by Anita Claire
Reaching up, I brush his face with my fingers. I’m unable to say anything. He kisses my exposed neck, creating a line of kisses until he, again, has reached my lips where we resume a deep, probing kiss. At some point, I back away, just a little, needing to catch my breath, I gasp for air. Our eyes meet. Grappling for words, he beats me to it as he rasps out, “Juliette, I want you.”
Smiling with only my lips, I shut my eyes as I pull myself together. Finally, I whisper, “I need to go inside.”
Our foreheads meet; his hand cradles my face as mine cradles his. We stay in this position for maybe a minute. Both of us are breathing deeply. Finally, he moans, then asks in a whisper, “Can I join you?”
Gasping for air, I stare at Nate, pulling together all my reserves I say, “Not this time, not this night.”
He nods. “Tomorrow, can I see you tomorrow?”
Smiling, I pull away so I can look in his eyes as I nod, “I’d like that.”
“I’ll text you in the morning.”
Nodding my head, I bite my lower lip. “I look forward to it.”
Grabbing a hold of my purse, I fish out my keys. Looking back up I see Nate watching me, his eyes are dark with desire. With a shy smile I say, “Tomorrow,” as he slowly nods.
He watches me as I open the door, smiles then his eyes squint and his face gets a quizzical look. With the tip of his chin, he asks, “Who’s that?”
Turning to look across the street, I realize there’s a tall, lean man with his arms crossed. I can tell he’s been watching us. Shit, is that Zach?
Appendix – A - Books in “The Princess of Silicon Valley” series
Book 1 – Meet Me in Silicon Valley – The Juliette Trilogy
Book 2 – Kiss Me in Silicon Valley – The Juliette Trilogy
Book 3 – Be with Me in Silicon Valley – The Juliette Trilogy
Book 4 – Nate
Book 5 – Jennifer and Rocket
Book 6 – Isabelle
Book 7 – Hita
Book 8 – Olivia
Book 9 – Meredith and Sam
Book 10 – Kelly
Appendix – B- Characters
This story has a lot of characters. To help navigate all these characters I have included my character chart.
Princesses – college friends
- Juliette Cole – Snow White – long dark hair with curls, white skin, brown eyes
- Meredith Price – Cinderella – morning running friend – blond hair blue eyes – works biochem, lives with her college boyfriend Sam
- Hita Chamarthi (pronounced Heeta) – Pocahontas – works with Juliette – parents came from India
- Isabelle Becker – Belle – dad white, mom Chinese
- Jennifer Takahashi – Mullen – Asian –Hawaiian – teaches middle school, crafty
- Olivia Habibi - Jasmine – middle eastern – med student
- Kelly Flannigan - Merida – wild red hair – very athletic, wild energy
High school
- Grayson (Gray) Barber - Fenced with Juliette–law student – brown eyes
- Elizabeth Wilder – high school queen bee
- Cassie – high school friend, lived in LA
- Cody – Cassie’s ex-husband
- Luke Tomlin – Cassie’s boyfriend - professional football player
Work
- Caroline - works in the client side department –has bad relationships
- Kami - works in the client side department, on the chubby side
- Mark – nice coworker – annoying dog Buddy
- Roger – boss – late 20’s early 30’s, from New Jersey
- Flint CTO – Matt Flinter, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
- Tyler – CEO of the company
- Sid - VP Engineering - shaves his head and dresses like a hipster – lives in SF
- Rajive – fellow new engineer
- Jim – macho engineer
- Jessica – manages swag – lives in SF
- Megan – works in web design – Asian, dresses artsy – lives in SF
- Terri - round face, blond hair, blue eyes
Additional characters
- Nate Lombard – MD, opposing player’s brother, 29 years old, tattoo on right arm, brown curly hair and blue eyes
- Leigh – Older sister , 5’8”, same coloring, very thin
Swimmers
- Zach – Abs guy –dark hair and steel gray eyes - engineer
- Kevin – half Asian - engineer
- Austin –blond hair - engineer
- Amanda – Kevin’s girlfriend
- Sean – dark hair
Author’s Note
Writing this series has been an incredible experience. I’ve spent many enjoyable hours developing Juliette and her wonderful group of friends. I hope that you have as much fun reading about them as I have had creating them.
I’d like to give a special call out to Yinka Bogdan. Yinka’s been a supportive friend who has been instrumental in assisting me with my early efforts as a writer. She has provided me with a great deal of invaluable insight. Also a call out to my wonderful beta readers who gave me great insight, Ann Quesinberry, Deb Kiger, and Margie Dean.
For more on The Princesses, my blog, and a visual tour of the places Juliette has visited, you can go to my website: http://www.anitaclaire.com or friend me on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/anitaclairebooks.
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