“Of course I’m here. I’m your PA, you need me, right?”

“You’re right.” He stopped, his voice serious and deep with emotion. “I do need you.” His hands tightened around mine, and my tummy turned more twists than it ever had in my life.

“I have a confession,” Hunter said after our dinner was cleared and we sat with a half-drunk bottle of wine between us at the private table.

“Oh boy, here we go.” I took another long drink of my wine in jest. He quirked a smile at me that allowed happiness and hope to bloom in my belly. For just a split second I forgot about John Ellis Walker and the bimbo and everything else that had left my head spinning. This was it. This was the real deal. I loved him.

“You know that secret you think I don’t know?”

My heart dropped then. Fell straight to the floor between my too-high heels and splintered into painful shards.

“I—I don’t know…” I stuttered, my brain running away with what he could or couldn’t know.

“This only works if I’m up front with you, Erin, and I haven’t been. But tonight it’s all on the table.”

“Okay,” I whispered, my brain still stalling on the idea that there was so much more that I didn’t know about Hunter, frozen in fear that he finally knew the one secret I’d carried down deep.

“Sometimes I get an assignment from JW, and with my certain skillset, well…I was hired to…” He pressed his bottom lip between his teeth, his eyes darting away. My stomach curled and burned, vomit making its way up my esophagus. This wasn’t going to be good. Not a chance.

“H—hired to what?” My hands shook beneath the stark white linen of the table where we sat. I watched Hunter’s throat constrict with a slow swallow. I imagined the lump that was probably lodged there, at least if it matched mine at all.

“I was hired to watch your husband.”

To be continued…

Book Two coming November 2015.

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also from Adriane Leigh

Steel and Lace: The Complete Series

The Morning After

Light in Morning

The Wild Series: Wild, Ridge, Slade

Beautiful Burn

Blindsight: Books One, Two, Three

acknowledgements

First, I have to thank my editor, Lisa, at Adept Edits who accepts my demanding last-minute ‘process’ and helps me craft sloppy sentences into sensical ones! I wouldn’t be the writer I am without you challenging me every step of the way!

I am so blessed to call Neda, Amy, Nelle, Terri and my SmutSisters very dear friends. Thank you for your unwavering support and all-hours of the day chats that remind me to suck it up and just keep on! You keep me sane through this crazy ride.

Robin and Yaya…you ladies are Hunter Ellis’ lifesaver! Thank you for picking up Blindsight at the last minute and giving me your hilarious two cents! Your suggestions are priceless!

Raine, EK, Jay, RK, Katie, Kristy, Alessandra and so many other outrageously talented authors I not only have the good fortune of knowing, but calling friends. Thank you for your love, kind words, support, and laughs!

And I couldn’t do this job without the help from my hubby. Thanks, Babe, for feeding me at 5pm when I’ve been in the writing cave all day losing my mind, and thanks to the incredible support system that is my family, putting up with me while I freely lose my mind in books every day.

And to my very favorite people in the world…book people! I’ve been so blessed to meet so many readers at book signings, chatting books with all of you is the cherry on top of this wonderful whirlwind!

♥ Adriane

about the author

Adriane Leigh was born and raised in a snowbank in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and now lives among the sand dunes of the Lake Michigan lakeshore.

She graduated with a Literature degree but never particularly enjoyed reading Shakespeare or Chaucer.

She is married to a tall, dark, and handsome guy, and plays mama to two sweet baby girls. She is a voracious reader and wishes she had more time to knit scarves to keep her warm during the arctic Michigan winters.

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