Theirs to Risk: A Forbidden Bodyguard Novel (Fame & Fortune Book 1) by Anna Bloom

Author:Anna Bloom [Bloom, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-28T06:00:00+00:00

She’s in my arms, her back pressed against my chest. How we’ve become a tangle of limbs I don’t know. It’s nothing sexual, it’s just us holding one another, two people clinging to a life raft in a sea of hopelessness. Across the bed are the letters Erica brought to my house and the others that have arrived since.

"Someone wants to destroy you, Soph. What they did at your home, they were trying to drag you back into your twisted world and they nearly did—you ran straight to him and offered yourself over without a thought. Whoever it is must have known the cravings would be too much." I grimace at the thought of her unconscious and lying underneath the bastard. What is wrong with him? Is he just as fucked up as her?

"I fell again." Her voice wavers and I run a hand through her fine pale hair. It feels like silk against my skin and I stop myself from taking the touch further. Sophia is bound so tight in her own secrets. If this is the path we are now on, we need to unravel one another slowly until the mess we’ve made is tidied away and we can be free. "I only ever wanted someone to want me." Her confession snaps my universe in half.

I’m the one she’s talking about. If I’d kissed her that night five years ago, if I’d told her how I’d felt, she would never have walked this path of destruction. She would never have lost her self-respect. Instead, I’d left thinking I was doing the right thing—taking the moral high ground. That ground had crumpled and fallen beneath us both.

I’m her trigger.

Self-loathing runs through me like an out-of-control stampede.

"It’s okay," I soothe, my lips close to her ear. "I won’t let anyone get that close again and you, you can heal. We’ll make sure no one knows the truth. I’ll protect you from everything." I would promise her the world if I could. I’d hand it to her in the palm of my hand.

She sniffs every so often as we sit in a tangled embrace with silence lapping around us "Who knows about the condo, Soph? Someone must."

"No one. I promise. Just Jacobs, Erica, and the cleaner, but the cleaner doesn’t know it’s mine. I’m careful not to leave anything personal around."

"How did you hire the cleaner?"

She sighs. "I asked Johnny’s PA to call an agency."

"So, Johnny knows?" Acid burns my throat at the mention of his name.

"No. Jemma did it as a favour, then once the contract was in place I called and pretended to be her and changed the address I’d originally given."

I nod slowly. She was thorough but it wouldn’t take much for a personal detective to dig and find what they needed. Everyone had a price in Hollywood—even Sophia herself.

I can’t stop thinking about Johnny. Would he be twisted enough to try to blackmail her into continuing with her dark ways? My gut says yes, but my head when I look at the letters tells me this is a personal vendetta.

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