50 SHADES OF SINFUL PRESSURE
Chapter 1: The Hidden View
My name is Lena, and I’m twenty-one years old. For the last three months, I’ve been carrying a secret that burns hotter than anything I’ve ever felt. It started innocently enough—or at least that’s what I tell myself when the shame tries to creep in. Mom had been dating Marcus for almost a year. He was everything she’d described in her giddy late-night phone calls with her friends: tall, thirty-eight, with the kind of broad-shouldered, athletic build that came from years of playing rugby and working construction management. Dark hair with just the faintest hints of silver at the temples, deep brown eyes that seemed to see right through you, and a low, rumbling voic