The two works below are CLEAN. There's plenty of sexual tension, but all intimacy other than kissing is behind closed doors.
If you like gentle and sweet heroes who treat their heroines
like a princess, Ezio is not for you. Ezio Sartori married Shakarri Watson for
one reason—he needed an heir to his fortune. All the terms were laid out in the
contract Ezio’s lawyer drew up. Shakarri agreed because she was desperate to
get out from under a debt she couldn’t handle, one left to her by her scheming
no good father. But the cost for taking on Ezio’s name might be too high for
Shakarri to pay.
Ezio is used to everyone obeying his orders, and he expects
Shakarri to do the same. The contract she signed specifically states her
obligation to please Ezio. Shakarri’s husband wants her pregnant within three
to six months, as if a woman can control her body to such a degree.
He’s got a lot of demands, chief being Shakarri’s obedience.
She’s beginning to think she made a big mistake in marrying Ezio except for two
problems. One, Ezio has taken over the payments for her debt, and he can just
as easily give them back. Two, intimacy with her husband is far beyond
Shakarri’s wildest imagination. There are even times she suspects there’s a
heart beating behind the cold exterior. She’s starting to feel something for
him.
Now she has to decide—does she stay and remain at his mercy
for the rest of her life or as long as he has need of her? Or should she run
while she still has control of her own heart?
Gabriel Reiss' business is home improvement, but when his twin asks
him to work in his Daddy Day Care for one day, that's the last thing
Gabe wants to do. He's steered clear of kids ever since the tragedy of
five years ago when his heart was destroyed. Now Gabriel keeps his
distance from women with kids, and he lets anyone he meets know it will
never be serious between them. He doesn't want a family--ever. Then Gabe
meets Neeka and her three-year-old daughter Monnie.
Unique
"Neeka" Desmond is only interested in helping her daughter overcome her
social anxiety. She refuses to repeat the mistakes of the past like
getting involved with a man who's rough around the edges, who's arrogant
and thinks only of himself and what he wants. That's what Monnie's dad
was like, and she won't fall for a man like that again. That is, until
she meets Gabriel. He's angry, outspoken, opinionated, mean, and smoking
hot. Worse, he makes friends with Monnie in one day then has the nerve
to ask Neeka out on a date.
There can't be anything between them,
but trouble from the past comes knocking, and Neeka needs a stand-in
daddy--even if it's an involuntary one.
