Easy Little Lick (Copperline #3) Read online

  She didn’t look the slightest bit surprised when I pulled off the blindfold to reveal our spot. Nor did she look surprised when I pulled the ring from my pocket.

  She knew me entirely too well.

  Yet, when I slipped the delicate solitaire on her finger, she still burst into tears.

  Then she threw her arms around my neck and tugged the clothes from my body, and we sort of reenacted that same scene from a year before. This time, though, the tears were happy tears… because we were together. We were staying together. Forever.

  And we both knew it.

  After worshipping her body in our own pine-forested version of Eden, we went home together and, since my folks had Max, we had naked night in our perfect little house. Naked dinner. Naked dessert. Naked wild monkey sex on every horizontal surface in the place. Up against some of the vertical ones, too.

  It. Was. Awesome.

  We decided naked night needed to become a monthly thing… if not weekly.

  So once again, life was like an easy little lick, a signature flourish of my drumsticks to make a song my own. Something I could do in my sleep. Effortless and smooth. No drama…

  …because I had her.

  The End

  Look for Drew’s book

  scheduled for release in November of 2015

  Available on Spotify: *Easy Little Lick ~ Sibylla Matilde

  What Makes A Good Man? – The Heavy

  I Blew It Off – Punch Brothers

  Ride On – AC/DC

  Closer To The Edge – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Everlong – Foo Fighters

  R-Evolve – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Give Me Something – Jarryd James

  Let The Night In – Prime Circle

  Apparition – Troy Baker

  Another Lonely Night – Adam Lambert

  Tonight - Matthew Mayfield

  Adore – Jasmine Thompson

  Turn Me On – The Fray

  Lay Your Cards Out – Poliça, Mike Noyce

  Night Of The Hunter (Shannon Leto Remix) – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Kiss The Sky – Shawn Lee, Nino Moschella

  The Kill (Bury Me) – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  I Forget Where We Were – Ben Howard

  Firestone – Kygo, Conrad Sewell

  The Pretender – Foo Fighters

  Dream Girl – SHINee

  Mr. Mr. – Girls’ Generation

  Trap – Henry

  The Mission – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Do You Remember – Jarryd James

  Sweet Surrender – Sarah McLachlan

  Figure It Out – Royal Blood

  Savior – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Halfway There – Soundgarden

  Standing On Top Of The World – Prime Circle

  Take Me Home – Fedde Le Grand, Patric La Funk

  Am I Ok (Feat. Milk & Bone) – Rivver

  One Day – Kodaline

  Be Still – The Fray

  Nitesky Feat. John Lamonica – Robot Koch

  Busy Earnin’ – Jungle

  Shut Up And Dance – Walk The Moon

  In Or Out – Matthew Mayfield

  Move Together – James Bay

  Shelter Me – The Outfield

  A Beautiful Lie – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Brick By Boring Brick – Paramore

  Fallen – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Decode (Live At Red Rocks) – Paramore

  Hunger – Of Monsters And Men

  Frail Love – Cloves

  Monster – Paramore

  Northern Lights – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  New Rush – Gin Wigmore

  Birth – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Runaway – Maroon 5

  Was It A Dream? – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Flashlight – Jessie J

  The Race – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  White Knuckles – Boh Doran

  Fight Song – Rachel Platten

  Misguided Ghosts – Paramore

  Stay – Thirty Seconds To Mars

  Back – Infinite

  Lonely – 2NE1

  Love Is… – CNBLUE

  Eyes, Nose, Lips – Taeyang

  Cold Part Of Town – Concrete Blonde

  Let The Night Fall – Dragonette

  Under Control – Calvin Harris, Alesso, Hurts

  Come As You Are – Nirvana

  Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana

  Thunderstruck – AC/DC

  Happy – Pharrell Williams

  Way before I self-published, I started doing a little editing for some indie authors I’d met on Goodreads. The first I worked with was Amy Rachiele with her Mobster Series. Amy was my first taste of the indie world, and I can honestly say, I’m not sure if I’d have ever had the courage to put myself out there without knowing her. Amy, I hope I am able to meet you in person someday! (And, to everyone else, if you’ve not read Mobster’s Girl… you should. It’s an awesome book!)

  As always, thank you soooooooooo much to my Pimp Michelle Campbell and my Brit Ho Beth Ashworth because they keep me writing, even when I’m feeling like it’s complete and utter shit. I love you guys to Orion and back. #HPH4eva

  To my fantabulous beta readers – Chris Finzio, Dawn Edwards, Diane Dalgity, Emily Smith-Kidman, Erica Duvall, Heather Lanfear-Delafuente, Jennifer Kreitz, Jennifer Moon Desulis, Jessica Keith-Thomas, Laura Scranage, Lily Wallis, Lorena Garcia, Michelle Pryor Amos, Nicole Baylor, Pamela McGuire, Sarah Peterson, Tammy McGowan, Tara Lynn, Teri Maxwell, Terri Thomas, and Taylor Bellitto. Life and technical difficulties got in the way with a few, but you guys were willing to read my jumbled scribbles and help me make sense of them! And extra thanks to Nicole and Taylor who kick ass at proofreading!

  To my a-fuckin-mazing Flannel Squad – Adrianne, Alexis, Amy, Angela, Arabella, Ashley, Beth, Carrie, Catherine, Chantal, Cherry, Chris, Clare, Danni, Dawn, Diane, Ecaterina, Erica, Jane, Janina, Jen O., Jen S., Jennifer, Jill, Joan, Kelly, Laura, Lily, Lisa, Lynn, Michelle, Nancy, Nicole, Nikki, Pamela, Rhian, Sammy, Stacy, Tammy, Teri, Terri, Tina, Tonya, and Tracy. You ladies are the fuckin’ bomb!

  As always, thanks to the peeps out there who respond when I need new musical inspiration – Jane Page Deeney, Odette Bowes, Belinda Wallis, Laura Scranage, and especially Jane Baron for her fantastic Foo recommendations!

  Thanks to my husband for being willing to be a single dad every couple months while I run away to sign books and meet fans. I love you, baby! The best feeling in the world is to come home and be wrapped up in your arms.

  Thanks to my kids who turn into little vampires in the summer, awake all night and sleeping all day. You guys are pretty awesome. I think your dad deserves the credit for that, though.

  Thanks to Milton Hershey for making the best damn chocolate in the world, but also for being an amazing philanthropist. I didn’t think I could love Hershey’s chocolate any more than I did, but a visit to Hershey World knocked my socks off.

  Thanks to Sara Eirew for being an amazing photographer and phenomenal to work with, and thanks to Jonathan and Valerie for bringing Cody and Ilsa to life.

  Thank you to all the authors and bloggers out there who have been incredibly awesome to work with. For all the drama that comes down the pike from time to time, I have found that I actually love meeting new people, which is kind of a weird concept for a massive introvert like me.

  Most of all, thanks to the fans. Some of you have been with me from the start and some are a little newer to my novels. I write because I’ve got these constant stories floating through my head, but it takes a lot of work to get it to the end. YOU guys are what make me pull through.

  Conversations

  Little Conversations

  Littler Conversations

  Snowcreek

  In the Firelight

  Bitterroot

  Because of Kian

  Always Conall

  Copperline

  Post Breakup Sex

  Wild Ir
ish Envy

  Sibylla Matilde grew up in the mountain valleys of Southwest Montana, and grew up exploring the alfalfa fields on the back of a horse. She attended a two-room schoolhouse 1st through 6th grade where she had same teacher the whole time. Beginning at about age 12, Sibylla discovered historical romance, feeding off of work of Jude Devereaux, Lisa Kleypas, and Karen Robards. She loves a book that can make the reader run the gamut of emotions, from the sweet glow of new love to gut-wrenching heartache. She always has stories floating around in her head, living in some fantasyland until she writes them down to free them. She is a true romantic, a bit of a Pollyanna, and a deeply emotional soul.

  Music is her emotional trigger. Growing up with a Wagnarian-opera-loving mother, Sibylla grew up with music that digs deep into her soul and pulls out emotion. The soundtrack to her life includes different genres and generations. She looooooooves Thirty Seconds to Mars (rather obsessively, actually) with a little Kings of Leon to mix things up, and pimps them out regularly to all her friends through Spotify. She also enjoys watching Met Opera HD broadcasts at her local movie theater, and hopes (listening Met?) to someday see Diana Damrau reprise her role as Mozart’s Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte—The Magic Flute.

  Sibylla lives with her husband, Mike, a man who she firmly believes saved her from her self-destructive, hot mess self. He makes her laugh every day, even when things seem to be falling apart around them, and has proved to her that love really can heal a shattered soul. In almost 21 years, they have never had a fight, but argue regularly with their two teenage kids who have, unfortunately, inherited their father’s quick wit (unfortunate as it is a quick wit that Sibylla, herself, definitely does not possess—there is a reason she is a writer and not a stand-up comedian), and live a quiet life with their two weird little rescued Chiweenies. Wait… teenagers and little yap-dogs? Okay, maybe not so quiet. :)

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  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Epilogue

  Songs that inspired Easy Little Lick

  Acknowledgments

  Other Novels by Sibylla Matilde

  About Siby

  Stalk Siby