My Thoughts
Oh how I enjoy naughty talking bossy man Ethan. In this part of their story Ethan is definitely having issues with letting things go unpunished. This creates problems with Chloe who just wants to move on from everything that happened. That just isn't Ethan though. I really felt like he was acting mostly out of guilt for his part in what happened and that other part of wanting to make sure that he protected Chloe now. I am also very intrigued by his best friend Sebastian. Would love to read his story.
I give Exposed 4 hearts!
I give Exposed 4 hearts!
About the Book
Ethan Frost, the irresistible leading man from the New York
Times bestsellers Ruined and Addicted, returns once again in Exposed—a novel
that’s perfect for fans of J. Kenner and Sylvia Day.
Will Ethan Frost go too far for the woman he loves?
The moment Chloe Girard walked into my life, she exposed
secrets and emotions I always thought were best kept buried.
She wants to move on, to ignore the past. But I can’t do
that. Not when she still suffers. And not when the man who hurt her remains
unscathed. So when I discover the perfect opportunity to make him pay for what
he did to Chloe, I can’t walk away, no matter the consequences.
But there’s a fine line between justice and obsession. As I
turn up old crimes and new lies, I know that I’m playing with fire—and risking
the very foundations of our relationship.
My love for Chloe is absolute. I just hope it’s enough to
save us both.
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Excerpt
After several long minutes, my heartbeat finally returns to
normal. I pull out slowly, rolling Chloe over so that she’s cuddled into my
chest and I can feel her breath against my neck, her heart beating against my
own.
“I love you,” she says, her lips moving drowsily against my
sweat-slicked skin.
“I love you, too.”
It’s a vow on my part as much as it is a declaration.
Because loving her has never been the problem. I’ve loved her almost from the
beginning—I started falling the minute she refused to drink the blueberry
smoothie I made her and by the time she’d returned the Vitamix I’d bought her
for the second time, I was all in.
Yes, loving her is easy. But keeping her—that’s something
else entirely. I’ve already fucked things up with her, twice. I lied to her,
tried to break up with her, hurt her over and over again when all I’ve really
wanted to do is protect her.
I don’t know how one man can fuck up as badly—and as many
times—as I have. And yet, by some miracle, she’s still here. In my arms. In my
bed. Though, technically, we’re in her bed at the moment.
That’s something else I intend to change as soon as
possible. Not that I have anything against Chloe’s room—or her roommate. But I
need her with me, in my space. I need her in my house, her stuff cluttering up
my dresser, her shoes tripping me on the way to the bathroom, her sexy-sweet
scent hanging in the corners of every room I enter.
I need her things mingled with mine, need her life mingled
with mine.
Because no matter how much I’ve fucked up, no matter how
many mistakes I’ve made, I can’t let her go. I won’t let her go. Not now. Not
ever. We’re tied together, our lives twisted and tangled together long before
we had a clue what we would mean to each other. I wouldn’t have chosen our
past, how we started out. But it exists. It’s real, and it’s something we’re
both going to have to live with—for better or worse.
That’s the nightmare. That one day she won’t be able to live
with what Brandon did to her. With the part I played in keeping him safe
because I didn’t know better. Because I was blind.
But that’s a future I hope will never happen—a future I’m
determined to never let happen. Right now, in the present, she’s still here.
Still in my arms. Still willing to give me—to give us—a chance to get this
right.
It’s more than I deserve, but I’m taking it.
I stroke her back, murmur nonsense words in her ear as Chloe
snuggles close to me. Her breathing evens out and she’s asleep again within
minutes. She’s exhausted, the toll of the last few weeks—the last few months—impossible
to ignore. For both of us.
I close my eyes, try to follow, but my mind is too crowded
to allow any kind of sleep to creep in. Chloe’s words from earlier chase
themselves around inside my head—and there’s a part of me that knows she’s
right. That knows I’ll be messing with all kinds of old wounds if I keep
pursuing this. Opening them up, making them bleed. Making her bleed.
Hurting her any more than she’s already been hurt is the
last thing I want to do.
But as I lay here staring at the ceiling, I can’t stop
thinking about my brother. About the fact that he hurt her when she was young
and defenseless. About the way he continues to hurt her even now.
I flash back to the way he looked at her in my driveway that
day when the whole world came crashing down around our ears for the first time.
So smug, so satisfied, so convinced of his own invincibility. The nondisclosure
agreement—agreements, I remind myself, thinking back to the call I just
took—make him untouchable and he knows it. More, he revels in it.
I’m not okay with that.
I’m not okay with any of it. Not what he did to Chloe and
those other women. Not how he got away with all of it. And most definitely, not
how he’s planning to run for Congress and beyond, building a life for himself
making laws that he feels absolutely no compunction to follow.
None of that is okay.
Chloe might be strong enough to live with the past—and a
future where Brandon never pays for his crimes. But I’m not. And I never will
be.
About the Author
Tracy Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks
and has been known to forget where—and sometimes who—she is when immersed in a
great novel. At six she wrote her first short story—something with a rainbow
and a prince—and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit
with her first Judy Blume novel. By ten she’d read everything in the young
adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom
started her on romance novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy
knew she’d found her life-long love. Now an English professor at her local
community college, she writes romances that run the gamut from contemporary to
paranormal to erotic suspense.
Giveaway
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Ebook of ONCE PERFECT by Cecy Robson
Ebook of SURRENDER by Violetta Rand
Ebook of LAST OF THE RED-HOT COWBOYS by Tina Leonard
Ebook of RAVEN by Ashley Suzanne
Ebook of UNTIL YOU FIND ME by Amber Hart
Ebook of RUSH by Gina Gordon
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