Hope Restrained (Estate Series) (24 page)

“That’s a good thing. Maybe her mind is just protecting her
from the worst of what happened in order to give her time to heal. We’ll take
good care of her and she’ll continue to improve.”

“To be trapped here forever?” It was a passing thought, but
one she couldn’t keep from escaping her lips on a whisper.

He held her gaze, strength and determination hidden behind
the sea blue of his eyes. “It’ll take time, but, one day, this place will burn
around us, it will become nothing but a memory. When that finally happens, we
can walk away, finally freed of the one thing that has destroyed us all.” His
lips brushed against her mouth — the soft kiss sealing the promise he’d
just spoken.

She smiled, the belief finally settling within her thoughts
that with Xander beside her, she’d be strong enough to conquer anything that
threatened to tear her apart.

Hope had entered The Estate a warrior — and despite
how much she despised it, she choose to remain behind its walls in order to
tear it down from the inside. Taking comfort in Xander’s words, she was
reminded that she no longer fought alone. Finally, letting go of all her pain
and fear, she looked up and smiled at the kindness she saw in him; once again
allowing herself to look into the crystal blue eyes that revealed to her the
blinding truth that, even inside the darkest corners of a living hell, there
was still the promise of light.

THE END

Coming in Spring 2014

Honor Bound (The Estate, #3)

Synopsis:

She was meant to be his perfect pet.

Innocent, naïve, and easily shattered.

Yet her mind was too fragile for what he’d imagined.

As Honor struggles to regain herself, she becomes the one
thing that could tear The Estate apart.

Honor Delacroix was raised in a rival network. Always looked
after by her twin sister, Honor was an artist who lived her life in the
ever-present shadow of The Estate. The life she’d always known, however, ended
on the night she was abducted.

Jason Arrington is an Estate Member who is working his way
up the chain of command. Silently, he watches over Honor inside the mansion. Hopeful
that she will improve, Jason sets out to help Honor remember the details of her
captivity.

After being held by depraved men for four weeks, Honor has
to put the pieces back together. Watched over by the members of The Estate, she
fights to remember what happened when she was a slave. When Jason offers to
help her, will Honor’s demons be too much for him to handle? Or will Jason be
the man who can finally help her break free of the nightmare?

Prologue of
Honor Bound:

The greatest fabrication of fairy tales and romance novels
is the idea that ‘happily ever after’ is a place within the light. A place
where love or friendship can disperse the shadows of a difficult past, where a
person can rest knowing they can overcome and that they’ll find peace in the
end.

But, not every ending finds itself where a person expects.

Raised in a rival network, she chose to see beauty despite
living under the ever-present eye of The Estate. She was an artist, her life
spent capturing the world through the point of a pen or the brushstroke across
canvas. But like anything of innocence or purity, it was only a matter of time
before evil finally found her and stole her away from all that she’d ever
known.

This is a story where happily ever after sits cushioned
within darkness — where everything we think we know about love is
challenged. It’s a place where a person becomes trapped inside — a place
where they seek out others who are willing to join them in the suffocating hold
of their shadowed past.

Her angel. He was a man who’d imprisoned her, who’d
terrified her until her mind had shattered around her, sparkling down like
crystalline shards of the fantasies and dreams he’d destroyed. And after doing
so, he’d picked her up again to rebuild her, to teach her, and reform her into
the perfect pet.

He was her tormentor and protector, her enemy and lover, and
her darkness and light.

Her name was Honor Delacroix, and she never imagined that
when she was taken to The Estate to be enslaved ….

She would choose to never leave again.

M.S. Willis

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