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  Acting

  On

  Temptation

  By

  S.M. Donaldson

  Acting on Temptation

  Acting on Temptation

  S.M. Donaldson

  Copyright©2013 by S.M. Donaldson

  ISBN-13: 978-1490418926

  ISBN-10: 149041892X

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, Characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead are entirely coincidental.

  To my Daddy

  2/2/47-4/5/13

  “If I tell you a piss ant can pull a wagon, you’d better hook’em to it.” W.T. Morris

  I know that never in a million years would you have read a book like this one and you would’ve said that the f-bombs and sex scenes were too much. But it helps me to know that you would’ve been proud of me for following my dreams and putting it out there no matter what.

  AcknowledgementsFirst of all if you are reading this I want to say THANK YOU. This is a wonderful experience in my life and one I hope to continue doing for a long time.

  Thank you to my Mother for always believing I can do anything and always encouraging me, to my sisters for standing behind me and always having my back.

  Thank you to my friends Ashley Barber and Amy “B” Rehberg for doing pre-reads and enjoying these characters as much as I do.

  Thanks to Ginny Busby (Mom B.), Maggie, and Leigh for editing and loving my sarcasm.

  Thanks to my friends who continue to stay excited about what I’m writing and believe in me.

  To my husband for always pushing me to succeed and being my best friend since we were young dumb kids.

  To My Daddy…I miss you everyday and with every book I complete I know you are that much more proud of me. Thank you for helping shape me into the person I am and instilling hard work in me.

  Prologue

  Anna Last Fall

  “Jack it’s over, I’m done. I can’t stand you. Don’t you get that?”

  “Whatever Anna. You really are like you’re sister aren’t you? A freakin head case cock tease.”

  “No I’m not because where I’ve let you shove me around, belittle me, and try to force me into having sex with you. Gabby would’ve kicked your ass not just broke up with you. So go screw yourself.” I was about to press end on my phone, when I heard.

  “Anna we’re still going out this weekend.” It was more of a statement than a question. So I went ahead and hung up.

  I scrolled through my contacts to Gabby and hit call.

  Gabby answers sounding out of breath, “Hey”

  “Hey Gab are you busy?”

  “Yeah working out in the gym…what about you?”

  “Not much I just broke up with Jack. Is it cool if I come up this weekend with the group from here, I have to get out of town? If I don’t Jack will drive me crazy and Mom will be pissed at me for not talking to him.”

  “Oh um yeah, I guess that’s cool, I mean are you sure you wanna ride up with them?”

  “Right now I wouldn’t care who I go up with as long as I’m not here, listening to Jack be an ass and Mom be a bitch.”

  “Okay, love you see you then and we’ll definitely talk more when you get here.”

  “Love you too. I’ll call or text you when we get there.”

  ***

  I jog downstairs, “Hey Mom, Dad?”

  I hear my Mom call from the kitchen, “We’re in here Anna.”

  I’m dreading this; I’ve always had to be the perfect one. They expect me to be with the right guy, in the right clubs and have the right social group to hang out with. So telling them I want to go to a SEC college with my sister the track star and our football star neighbor Cade isn’t going to go over well. I walk into the kitchen and plop down on a stool next to my Dad. “Hey, I was wondering if you guys would care if I rode up to Cade’s game this weekend to visit with Gabby and let her show me around some? You know a group of people from here are going up, I could ride with Dylan and Stacy.”

  My Mom looks up at me from her newspaper and rolls her eyes, “Why do you want to go up there? You should be going to more prestigious colleges to visit. I’m sure Jack’s sister could show you around her campus.”

  “Mom, I’m not talking to Jack right now and I want to go to college with Gabby. In case you haven’t noticed she goes to a very prestigious college.”

  She looks at me like I’ve grown another head, “What do you mean you’re not talking to Jack?”

  “Just that, I. Am. Not. Talking. To. Him. We are broken up.”

  She wails, “Oh God your sister has gotten to you hasn’t she? I was always afraid she’d talk you into something stupid like dumping Jack and going to some sports college.”

  My Dad looks over at her, “Honey, I think if she wants to go visit her sister it’s a great idea. Besides she is too young to be settling on colleges due to boys. Anna you can go provided you are staying with your sister.”

  I smile, “Yes sir, I will be.”

  My Mom lets out an exaggerated sigh, “Whatever go on up to that jock infested campus and hang out with your jock sister for the weekend. I just hope Jack will speak to you when you get back.”

  I stand up, “I don’t really give a damn if Jack wants to speak to me or not. I don’t want to speak to him.” Then I storm out of the kitchen….my Mom is such a bitch.

  Russ Last Fall

  I look over at the girl hanging on me after class, she’s laughing like I’m the funniest guy on the planet. I’ll admit I’m pretty damn funny, but not that funny. Sure she has a nice ass and a great rack, but I’m sure that rack is fake. Living with my roommates Daria and Gabby has really opened up my eyes as to how nice a decent non-psychotic girl could be. I feel my phone buzz with a text from my cousin/best friend/roommate Linc:

  Linc: Hey Gabby and her sister are going to Gainer’s party with us tonight don’t bring skanks home with you.

  Me: I won’t Gabby has already warned me to be on my best behavior around her sister. See you in a few.

  Linc: okay

  I look over at the girl who is all but dry humping me now in the freaking school library, I grab her around the waist and set her on the chair next to me, “Sorry I have to go, I have a thing I have to get to.”

  She looks up at me pouting, “I could go with you.”

  I shake my head, “No you couldn’t.”

  She pokes out her red lips further and wiggle her eyes, “We could have a little pre-party in your room. You know with that awesome piece of equipment you carry around.”

  I chuckle, “Thanks for the compliment, but ugh no thanks.”

  I walk out of the library, jeez she was skanky. I jog over to our dorm, when I walk in I look across the living room and see a younger version of Gabby… just more of an innocent girl. Shit my dick just twitched in my pants. She’s fucking beautiful… like an angel. She looks so delicate, she’s an innocent. She’s too good for me. Sitting on that couch with the perfect little khaki skirt and pink sweater set on. Damn she could be the librarian in my dirtiest dreams. DAMN I gotta get in the shower and take care of this.

  ***

  Here we are at Gainer’s party and I’ve turned down more sure things than ever. What is wrong with me? I have to get Anna out of my head…now she’s dancing. While I was in the shower she changed for the party. She’s in a pair of ass hugging jeans that have sparkles all over the ass of them, I don’t know what they are called but I know a bunch of girls have them and a low cut white shirt that shows off her tanned cleavage. I see all of the guys looking at her like they could eat her up. I want t
o protect her from them, I feel like I have to. Gabby leaves to go to the bathroom and we all step back outside. If Gabby and Linc don’t get their shit together soon, they are both gonna explode, the two of them could set a house on fire with the amount of chemistry between them. Once we are outside around the bonfire Anna and I sit down on a bench. She looks over at me, “So how do you like the college? I plan on going here in the fall.”

  I nod, “I like it. Football keeps me pretty busy.”

  “It looks like you must be pretty popular with the girls. I mean I’ve been getting death glares all night. Well from everyone except Gabby and your roommate Daria.”

  I laugh, “Yeah, I guess. It gets old though. I mean these girls they just want… well I really don’t know what they want, but some of them are crazy as hell.”

  She laughs, “Well, maybe you make them crazy.”

  I laugh, “How do I make them crazy?”

  “Well, maybe it’s your mad sex skills, the boy next door charm, I don’t know.”

  “Yeah maybe.”

  She laughs like I’ve just said the funniest thing on the planet, “A little full of yourself aren’t you?”

  I laugh, “You said it. Plus you know nothing about my mad sex skills.”

  “Hmm…oh the possibilities.”

  “Hey now, are you trying to get me killed or just give me a heart attack?”

  “What do you mean? I’m the one getting death glares.” She laughs.

  “Well, Cade and Gabby have already threatened to cut my balls off if I try anything with you. Then I may have a heart attack if your beautiful face keeps saying shit like that.”

  She laughs, “Okay…I get it…I was just teasing.”

  *****

  I woke up this morning thinking about Anna…well and how last night got crazy as hell. Between the girls knocking the shit out of people (which the way Anna hit that girl was kinda hot) and then me telling off some strangers, then Gabby crying in the dark telling me secrets, it was just…wow. Now the game is over and I have to tell Anna bye, I really don’t want to. She walks around hugging everyone and when she gets to me she whispers in my ear, “It was nice to meet you. I hope you can come down sometime with Gabby and Cade.”

  I whisper back, “It was nice to meet you too. I hope you decide to come here next year.”

  She whispers again, “Oh I’m planning on it.” She gives me an innocent kiss on the cheek and I almost shoot a load in my pants. Damn this girl may kill me.

  Chapter 1Present

  Anna

  Lying here in bed looking around my room it seems like a dream sometimes. With the sunlight filtering through the hot pink curtains on my window I’m seriously considering getting darker curtains. But looking at a room that I finally got to decorate for me, not my Mother, well, it’s just awesome, I feel free. I went with the typical college girl motif, hot pink, bright ass purple, lime green and black with all my favorite posters and shit all over the walls. I really didn’t think I would get to move here. After last year, I was sure my Mother would work her voodoo magic on my Dad and he would go with what she said. To my surprise he didn’t, he put his foot down. When Gabby called and said they were all moving into a house and I would have a room if I wanted it, I ran straight to Dad. My Mom fumed for days, but I didn’t care I was so excited to get to move here, I just ignored her. I’ve only been here a few days, but it’s been awesome. Having my big sister here and her awesome boyfriend Linc, Cade our life long neighbor/big brother and his girlfriend Daria and Russ, Linc’s cousin, it’s just great. Russ has been a really great friend to me; I could definitely see myself falling for him. My hold up, he’s a man-whore, but he’s been nothing but sweet to me and a great friend to my sister. I don’t know much about Russ but I do know that he’s a loyal friend.

  I hear a faint tap at my door, I look to make sure I’m covered up, “Come in.”

  My sister Gabby walks in, “Hey chica are you ready to go do some grocery shopping with Daria and I? We would send the guys, but we would have twenty different kinds of cereal, no milk, sandwich meat, but no bread… get what I’m saying.”

  I laugh, “Yeah, just give me a few minutes to get ready.” I’m waiting for her to leave before I get dressed.

  She looks at me, “What Anna have you suddenly gotten shy around me? Do you have a tattoo or something that you’re hiding?”

  “No, I just want some privacy.”

  “Oh okay, well I’m going to get the guys to write some stuff down on the list and give me their money, so you’ll have a few minutes.”

  After she leaves I stand up and look in the mirror lifting my tank top the bruises around my rib cage and back are a nasty green/purplish color now, they are starting to fade. Thank God. I don’t know how much longer I can keep them from being seen. If Gabby saw them she or Cade would kill Jack. I had done a great job of avoiding him since last fall, never letting myself be alone with him, but he still acted a s if I was his. Jack was a few years older than me, and people our age feared him, but to parents he looked like Mr. Wonderful…No other guys would talk to me or ask me out. I repeatedly told people we weren’t together, but he would tell everyone we were just taking a break. I could handle it at least he kinda left me alone, but when he found out I was going away to college rather than staying at home or going to college with his sister, he confronted me. The night is still like a bad dream:

  I was walking out of my last night at the clothing store I worked at when he approached me. As I stepped off the curb into the parking lot the Florida summer time humidity hit me in the face.

  “Anna” I froze at my car and turned around.

  “What Jack?” He stepped closer to me making me feel trapped against my car.

  “So what? You thought you’d leave town, go to college with that whore sister of yours and me not know? I told you I let you have your break from me…but no more. You are mine, now I’ve been patient with you; I’ve had my needs met elsewhere while you’re growing up. But you going somewhere else to college isn’t an option.”

  My eyes went wide, “Excuse me…I am going off to college and if you call my sister a whore again, you’ll regret it. You do not own me and as far as I’m concerned you can keep getting your NEEDS met elsewhere, because I won’t ever help you with them.”

  I had never talked to him like that except on the phone, when there was distance between us. In that next moment I felt the first punch as we fought and tumbled on the ground. The hot asphalt burnt momentarily, while he said a lot of things trying to pull me up and put me in his car. I finally got enough ground to kick him in the balls and while he was bent over kick him in the face. I quickly fumbled with my key and got in my car and sped off. I left the next day to move here, told my parents and Gabby that the bruise on my face was from hitting the curb outside the store and haven’t brought any of it up again.

  I quickly dress and head out to the kitchen. As I round the corner I can hear the guys arguing. I look at them all sitting around the table and the girls around the island in the kitchen. I raise my eyebrows, “What’s going on?”

  Daria laughs, “Oh the boys are having The Great Cereal Debate.”

  Gabby looks at me, “Now you know why we can’t send them to do the grocery shopping.”

  I look over at them, “Guys seriously! Are you all like five years old? Okay I’m solving this. What are the options?”

  Cade looks at me, “I want Fruit Loops, Linc wants Cocoa Pebbles and Russ wants Capn’ Crunch. Then the girls want something else.” They all start mumbling again about who got what last time.

  I slam my hands down on the table, “Shut Up! Alright are you all stuck on buying name brand cereal? Because if you are willing to sacrifice that and buy those big bags (that taste the same by the way) you can all get your cereals. If you don’t like that idea, I pick the flippin cereal and we get Cheerios plain freakin’ Cheerios…wait not even name brand we’ll get like toasty o’s or some random cereal.”

  The guys look
around like it had never occurred to them that they could settle for a more inexpensive cereal. I look over at Daria and Gabby they smile.

  I laugh, “See crisis averted, everyone gets their favorite damn cereal.”

  Gabby laughs, “Thank you they wouldn’t shut up long enough for us to explain that same thing to them.”

  I laugh and walk over to my grab my bag and I feel a ting of pain on my side. I shrug it off so no one will notice, but Russ does. “Hey are you okay?”

  “Yeah, I guess I’m just sore from that fall after work.”

  “Oh okay, well did you go get it looked at that night?”

  “No, Russ really I’m fine.”

  Gabby looks at us with a sly grin and I shake my head. Don’t get me wrong Russ, makes me want to do all sorts of things to him, but he’s still a man-whore. Also, I’m just not ready for anything resembling dating or relationships right now. I’ve literally still getting over the scars from the last one.

  Chapter 2

  Russ

  I don’t know what’s going on with Anna; she’s been acting strange since she got here. It’s almost like she’s paranoid. She’s like her sister not good at hiding things from me. I’m going to figure out what’s going on. She’s the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen. One day maybe I’ll be good enough for a girl like her or maybe even her but until then I’m at least going to look out for her.

  I’ve stopped all the whoring around. I’ve been with a few girls in the past year, but the line of typical bimbos really doesn’t do anything for me anymore. I just don’t want to do the random hook up anymore. If anything Anna made me realize that there can be happiness in more.

  Cade and Linc look at me and laugh. I glare back at them, “What?”

  Linc looks at me, “You remember that advice you were giving me last year about this same time? I think maybe you should look at taking it yourself.”

  I knew what he was saying, but it wasn’t like that with Anna and me. She didn’t want me or look at me like Gabby always did him. She had actually been kind of cold and distant since she moved in here. The first day she got here she was so excited, so happy to be here it was like how we talked last year, but after a few days she was very closed off.