Falling Deep by Diana Gardin

Author:Diana Gardin [Gardin, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9781455560486
Amazon: B00S5A6I0I
Barnesnoble: B00S5A6I0I
Goodreads: 23590875
Publisher: Forever Yours
Published: 2015-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

The morning following her date with Reed, Hope awoke on the surface of a pillowy white cloud. At least she felt like she did. She was still floating from the night before; her skin was aglow with the flush of happiness. As she sat up in bed and stared at herself in the mirror across from the bed, she couldn’t remember the last time she looked as fresh and…hopeful. Like she was ready to take on the world in a bold, new way.

And it was all because of one date with a hot guy.

A guy who had treated her like a total goddess. His attentiveness was unreal—at least in Hope’s mind it was. The way he looked at her, almost reverent, put her on a high no drug could ever compete with. She was literally giddy this morning, just thinking about him. And what was that feeling in her stomach? The jittery wings of butterflies? At just the thought of his name?

She looked down beside the bed, and her sky-high hopes plummeted when she saw Violet soundly sleeping, curled up into a ball, on the floor beside her.

She sighed. Violet stirred, and Hope nudged her gently with her foot.

“Again, Vi?”

With a groan, Violet rolled over on the white, fluffy rug and stared up at her sister. Her white-blond hair was barely mussed; its silky-smooth texture hardly allowed for a strand to be caught out of place.

“You know I can’t do it, Hope,” she said, her voice still groggy with sleep. “Sleep in that huge room by myself, propped up in that big-ass bed. It’s like we’re in that movie with all the alien wives. None of this shit is real. It will all disappear, and I’m not going to get used to sleeping in that kind of weird, parallel universe comfort. I’ll take your floor over that bedroom any day.”

Hope reached down to ruffle the younger girl’s hair. It sliced right through her heart, hearing that Violet was unable to sleep in the comfortable bed sitting unused in the room Frank had had designated as hers when they moved into the mansion. She was right, of course. Wendy had never been in a relationship that lasted. And while Frank wasn’t like the other stepfathers they’d had to endure—namely, he didn’t put his hands on them, or drink too much, or snort cocaine on the coffee table—there was something about him that left Hope, and obviously Violet, deeply uncomfortable.

He seemed to say all the right things, and his business, for the most part, was on the legit side of the law. Although Hope knew that not all of the girls on the employee list for Silk were on the up-and-up, Frank’s public rules were that it was simply a legitimate, upscale escort club, and that was it. What the girls did on their own time, Frank said, was up to them and had nothing to do with his company.

He treated their mother like a queen, and had never uttered an unkind word to Hope or Violet.

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