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Love Scars – 3: Stop
     
    Copyright © 2013 Lark Lane
     
    Published by LarkyLark Press
     
    Cover design by eyemaidthis
     
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    Love Scars, a new adult steamy romance serial:
    1. Scratch
    2. Deeper
    3. Stop
    4. Exposed
    5. Cover
     
     
     
    LOVE SCARS
     
    Part Three: Stop
     
     
    Nora Deven was seventeen when her family was killed. Now twenty-three, she's raised her niece Stacey the past six years by taking on massive student loans. When Nora's offered the chance to pay off her debt through a little benign corporate spying, she takes it though the job may shatter the fragile defenses she's built around her pain.
     
    Tech genius J.D. Reider was a multimillionaire at eighteen. Now twenty-eight and worth billions, J.D.'s wealth hasn't shielded him from being scarred by love. Then J.D. meets Nora Deven, a fragile graduate student used by his rival to sabotage his company's most important project ever. Nora might ruin his company, but J.D.'s biggest fear is she'll wreck the fortress he's built around his heart.
     
    They can heal each other’s love scars, if only they can see past them.
     
    In Part 3 , Stop: J.D. resolves never to see Nora again, but his feelings for her don’t stop. Meanwhile, his friends-with-benefits relationship with Nicole takes a dangerous turn. Nora tries to push thoughts of J.D. out of her mind and her feelings for him out of her heart.
     
    Table of Contents
     
    Chapter 1
     
    Chapter 2
     
    Chapter 3
     
    Chapter 4
     
    Chapter 5
     

Chapter 1
     
    “You’re wrong,” I said. “We do need the money that bad.”
    I’d followed Lisa into her bathroom in the hall. With Frank and J.D. both in the house, it was my best chance to get her alone for a few minutes to explain why I was taking Dr. Barton’s internship. After last night, I had to tell her about Steve’s offer. It was the only way to make her understand.
    “It’s too dangerous, Nora,” she said.
    “Yesterday you were all for it,” I said. “You practically shoved the dig packet on me when we found out the internship was paid.
    “That was before either of us knew where it was,” Lisa said. She squeezed toothpaste on her toothbrush. “You can’t stir all that up again. And three weeks? After last night, do you honestly think you’d last up there three hours?”
    “Last night was an anomaly,” I said. “I wasn’t prepared.”  
    “Nor, I'm scared for you. I can’t stand to see you open these old scars.” She stuck the toothbrush in her mouth. “Snau wuh it. Nau eve foe sih thou dau.”
    I caught her eye in the mirror and dropped my voice behind her, “How about $150,000?”
    “Wuh?” She swung around, her eyes huge.
    I grabbed her arm and put my finger to my lips, warning her to be quiet. I rationalized that when Steve said to keep it secret he didn’t mean I couldn’t tell my roommate. He said it was a corporate thing. He probably meant not to tell anyone who worked for a big company. Someone like Brad—or J.D., even if he was just a low-level new-hire at BlueMagick.
    “The guy’s company will pay off my student loans.”
    I left out the part about the bonus. I didn’t really believe that myself.
    Lisa rinsed her mouth out and spit like she didn’t believe any of it. “He must want you to do something illegal.”
    “That’s what I thought, but he