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  ONE LAST CHANCE

  LAUREN WOOD

  Contents

  Copyright

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  One Last Kiss

  1. Prologue

  2. Ten Years Later

  3. Danielle

  4. Danielle

  5. Mack

  6. Danielle

  7. Mack

  8. Danny

  9. Mack

  10. Danielle

  11. Mack

  12. Danny

  13. Mack

  14. Danny

  15. Mack

  16. Danielle

  17. Mack

  18. Danielle

  19. Mack

  20. Danny

  21. Mack

  22. Danny

  23. Mack

  24. Danny

  25. Mack

  26. Danny

  27. Danny

  28. Mack

  One Last Touch

  29. Prologue

  30. Cal

  31. Mariss

  32. Cal

  33. Mariss

  34. Cal

  35. Mariss

  36. Cal

  37. Mariss

  38. Cal

  39. Mariss

  40. Cal

  41. Mariss

  42. Cal

  43. Mariss

  44. Cal

  45. Mariss

  46. Cal

  47. Mariss

  48. Cal

  49. Mariss

  50. Cal

  51. Mariss

  52. Cal

  53. Mariss

  54. Cal

  55. Epilogue

  One Last Time

  56. Prologue

  57. Matt

  58. Anna

  59. Anna

  60. Anna

  61. Matt

  62. Anna

  63. Matt

  64. Anna

  65. Matt

  66. Anna

  67. Matt

  68. Anna

  69. Matt

  70. Anna

  71. Matt

  72. Anna

  73. Matt

  74. Anna

  75. Matt

  76. Anna

  77. Matt

  78. Anna

  79. Matt

  80. Anna

  81. Matt

  82. Anna

  83. Matt

  One Last Love

  84. Prologue

  85. Frank

  86. Gemma

  87. Frank

  88. Gemma

  89. Frank

  90. Gemma

  91. Frank

  92. Gemma

  93. Frank

  94. Gemma

  95. Frank

  96. Gemma

  97. Frank

  98. Gemma

  99. Frank

  100. Gemma

  101. Frank

  102. Gemma

  103. Frank

  A Note From The Author

  Connect with Me –

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2019 by Lauren Wood

  All rights reserved.

  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

  This book is for mature readers. It contains sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some.

  All sexual activity in this work is consensual and all sexually active characters are 18 years of age or older.

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  One Last Kiss

  Blurb

  * * *

  Mack, my first love ever, was a sexual mastermind.

  He could do so many things to my body that I didn’t know were possible.

  I thought it would never end, this magical time, but it did.

  Our love couldn’t withstand reality.

  Now he’s back and his charm is being used on me.

  He’s trying to pull me back in.

  * * *

  I almost didn’t recognize him at the reunion.

  Things changed and Mack was dressed impeccably in a three-piece suit.

  He looked magnetic and our eyes met from across the room.

  * * *

  He comes towards me and I’m shaking.

  Mack is more than a man to me.

  He was everything to me at one point.

  * * *

  Now he’s back in my life and I can’t say no.

  I never could.

  Those dark blues eyes.

  Hard chest and deviled grin.

  Got me every time.

  Every single time.

  * * *

  He wanted me back in his bed and there’s no way to deny him.

  * * *

  ***

  Prologue

  Mack

  * * *

  “I don’t even know you. What makes you think that you can talk me into anything?”

  I smiled at Danny and told her that I was going to talk her into everything.

  “It’s doubtful Mack. I know that you have a reputation in school, but not with me. I’m not like other girls.”

  I’d heard things about her as well and I knew that she was telling the truth. She was not like any other girl that I’d met, namely she wasn’t giving me the time of day. I didn’t usually have to ask more than once.

  “That’s a good thing. I wouldn’t be talking to you if you were.”

  “You sound a bit too sure of yourself Mack. You’re kind of coming across like a jerk.”

  I grinned at her and started to relax. This was the sort of banter that I could get behind. All I could think about was taking her into my arms and kissing her. A bit of her bottom lip was trapped between her teeth and so helped me it made me want her more.

  “Cause I am sure. I know things.”

  “What do you know?”

  “I know that you’re going to help me cut class by pretending to be my mom on the phone and then we are both going to get out of here.”

  She had this look that she didn’t believe me and I was fully prepared to prove her wrong. I knew that there was something in her eyes. She was interested and if I didn’t know any better, the bad boy in me was bringing out the bad girl in her.

  “There is no way that it is going to happen, Mack. You need to find someone else to do that for you.”

  I knew that she would, even as she protested that it wouldn’t happen. She still had that curiosity in her eyes and I wondered if the preppy girl had ever done anything out of the ordinary. She always followed the rules and I wanted her to break them for me.

  I handed her my cell phone and dialed the number for the school. We were standing in the hallway and the bell was a couple of minutes from ringing. I already had too many demerits against me and I couldn’t get anymore. If I had any more unexcused absences, I wasn’t going to graduate and another year in this place wasn’t an option.

  She took the phone, the whole time giving me a dirty look while I just grinned at her. I didn’t want to push it at the moment, but I wanted to point out that I told her so.

  Her voice changed and she sounded like an
older fifty year old woman. She was clip with her answers and I couldn’t tell it was her, Danny standing right in front of me, looking at me with daggers in her eyes.

  “You’ve been excused.”

  Danny hung up and I thanked her for the help. “I knew you would be good at a life of crime. I think you are perfect to come to paradise with me.”

  “Well that’s my last little touch with the other side of the law. You’re going to have to find someone else to do your dirty work and to go to paradise with you Mack. I’m not the girl for you.”

  She started to walk away and I stopped her with an arm on her hand.

  “Let me repay you.”

  By the time she’d turned around about to answer, I was pressing my lips against hers, my grip pulling her to me until she yielded from our bodies touching. Her body melted against mine and it was the first time that Danny reacted the way any other girl would.

  She didn’t let me kiss her long though. She pushed back and I relented. Danny’s eyes were glazed when she met mine and the innocence that I’d heard about was staring back at me. It was a temptation that was hard for me to go back for more.

  “Was that my repayment?”

  Danny acted like she wasn’t impressed, but she was. I could tell by the way she was smiling at me now.

  “No, not if that wasn’t enough. I can give you more.”

  I started to move towards her and she stopped me giggling. “Do you think of anything else?”

  “Standing here, next to you? No way.”

  “Buy me some lunch since you’ve interrupted mine and dragged me into your seedy lifestyle.”

  I was more than happy to do just that. I already knew that it was going to go somewhere else. She was going to be mine. I knew that it was going to take a little persistence, but for the right reasons, I could be quite patient.

  We walked out of school and to my car. From that point on we were inseparable.

  Ten Years Later

  Mack

  * * *

  I flipped the card in my hand and smiled to myself. As soon as I saw it in the mail, my high school logo on it that I’d once had on a Varsity jacket that I’d jacked from one of the football players for a debt, I knew it was about the reunion. It was about time for our reunion and I couldn’t believe that it had been almost ten years since I graduated by the skin on my teeth. Sure enough of what it was, I opened the envelope and smiled to myself. I was thinking of simpler times as Ernest drove me to meet a buyer.

  It was the first time I was meeting Candace and I was anxious as I was for each new venture. This letter was a welcomed distraction as I thought of the possibilities of this one night.

  “Are you okay boss?”

  “Yeah, I just got some good news.”

  “Yeah?”

  “Yeah, we have a reunion coming up and I’m going to run into my ex there. I haven’t had some of that ass for ten years. I wonder if it will still be as good.”

  “I can’t remember one chick from that long ago. She must have been something special.”

  That was the understatement. Danny had been something else altogether and the more I thought about her, the less I worried about the meeting coming up in a few minutes. It was good to think of something else besides work. It was good to think of Danny again. I didn’t realize until now how much I missed her.

  “Yeah Danny was something special.”

  “Then why did you stop talking? Did you cheat on her or something?”

  Ernest was being chatty and I knew it was from nerves. It appeared that he needed his mind off of it as much as I did.

  “No, it just, hell I don’t know. It just wasn’t working all of a sudden and then she was gone.”

  I thought about what I said and the truth wasn’t all that. It was complicated, but I was ready to push it to the side and see what we could create now. I wanted back in her panties.

  I knew that I wanted there to be something between us again. I could still feel the wetness as she was pleasured. The screams as she came. I missed the intensity that we had for each other. It hadn’t been found with anyone else and this damn card from high school was bringing it all back. It was a month away. It was a long time to wait.

  Ernest stopped and waited for instructions on what to do next.

  “Just drive around a four block square and I will be out soon. Stay close the first couple of minutes to two block squares.”

  He agreed and I got out. I didn’t like Ernest opening the doors for me in this situation. It would make him an instant target. He was my driver, not my bodyguard.

  I walked up to the bungalow and I could tell that there were several people inside from the shadows in the windows. It threw me off immediately because it was just supposed to be me and a buyer. This woman was obviously nervous and I found out just how much so when I knocked and I was pulled in by thick fingers, catching me off guard. Two guys with guns started to frisk me and I was affronted with their touch.

  “What the hell is going on?”

  “Just checking for wires and things, weapons. You know as a woman I have to be more careful.”

  The black-haired Caroline was not at all what I’d expected. She couldn’t have been more than thirty and she had a pretty face. Usually I dealt with old men with too much money looking for an outlet that they could dump it in without paying taxes on the cash.

  “I didn’t sign up for that. Get your goons or I’m out of here.”

  “For someone with so much experience and recommendations, I can’t believe that this is new to you.”

  “It is. I won’t work with someone if this is how it’s going to go.”

  Caroline smiled and nodded to the two men that were manhandling me. “Very well, let’s see what you have for me Mack. I hear good things.”

  If this is how she acted with good news, I would hate to see how it was with bad news.

  “I have pictures. You pick out what looks good to you and I will have some of my guys bring them to you.”

  “Some of your guys?”

  “You don’t think I have it with me, do you?”

  “Well it would fit if you wanted it to.”

  Caroline was interested in jewelry, namely a diamond that I was recently pressed upon to sell. It was one of a kind, like many of the larger ones I dealt with were and it had a beautiful yellow hue. It was worth millions, but we both knew that she was going to get a bit of a deal because of its origins. I didn’t know much about Caroline or her wealth, but with three of my clients vouching for her, I was going out on a limb.

  She flipped through the book and found her prize.

  “I want that Mack.”

  I told her the price that I had in mind and she didn’t even flinch. I’d started a little high because I figured she would try to haggle me down, but she didn’t and I was left with a much higher price tag.

  “Good, when can I have it?”

  She was anxious and I told her I could have it to her very soon, as soon as I had money.

  The amount was quickly bagged up and if I wasn’t so experienced in this, I would have been amazed at the amount of money I was handling. It was a lot of cash and I noticed that she had a little more there. It meant I could have asked for more and she would have gone for it. That was my biggest mistake and I was kicking myself for not upping the price more.

  “Now, when do I get my diamond?”

  She was looking at me expectantly and I took the money in the case. I reached into my pocket and handed her the ring that she was looking for.

  “You kept this in your pocket? Do you know how much this is worth?”

  I lifted up the case a bit to let her know that I did. I found it rather funny that her guys hadn’t found it before, but they were looking for wires and guns, not a little ring in the inside pocket.

  “You’ll be in touch if you come across anything else that I might like?”

  I told her that I would. The transaction had gone pretty smooth, save for the beginning and I could
foresee us working together in the future. She had a certain smile that I knew well. Maybe I would be calling her for more than pretty little stones in the future.

  Ernest picked me up not far from the place and I heaved a sigh of relief. If I didn’t get stopped in the next five minutes, I would consider the sale a good one. But that next five minutes felt like thirty. It was the worst part of the job, but the most necessary.