I Didn't Want this Life
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Last published Sun, Jan 3, 2016
There wasn't a time Emma could remember, when she didn't wish the world would stop following her. From the day she was born she has never had a moment of privacy. She can't go to the movies, she can't walk in the mall, and she definitely can't trust anyone who wants to be her friend, because she knows why they like her...to get to her father. Being the child of a rockstar isn't what it seems and it looks like life isn't going to get any quieter with her fathers next world tour that Emma's being forced to go on. It doesn't help either that she will be stuck with a new bodyguard her father told her she had to have. A bodyguard who Emma thinks is one of the most arrogant men she has ever met, but what she doesn't know is Lucas Shaw was hired to protect her from death threats her father has received on her behalf.
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