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Chapter Nine

Author: Marysol James
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-05 18:49:54

Francine snuck around the side of the house. She was strangely calm, now that she had something to focus on. Mentally, she ran through everything Alexandra had ever told her about her husband, discarding some things as useless, filing others away as weapons.

Rick Mayer was a controlling sociopath, Francine knew. He’d ‘saved’ Alexandra from her bleak, desperate existence in a small, southern town. Back then, she’d been a broke trainee nurse, stripping to pay the bills. He’d taken her away from all of that, and groomed her to be the perfect wife – restricting her diet, putting her on an exercise program, dictating her wardrobe, correcting her accent and grammar, weighed her daily – and God help her if she failed in some task that he’d set for her.

Chipped nails were rewarded with punches; a one-pound weight-gain was met with a broken wrist; any sass or talking back resulted in a hospital visit. Alexandra had no friends, and Rick had forbidden any contact with her family. She was comple
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  • Solid Heart (Unseen Enemy 7)   Chapter Ninety-two

    Francine was watching the snow fall outside, all relaxed and snug on Mark's astounding chest. Despite the lateness of the hour – it was going on one a.m. now – she didn't feel the slightest bit sleepy. Her whole body still buzzed from their lovemaking earlier, and her insides still tingled. She'd loved taking him without any barrier, loved having him come inside of her. She'd been amazed at how it had felt to actually feel his release, so hot and powerful. She'd felt claimed, somehow. Like she was his, really and truly.She shifted a bit and sighed, and right away, his huge arms tightened around her. Startled, she lifted her head, stared up at him.“I thought you were sleeping,” he said, his voice husky and deep.“I thought you were sleeping,” she rejoined.“Ah.” He grinned at her in the semi-darkness. “So we've both been lying here for two hours, all still and quiet, for no good reason at all?”“Looks that way.”“Hmmm. What a shame, especially when you consider what else we could hav

  • Solid Heart (Unseen Enemy 7)   Chapter Ninety-one

    “I – I went back there. Just for a second.”His jaw clenched. “You want to stop?”“No.” Her voice was stronger now, more certain. “I want to make love with you.”“Oh, God.” He stared at her. “I don't know...”“I do,” she said, and she sounded like herself again. “I know, handsome.”He grinned at her favorite teasing pet name for him, then sobered up. “You promise me you're alright?”“I do.”He was still hesitating, though, and she knew that she had to take the lead here. So she did just that: she reached for his hand, rested it on her thigh. She lifted her head from the bed, gave him the sweetest, hottest kiss that he'd ever known.“Touch me,” she said against his mouth, guiding his hand to her pussy. “It's OK.”His fingers slid to her warmth, and he groaned. God, she was just so soft. So perfect. And she was all his.Francine kept her hand on Mark's, moved his fingers over her lower lips, again and again. She didn't even notice when her thighs fell apart, didn't notice when her back

  • Solid Heart (Unseen Enemy 7)   Chapter Ninety

    Her hands moved again, moved down. His breath caught, then started up again double-time when she touched his hardness. She stroked him, pressed her palm against him, teased him. When she finally lowered his boxers and released him, it felt just so damn good to be pressed up against her skin, Mark actually sighed. He needed more; he needed everything.He needed for nothing to be between them.“Sugar,” he murmured, his hands moving to undo her bra. “Yes?”“You know it's a 'yes', mon loup,” she whispered against his mouth. “It's all a 'yes'.”Muttering a curse, muttering a prayer that he lasted, he unsnapped her bra, let it fall to the floor next to the clothing already scattered around there. His large hands slid down her body, slid under her underwear, kept right on going. The silky material just slid off her legs perfectly, as quick and easy as water gliding down her luscious curves, and her panties joined the pile on the floor.Francine pulled away, just a bit, and Mark stared down a

  • Solid Heart (Unseen Enemy 7)   Chapter Eighty-nine

    “You’re not angry?” she said softly. “You won’t look at my bruises and scars, and go back there?”“No.” His voice was calm, certain. “And you? When I touch you, you’ll know it’s me? You won’t go back there?”“No. I’ll stay here with you.”“You sure? You sure he isn’t between us?”“I am.” She paused, thought for a few seconds. “But you can't be behind me, OK? I don't want you on top of me that way.”He nodded, not at all surprised. “I understand.”“And one more thing.”“Name it.”“I don’t want anything between us.”“There won’t be. There isn’t.”“No. I mean…” Francine ran her hand down the front of his body, stopped at his hardening cock. “I don’t want anything between us… I don’t want anything here.”Stunned, he actually gasped aloud. “You – you don’t want…” He swallowed. “You don’t want to use anything?”“No.”Mark almost fell flat on his ass. In his whole life, he’d never had sex without a condom. Not once, not ever. He’d never even wanted to, if he were being honest, since it was o

  • Solid Heart (Unseen Enemy 7)   Chapter Eighty-eight

    The car ride to Mark’s house was quiet, but that was OK. It was an easy silence, a silence between people who had worked some things out, and who were comfortable with each other after it all. People who had found their way back to each other, through a dark mountain forest. As soon as they had their coats off in the house, Francine turned, tucked herself up against him. Tight, hot, close. Mark was surprised, but without even one second of thought, his arms went around her. Yet again, for about the thousandth time, he closed his eyes, and just felt her. When she was right there like that, all soft curves and sweet heat, she was all he thought about. His mind had no room for darkness, or worry, or anger. He forgot his hatred for Henri Delacroix, and he forgot Francine’s beaten, battered body. When he held Francine like this, he saw and felt nothing but her.All he knew was her.From her side, Francine was experiencing a new sensation while being held. For the first time since Henri h

  • Solid Heart (Unseen Enemy 7)   Chapter Eighty-seven

    “So,” Dallas said to Griff over some of Jenny’s incredible quesadillas. “You about ready to get back into the field, man? Or are you still good helping Roxanna with the administrative stuff over at the office?”“Argh,” Griff groaned. “You have no idea what a slavedriver that woman is. ‘Welcoming, smiling receptionist’, my ass.”“So… back to the field?”“Please. It’ll be a cakewalk after Roxanna, I can assure you, even if I do get stabbed again.”“Yeah. I bet.” Dallas’ eyes twinkled. He knew full good and well that Roxanna’s attitude towards the office paperwork was nothing less than full-on kamikaze. He’d had some good laughs watching towering, terrifying John Griffin get bossed around by a woman who barely reached his shoulder. “I have an assignment for you. Starts on Monday.”“Lay it on me, boss.”“Claire Worthington.”Griff’s brow furrowed under the blond hair falling over his forehead. “As in Wilbur Worthington?”“Yeah. That Worthington.”“Damn.” Griff shook his head. “What’s the

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