SWEET SINFUL NIGHTS
LAUREN BLAKELY
Book One in the Sinful Nights Series
Copyright © 2015 by Lauren Blakely
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Table of Contents
ALSO BY LAUREN BLAKELY
DEDICATION
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
EPILOGUE
PREVIEW OF SINFUL DESIRE
CONSUMED BY YOU PREVIEW
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTACT
Also by Lauren Blakely
The Caught Up in Love Series (Each book in this series follows a different couple so each book can be read separately, or enjoyed as a series since characters crossover)
Caught Up in Her (A short prequel novella to Caught Up in Us)
Caught Up In Us
Pretending He’s Mine
Trophy Husband
Playing With Her Heart
Standalone Novels (Each of these full-length romance novels can be read by themselves, though they feature appearance from characters in Caught Up in Love)
Far Too Tempting
Stars in Their Eyes
21 Stolen Kisses
The No Regrets Series (These books should be read in order)
The Thrill of It
Every Second With You
The Seductive Nights Series
Night After Night (Julia and Clay, book one, includes the prequel First Night)
After This Night (Julia and Clay, book two)
One More Night (Julia and Clay, book three)
Nights With Him (A standalone novel about Michelle and Jack)
Forbidden Nights (A standalone novel about Nate and Casey)
The Sinful Nights Series
Sweet Sinful Nights (Brent and Shannon, June 2015)
Sinful Desire (Fall, 2015)
Sinful Longing (2016)
Sinful Love (2016)
The Fighting Fire Series
Burn For Me (Smith and Jamie)
Melt for Him (Megan and Becker)
Consumed By You (Travis and Cara, August 2015)
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to my daughter,
who helped brainstorm the plot. You are brilliant, my dear!
And, as always, to my dear friend Cynthia.
CHAPTER ONE
Ten years ago
I’d go anywhere with you.
People said those words, but they didn’t always mean them. Brent was sure Shannon did though. She’d go anywhere with him.
As he gunned the engine on his bike, all he could think was that in less than ten minutes it would be happening. He’d be walking through the front door and giving the woman he loved the best news of their lives.
Weaving through the late afternoon Boston traffic, he fast-forwarded to the next few weeks—they’d go to the land of sunshine. He’d take her far away from Boston, and keep her far away from all the other places she didn’t want to be. He could see them holed up in a little one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, spending their nights fucking, their days working. Fine, she didn’t have a job yet, but there had to be work in Los Angeles for an injured-dancer-turned-entry-level-choreographer, right?
With equal parts excitement and anticipation radiating through his bones, he darted through the stalled cars. Up ahead, maybe five hundred feet, was the exit that would take him to his apartment, where she’d been living for the last two weeks since her lease ran out after they’d graduated. His was up next week. Perfect timing to leave town together.
Flipping on the blinker, he turned off the highway, then jetted down the road to his building. Soon, he pulled into the asphalt lot, shut off the engine, and unsnapped his helmet. He headed to the concrete stairwell, taking the stairs two by two, up to the third floor.