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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The Art of Pleasure



Guest Ella Laurance

 

Isn’t it any woman’s fantasy to have a handsome man with more money than he could possible spend in several lifetimes fall in love with her? Well, it wasn’t one of Marie’s dreams. And yet, that’s exactly what happened to her. Trevor Dewey, billionaire, wanted her the very moment he saw her. Despite Marie’s doubts about the consequences of extreme wealth, she couldn’t help but see the true man behind the bank account.  

After ten years that love is still going strong…

 

Blurb:

Marie Dewey collects paintings and sexual experiences with different men, and her billionaire husband Trevor loves nothing more than to fulfil all her wishes…

Billionaire Trevor Dewey has two great talents—making money and loving his wife, Marie. Marie, in her turn, has two great loves—her husband and art. She's also a sexual freethinker who enjoys one-night stands with other men in the company of her own husband.

Trevor wants nothing more than to make his wife happy, so when she falls in lust with his personal assistant and best friend, Callum, and Callum returns her feelings, he decides to take both of them to his private island off the coast of Scotland for a weekend of sex. And both men will bring Marie to several unbelievable heights of pleasure during one weekend.

All three know this will be a one-time thing only before life returns to normal

 

Excerpt:

She walked through the exhibition rooms filled with works of Leyster, Modersohn-Becker, Kahlo, Morisot, Gentileschi, Kollwitz and many others, her hands accentuating the enthusiasm of her voice. If Trevor could have fallen in love with her even more, he would have done so. A pleasant tingling in his crotch reminded him of both the night that lay behind him and the one still to come. His wife had been insatiable, on fire, and he had done everything his body was capable of to satisfy her needs. When she had finally fallen asleep against his exhausted body, it had been with a happy smile on her face.

Marie turned her head around and smiled at him. “I can read your thoughts,” she sing-songed.

Trevor winked at her. “You’re a witch, woman, reading my mind like that.”

“Get a room, you two.” Callum waggled his eyebrows. He might not have known everything about them, but he came damn close. He had become their most trusted employee and one of their best friends, and most importantly of all, he had learned to steer expertly between those two roles. He never judged, but always spoke his mind when he thought it had to be spoken, and invariably for a good reason. Trevor had learnt from costly experience that the best he could do for himself was to ignore the vast majority of advice given to him, but when Callum talked, he listened.

The new painting hung on the wall between two other De Lempicka works, and Marie insisted both Trevor and Callum should come and admire it before the museum presented its latest acquisition to the public. Every time her husband bought a new painting for her, she was always so excited to share it with others. If there was one thing that allowed her to make peace with the fact that she was married to a billionaire, she had told Trevor, it was the opportunity to not only collecting as much art as she desired, but also building a museum so everyone could share in the joy of visual beauty. Almost everything in his life was about investment and revenue, about money making more money, but not this. This was for her, and the worth of it all lay not in dollars and pounds, but in the pleasure it gave Marie.

Look, everything around him said, look with your eyes and your heart and your mind. Simply look!

Marie stood in the middle, Trevor on her right and Callum on her left. She looked to her husband, then to his assistant and finally at the painting. Trevor couldn’t help but smile when he heard her deep, happy sigh before she said, “Thank you so much, the both of you.”

“It’s just a matter of putting more money on the table than everyone else,” Trevor said.

“I was only doing my job,” Callum said.

But Marie shook her head, “Money? Work? As if.” She turned towards Callum again, but right before she did, Trevor saw something in her eyes, if only for a fleeting second, that made him realise what would be the next gift to his wife. She wanted Callum. Or to be more precise, she wanted to have sex with him. 

 

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About the author:

The real life version of Ella Laurance was born and raised in Rotterdam and never really left. She studied (social) history and has done a small assortment of jobs and voluntary work. But writing has been the main theme through all of it.

She’s been with her wife since 1982, and together they have raised two sons. There are also cats. And books. Lots of books.

Ella Laurance also publishes as S. Dora and R.A. Padmos.



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