I really love Skye's Stripped series and couldn't wait to read Clara's story. We learned part of her story in Love the Way You Lie which is her sister Honor's story. Now we get to hear more from Clara's point of view. Her childhood crush Gio is the one who helped them escape. Clara believes that he gave his life for hers and grieves him. Years later she finds out that he is in deed alive when he kidnaps her. Gio isn't that same boy as he suffered greatly for his part in the escape. He wants her to be his wife, but he is so much harder than the sweet boy she was in love with long ago. I loved their story. I loved that Skye gave them a second chance at love no matter how twisted this part of their story begins. I loved Clara who really never stopped loving him.
I give Hold You Against Me 5 hearts!
About the Book
From New York Times bestselling
author Skye Warren comes a sexy new standalone in the Stripped series...
Once upon a time the daughter of a mafia king fell in love with a foot soldier.
This fairy tale didn't have a happy ending.
My sister and I barely managed to escape alive, and we've lived in relative
hiding ever since. I'm safe now, but I can never forget the boy who gave his
life to save mine.
Except there are whispers that he's still alive. And he's fighting a war.
Even knowing the risks, I have to find him. I have to find some way to protect
him, the way he protected me. But he isn't the boy I left behind. He's a
violent man. A criminal. And he's been waiting for me--the final pawn in a dark
game of survival and love.
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Excerpt
Something moves me gently, constant and rhythmic like waves.
I’m warm. There’s something soft curling around my arms, wrapped inside my
fists. Padding beneath my cheek that smells like home.
An unnatural darkness weighs down on me, keeping me from
waking up—a demon’s whisper in my ear. You’re warm, you’re safe. Sleep.
But something is wrong.
I remember falling asleep, so suddenly, remember drinking
water that I hadn’t filled. And I remember the phone call from Amy telling me
that Giovanni’s alive. Impossible.
Awareness pricks my skin like a cold breeze. Wherever I am,
I’m not alone.
I blink rapidly, forcing my eyes open. They adjust to the
darkness quickly, taking in the tinted windows on either side and the wide
leather bench curving beneath me. I’m in a car. A limo, to be exact. And it’s
moving.
On the opposite side of the long space, a large body
reclines. I can see the wide stance of his legs, the pale white of his shirt. A
suit jacket tossed beside his hip. His face is hidden in the shadows of the
vehicle.
I was raised by the head of the Las Vegas mafia, the capo. I
grew up around guns and violence, so I know when a man is armed. It’s the way
he holds himself, the warning shimmering around him like a dark halo.
This man is armed and extremely dangerous.
Every muscle in my body tenses. My mind still swims in thick
water, because I must have been drugged. He drugged me, this faceless man. Why
did he take me? It won’t be anything good, that’s for sure.
Even worse, I suspect this has something to do with my past,
with my family. It’s messed up that I’d rather be taken by some random psycho.
But at least then I’d have a chance of getting away.
“Who are you?” I demand, my voice hoarse from whatever drugs
they gave me.
There’s a long pause, the weight of his regard as heavy as a
finger trailing down my neck.
“Have I really changed that much, bella, that you don’t
recognize me?”
Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author
of dark romance such as Wanderlust and Prisoner. Praised as a “true mistress of
dark erotica”, her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today
Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas
with her loving family, four dogs, and one evil cat.
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