BREAKING HEARTS (Book 7 of the SEAL Team Heartbreakers) Excerpt 2
Part of the fun of writing romance is that you get to torture your characters with the promise of something they want and then jerk it away. And with three children to take care of, the cops constantly coming around, and Alayna's ex running around like a poison pen messing things up for them, my characters have plenty on their plates. And I just keep piling it on.... EXCERPT: “I remember being trapped in the house with them for days at a time while Papa worked. Maybe that made the logistics easier, but being isolated made me crazy. I dreaded going to Mexico every summer. I took off one time and stayed gone for three days to keep from going.” “What happened?” “When Moira finally found me, she beat the shit out of me and dumped me at the border. I had to call my father to come pick me up. I was twelve.” Alayna couldn’t imagine dropping her child off alone in a strange place and leaving him. What if he’d been kidnapped or killed? “I...