Eternal by London Saint James Read Free Book Online

told you. The press can be ruthless, cruel, and heartless. Gossip sells,
scandal sells so this keeps them constantly looking for juicy stories. The fact
you are a successful writer. The fact you have kept yourself from being known,
turned down offers for your books, refused book tours, written under a pen
name, kept your image one of mystery, and the fact you are now surfacing and
with us, will send the sharks into the murky water. Just the fact they got one
picture of the reclusive romance writer was a scoop let alone they now have
more. Now they have found a portion of your past. They will use it, twist it,
God knows. This is just a piece of what Cayden has feared for you.”
    “What do you mean a piece?”
Chandler
looked down at the floor. “What?”
    “Cayden will be upset if I tell this to you.”
    “Tell me,
Chandler
,”
I insisted.
    “Last year when all the press came out about
Cayden and Cheryl Lynn….” My alarm clock went off, snarling through the room.
Chandler
paused. I stood,
walked over the bedside table, and turned off the screeching beast.
    “Sorry, please continue,” I said. I could tell
Chandler
wasn’t quite
sure if he should continue but he did.
    “All right,” he said. “Of course you know it was
totally untrue but people believe what they read. The large majority of
Cayden’s fans are really great, but there are those few disturbed people who
take things too far. Cheryl Lynn received a death threat due to her so-called
relationship with Cayden. Since then her security has been stepped up, and the
case has been investigated.”
    “Death threat?”
    “Yes.”
Chandler
folded up the newspaper. “If something like that would happen to you, it would
send my brother over the edge. He could not handle it. Someone threatening you
or trying to hurt you is one of his greatest fears. Cayden worries about you
more than you can ever know.”
    Cayden’s fears
for me made more sense now. That’s why he has been acting so strange.
    “I am so stupid,” I replied. “I did not fully
understand why he has been so worried.”
    “I know. All of this is much more complicated
than you or he ever bargained for.”
    I immediately became panicked for Cayden. What if someone threatened him? What if
someone would try to harm him? I could not survive losing him .
    “
Chandler
,
has anyone ever threatened Cayden?”
    “Not like that,”
Chandler
replied. I sighed a breath of
relief, but it was short-lived.
    “I could not live without him. If someone would
hurt him it would kill me. I know I could not survive, not a second time.”
    “Winter, please calm down. I did not tell this
to you to upset you.”
    “I know,
Chandler
.
I know.”
    When
Chandler
left I put on my jogging pants along with one of my oversized sweatshirts. I
grabbed some dark sunglasses and placed them on my face. I pulled all of my
hair up into a ball cap that Cayden had left lying around. I found Jayden and
begged him to take me jogging. I had to find a way to escape my current stress
and worry about Cayden’s safety. I wanted to think. I was going to be thinking
about some hard things so I needed to be outside in the cool air, moving, or I
would go insane.
    Jayden agreed to go with me. He went to change
his clothes while I paced in the foyer, biting the inside of my cheek. From
behind me, I heard the door open. I turned to see Richard, my driver.
    “Winter, are you all right?” Richard inquired.
The look on his face was one of concern.
    With a nod, I indicated yes, but I was far from
all right.
    “Are you sure? I've been a bit worried for you.”
    “I'll be fine, Richard.”
    With tilt to mouth, he smiled then inclined his
head like an English gentleman. “I was thinking of sprucing up the car. Giving
it a proper wash but I shall put off the endeavor if you need me today?”
    “No, I’m waiting for Jayden. We are going to
take a jog, so I’ll be sticking around today, but thank you.”
    “All right,” he said then gazed up to