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Someone once said that a man grows to love the person he is attracted to and a woman becomes attracted to the person she loves.
It’s all bollocks, of course, but in many ways this explains Tara and Patrick’s relationship in my trilogy, Suited to You.
Neither of them is looking for love at first, but perhaps they conform to the stereotype after all.
I love that moment in The Sound of Music when the Captain and Maria reveal when they first fell in love with the other. Touchingly and interestingly, for both, it’s very early on in their acquaintance, almost immediately in fact, with little incidents that reveal something personal and intimate about them. Is it always that way?
In Suited to You, Tara doesn’t believe herself to be in love with Patrick. She wants sex, she’s come looking for sex and, on the surface, she seems to conform more to the male stereotype – slowly falling in love with the person she’s attracted to. But perhaps she’s fallen far earlier than that?
Like the dominant hero in so many erotic romances, it’s not what we know about him but what we don’t know about him that renders him irresistible. The very things which are supposed to keep Patrick – The Suit – emotionally distanced from Tara in fact make her fall for him. His anonymity, his aloofness, his control – in his mind, and hers, these are designed to keep the feelings at arms’ length, but in actuality they compel her to him, not only physically but emotionally. Tara is hooked even before the overwhelming physical attraction takes hold.
As for Patrick? Well, despite all the moody, enigmatic brooding, he’s a bloke, after all – more predictable, perhaps. Does he fulfil the male paradigm and eventually fall in love with Tara? You’ll have to read the series to find out.
Here’s a taste from the final part, Sated:
‘Shit! I’m bloody supposed to be at work!’
As the thin dawn light crept into the room behind the heavy velvet curtains, I tore myself awake with a panic.
Patrick rolled over and placed an arm over me before I could escape.
‘No, you’re not. It’s sorted, don’t worry. No one expects you to get from Devon to Dean Street in two hours.’
‘But Sarah’s not even my boss any more! What if the new editor’s there today?’
‘Relax,’ he said with a chuckle. ‘She’s not starting until next week. Technically, as assistant editor, you’re the boss, and you’ve just given yourself the day off.’
‘Have I?’ He was kissing over my body, which once again awakened instantly. He’d already reached my collar bone.
‘Hm-mm. Or at least … you’re working from home.’
Left nipple.
‘On what?’
Right nipple.
‘Research.’
Belly button.
‘For?’
Left hip.
‘Mating rituals in the West Country.’
Right hip.
I tittered. ‘Oo-arr, moy darlin’ – does that mean spreading me all over in clotted cream and licking it off?’
Clit. Oh, definitely my clit.
I moaned and arched. He broke off and glanced up.
‘Among other things. Plenty of time to explore that –’ he spun me over and yanked me up onto my knees ‘– and more.’ And he thrust into me, hard and long, right up in one go.
Demelza Hart loves both contemporary and historical erotica and erotic romance. Suited to You, published by Xcite Books, follows the exhibitionist, spontaneous sexual encounters of Tara and her lover, Patrick, otherwise known as The Suit, and is her first trilogy. Her stories can be found in all the usual places, but please join Demelza on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/demelza.hart.3
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Spontaneous
Exposed
Sated