Jennifer Nolan has been unlucky when it comes to love; even more
unfortunate when it comes to sex. In fact, the twenty year-old college junior
is about to enter her senior year still carrying her v-card. All she wants is
to be with that special someone without it resulting in a trip to the emergency
room, runaway office supplies, or being scarred for life by someone’s weird
fetishes. With several botched attempts under her belt, she begins to fear
she’ll end up a lonely spinster or a crazy cat lady.
With only 60 days until her 21st birthday, Jennifer is
determined to lose her virginity once and for all. Little does she know that
her mission will lead her down a path toward love. She never expects that her
mission will lead her to a discovery of what true womanhood is, and where true
and lasting love begins.
“It sucks when your pretend date ditches you for a real
one.” I looked up to find Dain in front of me, blocking Christian and Amber
from my view. He was so tall I had to crane my neck up to look at him. I didn’t
mind; the view was spectacular.
I shrugged. “Yeah,
but what are you gonna do?” I said, my tongue finally coming unglued from the
roof of my mouth. He smiled and my insides quivered. “It’s okay, we’re
roommates. I’ll just do gross things to him while he sleeps.”
He laughed again and I smiled in response. “You could do
that. Or,” he leaned in, so close I could smell his cologne, “you could get
even.”
My mouth fell open. I was a fish again, gasping for air and
flopping around for something witty to say. Instead, he got, “Get even?”
He nodded. “Yeah. You know, find some wildly attractive guy
to be your new date and piss him off.”
“That’s a good idea,” I said. “Know any wildly attractive
guys?”
“If you’ll settle for
extremely witty and tall, then there’s always me,” he said. Him. On a biscuit.
Or covered in chocolate. Or running shirtless, drenched with sweat. Or … I
swallowed past the lump in my throat.
“I guess you’ll do,” I said with a shrug.
“Good. Why don’t you
tell me about Jenn?”
“Um, okay.” He placed his hand at the small of my back,
turning me toward the little dock jutting out over the water. A sleek speedboat
bobbed on the surface. I concentrated on trying not to trip as we stepped out
onto the dock. “Well, I’m a Nursing student. I’m in my junior year and I want
to be a Pediatric nurse after I graduate.”
“Pediatrics, huh? You must like kids or something.”
I nodded. “Everybody
likes kids.”
“So you must want to have them someday.”
“Doesn’t everybody?” He shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe
someday. I’m more focused on my career right now than anything else.”
“What do you do?” “Well, I just graduated with a business
degree last year,” he said, stuffing his hands into his pockets. “I just
started an entry level position at my dad’s company.”
“Wow,” I said, eyebrows raised. “Color me impressed.”
He laughed. “Not that impressive. It’s grunt work in the
mail room, but you have to start somewhere. My dad started there and now he’s
CEO. I could have gotten a job higher up, but I wanted to take my lumps like
everybody else. Couldn’t have everybody whispering behind my back that Daddy
did it for me.”
I wasn’t lying about
being impressed. A guy who could have gotten any job he wanted through his dad,
choosing to work his way up from the bottom. This guy became more intriguing by
the second.
“That’s ambitious,” I stated. “More so than Nursing.”
“Hey,” he said, his hand coming out of his pocket to touch
my bare shoulder. That touch caused my blood to sing in my veins. Electricity
arced across my skin. “There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a nurse. It’s a
hard, noble job. Besides, someone has to hold the little brats down while they
get their shots.”
“You are so not
funny,” I replied, but I was laughing all the same.
“No, but you are,” he
said. “Look at you all mad at me. It’s cute.”
I could feel my face getting hot. Cute? I’d take it. For
him, I’d wear cute like a badge of honor. This was going well. I was flirting
without making too big a fool of myself. Dain was smiling, and not a fake,
forced smile either. He kept touching me—my arm, my shoulder. Things were going perfectly. Until I took a
step backward and went plummeting off the side of the dock.
Ever since she first read books like Chronicles of Narnia or
Goosebumps, Alicia has been a lover of mind-bending fiction. Wherever
imagination takes her, she is more than happy to call that place her home. With
seven Fantasy and Science Fiction titles under her belt, Alicia strives to
write multicultural characters and stories that touch the heart. V-Card is her
first Contemporary Romance.
The mother of three
and wife to an Army sergeant, she loves chocolate, coffee, and of course good
books. When not writing, you can usually find her with her nose in a book,
shopping for shoes and fabulous jewelry, or spending time with her loving
family.
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