She’d been unexpected.

A path I hadn’t thought I’d take.

But once she was on my radar, there was no turning back.

 

Being deceptive was part of my job as a DEA agent, but I’d learned how to deceive people a long time before that. 

 

I’d been deep undercover for nine months.

Nine months away from the self-made family I’d been accepted into.

Nine months of losing myself in a world I’d grown up in.

Nine months of forgetting who I was.

 

But all it took was one action to springboard me back into the real world.

 

Belle wasn’t meant to walk into the club of a cartel boss. She wasn’t meant to fall into my arms—literally.

But there she was, the girl I’d known since she took her first breath. The girl who had grown into a woman people couldn’t take their eyes off.

 

I thought I was doing the right thing. 

I thought I was protecting her from the evil surrounding us.

I thought kissing her and getting her out of there was the only option to keep her safe.

 

It didn’t matter that her lips pressed against mine roared a fire to life within me.

It didn’t matter that there was a twenty-two year age gap.

It didn’t matter that she was my bosses daughter.

All that mattered was that she was safe.

 

Until she wasn’t. 

 

I vowed to protect her with my life.

I promised she wouldn’t get hurt.

But I hadn’t factored her feelings into it.

 

Belle was forbidden fruit I hadn’t been able to resist, and now there was no going back.

 

Bonds weren’t meant to be broken, but ours had been torn apart irrecoverably.

 

 

Torn Bond is book one in the Bonded Duet. A two-part, drama driven, story of nail biting angst.