New
Tricks: Plan A
By Ella Medler
Publisher: PGP Liquid Gold
Genre: Erotic Romance
Content Warning: 18+
Emma worries her
marriage will become humdrum and insipid now that the children have flown the
nest. Fretting over it won't make it better, though. Action will.
Jonathan wants
to surprise his wife with a romantic getaway now that he's got her all to himself.
But judging by her plans for rejuvenating their marriage, it looks like she's
considered leaving him—that's her Plan D.
Desperate times
call for desperate measures, so Jonathan goes along with Emma's suggestions in
order to win back her love. Plan A sounds exciting, and Plans B and C are not
bad either. Plan D might never happen… if he survives Plan A first.
"Delicious!"
Jonathan said, tacking quickly on the end, "As always."
I was certain
that, despite my best efforts, my frown hadn't left my face for close on
twenty-four hours now. My dear husband was doing his best to cheer me up over
dinner, and it wasn't working. What better wake-up call did we need?
"Honey,
please could we talk?"
His eyebrow rose
as he pinned me with a concerned gaze, his fingers wrapped around the last of
his bread drip-dropping dots of gravy onto the table. He finished the movement,
chewed and swallowed, then asked, "Is Ashley pregnant?"
"No."
"Did Tyler
get someone pregnant?"
"No! Jon,
stop with the assumptions. It's not about the kids." Big breath, and then
I met his eyes. "It's about us."
His left hand
immediately shot over to cradle mine. Anxiety burst forth from him in a wave I
could almost feel like a physical slap in the face. I didn't have the heart to
keep him waiting.
"It was
yesterday when it hit me first… the fact that we've grown… not apart, but
maybe… into a team. That's it—we're a team. We work well together and get
things done, and hon, I'm grateful for that. But do you realize that with the
kids beginning their own lives we won't have any more issues to resolve? We
won't have the need to work together…"
"Sweetheart,
the kids will need us for a few more years yet…"
"Jon,
listen to me! What will happen to us when we have nothing to talk about? What
will our subjects of conversation be? Politics? Sports? Your work? Celebrities
playing dumb on daytime TV?"
It took a few
minutes for the seriousness of my words to get through to him. When it did, it
ruptured with a flood of words and half-formed questions. "Emma, are you
leaving me? What are you saying? Please, don't do this… Whatever it is, we can
sort it out. I will do anything. Anything at all… Emma, please, please let me
try—"
"Jon. Jon,
stop. That's not—"
"…Because I
love you, Emma, and I would flip the whole world upside-down for you, you know
that, right?"
I smiled in
spite of myself at hearing this promise he'd made me the day he'd first
confessed his love for me.
"I love
you, too. And I want to make it work. I like what we've had so far and I want
it to continue. That is why I want to talk to you. It's best to talk and find a
solution, don't you think? Ignoring the fact that we could have a problem is
not going to help solve it. Or prevent it from happening."
I watched his
shoulders lose some of the tension and then reached across my front with the
one free hand to my opposite-side pocket.
"But this
may help," I said as I unfolded one-handed the four pieces of paper and
smoothed them on the table between us.
Jon's eyes
reluctantly left mine and dropped to the paper. "What's this?"
"A plan.
Well, four. Plans A, B, C and D. I spent a lot of time thinking it through.
Though I only considered the first one in detail for now. One of these is bound
to work."
Jon nodded.
"Okay. I take it Plan A is the best, right?"
"Yes."
"Hit me
with it."
He pulled his
hand back and crossed his arms over his chest. I took a deep breath and
started.
New Tricks: Plan B
(Coming in March)
When at first
you don't succeed…
Emma and
Jonathan are doing all they can to rescue their marriage. After a failed Plan
A, they need to come up with better ideas. Jonathan's got it all worked out—a
trip away, sun, sea, sex, and most importantly, no distractions. But does Emma
have a surprise of her own?
What's in the
suspicious-looking box that was delivered in Jonathan's absence? And why does
Emma insist she has to be the one to re-pack their suitcase when they raise the
interest of Airport Security?
Will the couple
manage to rekindle their lost romance or merely embarrass themselves further,
and what will that do to their love life?
Coming this Summer
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Ella Medler is
a U.K. author and editor. She writes fiction in many genres in a seemingly vain
attempt to slow down her overactive brain enough to write non-fiction on
subjects she knows a thing or two about. She also does not believe in the
starchy use of English and ignores the type of rule that doesn’t allow for a
sentence to be finished in a preposition. Her books are action-driven, and
well-developed characters are her forte. Loves: freedom. Hates: her inner
censor.
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