Heartless Hero by Gebhard Mary Catherine

Author:Gebhard, Mary Catherine [Gebhard, Mary Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
Goodreads: 50757392
Publisher: Trendlettrs
Published: 2019-10-21T07:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

ABIGAIL

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I woke sore, rested, and happy for the first time in, I think, ever? Light filtered hazy through my curtains. The joint was dead and had burned the nightstand. I got a vicious glee thinking of how much it would piss off my mom if she ever cared enough to come in my wing.

I stretched my arms with a small groan, turned my head—and shot up.

Theo wasn’t in my bed; he wasn’t even in my room or at the doorway. I clasped my satin sheets to my chest, working the material beneath my fingers. Theo’s clothes were gone. Only the burned joint and the wine stain evidence anything had happened at all.

Beneath my fingers the stain had set; in the morning light, it was bolder, a deep burgundy.

Horrible, ugly, intrusive thoughts ran a mile a minute.

It meant nothing.

It was all just a game.

This was his plan all along—the door opened, cutting off my thoughts.

Theo.

He leaned against the frame, face unreadable. Wild, chocolate hair fell over one eye. His cheekbones were sharper in the shadow of the doorway, the muscle beneath dark and hollow. He folded his arms, back to his regular bodyguard uniform of a shirt and jeans, designed to blend in. Once again, that was a fool’s errand. He looked like a clandestine picture of a celebrity.

His shirt read: YOU’RE TOO CLOSE.

“Get up,” Theo said. “We have a plane to catch.”

He turned around, leaving the door open and empty in his wake. I could hardly breathe.

Did it really mean nothing to him?

I suddenly felt naked. So very naked.

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