Guarding Mason

By Hayden West

Mason Stanton was a rock star. One with a stalker. His manager assigns a man to him that is suddenly the star in all his fantasies. One afternoon, everything changes.

Donavan Culpitt is used to guarding all sorts of people. What he isn't used to is falling for his client. An unexpected discovery leads him and Mason on a new adventure. But things aren't always meant to be and there are times when relationships can be torn apart. Will they find their happily ever after?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hayden West
• Release date: Mar 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393329251

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Guarding Mason

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Blurb for Guarding Mason

Mason Stanton was a rock star. One with a stalker. His manager assigns a man to him that is suddenly the star in all his fantasies. One afternoon, everything changes.

Donavan Culpitt is used to guarding all sorts of people. What he isn’t used to is falling for his client. An unexpected discovery leads him and Mason on a new adventure. But things aren’t always meant to be and there are times when relationships can be torn apart. Will they find their happily ever after?

Dedication

To the ones who reach out a hand to help others.

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Chapter One

Whoever is sending the threats is becoming bolder. You can’t ignore this any longer. You have to take it seriously.

Mason Rock Stanton continued to stare up at the ceiling from where he lay on the couch in the massive and lavish suite. He began counting the swirls as he swung his left foot back and forth, skimming the plush carpet.

How serious do you want me to be? I’m not cancelling my tour, people pay a lot of money for those tickets. The show must go on, as they say.

His manager rolled his eyes and lobbed an orange from the mosaic bowl on the table in his direction. Rock snatched it out of the air. After rolling it around in one hand, he began peeling it, working diligently to get it off all in one piece. Something he felt the need to do with any orange he pealed.

Stalkers would freak most people out.

He raked a hand through his hair. Rock wasn’t like most people. Never had been. Growing up in a hugely abusive home, the thought of someone threatening him from a distance barely registered. To him they were nothing more than scared wimps who didn’t have the stones to face him head on and issue the threat to his face. The foster homes hadn’t been any better that he’d been assigned to after being pulled from his childhood home.

If that’s the reaction he or she’s looking for, they should have picked another to be their intended victim.

Jordan grunted. At least you’re not ignoring this.

Having finished peeling the orange, he popped a slice of the succulent fruit and bit down slowly, smiling as the juice spilled over his taste buds. Oranges were a weakness of his.

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