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SHAMELESS
An Ellora’s Cave Publication, March 2005
Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Inc.
1337 Commerce Drive, #13
Stow, OH 44224
ISBN MS Reader (LIT) ISBN # 1-4199-0149-4
Other available formats (no ISBNs are assigned):
Adobe (PDF), Rocketbook (RB), Mobipocket (PRC) & HTML
SHAMELESS Copyright © 2005 LORA LEIGH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission.
This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales
is purely coincidental. They are productions of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously.
Edited by Sue-Ellen Gower.
Cover art by Syneca .
Warning:
The following material contains graphic sexual content meant for mature readers. Shameless has been
rated E–rotic by a minimum of three independent reviewers.
Ellora’s Cave Publishing offers three levels of Romantica™ reading entertainment: S (S-ensuous), E (E-
rotic), and X (X-treme).
S- ensuous love scenes are explicit and leave nothing to the imagination.
E- rotic love scenes are explicit, leave nothing to the imagination, and are high in volume per the overall
word count. In addition, some E-rated titles might contain fantasy material that some readers find
objectionable, such as bondage, submission, same sex encounters, forced seductions, and so forth. E-rated
titles are the most graphic titles we carry; it is common, for instance, for an author to use words such as
“fucking”, “cock”, “pussy”, and such within their work of literature.
X- treme titles differ from E-rated titles only in plot premise and storyline execution. Unlike E-rated titles,
stories designated with the letter X tend to contain controversial subject matter not for the faint of heart.
BOUND HEARTS:
SHAMELESS
Lora Leigh
Trademarks Acknowledgement
The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the
following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:
Velcro: Velcro Industries B.V.
Shameless
Prologue
Courtney lay silently, a frown on her face as she stared at the dimly lit ceiling above
the bed. Cool air wafted across her body, drying the fine sheen of perspiration that had
built there over the past hour. Her hand strummed idly against her stomach, her index
finger flicking against the emerald belly ring that pierced the flesh above her navel.
The feel of her nails rasping over her flesh was a pleasant sensation. In many ways,
more pleasant than the experienced caresses of the man who lay beside her. Not that he
hadn’t tried, not that she hadn’t tried, but satisfaction lingered just out of reach, an
ethereal promise that she knew would remain unfulfilled for a while yet.
Doubts assailed her in that moment, as well as a lingering regret. She hadn’t
imagined this as her first sexual experience. She had envisioned an event much more
earth-shattering, one that would fulfill not just her sexual desires, but those that filled
her heart as well. Unfortunately, there were sacrifices to be made for the dream she had
carried in her heart for so long. Her virginity was one of those sacrifices.
She breathed in carefully, deeply, restraining the weakening emotion that assailed
her at the thought of what could come. She wasn’t leaving her country or her home
without knowing exactly what she was doing. She had studied her objective, learned
every facet of his character possible and planned each move out carefully. She couldn’t
fail. Too much was at stake to fail. Her future, her very heart and the dreams she had
carried since childhood now lay on the line.
“Well. I can honestly say you are my one failure, darling.” Sebastian DeLorents
leaned casually on his side as he interrupted her musings, his voice filled with
amusement.
She turned her head, a smile quirking her lips as she stared back at perhaps her
dearest friend on this Earth. Bastian had led her through many of her most important
adventures and helped her ensure that her father never suspected that his little princess
was perhaps a tad bit more reckless than he would have wished. Dane Mattlaw
believed his perfect, innocent daughter was unwary of the world, unknowing of the
darker side of life that could be found outside the walls of the estate he had raised her
in. He had no idea of the free spirit, the reckless, outrageous woman his daughter had
become.
She wasn’t trying to be cruel in keeping him in the dark. She just knew how he
worried, how he fought to always protect her from any harm that could come her way.
He wasn’t overbearing, merely overprotective in a very fatherly way. And she
understood the reasons why, had lived those reasons for three long, nightmarish years
at her grandparents’ home in Spain when she was a child.
But she wasn’t a child any longer.
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