Alpha Billionaire Taboo Prison Break: A Contemporary Romance by Veronica Vaughn

for
sure. A close-minded society has a way of constricting people, of obscuring
their innermost feelings for one other.
    I’ve been thinking some. And maybe this nothing
more than a way for me to assuage my own guilt for the mistakes I made when I
was younger, but maybe the awful things that happened to Eli were blessings in
disguise. After all, they brought us to a foreign country where no one seems to
realize that Eli was once my stepfather, and I was once his stepdaughter. If
anyone knows about our past, they don’t seem to care. Or they don’t care to
find themselves on Eli’s bad side.
    It’s true that money can’t buy happiness. But
money does have a way of solving those kinds of problems.
    Nearly nine months after we arrived in Cuba, I gave
Eli a little girl. And then a boy a year later. And then another girl.
    The girls favor me, but the boy is a spitting
image of Eli. When I look at my beautiful boy and my precious little
girls—whenever I look at Eli, the man I always wanted and who is mine
forever—I am so grateful my life turned out the way it did.
    And maybe someday, when our children are older,
Eli and I will sit them down and tell them a story. The ocean breeze will cool
us, and the parrots will chatter as we explain to our children how they came to
live on the highest mountain on the island of Cuba, raised by a man and woman
who love each other so much, not even prison walls could keep them apart.

 
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    And now … a
sneak peak at a modern-day classic … quick, turn the page before the suspense
kills you …

My Forbidden Military Man

 
    An excerpt

 
    By Veronica Vaughn

 
 
    I.

 
    The instant
I saw the Army helicopter on the horizon, I knew my stepfather was flying home
to me. Somehow I just knew. It swooped over the brown hills of Fort Hood,
drawing closer by the second.
    Jumbled
feelings of excitement, anticipation and a creeping sense of dread raced
through my mind, competing for control of my emotions as the chopper descended
toward the landing pad. A small welcome party of friends, family and fellows
soldiers had gathered around the landing pad, and men grabbed their hats as the
spinning rotor blades kicked up a storm of dust that swirled around us.
    One by one,
the uniformed military men disembarked from the chopper, their thick-soled
boots landing on Texas soil for the first time in months. Then I saw him. Patton, my stepdad, in head-to-toe camo . He climbed from the helicopter a little more slowly than the others, then
stopped and squinted in the harsh glare of the midday sun, looking around like
he was almost surprised to be home again.
    Overcome
with excitement, I started to drop everything and run into his arms. I felt
like a little girl again, and I wanted nothing more than to throw my arms
around my stepdad’s brawny neck and let him give me one of those bear hugs I
had missed so much since while he was gone.
    I took a
step forward, but something held me back. Something completely stupid and all my fault.
    My
stepdad’s gaze found mine. His blue eyes flashed with excitement, but to my
horror, the warmth in his expression