He will have her before the year is out! Mateo spent too many years craving the taste and touch of Deja’s body. He restrained himself from taking his brother’s widow to bed. Now the sinner in him is winning the battle. He is through imagining all the naughty things he can do to her. It was time for him to put all his kinky plans into action. He assembles his toys, determined to stroke Deja by the time the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve. Deja knows it is wrong to lust after her dead husband’s brother. She tells herself that Mateo only wants to help raise her son, but she can’t keep ignoring the way he looks at her and how it makes her tingle with desire. She can’t resist the call of his hot body, and she does not want to. Tied down by guilt and separated by quarantine, Mateo and Deja decide to free themselves with a New Year’s Eve night of passion. But will it destroy their family and friendship? A Stroke at Midnight is a BDSM romance with an alpha male into kink. This erotic short story has **NO abuse, NO cliffhanger, guaranteed HEA!** A Love and Lust Under Lockdown Story