Continue the journey by reading an extract from The Man I Desire, the second installment of the trilogy which is available to pre-order now for release in January 2017
PART TWO
EZRA
We’d stayed up long into the night talking. Held in his embrace, I felt soft. Lucid. As if in a dream.
Blake Strong lived up to his name. When he spoke about the trauma of losing his sister, of being informed of her death having heard his mother’s frantic cries on the phone, and then rushing to the hospital to find out she’d been murdered, I realized that despite what he’d been through he’d remained capable and kind. He had the strength I needed.
I told him more about Tyler, what had evolved in that basement where he’d held me captive for six months of my early adult life.
‘We’re kindred spirits,’ I said, nestling my head between his outstretched arm and chest so that I could feel his heartbeat on my face.
‘The man who was sentenced for her murder committed suicide.’
‘But, you said you thought it was someone else?’
‘His brother, yes.’
‘What will you do?’
‘Wait. I’ve got someone looking into it.’
I had to give him credit, he hadn’t allowed the past to change him. Which was more than could be said for I.
Having spent years trying to come to terms with the nightmares that filled my sleep and flashbacks that took over every waking moment, I thought I’d finally learned to live with them. But since I’d met Blake I’d had to confront things I hadn’t had the guts to face before. One of which had been my fear of men, of allowing myself to feel something for another person, and to trust. But I’d been intimate with Blake. And I felt as though I’d finally breached one of my own rules; to allow a man who genuinely cared into my life.
But I was also scared of what kind of future lay before me. This was new territory. I was still broken. And it would take Blake’s loyalty to heal me.
BLAKE
We’d had a difficult start to our relationship. How Ezra was able to cope in such traumatic circumstances was visible in the way she still censored her thoughts. But I knew, in time, she’d learn to overcome her trust issues and give herself to me fully, without hesitation. And I would wait because she really was a very special woman, and I could no longer imagine my life without her. I had no intention of letting her go.
I hope you have enjoyed reading The Man I Need.
Please leave your review on Amazon.UK/Amazon.US and Goodreads to enable other erotic thriller lovers to find my work.
Stay in touch by ‘liking’ and sharing my Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/TheManINeed/
The Man I Need (The Man I Need #1) Page 11
