Exposed
Ethan Frost # 3
Ethan Frost # 3
By: Tracy Wolff
Releasing May 5th, 2015
Loveswept
Blurb
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.
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.
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.
Author
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