Phantom's Touch: Sexy Paranormal (Book 2, Phantom Series) by Leto Julie

Author:Leto, Julie [Leto, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Bookgoddess, LLC
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Lauren could hardly breathe. For the first time since she’d come home from the hospital, the room around her started to spin. If not for Aiden’s viselike grip around her arms, she might have crumbled.

Helen waved David back, her eyes wide and frightened in a way that Lauren had never seen before. Good. She needed to be afraid. She’d brought this lying snake into her home. Into her life. David Drake, or whatever he called himself these days, had clearly tricked one of the savviest women in Hollywood. But why?

“Honey, yes,” Helen said. “David saved you after your electrocution. He gave you CPR before the paramedics arrived. I told you about him in the hospital.”

Lauren shook her head as a fuzzy recollection of Helen chattering by her bedside at the hospital skittered across her brain. “No,” she insisted. “Not then. Before. A long time before!”

She stopped fighting Aiden, who pulled her back and pressed her to his chest. With one arm protectively across her, he held her steady as he spoke in an even tone. “I think you should both leave.”

Helen’s eyes flashed with anger. “Who the hell do you think you are? You don’t own her.”

“I do not claim to own her, but I have sworn to protect her,” Aiden declared.

The heat emanating from his body wrapped Lauren in a cocoon so soothing, she couldn’t resist folding herself into it and wishing for the rest of the world to go away. She’d tried so hard to forget that night—the night that had changed her life so dramatically. On the edge between life and death, she’d turned over her heart and soul and trust to Ross. She’d given up her sad and tragic childhood, changed her name and succumbed to Ross Marchand’s overpowering need to possess her, body and soul.

All because the boy who saved her refused to spirit her away.

God, how she’d begged him. Through eyes swollen to slits and lips puffed up beyond recognition, she’d pleaded with the young man who’d come to her aid to take her away, drag her if he had to, anywhere she could either die or heal on her own. She didn’t want the police called. They’d take her to the hospital and contact Ross. She didn’t have the strength to fight him or his promises of fame and riches and love.

If only she could escape. Start over somewhere else.

But the boy who’d scared away her attackers had refused her one request. She’d hated him for years, even after she’d fallen in love with Ross. Even after her husband had made good on every single promise he’d made her, turning the onetime street rat into an international star. And yet, somewhere in the back of her mind, she’d always wondered what might have happened if that teenage runaway with courage enough to run off the gang who’d jumped her had listened to her pleading and helped her escape. Might she have achieved her success on her own?

Never in a million years would she have expected for him to sneak into her life this way.

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