I hope you will let me apologize in person. I have so much more to tell you, so much that I dare not put in a letter. I want to tell you everything. Everything you want to know, anyway. It might take years. But I want to spend years with you. I want to share my life with you. Whatever life I'm going to have going forward from this moment, I can't imagine it without you.

That life is about to get very complicated again.

I thought I had put a whole chapter of my life behind me when we met. I thought my contractual obligations to my record company had been fulfilled and I thought various other obligations had been invalidated, but I see now that the book is not closed as I had thought. I cannot say more in a letter, but please let me tell you in person.

I do not know what will happen from this point. I would disappear completely, into anonymity in some distant country, perhaps, except for you. There is no other woman like you in the world, and I was a fool not to love you as you deserve.

Please let me try.

Yours, heart, body, and soul, James Byron LeStrange.

About the Author.

Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, and sexuality activist. She is the author of Mind Games, The Hot Streak, White Flames, Edge Plays, Black Feathers, The Velderet, and Telepaths Don't Need Safewords, as well as the Magic University series of paranormal erotic romances. She has the distinction of being perhaps the only writer to have erotic fiction published in both Penthouse and Ms. magazine, as well as in scores of other magazines and anthologies including Asimov's, Best American Erotica, and Nerve. She is the founder and editor of Circlet Press, publishers of erotic science fiction and fantasy. She is also the media relations director for the New England Leather Alliance (NELA).

You can learn more at: CeciliaTan.com.

Also by Cecilia Tan.

Slow Surrender.

Slow Satisfaction (coming in 2014).

Black Feathers.

Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

The Incubus and the Angel.

Mind Games The Poet and the Prophecy.

The Prince's Boy The Siren and the Sword.

Telepaths Don't Need Safewords.

The Tower and the Tears.

The Velderet.

White Flames.

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