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
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
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