His Cruel Obsession, Her Agony

ood in East LA. Kalen Cooper was a Silicon Valley billiona

orse, Kalen had paid for the best doctors, the most expensive experimental treatments, a fortune spent without a seco

mansion, a palace of glass and steel overlooking the city. He believed in her tal

ir lives. "I' m just a girl from the barrio, K

"You' re everything," he' d said.

arranged marriage with another tech heiress, threatening to oust him from his own company, Kalen had fough

middle of her tiny studio, his eyes burning with an intensi

ident. A drunk driver had T-boned her car, leaving her with a shattered leg and a long, painful r

d kept hidden finally surfaced. He became obsessed with Izabella Booth, a m

alked into her own studio to find him with Izabella. Kalen was holding the

orld. She turned and fled, a si

hands trembling. He caught her at the

he' s a therapeutic substitute. My doctors recommended it. For my personalit

iction, such pain in his eyes, that she almost believed him. When she tried to pull away, he s

' d wept. "If you leav

healer of souls, not a destroyer. So she stayed. She chose to b

me restaurants he had taken Aileen. He even brought her to their home, the mansion that was suppose

ght, holding Aileen tight. "Just be patient. I

to the hope that the man s

. Her brother, Ernesto, was dead. He had been found in his roo

n to be her rock, to hold her as she grieved. In

she saw it. A detail in the police report, a receipt from a pharmacy near Izabella' s old apartment, times

tood. This wasn' t a rand

rother' s room, her heart pounding

brother. It was a life-sized manne

ling to comprehend the scen

at her legs gave out. She sank to the floor, s

orway. He walked to her,

soft. "I had to be sure you loved me too.

Izabella is fragile. She gets scared when yo

The love she had felt for him was gone

to the window, watching h

his room. He hugged her tight, a small,

rnesto whispered, his voice tr

roking his hair. Sh

small voice filled with a fierce determin

k-up, just to be sure. As the doctor went over the results

re nothing but lies now. This relationship, this life, it was over. She