She Likes It Rough
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“It’s a great day,” I decide, smiling up at him.
“It is,” he agrees.
And just like that, we start walking, hand in hand, through downtown L.A. Up and across, over the glittering sidewalks, in the shadows of the tall buildings. And as we go, we talk. About everything.
He asks me about RPM, tells me how cool I am.
I ask him how Thanksgiving went with his family. His mother was astounded that he’d cooked.
But we don’t just talk as we walk. Jack touches me, too. He puts his hand on my neck, trails fingers down my back. Stuff like that. I think we’re on Third, maybe Fourth, when Jack stops walking and looks up. The tall glass towers of the Bonaventure Hotel rise up before us.
Jack looks at me. “I checked in this morning. Have the room key and everything.”
“Everything?”
“I’ve got you.”
Like I said, a really great day.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GVR Corcillo has worked in a greenhouse, a supermarket, a movie theatre, a potpourri-stuffing factory, an electrical fixtures plant, a book warehouse, a metal-perforating factory, a video store, several movie studios, a children's museum, and a bar. She has also taught high school in Watts and South Central Los Angeles.
But none of these fit the bill for what she always wanted to be when she grew up. Writer, and nothing else would do. So, she won some writing contests, hit the New York Times Bestseller List with her first short story, and got a screenplay produced.
She Likes It Rough is her first published novel.
Geralyn Vivian Ruane Corcillo, a native of Chinchilla, Pennsylvania, lives in North Hollywood with her husband Ron, a television comedy writer.