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I'm continuing with A Chaunce of Riches - there have been attempts made on Sam's life and Ben has done his job protecting her. He's tried to comfort her and there have been a few tender moments - but he's scared of letting his defenses down and getting hurt again. Besides, she still refuses to tell him why she left...
He
sighed and fought to keep control, “I just…”, if he showed her how much he
still wanted her then he would be lost forever. He had to stay above it all, he
had to hold on to his anger and his bitterness or he would be destroyed, “I
keep telling myself that the only reason my memory of making love to you is so
special is because you were the first woman I was ever with, but now I’ve been
with other women and they all have been good.” He ignored the slight flicker of
pain he saw in her eyes, he regretted hurting her, but that was good; he needed
to keep that wall up between them. “I’m sure that if I made love with you now,
you would be nothing more than just another vessel.”
She tried to sound indignant to hide the hurt he had just
inflicted, “you won’t get the chance to find out.”
He snickered cruelly, “why not, I know I probably couldn’t
afford you but can’t you just pretend, I want you, I need you, nobody even
needs to know.”
Samantha Chaunce was doing her best not to cry in front of
him, “why are you being such a bastard?”
He laughed out loud, “you know that I am a bastard better
than anyone else.”
...a long time ago she promised never to call him that.
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The day that Ben Johnson was hired as a bodyguard for some rich widow and her kid, he never expected to be working for the woman who had abandoned him just when he had needed her the most so many years before. Damn it all, he still wanted her. Samantha Chaunce never thought she would see him again. She never thought she would have to explain why she married the rich man over the man she had sworn she once loved. And she certainly never expected to find out that her rich husband had been murdered and fingers were pointing to her former lover.
Author Bio:
Chelle Cordero writes stories
of Passion and Suspense. Vanilla Heart Publishing has published nine Cordero novels:
Bartlett’s Rule; His Lucky Charm; Within the Law; Courage of the Heart; Final
Sin; Hostage Heart; A Chaunce of Riches; Common Bond, Tangled Hearts; Hyphema;
and Karma Visited. She is currently working on her next novel, a paranormal
romantic suspense (much requested) sequel to Karma Visited. Vanilla Heart
Publishing has also produced a print and e-book version of writing lessons and
exercises based on her successful Amazon blog Living, Breathing, Writing. Chelle
has been writing both fiction and non-fiction for the bulk of her adult life
and has been with Vanilla Heart Publishing since early 2008.
Her books have earned many plaudits which
includes: Bartlett's Rule was named one of Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Top Ten
Reads for 2009; Final Sin was an Honorable Mention in the Fiction Category of
the 2010 NY Book Festival and a 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee.; Hyphema won the
Dec 9, 2011 Friday Book Cover Vote on the Shades of Love website; A Chaunce of
Riches was Winner of D. Renee Bagby’s readers’ choice for The Best Overall
First Chapter, April 2010; and Hostage Heart, Final Sin and A Chaunce of Riches
had top ten finishes in the 2009 Preditors’ and Readers’ poll. Chelle was also featured
in "50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading" published by The Author’s
Show in 2010.
Chelle Cordero maintains an
author’s blog at http://chellecordero.blogspot.com/,
a promotional blog at http://ccepotourri.wordpress.com/,
and offers a weekly writing workshop for Kindle Blog subscribers at http://bit.ly/pILcG.
Her website http://ChelleCordero.com
offers information on all of her books and her appearances. Bloggers and the
media are welcome to visit Chelle’s media room at http://chellecordero.com/media/ with
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12 comments:
This is excellent! Great tension, great conflict. And it runs deep. Excellent 8, Chelle! :-)
Maybe he is a bastard in the true sense of the word. Outstanding snippet for this page turner. I'll tune in next week.
So much tension in this! Wonder when they will break through the wall and the truth of what happened will come out?
So much emotion and hard feelings. Really an intense snippet today! This is quite an intriguing story...
Lots of pain in that dialogue...deep seeded pain.
I feel like they're talking past each other.
Great use of the 8's, Chelle. So much back story and emotion in just a few sentences! Well done.
aww, you gotta feel for both of them! Maybe if they get all the hurt out, they can get past it. We can hope, at least.
In my experience it's actually the bitterness and anger that destroys people. Interesting that he thinks they will save him in this case. Cruel, what he's doing to her.
Whole lotta tension there. They're both going to have to do some majoring groveling at some point if this is going to work. Great job
Whoa! I can understand trying to keep himself from getting involved again... but that's just mean! What's wrong with a little polite distance, instead?
I get the feeling he's going to regret this later.
I think she still wants him! Very emotional snippet. Great job.
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