My breathing stopped. Like everything around me just stopped, time froze. My Mom was poor and my Dad was dead, well that's what my Mom told me. It seemed like everything resumed and the auction guy yelled the four letters I never wanted to hear. " Sold! " He screamed into the mic. That's when I fell onto my knees and...
Zoe Ford, daughter of LA's top police chief, lost her mother at age five and grew up under the watchful eye of her older brother when her dad was away. Her father has long been after Jayce Calaway, one of the city's most feared gang leaders-a man with no mercy and no weakness. When Jayce accidentally switches his bag...
I stand there wide eyed and frozen where I am being held in place. The sounds of fists connecting on skin, cracking under his bloody fists. How can he be so cruel and heartless? Why doesn't he just leave me alone? "STOP PLEASE JUST STOP!" I hear myself scream feeling warm tears fall down my cheek. I couldn't bear it a...