Day 3 of 14 DAYS OF FAVORITE BOOK COUPLES: Featuring Luca and Manny from Touch by Susan Fanetti

Posted February 3, 2015 by FMA in Special Post

FMA and Foxy have teamed up to bring you fourteen of their favorite book couples in honor of Valentine’s day.

DAY THREE
LUCA AND MANNY
TOUCH

One of the most romantic moments in a Romance Novel is the First Kiss.
TOUCH is about an intense and unlikely connection between Luca & Manny.
To love Manny, Luca must learn to love in a new way.
To love Luca, Manny must learn to love at all.

FIRST KISS FOR LUCA & MANNY:

“I want to kiss you, Manny. That’s what I’m thinking. That’s what I want.”

“Oh, I thought that was it.” “I got that one right.”

“Yeah?” Good for you. But you kinda ruined the moment, a little bit.”

“You think?” She took the soda and food out of his hands, wrapped his dinner back up in its paper, and set everything in the sand behind the log they were sitting on. Then, as she had the night before, she startled him. When out of habit and reflex, he moved to put his hands on her hips, she mumbled. “Don’t touch me.”

He dropped his hands to grip the log, and she wrapped herself around him and kissed him, her small, pierced tongue pushing into his mouth.

Her lips were firm and silken, her tongue lithe, and she kissed him without restraint, her arms snug around his head, holding him so that she could have her way. That stud in her tongue felt fantastic. he’d been with pierced women before, and didn’t much like lip piercings, which mostly just poked. But this was the first time he’d kissed a woman with a stud in her tongue. He was suddenly a lifelong fan. He kissed her back with all the enthusiasm he felt, his hands gripping the log so hard he could feel the scant remnants of bark digging into his palms.

*This excerpt is reproduced by kind permission of Susan Fanetti.