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Excerpt Monday: pg 17 Del Fantasma: Tiger Juice
Posted by Melisse on April 13, 2009
The Del Fantasma stories are centered around a bar and restaurant on the Southern California beach, the Del Fantasma. Cody the owner, chief bartender and matchmaker, is a vampire. Most of his patrons are more than human. Cody’s special drinks have magical power…
Del Fantasma: Tiger Juice
by
Becca Sheridan-Furrow
Her journey ends in Vista Loma, CA, at the Del Fantasma. Perhaps working for vampire Cody in a paranormal friendly bar will give her some answers about her psychic abilities.
Jagger comes from a tight knit clan of white tiger shifters, but he left the family entertainment business to run a contracting business. He hangs out at his friend Cody’s bar.
When the Storm of the Century approaches Vista Loma, Cody works his magic.
Excerpt
BACK GROUND: Letha sleeps in her truck because she has no money for an apartment. Cody finds out and has her stay in his office at the Del Fantasma.
(unedited excerpt)
A loud banging woke Letha from a deep sleep. She looked around, disoriented and saw the clock on the wall. Six am. It was dark for six am.
Another bang. She leaped off the couch and ran into the bar.
Thunder and lightening crashed and the door of the Del Fantasma burst open.
A man, nude, stood in the doorway as lightening blazed, outlining a tall lithe form and pale silvery hair. Then, in the man’s place stood a tiger, white with dark strips, enormous.
Letha screamed and whirled around, and tore off for the office.
There as a soft thud behind her, then a paw, white, with long claws, fell heavy on her shoulder, and she fell to the floor. The paw gently rolled her over as if she weighed nothing.
The white tiger with sky blue eyes stood over her, one paw still on her shoulder. Then the shape blurred, and a man crouched over her.
Jagger Kirillov.
“Don’t. Ever. Run. From. A. Tiger.” His voice was harsh.
She tried to catch her breath. “A-all right.” She couldn’t look away from his sky blue eyes. The heat of his naked flesh, held just inches from her thin knit, burned. In fact, as she took a deep breath, the tips of her breasts grazed his chest.
He gave a sound something between a growl and a purr that resonated all the way through her, even between her legs. Then his lips pressed against hers, hard and demanding.
She gasped in a mix of shock and delight, and his tongue plunged in, while at the same time he lowered his hard hot body on top of her own. She could feel the hard length of his erection pressing against her. Wildness flared inside her and she threw her arms around his neck giving back the kiss with passion she didn’t even know she had, sucking his tongue, while his arms pulled her tighter.
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Jeannie Lin said
Wait, what happened? I thought I had seen your excerpt here last night.
I really was looking forward to reading it!
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kate willoughby said
I can’t seem to read the excerpt OR the comments! Grrr.
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C. said
ack! What happened to the excerpt?? I’ll check back later…
Jeannie Lin said
There it is!
I could totally picture the tiger’s paw swatting her and then rolling her over — like a big, ferocious killer playing cat and mouse!
Gina said
Ack! You leave us hanging there?! More, baby. We wanna see more!
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Ella said
I love that purr!
Stephanie Adkins said
Great excerpt, Becca.
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briaq said
That was a lot of fun – and you out clever everyone else with the picture intro!
Vivienne Westlake said
I like that line: “Dont. Ever. Run. From. A. Tiger.”