Sniper: Exiled Guardians, #1

By Hope Ford

Sniper
I once served with her older brother and when she ran into some trouble,
she came looking for me.
She shows up at the gate to the club begging for my help.
Of course, I'm going to help her - I would never turn away a woman in trouble.
But with her, its more.
I'm going to claim her. Make her mine… and never let her go.

Avery
I've made some mistakes… some that could cost me my life.
So I find Sniper… the one man that my brother trusted more than anyone.
He agrees to help me.
But at what cost?
He's my savior… my warrior.
But this bad boy is not giving me my freedom… he has other plans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hope Ford
• Release date: Jan 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224411122

Hope Ford

USA Today Bestselling Author Hope Ford loves writing about curvy women finding love with hot alpha men. Her stories are short, sweet & steamy. To stay up to date on new releases, copy and paste this link to a new window and sign up: www.authorhopeford.com/subscribe For Freebies - copy and paste this link to a new window:https://authorhopeford.com/freebies/

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AVERY

I stand at the gate, looking at the big tattooed man with the oily hair and wonder if I made the mistake of running from one evil to another.

He sneers at me and the way he glances down my body has my stomach rolling.

Jeremy Johnson. He has to be here. Can you please check? I plead with him again. If he’s not here, I don’t know what I’ll do… where I’ll go. I don’t have any money left. Not after I bought the bus ticket and ate some food on the way here. Two dollars and sixty-five cents. That’s all the money I have to my name. Regardless of how little I have, I know I can’t go back where I came from. I’ll be dead the minute I walk in the door.

The dirty man grabs his crotch and thrusts his hips at me. Honey, there’s no Jeremy Johnson here. But I’ll help you… I’m just the man you need.

He takes a step toward me and when I go to pull away, he grabs on to my wrist. I almost faint then. I can feel the dizziness about to take over and I can’t stop the thoughts in my head asking, Is this really it? Did I survive all of that only to end up here in this position? I’ve had about all I can take. I’ve survived the last few weeks and when I finally got away, I came straight here. It was the only place I could think of, straight to the only man that I thought I could trust to help me.

My older brother, Allen, served in the army with Jeremy Johnson. They kept in touch through the years and when my brother got sick, right before he passed away, he told me that if I ever needed someone, Jeremy would help me. Well, at the time, I didn’t think anything of it. But now, he’s the one and only person that I’ve thought about since I ran from my husband.

I was eighteen when I got married. I thought I loved him and the first year of our marriage was fine. However, by the second, he started getting mad all the time and taking it out on me. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been in the hospital. You would think that someone would be suspicious, someone would help me. But that wasn’t the case. My husband, I found out only recently, is a drug trafficker. And he controls half the town.

I couldn’t leave him, I couldn’t divorce him and no one would help me. After my last beating, he left me with no one watching me. I started paying attention to his routine. And like always, after he beats me, he leaves the house. He’s usually only gone a few hours. I guess he figures if he beats me enough, I will be unconscious for a while. Well, this time I was ready. I egged him on.

I told him I was going to get a job. He flew off the handle, like I knew he would. He started screaming and instead of hunkering down, I started talking back. I wanted him to beat me. That was