To me this should have been a big red flag but I could tell that Sophie was soaking up the attention and was looking at David through her 18 year old starry eyes. “You don’t deserve someone who will forget about you the moment he is out of town.” “I can’t make any promises, Sophie.” There is a rueful smile on his face. He also says that he wants her and she responds in kind. “Somebody should have warned you to stay away from men like me.” They end up in bed, of course, but only after David says to Sophie, Now here’s where things get a bit strange. He kisses her and they end up at Sophie’s apartment. He mentions at dinner that he was on his way home from a local conference when he saw her and asked her out. Sophie is very attracted to David but thinks he’s so far out of her league she’d never keep his interest. At dinner Sophie is quite chatty and tells David everything there is to know about herself – while getting no info in return except the fact that he’s 27 to her 18. David asks Sophie out to dinner and she accepts. The truth is that he saw Sophie standing outside the shop and was intrigued. One day about 4 months after her aunt died Sophie is alone in the shop when in walks a man named David Preston under the guise of buying his mother a gift. Now Sophie is working temporarily in a gift shop in town with some plans to move to Bellevue. She was planning on going to college until her aunt died and left her nothing but $1,500.00 though the aunt’s estate was much larger. She lived there until being shipped off to Catholic boarding school. She was given no love, no affection and allowed no friends.

Her mother died giving birth to her (she has no idea who her father is) and her nasty aunt became her guardian.

Sophie lives in a small town near Seattle, Washington. Can she handle such a dangerous man, or is she in over her head? The intensely attractive business-man is entirely out of her league. So nothing prepares her for David Preston. Orphaned from birth, she’s gone from living with her reclusive spinster aunt, to a sheltered education in boarding school. Sophie Bennett has virtually no experience with men. If he stops at this point, I’ll probably die. “I am going to make love to you now.” He says, “So if you want me to stop, tell me.” Awakening (A Dangerous Man, #1) by Serena GreyĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books

Awakening by Serena Grey