Heroine: Penelope Jean (PJ) Colman. Twenty five year old. Smart, beautiful, and eclectic. Her family owns a large race car tire supply company. She is looking to take the company in some new directions and hopes to use her extraordinary auto painting skills to do so.

Hero: Asa Barrons. Thirty seven years old. A sexy, tattooed alpha male with a kinky side. Owns an auto restoration shop. Finds PJ utterly delicious and wants her skills both in and out of his bed but has a policy of never sleeping with his employees.

Across from where Asa leaned, the photographer directed her to put her forearm against the steering wheel, where Asa’d just had his hands half an hour before.

In his car.

Touching his things.

Satisfaction settled into his bones even as something else stirred to life. A hunger for her that only worsened when she leaned forward, one leg out of the car. Her skirt rose, exposing the tops of her stockings. Big blue eyes lined to emphasize the depth of color, the wide, nearly guileless nature of them. Her tits heaved up at the neckline of that dress.

The whole picture was a slick, hot fist around his cock.

Sweet and hot. Innocence and pure, raw carnal pleasure promised in the curve of her lips.

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Her hair was artfully messy and wrapped in a bright red bandana, the same color as the bra showcased. She wore her glasses this time, and they perched on her nose, the hoop of her eyebrow ring visible when she arched her brow.

All that skin drove him wild. He wanted to touch. To kiss and lick. Especially that sweet triangle where her breasts and body met at the center of her cleavage. And yet, it could still look nearly sweet on her.

Nearly.

One of the assistants handed her a bottle of handcrafted soda, a root beer Asa really liked. He liked it even more when they leaned her against the front of the Chevelle in the showroom and she wrapped glossy red lips around a straw they’d put into the bottle.

An audible rush of air escaped his lips. The need to see that color at the base of his cock after she’d left it there seemed to take hold like a fever.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I need an Asa ASAP. Hell, I’ll take a PJ too. *wink*

Opening Up is a prime example of why I read Lauren Dane with her strong confident heroines and a sexy intense heroes. Delightful banter, an engaging side conflict,  and some intense and delicious love scenes made this an absolute treat to read. Opening Up is the first installment in Dane’s new Ink & Chrome series. It releases June 16th and Helyce will be posting her review that same day.

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