I can?t help myself around my husband?s bullying boss?whatever he wants from me, he takes. Then he demanded I take off my panties in the middle of a crowded dance floor when my husband was only a few feet away. I didn?t expect him to show them to Todd and brag about what he planned to do to me! Why does the possibility of getting caught excite me so much? ~~~~~ PG Excerpt ~~~~~ After my shower I?d slipped on a long, light blue summer dress decorated with large white flowers. It was going to be a hot day and I didn?t plan on going anywhere, so I didn?t bother with underwear. The feel of the warm air blowing under my dress was amazing. But instead of being calmed, I felt even more like laying on the bed and finishing what I?d started in the shower. When the doorbell rang, I thought it was the delivery guy. I opened the door without looking and stepped back in surprise when I saw Jerry grinning at me. ?Is that how you treat your lover?? he asked. I backed up startled, my hand over my heart. Jerry turned in a complete circle, checking to see if anyone was watching. ?What will your neighbors say. ?A strange man is standing in front of Pamela?s open door. I wonder who he is??? Jerry mused. ?Please, come inside,? I begged him. I couldn?t afford a neighbor blabbing to my husband. ?Tell me what I can do to you, first,? he said. ?Please, just come inside,? I was in danger of becoming hysterical. ?Tell me first, and make it loud enough for me to hear,? he insisted. ?You can do anything you want,? I said. ?Louder, and who can I do anything to?? ?You can do anything you want to me, just please come inside,? I almost shouted. Jerry stepped through the door. ?Pretty dress - take it off,? he said. Why did his arrogance turn me on? Telling the entire neighborhood he could do anything he wanted to me had been exciting. Being ordered to get naked caused me to ache for him. This time, we were in my sunlit kitchen. Our kitchen, mine and Todd?s, but I was naked in front of another man. I felt like I should hide myself but I didn?t do it. I wanted to be displayed for him. I could feel erotic spasms coming from the center of my body. ?Beg me to use you,? he said. I wanted to refuse; how dare he ask me to beg him to treat me like a common whore would? ?Please use me, Jerry.?

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

"A childhood sweetheart for thirteen years, the bride isn't her!" "Ye Beichen, I hate you —" "Shhh!" "Stop messing around, go to sleep!" "Four years later, the chubby girl became a goddess and was able to wake up a vegetable with a single needle. From now on, she would be surrounded by demons!" Young Master Ye, we have nothing to do with each other since a long time ago! " [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] It used to be, it is now, and it will be in the future. I won't let you off even in my next life!

"My wife, I want to eat your tofu ..." "Eat your sister!"" I was reborn into the body of a poor country girl, Su Jinsi said, and it's all not a big deal, I have one spoon in my hand even in the world, I'll be a cook, I'll be the king of kitchens, and I'll gain the reputation of a deity eater. But, that handsome man, why does he always have one spoon in his mouth?"

When enemies marry… Constantine Sioulas was a man of primitive passions…. Jade knew that. But she couldn't believe it when, after a whirlwind courtship, he insisted that she marry him! Things like that simply didn't happen to girls like her…did they? And Constantine soon made it clear that, far from loving Jade, he despised her for her apparent betrayal. But, locked into this marriage of convenience, Jade was determined to enjoy her husband's special brand of savage seduction! "New author Sharon Kendrick makes a good first mark in the romance genre…" —Romantic Times on No Escaping Love

Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has taken on this period as a direct contradiction to the modernist dichotomy between the music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. In Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People, Steve Schwartz offers an overdue correction to this distortion of the American classical music tradition by showing that not all composers of this era fall into either the Stravinsky or Schoenberg camps. Exploring the rise and decline of musical populism in the United States, Schwartz examines the major works of George Gershwin, Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Kurt Weill, Morton Gould, and Leonard Bernstein. Organized chronologically, chapters cover each composer’s life and career and then reveal how key works participated in populist and nationalist themes. Written for the both the scholar and amateur enthusiast interested in modern classical music and American social history, Nationalist and Populist Composers creates a contextual frame through which all audiences can better understand such works as Rhapsody in Blue, Appalachian Spring, and West Side Story.

She looked at the test paper in his hand and heard the word "abortion" in his voice. It stabbed deeply into her chest. Could it be that three years of love was not worth a paper of diagnosis?