WIP It Up Wednesday – Sinful Rewards

By on July 22, 2014

I’m participating in WIP It Up Wednesdays ( http://wipitupwednesday.blogspot.ca/ ) today, contributing a scene from Sinful Rewards 1!

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Voices murmur outside the condo’s door, the sound piercing my delightful daydream. I swing the telescope upward, not wanting to be caught using it. The snippets of conversation drift away.

I don’t relax. If the telescope isn’t in the same spot as it was positioned last night, Cyndi will realize I’ve been using it. She’ll tease me about being a fellow pervert, sharing the story, embellished for more dramatic effect, with her stern serious dad or, worse, with Angel, that snobby friend of hers.

I’ll die. It’ll be worse than being the butt of jokes in high school because that ridicule had been about my clothes and this will center around the part of my soul I’ve always kept hidden. It’ll also be the truth and I won’t be able to deny it. I am a pervert.

I have to return the telescope to where it was positioned. This is the only acceptable solution. I tap the metal tube.

Last night, my man-crazy roommate had been giggling over the new guy in three eleven north. The previous occupant had been a gray-haired, bowtie-wearing tax auditor, his luxurious accommodations supplied by Nicolas. The most exciting thing he ever did was drink his tea on the balcony.

According to Cyndi, the new occupant is a delicious piece of man candy, tattooed, buff, and head-to-toe lickable. He’d been completing arm curls outside and she’d enthusiastically counted his reps, oohing and aahing over his bulging biceps, calling to me to take a look.

I’d resisted that temptation, focusing on making macaroni and cheese for the two of us, the recipe snagged from the diner my mom works in. After we scarfed down dinner with Cyndi licking her plate clean, she left for the club and hasn’t returned.

Three eleven north is the mirror condo to ours. I straighten the telescope. That position looks about right but then, the imitation UGGS I bought in second year college looked about right also. The first time I wore the boots in the rain, the sheepskin fell apart, leaving me barefoot in Economics 201.

Unwilling to risk Cyndi’s friendship on about right, I gaze through the eyepiece. The view consists of rippling golden planes, almost like…

Tanned skin pulled over defined abs.

I blink. It can’t be. I take another look. A perfect pearl of perspiration clings to a puckered scar. The drop elongates more and more, stretching, snapping. It trickles downward, navigating the swells and valleys of a man’s honed torso.

No. I straighten. This is wrong. I shouldn’t watch our sexy neighbor as he stands on his balcony. If anyone catches me…

I glance behind me. There’s no one here to catch me. Cyndi won’t know I looked. The hunk in three eleven north won’t know I looked. I’m not harming anyone.

I bend over and take another peek.

The sunlight casts interesting shadows across his stomach, accentuating the ridges of muscle, the dip of his navel. I dart my tongue over my suddenly dry lips. His skin is marred with silver scars, some round, some slashes, this proof of hard living, of survival, arousing me, tightening my nipples and moistening my pussy.

I shouldn’t lust after him. He’s the wrong kind of man, the leaving kind, too virile and feral to stay in one place for long. I can tell this from his stance, from his brazen exhibitionism. He wants me to look at him, to care for him. I tilt the telescope downward. His hips are slim. More scars are etched along the bones. Fine brown hair trails from his navel to…

My mouth drops open. He’s completely naked.


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Sinful Rewards 1

Cynthia Sax

Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.

Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.

But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.

Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?

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7 responses to “WIP It Up Wednesday – Sinful Rewards”

  1. Casey McKay says:

    She’s a voyeur in training. I love that! I hope she becomes a little closer acquainted to that balcony hard body.

  2. Melody Parks says:

    Cynthia. Thank you so much for joining Wip-Wednesday this week.
    This is my first peek at your blog and boy, oh boy, was that a hot peeping “Bee” moment. I think I’m sweating a little now, just from reading it.
    Where did you say Nicolas Rainer lives? I might need to ask Belinda if we could have a sleep over.
    I must add you to my blog roll. 🙂

  3. Marred and scarred but oh so sexy. Mmmm. Women are so attracted to the flawed and the bad boys.

  4. Funny, but I couldn’t tell in the beginning if the peeping person was a Tom or a Jane and I assumed a Tom. It wasn’t until much later in the excerpt I realize Cyndi was her roommate, and not a lover. Then I read your blurb. That’s going to be one interesting combination, I think. He’s not shy at all, and he’s aware she’s watching him. Question is if that’s a punishable offense in his mind, and I want to know what the text asks her to do. Reciprocate? Intriguing excerpt, Cynthia.

  5. lovely word choice. the tension is nicely built in this piece. so nice to see well done present tense 🙂 I hope to see you more on this hop

  6. Tara Finnegan says:

    I am a pervert…I love that. The realisation and the guilt associations. Then the anxiety about returning the telescope to it’s rightful position heightens it all. And as for that wrong sort of man…Yum. Wonderful descriptives.

  7. Ooh – I like the voyeurism … and oh yeah … Mr. Magnificent body probably likes it even more! Thanks for sharing! More please!! 🙂