Singe (Guardian Protection Book 1) by Aly Martinez

Author:Aly Martinez [Martinez, Aly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Guardian Protection Series, Book 1
Publisher: Aly Martinez
Published: 2017-02-03T18:30:00+00:00

I lived in his nightmares.

He lived in my dreams.

It was a jagged little pill to swallow. But it was hard to focus on the pain as he held me, vowing that he wanted new memories with me.

Not those from the fire.

Or the bits he’d retained from our forgotten night together.

New ones.

And there was nothing I wanted more than memories with Jude.

After he’d left with Val, I spent the rest of the night in my ocean room, listening to the waves crash all around me with a huge smile on my face.

I’d eventually have to tell him everything instead of the CliffsNotes I’d given him about Apollo. But I was in no hurry for that topic of conversation. Not because I didn’t want to tell Jude. Well, not completely. I didn’t actually want to tell anyone. It was the biggest reason I kept my private life private. Johnson was one on the very short list of people who knew the truth. And that was only because he’d had the unfortunate experience of witnessing it all up close and personal.

But, on the other hand, I wanted Jude to know me. The real me. And not the frightened woman who’d spent millions buying an entire floor in a downtown Chicago skyrise in order to stay close to the only man she trusted.

No. That definitely wasn’t who I wanted him to get to know. Though I feared that was who he’d get. And, worse, who I really was.

On Sunday, Jude and I exchanged texts. He’d said that he wanted paragraphs, and boy, did he get it.

After an hour of chatting, I was still going a mile a minute. If I added the word content of all of my messages, I’d probably typed out the equivalent of a dissertation. Jude’s responses weren’t nearly as in depth, but I figured he was busy with Val.

When my phone rang at nine p.m., he was chuckling on the other line. “Jesus, Rhion. How do you still have feeling in your fingers? Can we switch this to the phone?”

I was happy to oblige. Hearing his deep, sexy voice was better than typing any day of the week.

During our conversation, Jude told me all about his life and I listened so intently the world around me disappeared. I learned that Jude had graduated from Ohio State and gone directly into the police academy. He strategically skipped over the part where he’d gotten fired—because of me—and went right to his position in LA, where he’d worked for a security firm. The way Jude talked in paragraphs about his job made it clear he loved it. A lot. And I loved that something positive had come for him after the fire. It gave me hope that maybe I hadn’t ruined his life after all.

I laughed harder than I had in years at his ridiculous stories about his various celebrity clients over the years and then even harder as he recounted the day he’d met Johnson.

But the most important thing I learned during our three-hour-long conversation was that Jude was an amazing man.

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