EXCERPT: TOO HOT TO HANDLE/CHELCEE
“I’m
sorry.” She gripped his fingers. “We’re going down,” she said in a shaky voice.
“I
know.” He clenched his teeth. “All I ask is that you don’t break both my legs
in the landing, or my back…been there, done that.”
She
gave a watery laugh. “I swear I won’t. Hold on to me. I don’t want to die
alone.”
He
leaned as close as possible and drew her face protectively against his chest.
“Don’t look, baby.”
Dianna
buried her face deeper against his chest. “No. I won’t look. I don’t want to
see death coming at us.”
The
plane glided so smoothly, Dianna could hardly believe what was about to happen,
but she knew when they hit the trees and concealed rocks, the aircraft would
shear apart.
She
held her breath. Her heart beat so frantically, it hurt. Her lungs ached for
air. It would have been nice to settle things with Taylor before they died. Too
bad there was so little time left them. Too bad she wanted him, and he detested
her.
Wanted
him?
Shit,
was she in love with the big jerk? How could she be in love with such an
asshole?
“Here
it comes,” he whispered.
He
tightened his hold on her, tilted her face to his. “Look at me, Dianna.”
“Taylor.”
She
lifted her gaze to the window. Everything was such a blur rushing toward them.
Her breath hitched.
“No,
sweetheart, look only at me. Dianna, look at me!”
She
turned her head, locked her gaze with his.
“That’s
my girl.” Slowly, he settled his mouth on hers. Her breath caught. Oh, yeah.
She was definitely a goner. She’d been a goner for months now. Why had he
waited so long to kiss her again?
His
lips felt feather soft, gentle, yet utterly ravaging. Never had she felt
anything as good as his warm mouth possessing hers. Dianna sighed with
contentment and surrendered her heart into his care. This kiss would have to
last her a lifetime and beyond. She dug her fingers in the front of his shirt
and hung on.
BAM!
Dianna
felt the jolt in every muscle and bone. She was brutally wrenched from Taylor’s
arms. He grunted, hurled to his right and then back against his seat.
“Taylor!”
“Here.
I’m right here.”
Metal
crunched and screeched in agony. Everything about the plane snarled in protest,
a wounded beast fighting to its last breath. The only thing they could do was
ride the ride.
Glass
imploded around them. Hundreds of shiny pieces shot through the air. Dianna
flung her arms across her face. The plane jerked hard to the right. Luggage
flipped toward them, tossing and tumbling like paper in the wind.
The
blunt corner of a suitcase slammed into Taylor’s left shoulder. She heard his
moan and prayed it hadn’t broken his collarbone or shoulder. White-hot pain
pierced her left leg above her knee. Something sharp and lethal gouged her
right shoulder.
Dianna
screamed.
Taylor
grabbed her, closed his arms tight around her shoulders, but still she felt
every bone-snapping, teeth-jarring bite of pain.
The
plane whipped into a wild tailspin, tossing them about like flotsam in a stormy
sea. Torn from Taylor’s arms a second time, Dianna tried desperately to get a
hold on the yoke, but her fingers slipped off, too slick with sweat for her to
latch on to it. “Oh, God. Oh, God.”
The
aircraft raced on in its destructive path, plowing through the underbelly of
the rainforest. The wings popped and
sheared off as the plane punched its way past a blur of huge red rocks. Tree
limbs snapped and broke as easily as matchsticks.
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2 comments:
Very tense excerpt. It certainly got my heart pounding. Wishing you many, many sales!
Thx., Marie Rose,
Appreciate ur stopping by....Tabs/Jaydyn
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