The Lies That Loved Me

The Lies That Loved Me

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Daniella Marc never expected kindness. Not from the world. Not from people. And definitely not from love. She'd learned early on-pain was constant, trust was dangerous, and hope was a lie wrapped in a prettier lie. Until him. He was everything she wasn't-wealthy, wild, untouchable. The charming boy with the crooked smile who looked at her like she was the only person in the world that mattered. He gave her everything she'd never had-a friendship that felt like home, a love that made her feel seen, and a future she almost believed was possible. Almost. Because love, like all good things, came with a price. And Daniella paid in heartbreak. Then fate did something rare-it offered her mercy. A twist of tragedy that erased her past and all its scars. She became someone new, someone untouched by pain. For seven years, she lived in blissful ignorance... until the past came knocking. Now, a man dressed in black has crashed into her world-intense, dangerous, and impossibly familiar. He stirs something inside her. Something forbidden. Something lost. Something she doesn't understand. She tries to resist, to run, to forget... but how do you run from a soul that's already entangled with yours? As the dreams begin-dark, intimate flashes of a life she can't remember-Daniella realizes that the man she should hate might just be the one her heart never stopped choosing. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more tangled the lies become. And this time, if she falls again, she may not survive the landing.

The Lies That Loved Me Chapter 1 PROLOGUE

He was tired. Dog-tired.

His heartbeat was just beginning to recover from a sweaty engagement of breath-ragged, hair-pulling, nail-scraping pleasure mere minutes ago, evening out and lulling him onward into the soothing darkness of sleep.

Unfortunately, he was yanked back from the calling darkness by the feel of soft feminine hands accompanied by flutters of kisses sliding along his chest. He reluctantly opened his eyes to the annoying realization that the treat of the night was still in his bed.

Yeah, he really was tired, because he usually saw to it that the source of his fleeting pleasure got lost the moment he found his release. His eyes skidded over the olive-skinned, platinum blonde making a meal of his chest, and his brain struggled to remember her name.

She was a bank investor. That's all he could remember about her, because he hadn't been interested in what she had to say when she'd blabbered on (and on) earlier at the Gala.

He'd merely paid attention to her curvy figure and the long, toned legs accentuated by six-inch heels that compelled him to spend a few hours in exploration.

He tried again to recall her

name...Lany...Lancey...Lisa... Ah hell, he didn't know and he didn't care.

Nameless Blond pressed her plum lips against the middle of his chest and murmured in a sultry voice that caressed him in places he really preferred to remain inert at the moment, "I want more."

A sigh flowed from him as he mentally kicked himself for almost falling asleep with a woman in his bed. "I'm done. Get dressed. Lennon will take you home."

The covers flipped back with a simple flex of his muscular arm, and he swung his feet to the red carpeted floor. With the heels of his hands, he rubbed the weight of sleep from his eyes.

"Oh, you were great, by the way. Thanks."

The protesting muscles of his limbs told him just how exhausted he was. And as he wrestled with sleep, he detected no movement from Nameless Blond.

Turning, he directed his stare at the blond-haired creature whose green eyes shone with tears as she clutched the black silk sheet over her bosom. In a controlled voice, one straining against anger, he asked, "You don't understand English?"

"Thanks?" she asked, voice breaking. "That's it?"

Closing his eyes, he pinched the bridge of his nose. Telling a woman to leave more than once had never happened before, because he wasn't normally this tired. And when he wasn't tired, he was everything akin to a whirling dervish.

So, when he gave a command, women usually sensed the peril of questioning him and elected not to argue.

"Pretty much. Thought you understood what this was."

When she just sat there still, staring at him, he full on glared.

"Listen, girl, whatever the hell your name is, you need to get your ass up, and go."

Recognizing his seriousness, Nameless Blond hopped up from the bed and scrambled around on the carpeted floor, retrieving her clothes.

Appeased, he got up and strolled over to the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the hotel room, staring out at the bright city lights of Chicago. The weak shade of light from the corner lamp silhouetted his tall, muscular frame in the darkness as he stood stark naked and pensive before the window.

One by one, he cracked his knuckles, trying his damnedest not to think of her. He failed. Knuckle cracking no longer worked as a distraction. How much longer? How much longer will it be before I can regain the missing half of my soul?

With every thought of her, his heart ached like a curse from hell. The heart-wrenching fact that the hands now caressing her weren't his, that the lips kissing hers weren't his, that the body making love to hers...oh dear god, it's as if a bullet was left lodged right in the center of his heart, killing him slowly, painfully, surely.

No. His fingers curled into mighty, determined fists at his side. No. He could tolerate it no longer. He needed to reclaim what was his. It was time he informed Calle who she really was to him.

That she belonged not to Calle, but to him. And if that disgusting piece of shit tried to rebel, he'd give the son of a whore a torturously painful ending. No more chances.

A faint click of the door handle pulled him from his malevolent thoughts and he turned to see Nameless Blond standing there, her green eyes glistening as she wished him, "Goodnight, Mr. Black."

He gave a chin lift to the open door, wanting her to be gone already. The profound guilt he always felt after sleeping with someone who wasn't her, never allowed him to be...nice to these innocent women.

His usual reaction to the pang of guilt he felt along with the frustration of not having her, was to take it out on the woman present. Made him an asshole, but he couldn't help it.

Nameless Blond gave him a sad smile and teetered away, the door closing silently behind her. Her green eyes were ridiculously alluring, had pulled him in. But alluring as they were, he favored seductively brown eyes.

A crooked smile danced on his lips. Cognac-brown to be exact. The shrill of his cellphone broke through the silence, and he went to scoop it off the nightstand.

A glance at his caller ID had him slightly panicking.

"Trent, at this hour?" he growled into the receiver. "Please tell me she's okay."

"Yes, Mr. Black. She's sound. But..."

"Out with it, Trent!"

"She took a job at Secret X, Sir."

"Secret X? Eric's Club?"

"Yes, Sir."

"The hell's she doing there?" he barked.

"Say bartending. Please."

Trent paused for a moment, then, "No, Sir. She's stripping."

As if he'd been touched with live wire, his entire being became fully awake, eyes wide, weariness gone. Anger boiling. Things were getting out of hand.

"Her job at the Bistro, what happened?"

"She lost it a week after her split with Calle."

His chest suddenly felt vacant, heart dropped to the pit of his stomach. "She...She never went back to Calle?"

"No, Sir. Seems she's serious this time around. And it's smart timing, too. 'Cause the Cubans are out for his soul this time."

"Then why the fuck am I just hearing of all this? That she never went back to Calle or that she lost her job? What am I paying you all for?"

"I'm sorry, Sir. We've been trying to reach you for the past few weeks, but we kept getting your assistant. And you gave us instructions not to leave messages about this matter with anyone. So..."

Fuck. For the past six weeks he's been doing some heavy traveling, being a work addict and all. Hell, he should've known all this.

A sick feeling lingered. If she had to pick up a job at Secret X, then that meant she was in need. She was hurting and in need. She shouldn't be hurting when he could so easily take her pain away. She shouldn't be in need of anything when she already had it all.

"When did she start?"

"Tonight, Sir."

Perfect.

"Go get Eric to phone me.Now."

He began pacing the length of the room, his fingers raking through his hair repeatedly.

"And from here on out, every goddamn move she makes, I. Want. To. Know. Got it? Doesn't matter how busy I am, don't stop calling until you get through to me. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Good. I'll reschedule my plans here in Chicago and jet out first thing in the morning. I expect a full report of everything that's taken place within the last month."

His fingers trembled as he disconnected the call and sank to his knees, dropping his head in his hands.

My sweet, brown-eyed girl, what are you doing to yourself? I've waited too long, haven't I? Seven years too long.

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“Daniella Marc never expected kindness. Not from the world. Not from people. And definitely not from love. She'd learned early on-pain was constant, trust was dangerous, and hope was a lie wrapped in a prettier lie. Until him. He was everything she wasn't-wealthy, wild, untouchable. The charming boy with the crooked smile who looked at her like she was the only person in the world that mattered. He gave her everything she'd never had-a friendship that felt like home, a love that made her feel seen, and a future she almost believed was possible. Almost. Because love, like all good things, came with a price. And Daniella paid in heartbreak. Then fate did something rare-it offered her mercy. A twist of tragedy that erased her past and all its scars. She became someone new, someone untouched by pain. For seven years, she lived in blissful ignorance... until the past came knocking. Now, a man dressed in black has crashed into her world-intense, dangerous, and impossibly familiar. He stirs something inside her. Something forbidden. Something lost. Something she doesn't understand. She tries to resist, to run, to forget... but how do you run from a soul that's already entangled with yours? As the dreams begin-dark, intimate flashes of a life she can't remember-Daniella realizes that the man she should hate might just be the one her heart never stopped choosing. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more tangled the lies become. And this time, if she falls again, she may not survive the landing.”
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Chapter 1 PROLOGUE

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Chapter 2 DRUNK

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Chapter 3 LEAVING

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Chapter 4 COMPANY

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Chapter 5 MOOD

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Chapter 6 GIVEN UP

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Chapter 7 ONE DANCE

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Chapter 8 FRIEND

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Chapter 9 A HIM

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Chapter 10 MORE THAN FRIENDS

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Chapter 11 A DATE

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Chapter 12 WANTS

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Chapter 13 MOURNING

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Chapter 14 COLORS

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Chapter 15 AN EX

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Chapter 16 WEIRD

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Chapter 17 MYSTERIOUS

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Chapter 18 TRUST

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Chapter 19 HIS IDENTITY

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Chapter 20 SECRETS

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