Thorne: Rose's Dark Awakening (Book 3)
By R.B. O'Brien
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release
Date: June 17, 2017
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“In the small
hours
we are
unadorned
our psyche
naked
in death
no more veiled
intuition
we know who we
truly are.” ~Sebastian Nox
At last, the
highly-anticipated conclusion to William and Rose’s story is here!
When William
Thorne meets the unassuming but beautiful Rose (Victoria) Wellington, he begins
to unmask the true man he has buried for years under hired personal assistants
and obsessive work behavior fighting the tobacco industry. But after another
tragedy shakes him, all his demons resurface, awakened with ferocity. This
time, he will leave Rose behind to protect her, and he will embrace the William
that has kept him stable all these years.
With a
confession about to go public in seeking atonement for his past deeds, deeds
that very likely will land him in prison, William marvels at his Rose’s growth
personally but saddens as she moves on in her love life and her career without him.
He, too, tries to move on by hiring a beautiful, submissive personal assistant
to fulfill all his salacious needs. Each time he sees Rose, his fight to stay
away from the beauty becomes unbearable, but his impending future leaves little
to change it.
The Thorne
Series is a sensually erotic and deeply emotional story with twists that will
make you go back to read from the very first page of the series all over again.
I
placed the cool cloth against Rose’s forehead and she moaned, opening her lips
slightly as Katie danced the ice into the opening. Rose’s eyes fluttered open
and she pushed herself to get up, her eyes darting from me to Katie. She took
the cloth in her hands from her forehead. “What happened?” she asked,
embarrassed. “Sorry…I…I need to go. I was just…I will be going…”
“Sssssh,”
I said. “Lie back down. Let us take care of you.”
“Us?”
Rose said with unease. “So, you two are…an us?” Tears started rolling down
her cheeks, and I felt my stomach turn. I didn’t want to see her in any more
pain ever again. God. Did I have to keep doing this to her over and over?
Katie
looked at me, asking for permission to speak and I shook my head no.
“Rose,”
I said sternly. “There is no us here. Katie was starting as my PA
today. But guess what?”
Katie
began to wipe Rose’s tears from her eyes and Rose looked at me, confused,
emotional.
“William.”
Rose sucked in her breath to stop the tears. “I need to go. This is too much,
William. Please. I can’t handle seeing you…the two of you…oh my god…this...”
“Rose,
stop it, and listen. The only us is you and me. I’m not going to fight it
anymore. I can’t. I won’t.”
“But,”
she started. “You clearly have fought it. You have clearly moved on.”
“Yes. I
tried. But I can’t. I realize that now. I’ve always known it. I love you,
Rose.” I kissed her lips, cold from the ice, and Katie hung her head.
“I’m
sorry, Katie.” I said finally. “I will pay you in full.”
She
looked up at me with pleading eyes. “Let me serve you.”
“I
can’t, Katie. Not now. I can’t hire you. I was forcing something that I knew
wasn’t right. You are lovely. Truly. But I can’t.”
I
placed the water at Rose’s lips so she could drink and when she had finished,
Katie sat at the top of the bed, Rose’s head on her lap. She stroked her hair
back and looked at me. “Let me help before I go. That is what I wanted to ask
you earlier. If I could please stay and help you. Serve you.”
I
smiled and looked at Katie, her need to please me the only thing she cared
about. I looked down at Rose and began to unbutton her dress. She trembled at
my touch, and her eyes rolled into the back of her head. “William…what…what are
you doing?”
I
rolled her nipples in between my fingers, now free from the confines of her
bra. I had plucked her breasts to sit atop the lacy fabric. I was going to have
my way.
“Oh
god.” She moaned.
Katie
continued to stroke her hair to relax her, and I unbuttoned the rest of her
dress to reveal her body, still slightly glistening from the heat and her
exhaustion.
“Lift
up,” I ordered and removed her underwear.
“William,
please…what are you doing?” she asked again.
“What
am I doing?” I said with a sarcastic tease. “I am going to make you feel good.
And you are not going to stop it unless you use your safeword. You remember it,
no?”
Her
eyes shut and a tear slipped out.
“Hey.
Sssssh. Let us make you feel good. Let me love you the best way I know how.”
“Oh,
William. I can’t…No…this isn’t right…I can’t…”
“Ssssh,”
I said again. “Safeword or nothing. But you can use it. Otherwise, give in,
just as I am giving in. I love you.”
I
nodded at Katie and stood up to get some bindings. One thing I knew about Rose:
she would struggle to stay still and to accept the sensations.
I threw
some double handcuffs over to Katie.
“Put
those on her wrists. Then secure them to the bedpost with the other half.”
“Yes,
sir,” Katie said, all too eager to please.
I
looked down at the slightly trembling Rose and knew that even though she was
nervous, she was aroused. “Take off all your clothes, Rose.”
She
shook her head and I laughed. “Is that a safeword?”
She
squeezed her eyes shut again.
Katie
lifted her back and removed the dress. I removed the bra fully and nodded again
to Katie to secure her wrists. I began to tie the rope around Rose’s ankles.
“William,”
Rose whined, but the lust could not be denied. “I’ve missed you,” she said,
surprising me.
I drew
myself over her and kissed her. Hard. She began to cry again as her tongue
pushed its way into my mouth. “I love you,” she managed to say as the force of
her kiss broke for only a moment.
“I want
to torture you right now, Rose, to bring you to unimaginable pleasure. Do you
understand what I’m saying?”
She
nodded.
“If it’s too much, use your safeword. I am starving for you.”
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R.B. O'Brien has
always been drawn to the more taboo side of storytelling, even as a young
adult, from hiding books from strict Catholic parents as a teen to getting lost
in the erotic sections of bookstores for hours. As a writer, O'Brien explores
the darker, erotic nature of relationships, those riddled with the reality of
insecurities and human folly, exposing the vulnerability, emotional turmoil,
and occasional pain that can come from losing oneself in the heat of
passion.
O'Brien holds a
degree in English literature and happily resides in the Northeast of the United
States. Her first series, the highly acclaimed Natalie's Edge trilogy, is now
available in ebook format, the third of which, Redemption, was nominated for
the Golden Flogger Award for best BDSM romance. THORNE, O'Brien's second dark
romance suspense series is complete and available NOW, a tale where things are
not what they seem. O'Brien has just released her award-winning series,
formerly the Capture of Rosemary, The IMOGEN series.
“To write is to
descend, excavate, to go underground.”—Anais Nin.
O'Brien is a
member on The Nu Romantics, a collaborative group who strives to redefine
romance.
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