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ChapterOne
“There’s a sex tape.”
Julius Abel adjusted his cowboy hat. “Then you know I have nothing to be ashamed of.”
His boss’s chuckle filtered through the phone into his ear. “It’s probably not you. I mean, I’d be shocked if it was.”
Julius stopped moving around the hotel room and focused on what Clay was saying. “Okay,” he said slowly. “There must be a reason why you’re telling me about a sex tape. What’s going on?”
He shot a look at the door leading to a much larger grand suite, where the biggest artist on the country charts right now was still sleeping. She also happened to be under his protection.
“I think you can guess. It’s a tape of your ward.”
Outwardly, Julius gave no indication that he registered Clay’s words. Completely still, he continued to stare at the closed door.
Avalynn Ray.
The sweetheart, the apple of everyone’s eye, a wholesome role model to screaming little fangirls all over the world.
On a sex tape.
Anger swelled in his chest. “You don’t think it’s coincidence that the tape’s popped up now, do you?”
“No. The FBI believes it’s the work of her stalker.”
Julius’s throat clamped. “So, she slept with her stalker.”
“Not exactly.”
“What the hell does that mean?”
“You need to see the tape to fully understand, Abel.”
Watch the woman he guarded in the throes of a private act like that? It didn’t just go against the grain—it chafed him raw.
But if he was going to continue to protect her from the threats bombarding her these past six months while he’d been responsible for her safety, heneededto see it.
“Send it to me.”
“It’s already in your inbox.”
Julius scrubbed a hand over his face. “Fuck. Okay. So give me the rundown. She slept with her stalker and he released the tape. Why wait six months when he’s already been sending her death threats? Why didn’t he just send it along with the first threat?”
“The stalker’s been silent for how long now?”
“Twenty-nine days.” Twenty-nine days since Avalynn had begun to relax. When Julius accompanied her to the next stop on her tour, ushering her into a waiting car or to a hotel room in yet another city, she had stopped looking over her shoulder. She let him do that for her.
Now her spell of peace would end. Her lovely brown doe eyes would glimmer with fear once more.
“This will help us, though,” Julius said. “Could be the break we’ve been waiting for. Can the tape be traced?”
“We’re working on it. The bureau has agents analyzing everything now.”
“And the tape is leaked.”
The line went silent for a moment. Then Clay said quietly, “Yes.”
A sex tape in the hands of the media. Fuck. It spelled disaster. Avalynn was going to be frantic.
