


My father never calls for me this late, and besides him, who could it be? No one, that’s who. I glance at the clock on the wall and realize it’s after eleven. It’s so loud and unexpected that a tiny shriek passes my lips. Before my fingers even touch it, a deafening knock booms through the room. Dropping the towel, a shiver skates down my spine when my long wet hair brushes over my shoulder.īending down, I reach for the towel. I’ve asked my father numerous times for a cell phone or laptop, but he swears it’s for my own protection that I have neither, so the radio is all I’ve got. Slipping into my nightgown, I sit down on the edge of the bed and finish drying my dark hair while humming some pop song I heard on the radio earlier. His precious, virgin daughter, in return for a debt paid.

He had no money, nothing of value to me, nothing except. Her father knew I was coming, knew I had intended to make him pay. Like a thief, I came in the dead of night and stole her away from her protected castle and placed her in a gilded cage made of gold. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Heartless Heroes: A Dark Romance Anthology (Coming Soon) Moretti Crime Heartless Heroes: A Dark Romance Anthology (Coming Soon)
