Betrayal by Sarah Bailey Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Betrayal
Corrupt
Empire Book 1
by
Sarah Bailey
Genre:
Dark Contemporary Romance
It all started one dark night. The last night I saw my family. The night I met him. The only man to haunt my every moment.
Her
I
witnessed something I was never meant to see.
He
took me.
He
broke me.
He
made me his.
And
now he wants to use me to bring down my family.
Him
I
was never meant to have her.
The
daughter of the scum who stole my life.
I
took her.
I
broke her.
I
made her mine.
And
now she'll do anything I say.
One
tattooed anti-hero gets caught up in a whirlwind with an innocent
heiress. It'll keep you on your toes with its web of lies and
secrets.
If
you're a fan of dark romance, dive into Betrayal, the first book in
the explosive Corrupt Empire Series.
The
first few hours were okay. I thought about Gert, James and Peter.
Then it became harder to forget Aiden wasn’t just outside. He’d
left me snacks and sandwiches. I ate a little when I got hungry and
got desperate enough that I had to go in the bucket. How
long had he been gone? I lost all sense of time, beginning to lose my
grip on reality. I kept hearing the locks turning in my head but the
door never opened. I thought I heard his deep voice whispering in my
ear. “Avery.
Avery. Avery.” I
whipped my head around but there was nothing. The cell was empty. I
couldn’t take it any longer. Marching over to the door, I banged on
it over and over. “Aiden,
please, please, I can’t deal with this anymore. I promise I’ll be
good. I promise. Just let me out. I don’t want to be alone
anymore.” Tears
fell down my cheeks. “Aiden.
Please. I… I need you.” The
moment those words left my lips, I collapsed on the floor. They were
the truth. I did need him. It wasn’t just to end this torment in
the cell. I looked forward to seeing him. My beautiful avenging
angel. “I
need you,” I sobbed, burying my face in my hands. “I need you.” When
I saw him, I forgot my parents were dead by his hands. All I saw was
him. All that hard muscle beneath his clothes which I’d felt
pressed up against me when he’d pinned me to the wall. The
self-assured way he carried himself. The deadly look in his eyes.
Those silver eyes which haunted my every waking moment and even my
dreams. Aiden was all of that and so much more. And I was the stupid
girl who couldn’t look away. “Avery.” “Please,
Aiden, come back to me.” I
crawled away from the door. The locks rang in my ears. I peered at
it, but it didn’t open. Was
I having a mental breakdown? Had
I finally snapped?
I
was definitely hearing things that weren’t really there. “Avery,
you are mine. Mine.”
I
put my hands over my ears. It had to stop. All of it. I
saw feet in front of me. I looked up and there was my father. “Dad?” “My
little angel. I’ve missed you. Daddy is home now.” His
voice sounded disjointed. I didn’t understand how he was here. He
was supposed to be dead. I saw him die. “You’re
not real.” “Don’t
you want to see me, sweetie?” “No.
No, you’re not real. You can’t be.” “Avery,
why didn’t you save me? Why didn’t you stop him?” No.
This couldn’t be happening. I couldn’t have done anything to stop
Aiden. No. His eyes looked exactly like my dad’s with those little
crinkles in the corners. “You’re
not real! Not real. Please, Aiden. I need Aiden.” “Aiden
killed me. How can you want the man who killed me?” I
put my hands over my eyes. I was hallucinating my own father. This
could not be happening. “Stop.
Please stop. Aiden, make it stop.” “Aiden
isn’t here, angel. Aiden can’t save you. Look at me, baby, look
at me.” “No.
He can. He can. I need him,” I sobbed. “I need him.” I
was fucking crazy. All of this was a sick twisted dream and I
couldn’t get out of it. Was I asleep or was this just guilt? Either
way, I needed the stupid vision of my father to go away. He was
messing me up even more. I couldn’t take this. “Look
at me, Avery.” I
slowly removed my hands from my eyes. Right between his eyes, a hole
started to form, blood pouring out of the wound. I screamed,
scrambling backwards until I hit the wall. Lifeless eyes stared back
at me. “Why
didn’t you save me?” my father said one last time before he
collapsed on the floor. I
huddled my knees up to my chest and buried my face in them, sobbing.
It wasn’t real. Nothing was real anymore All I could think about was
Aiden coming back and finding me like this. A mess. No longer able to
distinguish between a hallucination and reality.
Is
this what he wanted? Did
he want to break me this much? Seeing
my father had well and truly fucked me up. Why
did I even care what Aiden might think? He
caused this. He killed my family. I should be angry with him, except
I wasn’t. It didn’t matter if that made me insane. All I wanted
right now was him. He was real. I’d find my way back to reality for
him.
Born and raised in Sussex, UK near the Ashdown Forest where she grew up climbing trees and building Lego towns with her younger brother. Sarah fell in love with novels when she was a teenager reading her aunt's historical regency romances. She has always loved the supernatural and exploring the darker side of romance and fantasy novels.
Sarah
currently resides in the Scottish Highlands with her husband. Music
is one of her biggest inspirations and she always has something on in
the background whilst writing. She is an avid gamer and is often
found hogging her husband's Xbox.
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