Turn The Light On

By Pat Garcia

Would you ever accept a dinner invitation to meet a stranger who never spoke one word to you during your time together? And would you accept that you couldn't even sit at the same table with them? How about, you don't even know their name, and you continue this "game" for months?

 

Meet Della Cartwright. A superstar at what she does professionally, but when the tall, mysterious Italian stranger, Alessio Terracina, enters her world, she begins to question her judgment and everything about her.  

 

In this short story, this otherwise savvy businesswoman is led into making decisions that could jeopardize her professional life and maybe even cost her her freedom. But, the greatest danger ... just might be to her fragile heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pat Garcia
• Release date: Aug 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223531678

Pat Garcia

Pat Garcia loves writing. At the age of three, she scribbled her first story.  Born in Blythe, Georgia (USA), she is a musician, singer, and songwriter. A member of the RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB (RRBC), Pat is a proud member of  RWISA (Rave Writers International Society of Authors) and is also the Chief Staff Writer for THE PIPELINE, an International Online Literary Magazine.  She is an active participant in the IWSG (Insecure Writers Support Group) created by Alex J. Cavanaugh, and she writes six times a year in the WEP (Write Edit Publish Challenge) started by Denise C. Covey and Yolanda Renee. She is an active member of the Romantic Women's Fiction Chapter of the RWA and a member of Romance Writers Online.

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Turn The Light On

Pat Garcia

Published by Pat Garcia, 2023.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

TURN THE LIGHT ON

First edition. August 1, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Pat Garcia.

ISBN: 979-8223531678

Written by Pat Garcia.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

TURN THE LIGHT ON

Also By Pat Garcia

About the Author

To Anna Ruth Biller

Thank you for standing behind me and cheering me on through all these years.

TURN THE LIGHT ON

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For you are with me. Psalm 23:4 (NKJV)

Della Cartwright sat in Macey Bergstein's office in Frankfurt, Germany. She balled her hands into fists, flexing them, waiting for Macey, her boss, to express her opinion about the unexplained money transfers in Della’s private bank account. A plane flew over their building, and Della's eyes followed its path as she gazed out of the window behind Macey. How she could have gotten involved with a man in a counter-terrorist group was puzzling. Downright despicable.

Until now, she had made a name for herself as the Foreign Exchange Settlements department's queen. Everyone in the department acknowledged her magical abilities. Her intuitiveness and her strong sense of discernment had caught errors and even settled deals, which would have cost dealers their jobs if she had not noticed the mistakes. Yet, she had managed to let a man whose name she didn’t even know wrap her in his web.

Fear engulfed her. What if he was not only a counter-terrorist, but was also using her to launder money? Her hands shook as she considered the consequences of the mistakes she’d made, and what could happen to her. She didn’t relish standing before a disbelieving judge trying to explain her stupidity.

Macey grunted, causing Della to uncross her legs and lean in closer to her boss’s desk. She had hoped Macey would simply speak her mind instead of grunting and bobbing her head back and forth, while