Today on
First Kiss Friday, we welcome romance author, Rochelle Weber, and an excerpt
from her Contemporary Romance, “The Thin Person Inside.”
Kristen Jensen, a
Navy veteran, is at the end of her rope. She weighs almost three hundred
pounds, and she’s becoming a cripple. Desperate for help, she asks her VA
therapist if she can go into treatment with the addicts and the alcoholics. In
treatment, Kristen meets Sean Wesley. She melts when she sees his black hair,
blue eyes and perfect body, and assumes the only reason he’s speaking to her is
that she’s the only other person in the room. She has no clue, at first, who he
really is, or what a rock star could ever see in her.
Sean thinks it’s
tragic that a pretty girl is trapped inside such a huge body, and when she
shares her story, he’s impressed by her openness and honesty. She’s the bravest
person he’s ever met, sitting with her fruit and salad surrounded by people
eating the day-old pastry donated by the local bakery. He finds himself drawn
to her, but she’s had decades to build her layers of defense.
First Kiss Excerpt
It started as a tentative kiss. She had only ever let him
kiss her in a friendly way, and now he was maimed, missing an arm. Still, she
opened her lips and met his tongue. She tasted of diet cola and he chuckled
inwardly as he deepened the kiss. He felt his groin harden. At least that still
worked… Hey, wait— He felt his groin harden!
“Not yet, Sean.”
“Why not? I thought you said my arm and paralysis didn’t
matter.”
“It doesn’t.”
“Then what is it?”
“We don’t have our year of abstinence or sobriety yet, Sean.”
“What?”
“We can’t yet. We don’t have our full year.”
“Well, we have something else to celebrate. I have a raging
hard-on.” He was grinning from ear to ear.
“I’m sorry, Sean. I don’t mean to be a tease.”
She wasn’t getting it. In fact, she looked truly woebegone.
“It’s so hard, it hurts!”
“Really, Sean. We can’t. Not yet.”
“Kristen, it HURTS!
Below my WAIST, it HURTS!” He tried to wiggle his toes, and
they moved. “Look! My toes!”
“Oh, my Goddess! Sean! Oh, Sean! Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh
my God!”
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Nice cover, and the story sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing their first kiss. Always fun to read when that happens!
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