Madigan DeLeon is back in Zachary Steele's life and back in his bed. Zach will let no one stand in his way of reclaiming Madi's heart.
What Does A Man Say to the Woman He Betrayed But Never Stopped Loving?
Three years ago, Zachary Steele refused to entertain thoughts of permanency with any woman. A hedonist at heart, he didn’t want to corrupt the much younger, Madigan DeLeon, by continuing his affair with her. With the hidden scars of his past, he didn’t believe in happily-ever-after. By the time he realized how much Madigan meant to him, he’d driven her away. Then, one night, after being clean for a number of years, Zach briefly falls off the bandwagon. He believes his lovemaking to Madi is a drug-induced hallucination. The resulting consequences tell another story.
What Does A Woman Do When the Only Man She’s Ever Loved Hurt Her So Deeply She Feared She’d Never Recover?
Three years after her affair with Zach so abruptly ended, celebutante, Madigan DeLeon, is thrust back into Zach’s life by her mother’s machinations. Brought home under the false pretenses of repairing her damaged relationship with her mother, Madi instead finds herself running a private sex club called Wicked Allure. Forced to confront her anger at his betrayal and grief at the loss of what might’ve been, Madi faces the realization that she’s never stopped loving Zach.
Can Two Broken Hearts Set Aside Anger and Betrayal to Find True Love Once and For All?
Searching the deepest recesses of their hearts, in a place where pride and pain has no room, Madi and Zach must decide if their bond is strong enough to take a second chance at love. Or if resuming their sexual relationship is an irresistible wicked allure and the ghosts of their former relationship will finally, and forever, sever all ties between them.
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Zach closed his eyes at the sound of her anguish. Madigan’s anger he could take, but this raw pain was something else altogether. Hearing it nearly killed him. “I’m sorry, Madigan. I’m so sorry. Letting you walk away was the biggest mistake of my life. I should’ve come after you.”
“But you didn’t. You wanted our relationship to end.”
“I thought I wanted it to end. I didn’t know.” He rubbed his cheek against her hair, breathing in its sweet scent, reveling in its silky texture. “I needed time to think.”
“You had time to think. I went to the penthouse because I hadn’t heard from you in days. I was coming to make you see how much you needed me and I needed you.”
“I needed time to think,” he repeated.
“It seemed as if you’d already made up your mind,” she said sadly.
“Even if I wanted a permanent break-up with you, I never meant for us to end like that, Madigan. That entire night was a mistake.”
Madi lay in his arms, the fall of her tears still heating his skin. “I can’t end up like Lane Bradford,” she finally whispered. “In my own personal hell while you go from one woman to the next. You not caring enough about me to not only not have affairs but not even hide them from me. That would destroy me once and for all. You want the physical side of our relationship more than anything else. I want the physical and the emotional.”
Zach processed Madigan’s words, elated and afraid at once. His conclusion that she still loved him only grew stronger, but the more he pushed her to reconcile, the more she pulled away from him. He’d rushed her back into their sexual relationship. He’d forced her to endure his presence at the office. Then, he’d barged into her home, uninvited, as if he had every right.
She was fighting back the only way she knew how by inviting her lover for a visit and insisting Zach let her move on with the new man in her life.
In an instant, Zach realized the irony. For years, he’d regretted how badly he’d hurt her. But, until he’d walked into her sitting room this evening and found her practically in Kyle’s arms, he hadn’t truly known the pain, jealousy, panic or despair she must have felt that fateful night.
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