Ha! Don’t we all. (My mind is perpetually in the gutter.)

So, Fae came out last week and I was so deep into the editing of the many drafts of this book that I never gave you guys the sneak peeks like I normally would on my blog. Anyone who has been following my blog knows my summer was FUBAR. I couldn’t get a handle on anything because I over committed and had too many damn projects! The good news is the writing is finally back on track.

Here’s an update from my post earlier in the summer where I listed all of my crazy projects (and so you can see everything that happened):

• Of Fog and Fire (Parts I & II) was completed and is live on Amazon!
• Fae (Daughters of Eltera Book 1) is ALSO done! Available on Amazon too!
• I gave you guys a little Christmas in July surprise with a free Kindle edition of Christmas at Purgatory
• Chapter 5 of my Literotica series ‘The Wild Ones’ was finally fucking posted. I know, about fucking time, JB.
• There is also another upcoming anthology (to be released in October) from The Erotic Collective featuring a brand new story from me! (That will be in another blog)

My point is, all ^that shit^ kept me fucking busy. I still have one more commitment on my plate, but one commitment is one I can handle. It’s a book for a publisher who I’ll name at a later date once they have the manuscript, and actually … you know, accept it. I also already started Chapter 6 of The Wild Ones, so all you lovely Lit fans can get yanked off that cliffhanger I left you on. (Don’t worry, I won’t let you fall).

The best part of all of this is that I can finally breathe again and get back to a normal schedule without staying up to crazy hours while holding down my full-time day job like a fancy adult, and keeping up with my family, friends, my Dom, and trying not to let my house explode with incomplete chores.

To thank all of you lovelies for putting up with me and my ridiculousness, I wanted to give you a little sneak peek of my latest release ‘Fae’ which is the first book in the Daughters of Eltera series. It’s dark / paranormal romance. Yes, there’s sexy times, but it focuses more on these beings, their history, and their struggle to keep faith with a goddess who is just as screwed as they are. I’m already a fan (after all the story has been in my head for a decade), but I hope you’ll be one soon too!

Remember, I love you all. I love your messages, your tweets, your FB messages, your Lit comments – all of it. It keeps me going when all I want to do is curl up with a bottle of wine and watch Netflix for 12 hours. It makes me open my laptop and keep going. So, please, keep them coming.

Now I’ll shut up and give you a nice long excerpt…

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An hour or so later Fae woke up to a sharp boot kick to her ribs. She gasped, wincing as her eyes opened, and she heard Ebere’s voice scream off to her left, “Sir! Please!”

“What the fuck are you doing down here?” The gruff voice belonged to Butler and Fae looked up at him as she crossed an arm over her stomach and used the other to push herself up. She didn’t even remember falling asleep, but the Oblivion was still raging in her system. Unfortunately, it didn’t do anything to dull the pain – it just made her care a little less about it.

“She brought us laundry! From the East wing!” Mei-Li spoke up this time and Butler just sneered at them before grabbing Fae by the hair and pulling her to her feet. She stumbled as he yanked her towards him, but his grip on her kept her upright.

“Tell me, Fae, where are you supposed to be?” The sinister tone of his voice almost sounded happy as he asked. She wanted to just tell him to punish her, to get it over with, but no, he had to make a point first.

“Upstairs. East wing.” She gritted her teeth to stifle the smart-ass comments she wanted to make, because she really doubted Butler was supposed to be looking for her. Nikola had already delivered a punishment for her defiance that morning and it was unlikely he’d given Butler permission to hunt her down again.

“Why aren’t you there?”

“I brought the laundry down.” As soon as she answered, the other girls started speaking to back her up but Butler just snapped his fingers to silence them.

“What should you have done once the laundry was delivered?” His lips brushed against her ear as he leaned close to her, and a shudder moved through her.

“I should have gone back upstairs, sir.”

“That’s right,” he growled out the words and then shoved her forward, bending her over one of the machines. He lifted the hem of her dress, and someone started to plead with him as he held her down by her hair.

“Sir! Please, it’s -”

“Shut up! The next girl that talks gets twice what Fae here is getting for leaving her assigned area.” The sound of his belt unbuckling made her flinch in preparation. An instant later the leather cut through the air and the first lash across her ass was a bright spike of pain inside the delirium of the Oblivion. The next line of fire went across the tops of her thighs, and she bit down hard to stay silent.

I’ve had worse. I’ve had worse. This is nothing.

It was the mantra that got her through so much, and even as he laid line after line across her ass, she swallowed the little yelps that tried to slip by. It was a searing heat that broke through the warm fuzz that had filled her and replaced it with the aftershocks of each blow. She refused to beg for him, to let him hear her plead, because she knew that’s what he loved most. The last few were as hard as he could deliver, and she pressed her cheek hard against the metal, gripping the back of the machine and pushing out breaths to fight the urge to cry. Her skin felt blistered. Even the slight shifting of her muscles revealed how bruised she was, and she knew he reveled in punishing her because he never got in trouble for it. Who cared what he did to her when she was a blank slate the following morning?

It was probably why Butler had hunted her down.

Even if she had been upstairs he would have found some small error, some tiny mistake to punish her for. As the pounding of her heart in her ears faded, she could hear sniffling from the other end of the laundry room on top of Butler’s harsh breathing.

“Get on your knees,” he released his grip on her and stepped back. Fae stood up carefully and knelt even more gently, keeping her ass off her heels. She could see that Butler’s cock was hard in his pants, and she tried to ignore the three girls huddled together in the corner of her eye. “Go on, slut, you know what to do.”

“Mei-Li! Sobeska! Ebere!” Lena’s irritating voice rang out from the hallway, “Do you girls not understand what time it is? If you miss -” her words stopped short as she stepped into the doorway, and Fae hated the blush that flooded her cheeks. Lena took in the scene, and then tried to stifle the smile on her lips. “Ah, Butler, sir, I didn’t know you were here. I didn’t mean to interrupt you.”

“No interruption, I was just reminding Fae of the house rules, and the consequences of breaking them.” His fingers wound in her hair and he pulled her forward until he rubbed her cheek against the front of his pants. She clenched her fists tight to keep herself from doing something incredibly stupid. Like twisting his balls until he screamed like a girl, or breaking every finger of his hand and then driving a coat hanger through his abdomen as she spit in his face.

“Of course, sir. The other girls are late for the evening meal, would you mind if I took them with me?” Lena spoke so sweetly as she pointedly ignored Fae on the floor.

“Go ahead, I’ll give this one her dinner personally.” Butler’s voice made her shudder, but she took relief in the fact that the other girls wouldn’t be here for what would happen.

“No! It’s my fault! I -” Ebere started to speak and Fae jerked away from Butler’s grip and shouted at her.

“Shut up, Ebere! Go with Lena!” Fae hated the hurt look that passed over the girl’s face, but if it meant she’d be safe and back in the female quarters, it was worth it. Butler slapped her hard for pulling away, and Fae swallowed against the urge to cry. She didn’t even touch her cheek because she didn’t want him to know how much it had hurt. Glancing up through her hair she saw Ebere standing with her fists balled at her sides.

“Come on, Eb.” Sobeska took her arm and pulled her past Fae, and Mei-Li followed them. Lena turned back and grabbed the doorknob as they all stepped outside.

“Sorry for the interruption, sir. Hopefully with your guidance she’ll learn some manners.” Lena smiled and Fae growled at her as she shut the door and left them alone.

“I don’t think you’re capable of learning manners, whore.” Butler grabbed her chin and yanked her head up painfully. “Are you?”

“No.” Fae kept her eyes on his as they widened slightly in surprise and then narrowed as his rage filled him.

She had never obeyed, and she wasn’t going to start now.

“That’s no sir.” He hissed it through his teeth and she pushed down the urge to spit in his face.

“No, sir.” She growled the words back at him and he returned his fingers to her hair, straightening up above her.

“I agree, you’re not capable of being anything more than the slut you were made to be. Now, you’re going to do your best as you suck my cock, or after I come in your throat I’ll just go talk to Nikola about what you did when you finished your chores.” His fist tightened in her hair, “And I’ll check the security footage to see who helped you finish all those rooms, because I know you didn’t do them alone. Then I’ll have you watch as they get exactly what they’ve earned.”

Ebere.

He knew exactly who had been helping her. Hell, Ebere had tried to confess to him. She wasn’t going to let Butler go after her too. Fae reached up and swiftly undid the button on his pants and tugged the zipper down. Then she slipped her fingers into the band on his boxers and paused, “I’ll do whatever you want, sir.”

“Show me.” He pulled her head forward and she yanked his pants down.

“Yes, sir.”