Reese Gabriel

Own Me Wholly!

PROLOGUE

Caroline has a secret. Her submissive heart is owned by a married man. Thomas’ wife and teenage daughters see her only as a devoted employee, but when all eyes are turned away she kneels for him and she obeys. When her beloved Daddy and Master Thomas has a massive heart attack that puts him a coma, however, Caroline goes into a tail spin. She screams with need and grief she dare not show.

Enter Brian, Thomas’ son from a previous marriage. He tells Caroline at the hospital one night that he knows the truth. She warns him off, but something draws her, like a moth to a flame. The son is everything the father is not-rugged, domineering, almost brutal. Caroline cannot resist. Helpless, guilt-stricken she is taken over and the more demanding that Brian becomes, the more she desires.

Her heart hangs in the balance. What are Brian's intentions? Is he only after revenge on the father who abandoned him, will he use up Caroline and throw her away like a broken toy or does he truly love her as no other? Is the one she's sought … a Master for life who won't have to share her with another? To find out they must survive the explosions between them and face a final hurdle … the final vestige of Caroline's pride which Brian intends to break and set her free.

CHAPTER I

They can't see me cry…

For my sleeping Prince Charming, Master, lover, mentor, friend, George Burns to my Gracie, Daddy to my baby girl. It can't be real-how could that lion's heart be giving way? A ruptured aorta, standing at the kitchen counter, mixing juice one minute, collapsed to the tile the next, his life hanging in the balance, a list of complications so bad, and yet I'd give anything to get that far along, to be talking about tomorrow, about a wheel chair and therapy and cognitive re-orientation.