Character Interview
with Ethan
What's your favorite ice cream?
Rocky road, but Sam’s is mint chocolate chip and
lately I’ve been tossing a scoop of hers in with mine. They work well together.
What's your favorite thing about Sam?
I have to pick one thing? Probably her mind. She’s
book smart, but she’s also sharp, and she thinks on her feet. You can’t get
anything by her.
Or, maybe it would be better to say her personality.
She’s funny, smart, brave, and tough as nails. And she’s mine.
She's also strong, and focused, and determined. When
she sets her mind to something, she makes it happen. Somehow, I lucked out and
this strong, powerful, smart woman submits to me. I'll never take that for
granted.
What does Sam do that's most annoying?
*laughs* You
can’t get anything by her. Not that I'd want to — honesty is important to me —
but sometimes it'd be nice to surprise her.
What's your favorite thing Sam does in
bed?
I love that she can take what I give her. No one else
has ever satisfied my sadistic streak like Sam can. And she doesn't hold back
her screams. I know she could if she wanted to, I've seen films of her fighting
and taking some serious hits without showing any visible signs of pain.
She gives me everything, though. She's honest about
her needs, honest about her feelings and emotions, even when it's not easy.
If there were something you could change
about the first few weeks you knew Sam, what would it be?
I’d discover a way for us to find out we were both
kinky sooner than we did. I was fascinated by her from the first I saw her, and
when I had the chance to officially meet her a few days later, she very nicely
turned me down flat.
What's your favorite movie?
You’re probably expecting me to name a fight movie,
but I love the Lord of the Rings
trilogy. I doubted anyone could do justice to the books, but the movies brought
to life what I’d envisioned as I read them.
What addiction can you not live without?
Sam’s my only addiction. I had to spend a week in
Atlanta during tax season, and ended up driving back to Chattanooga one night
because I missed her so much. I had to drive right back to Atlanta the next
morning, but it was worth it.
If you could be in a different book,
which one would it be?
It would have to be an adventure book – The Lord of the Rings, or Around the World in 80 Days, or maybe Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon if they’d
teach me how to run across rooftops.
If your life were a book, what would you
prefer the author not tell readers about you?
I spend a lot of time trying to keep strangers from
being afraid of me. I’m big and scary, apparently, and if a woman is alone in a
parking lot I see her looking around for help if I get too close. So when I’m
out, I try to make a wide berth around anyone who looks afraid of me. I’d
really rather people not know about my sadistic side, because I’d never hurt
anyone who didn’t want to be hurt.
Safeword: Matte – In Training
Safeword Series
Number 7
Candace Blevins
Genre: BDSM Romance
Publisher: Excessica
Date of Publication: June 20, 2014
ISBN: Not yet available
ASIN: Not yet available
Number of pages: 202 pages
Word Count: 78,000 words
Cover Artist: Tara West
Book Description:
The wedding is four months away, and Ethan has promised to train Sam to handle a planned honeymoon activity. He’s calculated the math to figure out her goals each week. When she reaches the weekly target she gets a massage and lots of fun orgasms. But if she doesn’t, it’s the stainless steel cane.
All this along with navigating her clients’ drama, planning a wedding, dealing with her mother while planning the wedding, and having lots and lots of wild and kinky sex.
And we haven’t even mentioned the bachelorette party.
Warning: This title contains graphic language, consensual BDSM some may find objectionable, anal sex, bondage, and the use of toys including crops, clips, clamps, plugs, and gags.
Safeword Matte: In Training Excerpt
Sam looked at the ring on
her finger and her knees went weak. Again.
She wasn’t worried about
marrying Ethan so much as freaking out about how ideal her life seemed to be.
Did anyone get their idea of a perfect life for long before something came
along to screw with it?
As a divorce attorney,
she’d seen enough ‘happily ever after’ stories go horribly wrong to know there
were no guarantees she and Ethan would live out their lives in blissful
harmony. But she knew marriages survived — her parents and Ethan’s parents were
proof.
Panicking never solved
anything, nor did focusing on the negative, so she took a deep breath and
reminded herself they were starting better than most couples, and had a really
good chance of making it work. They both communicated when there were issues,
and both were willing to compromise when needed. As long as they kept up the
communication, they should be fine. Theoretically.
“What’s going through
your head? You’re supposed to look happy when you stare at the ring on your
finger.”
Her gaze flew to Ethan’s
and she smiled. “I’m just thinking. You know I’m happy, right? I wouldn’t have
said yes if I didn’t think we could make it work. I want to spend the rest of
my life with you, I’m just...”
Ethan let the silence
weigh heavily for several long moments, as if he were seeing if she’d finish.
He finally said, “I think the worst choice of career for a fiancée has to be
divorce attorney. If someone had told me a year ago I’d be engaged to one I’d
have told them they were crazy.” He shook his head and added, “But you aren’t
the average divorce attorney. You aren’t the average anything, and it’s part of
why I love you so much.” He brushed a loose strand of hair away from her face.
“Still, it has to be hard, watching the end of relationships that likely
started out with such promise.”
“Yes,” Sam nodded,
relieved he understood without getting his feelings hurt, “but I think it’s
also given me a window into the type of people who are bad marriage material,
and you don’t fit the bill,” she said as she poked his chest with her pointer
finger. “You’re honest, you’re a good communicator, you hold yourself
responsible for your actions, and you’re considerate of other’s feelings. We’ve
only known each other five months, but…” She shook her head. “You know what? I
don’t want to talk about that right now. I want to hear more about your plans
for, ummm, preparing me for our honeymoon.”
Ethan eyed her a moment
before saying, “Five months and three weeks, which rounds up to six months. As
for your training, I’d planned to give you the basic outline tonight. I’ve
ordered a few things that should be here Thursday or Friday, so we’ll begin the
training Friday evening. I intended to email you some things to read before I
explain the process, but we can talk it over instead, if you’d like.”
“Yeah. I’d like.” Sam rolled her eyes. “That’s
why said I wanted to hear it.”
Her insides warmed and
her stomach threatened to flip-flop as Ethan’s eyebrows rose, but they weren’t
in a scene at the moment so he couldn’t punish her for being a smart-ass. Thank
goodness.
He relaxed his eyebrows
as he flashed a quick smirk — he knew his look had affected her, but didn’t
comment and easily carried on with their conversation. “You’re an athlete with
good flexibility and probably already know most of what I’m about to tell you,
but I’m going to detail it anyway to be sure you correlate what you know about
flexibility with anal training.”
She put it together in
her head, talking as she thought. “Yeah, the rectum is a strong muscle, so
stretching should be like….Oh.”
Ethan smiled. “All
stretching will happen from Friday evening through Sunday. I’ll expect you to
be able to handle the next size up on Sunday without difficulty, and then keep
yourself accustomed to the new size throughout the week so you’ll be prepared
to be stretched again Friday evening.”
“You aren’t expecting me
to wear a plug at work, are you?”
“Of course not,” he said
with a smile and a quick shake of his head. “During the week you’ll be required
to insert the training tool four times a day for a total of forty-five minutes
per day, at least two hours apart, with a minimum of five minutes per
insertion. This means you can have it in for thirty minutes once, and five
minutes three times. Or for twenty minutes once, five minutes once, and ten
minutes the other two times.” He paused a beat before adding, “When necessary,
you’ll have the option of reducing it to three times a day, though your total
time will increase to one hour. You’ll need to clear it with me if you want to
alter the schedule more than twice a week, though.”
Sam thought it through;
she could do it in the morning before work, and then at around 5:30, 7:30, and
9:30 in the evenings. If she had to wear it for five minutes on a lunch break
she probably could, to knock out one of the evening times. He’d said this was
during the week, though. Her gaze rose to his eyes. “And on the weekend?”
His smile was maybe just
a little too gleeful. “We’ll be together on the weekends, and you’ll be
required to submit as often and as long as I say.”
Sam’s insides flared to
life. He could set her on fire just by changing his tone of voice, but —
remembering his smirk from earlier — she worked hard to keep her face and body
relaxed as she said, “You just asked me to marry you yesterday, when did you
order the… stuff?”
“Last night after you
went to sleep, and I paid extra for expedited shipping.”
Neither of them said
anything for a few seconds and he pulled an exam glove and a small bottle of
lube from his pocket. “Strip and get on the bed; knees and shoulders, with your
arms spread to the side.”
Her pulse jumped to life
as his tone of voice changed and her body anticipated the promise of a scene.
Ethan stretched the glove
over his large hand while she stripped. His deep voice kept a steady tone as he
said, “I’ll be using gloves to finger you, and all the toys and tools will be
smooth. I intend to prepare you for my size and length, but I don’t want you
accustomed to friction. Nothing in the next four months will give the motion of
having your ass fucked. You won’t feel my flesh in your ass, not even fingers,
until our honeymoon.”
Candace Blevins is a southern girl who loves to travel the world.
She lives with her husband of 16 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.
Candace writes romance books about strong women who happen to be submissive, and in some cases have some pretty extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work.
You can visit her on the web at candaceblevins.com, and feel free to friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins, and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins.
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