Bailing Out_Snow-Crossed Lovers

by Carrie Quest

  I sit on a pile of boxes labeled Books and peel off the brace on my knee. My costume. I kick it off my foot and flex my knee a few times. A few twinges, but it’s solid. I could start training again anytime, if I wanted to.

  I close my eyes and picture Natalie kneeling on the sofa in those red cherry panties, and my dick twitches again. I keep her image in my mind as I get hard. That dark hair, all mussed up from sleeping, and the curve of her breasts under her t-shirt. She was so angry that her eyes were nearly black, and I wonder if they get dark like that when she’s turned on.

  I open my eyes and stare down at the tent in front of my boxers. Yep, he’s definitely back in business.

  Sadly, I’m almost too tired to do anything about it. Almost. A shower will help. Maybe if I get under the hot water and rub one out, the release will be enough to let me sleep. I put my hand in my shorts and grip my cock for a just one pull and hello, old friend. It’s been awhile, but some things your body doesn’t forget.

  I’m sitting there, working up the energy to move to the shower, when I hear a little squeak.

  Natalie’s standing at the bottom of the stairs, her face flushed and her mouth open. She’s put on a pair of yoga pants, which sucks, and she’s carrying a box of Band-Aids and a tube of antiseptic cream. She drops both of them when I look at her, and I halfway expect her to sprint back up the stairs, but she doesn’t.

  Instead, she licks her lips and takes a tiny step closer to me.

  Suddenly I’m not so tired anymore.

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  Wiping Out

  Piper Easton is a fixer. As a teenager she took over running the house when her mom got sick, and when her snowboarder brother was injured, she found the top knee guru in town and finagled a same-day appointment. She’s got an exclusive internship lined up in Europe and she’ll be leaving as soon as she watches her brother Ben win a gold medal. She just has to clean up one last mess: the way her stupid heart jumps whenever her ex-boyfriend appears. She and Adam are friends now, that’s it. That’s all they can ever be.

  But maybe a few benefits aren’t out of the question. Just until their trip to the Olympics finishes and they both go their separate ways. Surely the problem will be fixed by then.

  Adam Westlake had two true loves: snowboarding and Piper Easton. He lost them both and now he’s broken. The scars from where they cut his skull open are no longer visible, but the traumatic brain injury means it isn’t safe for him to ride again and he hasn’t spoken to Piper in eighteen months. Not since he got out of the hospital and fled Colorado, terrified he wouldn’t be able to resist strapping on his board when the snow started falling. He’s been chasing summer around the world ever since, until a lucrative offer to report on the Olympics brings him home to face all the temptations he left behind.

  He might be able to summon the willpower to stay off the mountain, but Piper?

  She’s irresistible.

  Contains: sex as an Olympic sport, dirty dancing while wearing eye goggles, ninety-nine penis balloons, and a blowjob rudely interrupted by a devil in feline form.

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  Acknowledgments

  This book would not have been possible without my dear friend Christa. Thank you for the endless support and insightful editing. You are the best thing that ever happened to me on the Internet.

  Thank you to E for taking point on all those bedtimes and always doing your best to give me time to write. I love you.

  Thank you to Letitia Hasser at Romantic Book Affairs for my beautiful cover. You are amazing!

  Thank you to Keyanna Butler for her attentive proofreading. Any errors left are strictly my own.

  Also by Carrie Quest

  Snow-Crossed Lovers Series

  BAILING OUT (Prequel Novella)

  DROPPING IN (Book One)

  WIPING OUT (Book Two)

  Copyright © 2017 by Carrie Quest

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  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Please respect the hard work of this author.

  This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is strictly coincidental.

  Edited by Christa Soule

  Cover by Letitia Hasser, Romantic Book Affairs