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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication

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Craving Candy

ISBN # 1-4199-0883-9

Edited by Mary Altman.

Cover art by Syneca.

Electronic book Publication: December 2006

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is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously.

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S – ENSUOUS

E – ROTIC

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A WAKENING D ESIRES :

C RAVING C ANDY

N.J. Walters

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my wonderful husband, whose support and

encouragement still continues to grow after all these years.

Thanks to all the readers who have written to tell me how much they have loved

this series and wanted to make sure I didn’t plan to leave Lucas out.

And thank you to Mary. As always, I appreciate your hard work and your

encouragement.

Craving Candy

Chapter One

It was the screams that woke him.

He’d come home from working a double shift at the grocery store, totally

exhausted, and had fallen into bed immediately. For once, the house had been blessedly

silent. The money was starting to accumulate in his bank account and in less than a

month he would be moving out of the cramped, cheap, squalid apartment he’d called

home his entire life and into his own place. His life was about to begin.

And then the screaming had started.

He thought about pulling the pillow over his head and pretending he couldn’t hear

the male voice yelling obscenities in the other room, but he knew that was impossible.

He’d never be able to rest until he knew his mom was okay.

Sighing, he rolled out of bed, clad only in his boxer shorts. The floor was cold

against his feet, but he didn’t take the time to pull on socks. Sounded like the old man

was really on a bender tonight. He scrubbed his hand over his face, wishing he’d taken

a shower and shaved before he’d fallen into bed earlier.

He paused at the door and listened. Maybe the old man would crash in his easy

chair and drink himself into a stupor. That’s what he did most nights. Only one more

month of this crap, he consoled himself.

“You stupid bitch!” The sound of glass smashing was followed quickly by a

woman’s cry of pain.

Yanking the bedroom door open, he pounded down the hall just in time to see his

mother crash against the wall, cowering in fear as her enraged husband loomed above

her. She clutched her right hand to her chest and, from the way she held it, he suspected

that it was sprained or broken. It wouldn’t be the first time. Blood dripped from her

nose as she turned her face away.

The world seemed to shift, almost as if it were in slow motion. This scene had

played itself out over and over in this household for as long as he could remember. It

was always the same. The old man would beat his mother or him until he got tired or

some neighbor called the cops, complaining about the noise. The cops would come and

his mother would tell the officers that nothing was wrong.

But tonight, he’d had enough. “Stop it!” He was across the room before he’d really

thought about it and grabbed his father’s arm just as he was about to strike his mother

again. He was tall but scrawny. Certainly no match for his father, who was heavily

muscled—a man in his prime.

He sensed his father’s disbelief as the older man jerked around, and the fist that had

been about to descend on his mother now swung in his direction. Rearing back, he

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