BOOK: My Hero (Book Four)
SERIES: The Billionaire
Salvation Series
AUTHOR: Bella Love-Wins
RELEASE
DATE: January 12th, 2015
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SYNOPSIS
Kate Samuel and billionaire Lieutenant Matt Lewis
enjoyed a welcome escape from the criminals that want to see Kate dead.With
their holiday cut short by more threats, Kate decides to face the music. Will
she go again her billionaire boyfriend, and betray the one person who holds her
dear to find her own peace of mind? Is Matt's protection enough to save
her?
Find out by reading MY HERO, Book 4 of The Billionaire
Salvation Series.
Note: This is the conclusion of the four-part serial. Stay
tuned for more standalone and serial stories featuring Matt and
Kate.
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EXCERPT
There
was so little noise outside, it was
almost peaceful. No car horns. Barely any
city traffic. No screaming people. Just
the rustling of a slight winter breeze that
wove its way around the tall
buildings nearby. I closed my eyes and
briefly took in the quiet. As great as
it was sitting in the safety of Matt’s
comforting warmth, it wasn’t long before
my mind wandered back to George and
Richard. They were out there somewhere.
“I’m
going up to have a shower, okay?” I
told
Matt.
“Sure.
You’re worried about them, aren’t
you?”
“Yeah,”
I answered. I pulled out of his
embrace and stood up to go back
inside.
“You go
ahead,” he said. He looked at his
watch. “I’ll wait until after
dinner.”
I leaned
down and kissed him, then went
inside and up to my room. I heard the
elevator chime just before I closed my
door. It meant Matt would be busy, so I had
some time. I took out the phone Matt
gave me, and the piece of paper I had used
to scribble down the phone number. I
knew that eventually, Matt would find out
what I was about to do. I looked at
the two items in my hand, and briefly
wondered how much of Matt’s trust I was
about to strip
away.
I
thought that he’d just have to understand
that I had no choice but to do this. I
opened the text application of the phone
and keyed in the number. I sent the simple
text message.
This is
Kate Samuel. What exactly do you
want from me? Do you have George and
Richard Wilkinson? If you do, please let
them
go.
I looked
at the message and hesitated for a
short time. I quickly hit the send button
and hoped I wasn’t making things
worse. There was no reply right away, so I
tucked the phone and piece of paper
into my purse and went to the next room to
find some clothes to change into
after my shower. I picked out a simple,
two-piece cotton pajama pant set, and a
sweater and jeans to wear the next day. I
took the things back to my room and
undressed in the room before going into the
shower.
*********************
I left
the bathroom and wore my towel to
get dressed in the bedroom.
Fuck, I
thought as I walked into the room.
I
really fucked up now.
Matt was
standing beside the bed. My purse was open
on the bed and the phone he gave me was in
the hand he held up to me.
“Why did
you take out the phone?” I asked
as I towel-dried my hair. I was doing my
best to be nonchalant.
“I came
up here to call you down for
dinner,” he said. “The phone was ringing,
so I answered.”
“Why did
you do that?” Inside, my stress
was mounting. I was in deep
shit.
“I just
gave you the phone to use an hour
ago, Kate. I thought it was one of my staff
or my assistant. I wasn’t going to
answer at first, but it kept ringing, so I
did.”
“So who
was it?” I asked, pretending to be
innocent.
“You
know who it was, Kate,” he did nothing
to contain any of his disappointment or
anger. “What have you done?”
“What
did they say?” I could deal with his
anger another time. If they took the time
to call back, there was a chance we
could bargain with
them.
He could
barely look at me.
“You
just put us and your friends in more
danger, Kate.” So much for diplomacy and
mincing words.
Hero
contempt.
“What do
you mean?”
“The
person on the other end said, ‘You can run but you can’t hide. You and
your
bitch are dead
,’ then hung up and
sent us a text with a picture of an
amputated
finger.”
I gasped
in horror. “You don’t think
it’s...
”
“I don’t
know if they hurt your friends. I
called Bateman. Get dressed. He’s on his
way over. I requested that he send
some officers to come and help my team keep
watch.” He sat on the bed,
exasperated.
“I…I’m
sorry, Matt,” I admitted.
All my
hope was deflated. And I felt brand
new waves of guilt from my most recent
transgression. I put on the sweater and
jeans, knowing I would probably not be
sleeping anytime soon. I sat beside him,
hoping the proximity would help him
understand why I did it.
“I
thought I could help by
trying…”
“You
were wrong, Kate,” he said as he stood
and began pacing the floor. “You didn’t
help. You did exactly what you promised
not to do only hours ago. Now they know
where we are. And you’ve probably
compromised whatever the police may have
intended to do.”
Matt’s
own phone rang and he ignored it the
first time. When it rang again, he tilted
it to see who was calling. It was his
security team leader. Detective
Bateman
was
downstairs.
DREAM
CAST
Kate
Samuel – Shailene woodley
Matt
Lewis – Chris Hemsworth
Detective Bateman – Chris
Evans
George
Wilkinson – Bruce Greenwood
Richard
Wilkinson – Karl Urban
Chad
Bridges – Chris Pine
Joy
Carrington – Scarlett Johansson
ABOUT Bella
Love-Wins
Bella is a fairly new writer. She enjoys new adult and
contemporary romance based on her deepest
fantasies.
She is twenty-three years old and works by day as a
communications analyst in a small firm. She lives north of Toronto and dreams
of moving to the small town of Grimsby, Ontario one day. She loves pets and
cannot wait to have a Shih Tzu as a practice kid.
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