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Blurb

She was on the run

E from a stalker determined to catch her By chance she hears of Maxwell Secures and decides to fight one last tiest battle will be with herself

They were hired to protect her

Dane Johnston and Cooper Sheppard always knew they were meant to share a woman They never anticipated the blond bombshell that was thrown their way In need of protection, they jump at the chance to help

He wanted her for himself

Will they be able to protect Eet what he wants?

Walking hoht was not one of Emily Baxter’s best ideas, but her car had broken down the week before and she really didn’t have ave her a pretty flexible schedule and made it easy to work from home But every once in a while, her boss would call a staffthes, she would never understand It was like he thought that because he was a workaholic, everyone else was, too

While her social calendar wasn’t screaht of the week, she didn’t like having to go out at night after dark, either Especially when she waseleven pm, which meant the bus that could have taken her directly ho

Hearing a sound behind her, she turned, only to find the street e watched she continued on her walk, and since she was only a block and a half away from her s to get ho as fast as her short five-foot frame would take her, she was startled when a cat hissed at her, ju her hand to her chest to try and calm her nerves, E up the pace and finally breaking into a sprint all the way home

Running to her front door, she ns in her hurry She knew better to alwaysin a panic had her frazzled, and shethe door shut and flipping the locks after she made it inside, it finally dawned on her that she hadn’t heard the deadbolt slide home when she unlocked it

Tensing, she turned around slowly, preparing for the worst but hoping for the best that et to lock up when she left or that herit was false hope on her part, Emily pulled her cell phone from her purse

prepared to dial 911 and slowlyout of place in the living roo seemed in order there so she moved down the hall to where the bedrooms and bathroom were

Taking a deep breath, she slowly opened the door to her office Cringing at the squeaky hinges, she took a quick look inside before aze around the roo, she relaxed eventricks on her about the locks She finallythe door with a false sense of security and flicking on the light was the biggest mistake she would ever make

Glancing up and into her rooruesome scene before her With her panties and bras ripped up and strewn across her bed, blood covering nearly every surface, and nude pictures of her with her eyes scratched out and photoshopped to look like she was bound with chains, Eround she noticed a figure lurking in the corner, co some kind of liquid all over her face and chest before her brain completely shut down in horror

Waking up in a cold sweat froht nearly two years ago, Eht of the night she learned she had so as the worst part She was always looking over her shoulder;her

She was afraid to go out and had become even more of an introvert than she had been before the psycho started stalking her The police couldn’t do anything without a suspect, so she was stuck in a living night unable toand some days, she felt like it would be easier to let this person find her Ironically, every tiht it, he would find her, and she didn’t stick around to find out what her fate would be She ran Fast and hard Not stopping for weeks until she was sure he couldn’t find her again