Love Scars - 5: Covered by Lark Lane

Love Scars – 5: Covered
     
    Copyright © 2013 Lark Lane
     
    Published by LarkyLark Press
     
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    Love Scars, a new adult romance serial:
    1. Scratch
    2. Deeper
    3. Stop
    4. Exposed
    5. Covered
     
     
     
    LOVE SCARS
     
    Part Five: Covered
     
     
    Nora Deven was seventeen when her family was killed. Now twenty-three, she's raised her niece the past six years by taking on massive student loans. When Nora's offered the chance to pay off her debt through a little benign corporate spying, she takes it—though the job may shatter the tenuous defenses she's built around her pain.
     
    Tech genius J.D. Reider was a multimillionaire at eighteen. Now twenty-eight and worth billions, J.D.'s wealth hasn't shielded him from being scarred by love. Then J.D. meets Nora Deven, a fragile graduate student used by a rival to sabotage the biggest project in his company's history. Nora could unwittingly ruin J.D.'s company, but his real fear is she'll destroy the fortress he's built around his heart.
     
    They can heal each other’s love scars, if only they can see past them.
     
    In Part 5: Covered:   With her memory of the night of terror restored and the discovery J.D. was lying to her all along, Nora struggles to move on with her life. While helping Lisa prepare for the wedding, she makes a decision that changes everything.
    J.D. retreats to Orcas Island, pulled apart by triumph and despair. His company is secure, but losing Nora has brought him to his knees. Can he ever convince her to trust him with her heart?
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    Table of Contents
     
    Chapter 1
     
    Chapter 2
     
    Chapter 3
     
    Chapter 4
     
    Chapter 5
     
    Chapter 6
     

Chapter 1
     
    Panic ripped through my guts when Nora caught me going through her purse. Panic and irritation. She fled the kitchen and disappeared down the hall toward her room, but the look on her face stayed with me, the feeling of betrayal hanging in the air. How could I be so stupid?
    Frank leaned against the wall. “Sorry about that,” he said. “I thought she’d like to know her new boyfriend’s a billionaire.” As if he was genuinely perplexed.
    “Yeah, well.” Wanker. Was I the only one who saw Frank as he really was? He relished pushing in, dropping little spoilers on other people’s happiness.
    The Proto 1 was still in my hand. Instinctively I hit the reset button and smiled to myself when the numbers came up zero. I played around with the unit until I was able to enter different numbers into the data fields.
    Wait a minute. Did Frank say boyfriend? “Did Nora say something about me to Lisa?” I looked over at the wanker.
    He didn’t hear me. He had the look, the reason I didn’t socialize with normal people. I could see the calculations clicking in his mind as he contemplated billions of dollars. It wasn’t his fault. The mere thought of all that money was intoxicating, I got that.
    I heard Nora stomping back down the hall.
    “Get out!” She turned the corner and threw my clothes at me.
    “Nora, please.” I snagged my shirt out of the air and threw it over my shoulder. “Let’s talk about this.” I picked up my pants from the floor. I turned to step into a leg, and one of my sandals hit my butt cheek.
    “Get!” The second struck a shoulder blade hard enough to sting.