Protecting
Portia
A Sugar
House Novella #2 (Stand-alone Series)
by Pavarti K.
Tyler
Published: May
19th, 2014
Publisher: Evolved
Publishing
Word Count: 38,000
Erotic
Romance
Content Warning: Erotic
sexual content
Recommended Age:
18+
Synopsis
Now, Portia and Jackson both work at The Sugar House. He
continuously looks out for her, and longs for her with his every breath, but
knows he is unworthy of such an angel. What will Portia do to win not only the
heart, but also the body, of the man she loves?
Welcome to the world of The Sugar House, and the men and
women who will fulfill your every fantasy. But can they find a way to fulfill
their own?
Excerpt from Protecting Portia
The world has no place for men
like Jackson, no place for the kind of man his Grams raised him to be—for
heroes or gentlemen. At least that’s what he believes.
The scars radiating from his
shoulder down his chest are the only physical manifestations of the damage he
endured. The VA stitched him up good, discharged him with honors and sent him
on his way, promising to help him find a job and follow up doctor visits that
never came. No, even Afghanistan had no use for men like him.
Memories shadow over him,
threatening to drag him down by the sleeves. The silence in his apartment
buzzes with the cries of long dead friends. An image of Chuck lying in the
sandy street of Ghazni, his arm sliced clean through, flashes through his
mind’s eye.
The sticky blood sprayed
across Jackson’s face, but his life marched forward as Chuck slowly died.
His heart begins to race and
his temperature rises as the fight or flight response kicks in—he was always
one to choose fight. He stretches his back and flexes his fingers, shaking them
out to get the blood flowing again. Circulation does wonders for the human
body—when it stops, that’s when everything goes to shit.
Most of the time, he doesn’t
think about the past. He occupies his nights watching Portia and making sure
everyone who works for Miss Necia is safe.
He inherited the management of
the security team when he took over for Donovan. A good guy, Donovan—the kind
you’d value having on your side in a fight—but also the kind of guy who wore
down after too many years doing work like this.
Jackson has seen too much of
human nature to get any further down. He’s already seen the worst of it. What
could the occasional psychopath do to him after everything he’s witnessed over
the last year?
Humanity is a wasted species,
taking up far too much space while killing themselves and the world around
them. When pushed to the point, he finds himself unable to come up with a
single reason why the human race should even continue to exist.
Thoughts like that don’t get
him anywhere though, so he spends his time watching Portia. The glow of her
platinum hair lends her porcelain face a halo, giving him something good and pure
to focus on. He makes sure she’s safe, and keeps his love hidden away until the
day she might return it.
The idea Portia could ever
love him back is more than he could imagine being granted. The gods frowned on
him before he ever had a chance to try. He was born into nothing, and his mama
left him nothing. His Grams tried to give him a better life, but all he managed
to do was bring himself back down to nothing.
And that’s all he’d ever be.
About the Author
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