Cover Reveal, Excerpt & Giveaway
Hero
by
Leighton Del Mia
Leighton Del Mia
Genre: Dark Erotica, Standalone
Expected Release Date: February 27, 2014 Cover Designer: Cover It! Designs Photographer: Scott Hoover Photography
~ Synopsis ~
Calvin Parish
They call me Hero. I defend. I protect. I ask for nothing in return, and that makes me good. Doesn’t it?
That which makes me the ultimate predator also feeds dark impulses
I’ve learned to control—until I bring her too close. For years I’ve watched her
from afar, but what started out as duty has become obsession.
Cataline Ford
I work hard. I play by the rules. I’m content. My scars are quiet and invisible, and that keeps me hidden. Doesn’t it?
One fateful walk home, I’m taken by someone I didn’t know I should
fear. Captive and afraid, nobody will tell me why I’m confined to this
hauntingly beautiful mansion. I’m given everything; I have nothing. He takes
what he needs from me, and for that I hate him. But I might have loved him
once.
And just because you’re reading this doesn’t mean I survive him.
~ Excerpt ~
Because I’m lost in my thoughts, I don’t hear Cataline enter the room. Her tight black dress cuts across her mid-thighs, and her cleavage teases from a plummeting neckline. She’s done her makeup for probably the second time since arriving at the mansion.
“What is this?” I ask, narrowing my eyes.
“What?”
Jasmine drifts under my nose as she walks away from me to her seat.
“I told you not to dress up for dinner.”
“I thought you’d like it,” she says, lowering herself gracefully into
the chair. Her back is straight as a rod, and her fingers are laced. “You
don’t?”
Norman decorates the table with food as I stare Cataline down. He
clears his throat. “For dinner, we have—”
“Leave us.”
He pauses. Though my eyes are still fastened on Cataline, I know he’s
watching me as he bows his head. “As you wish, sir.”
I stand and slowly walk the line of the long table. My footsteps echo
through the hall, appropriately menacing. I’ve just come from a burning
building but am back in my suit and tie to maintain appearances. And my
ridiculous glasses, which I remove and toss aside. She’ll believe I’ve just
returned from the office. When I’m standing over her, she tugs up the neckline
of the dress and blinks at me. I resist smirking as she tucks hair behind her
ear twice.
“Well,” she says, “aren’t we going to eat?”
“I’m going to eat.”
“I’m not?”
“As far as I’m concerned, there’s only one meal at this table, and
it’s you.”
My ears pick up her slow swallow, my eyes the curl of her hands in her
lap. “That sounds like a threat,” she says quietly.
I bend over, flatten one hand on the table and wrap the other around
the arm of her chair. “It’s not. This is a threat: if you’re not naked and
spread out on this table in two seconds, I’m going to spank you so hard, you
won’t know up from down.”
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