a founding member of the Wicked Pens. A multi-genre writer published in nonfiction, poetry, music, articles, and children’s books, with one documentary screenplay under her literary belt, she’s an old soul and a period reenactor who’s been into corsets for centuries, although she wears them more to Civil War events these days.
Nia has been involved in the metaphysical community for over twenty-five years. She is a Reiki Master and crystal healer whose work encompasses this and other lifetimes. In her book Something More, BDSM and submission are tools for healing post-rape PTSD, earning a nomination for Best BDSM Book of the Year, Ménage Category, in the 2016 Golden Flogger Awards. She was nominated for Favorite MC Author, The Best of the Best 2017.
Her debut books from The Three Graces series, Something Else, Something Different, and Something More, are kink with a paranormal twist. Soul mates, reincarnation, karmic fallout, shamanism, and psychic abilities come into play. Personal experience and extensive research go into crafting her characters, but it’s her sense of whimsy that has made fictional Posey, Minnesota, the ménage capital of the United States, with a Monty-Python-inspired diner that’s central to the plot lines.
Nia was fortunate enough to meet her soul mate early on. She married her high school sweetheart, raised two children, and began writing novels at her husband’s suggestion. She has been published in erotic romance since 2015.
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WRITING AS ERINN ELLENDER QUINN
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NIA FARRELL TITLES
Something Else (The Three Graces Book One). Three soulmates forge a future from the flames of their pasts in an interracial New Age New Adult MMF ménage BDSM erotic romance. “It’s part paranormal, part BDSM, part love story, but all good.” Released August 25, 2015. Length 17,872 words.
Teasers and excerpt http://bit.ly/SomethingElseWP
Second edition e-book and paperback to be reissued July 2018
Something Different (The Three Graces Book Two). Starving artist Anna James has sworn off men. Rock gods Jackson and Jacob Thomason just promised her the best sex of her life. Does Anna dare submit to the part-Comanche twins who perform as No Mercy? Released September 29, 2015. Length 17,235 words.
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Second edition e-book and paperback to be reissued July 2018
Something More (The Three Graces Book Three) Finalist for Best BDSM Book of the Year, Ménage Category, 2016 Golden Flogger Awards. Rachel Givens is supposed to be dead. She has post-rape PTSD and a three-year-old autistic daughter, father unknown. When her former lovers—a biker and a porn star—walk into the restaurant where she works, this single mother learns just how much more she can handle. Released October 15, 2015. Length 18,613 words.
Teasers and excerpt http://bit.ly/SomethingMoreWP
Second edition e-book and paperback to be reissued July 2018
The Three Graces Trilogy (paperback) includes Something Else, Something Different, and Something More. Welcome to fictional Posey, Minnesota, the ménage capital of the USA and home of the Three Graces—young women whose names all mean “Grace.” Three women. Six men. Things are about to get interesting. Released April 2, 2016. Length 230 6x9 pages.
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Something Special (The Three Graces Book Six—the sequel to Something Else). When morning sickness hits the house, a Dominant veteran with PTSD and an American Indian musician propose to give their psychic submissive a very special honeymoon. They’re giving Grace the capture fantasy of her dreams at Replay, a BDSM theme resort where patrons role play in the past. Released May 5, 2016. Length 21,578 words/105 5x8 pages.
Nominated Best Erotica and Best Romance, 2016 Summer Indie Book Awards. Winner, Favorite Audiobook, EskieMama & Dragon Lady Reads Midyear Awards, 2016.
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Dark Moons Rising. On the most dangerous night of the year, a daughter of light finds unexpected sanctuary with two dark lords, handsome as men, stunning as centaurs. An otherworldly sword-and-sorcery paranormal shifter ménage erotic romance novelette. Released March 10, 2016. Length 9,210 words.
Teasers and excerpt http://bit.ly/DMRWP
E-book to be reissued March 2019
As Wicked as You Want (Forever Ours Book One). It’s a past life for The Three Graces’ Nico, J.T., and Grace, a Victorian erotic romance BDSM MMF ménage with a bisexual British history professor, his American stepsister who’s been living as a man since serving in the Civil War, and her Irish messmate who is an apprentice in her art studio and who has been fighting his attraction to “Lane.” Released August 1, 2016. Length 155,467 words / 609 pages.
Voted #1 Erotica and #10 overall, The 50 Best Indie Books of 2016. Nominated Best Erotica, Best Historical, and Best Romance, 2016 Summer Indie Book Awards.
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A Wicked Christmas 1869. Elena, Edward, and Daniel from As Wicked as You Want celebrate their second Christmas together. Release date December 1, 2017. Length 6,307 words.
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“Pride and Prejudice meets 50 Shades of Grey” in Pride and Punishment – An Erotic Retelling of Jane Austen’s Beloved Classic by Nia Farrell and Jane Austen. A Dominant Mr. Darcy must find a way to win the submissive heart of a woman who abhors him. Released June 1, 2016. Length 91,133 words/344 pages.
Voted Best Historical Romance, 2017 Ménage Romance Readers Favorites. Nominated Best Erotica, Best Historical, and Best Romance, 2016 Summer Indie Book awards.
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Wicked Lady. In Restoration England, a lady highwayman who demands more than money from her victim must pay for her crimes. It’s a tale of dubious consent, first his, then hers, with a degenerate lord, one desperate woman, and two nights that will change their lives. Reached #37 on Amazon’s Best Seller list, Historical Erotica Mystery.
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Rules of Engagement. Corporate attorney Dylan Reynolds wants to become a first time Daddy Dom with his latest submissive, a twenty-two-year-old genius whose lack of experience intrigues him. Holly Knox can’t deny her attraction to Dylan, but she’s never had a serious relationship, let alone been with a Dominant who’s into the BDSM lifestyle. Can this innocent embrace ageplay and be Daddy’s good girl? Length 18,814 words.
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Replay Book 1: VIKING RAID. A curious virgin makes Replay resort’s Viking Dom an offer he can’t refuse. Released July 1, 2016. Length 20,051 words/99 pages.
Nominated Best Erotica, 2016 Summer Indie Book Awards.
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Replay Book 2: TRIPLE PLAY. A celibate sex addict meets a Scottish Dominant who’s determined to be the exception to her rules. Released September 1, 2016. Length 20,232 words / 100 pages.
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Replay Book 3: HONOUR BOUND. A psychologist interested in BDSM experiences it first-hand with the owner of Replay resort. Released November 1, 2016. Length 19,946 words / 97 pages.
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REPLAY SET 1: Viking Raid, Triple Play, Honour Bound. Contains books 1-3 in the series.
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Replay Book 4: HOOKED. During pirate weekend, a curious librarian explores BDSM with a Dominant veteran amputee. Released January 1, 2017. Length 21,950 words/ 121 pages.
Winner, Favorite Leading Lady, 2017 Our Book Stars Awards.
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Replay Book 5: NIGHT MUSIC. In an updated version of Cyrano de Bergerac, bisexual Replay resort psychiatrist Sir Josef plays matchmaker with a blind concert pianist and her mentor and falls for them both. A MMF ménage. Released March 1, 2017. Length 19,438 words / 104 pages.