Excerpt From: Flora Ferrari. “Loan Shark Love: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance.” 

“Rain lashes across my body as I run. Lightning flashes, crisscrossing the dark sky.

The sidewalk is slippery under my sneakers, but I can’t stop. I have to get to the little building at the corner of Carlisle and Roe. Thunder rumbles, shaking the windows of the skyscrapers a few streets down. My clothes are dripping wet, and I’m soaked to the bone from the rain. I can hear my heart beating in my ears.

The building looks like something out of a horror movie.

My hands are slick as they grasp the cold handle, and I open the big wooden door with an ominous creak. It closes with a heavy thud, the noise making me cringe.

I wouldn’t have come if there was any other choice, but there isn’t one.”