Take Me: A Singular Obsession Novella by Lucy Leroux

Author:Lucy Leroux [Leroux, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942336204
Publisher: Candy Cap Publishing
Published: 2017-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

By quarter to noon, Maggie was starving. She had showered and dressed thirty minutes earlier in the wrinkle-free wrap dress she’d stuffed in her purse. Jason had given her a spare toothbrush the first time she’d spent the night, but dressing in the same clothes as the night before was not an experience she cared to repeat.

The little things you learn in your first relationship…

After deciding she was too hungry to wait for Jason’s meeting to be over, she grabbed her things. Phone in hand, she was in the building’s lobby texting her brothers and Peyton, telling them she was on her way for brunch and to save her some pancakes. She didn’t bother to mention that Jason wasn’t coming with her because she hadn’t told her brothers he might. Peyton was the only one in her confidence, and since Maggie had chickened out for two Sundays in a row, her friend wouldn’t be surprised when she appeared alone.

She was about to hit send when she saw her man coming through the glass doors of the main entrance. “Hey! You’re just in time to join me for brunch at the hotel.”

“What’s wrong?”

Jason looked pale and clammy. His face was damp and slightly green, as if he was coming down with something. She stopped in front of him with a frown before putting her hand on his forehead. “Are you all right? You look ill.”

Would chicken soup work for whatever this was? The hotel’s chef made a delicious one. Maybe she could have someone run a tub of it over to him.

Jason looked down at her, his face more intent than the time they’d gone to play laser tag. He put his hands on her shoulders. “Maggie, I want you to listen to me. I really care about you—”

Her heart sped up. “I care about you, too.”

He nodded abruptly. “That’s great. I’m so glad, but I need to say this all at once or—I don’t care what you’ve done before you met me. All I care about is where we go from here.” He leaned in and lowered his voice to a whisper. “If after you hear what Dawson has to say, you decide not to help or you feel like you’re in danger, I can help you. I will help you. We…we could even leave. We can get out of this town and not come back.”

Maggie’s head drew back. “Okay, you are definitely sick with something because none of that made sense. And who is Dawson?”

“I’m Dawson.”

Maggie peeked around Jason. His partner Ethan was standing there with a second man.

The stranger was only a few years older than Ethan and Jason, but he appeared worse for wear. Although his clothing was clean, it managed to look shiny and unkempt, as if it had a layer of something greasy over it. Along with the thin, tan-colored hair and paunch, he had an air of dishevelment one usually had to work at to achieve.

She did not like the way he was looking at her.

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