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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

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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