Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

A cold, damp chill and the acrid bite of dust and stale tobacco filled Lauren's senses as she struggled to open her eyelids. Reality blurred with the remnants of a nightmare.

Blurry and disoriented, she felt a pair of icy hands stroking her skin.

"Who's there?"

Lauren's eyes snapped open, bulging wide like a startled deer. As she shifted her focus, a horrifying scene unfolded before her.

Freddy sat by her bedside, his cold hands creeping along her slender waist, inching their way up, touching every inch of her skin.

fueled a frantic struggle, but her limbs met only unyielding resistance. Only then did she realize that her hands and feet were

roamed

over her body. His voice dropped to a husky murmur, thick with desire. "Telling your precious fiancé to back off? Playing coy, are

You're not!" Tears welled in Lauren's eyes as she shook her head vigorously, desperate to escape

thin, his demeanor shifting as his darker impulses took hold. His eyes widened, his arm rose,

Landon to the core, so I wanted to marry you—just to let him taste the bitterness of seeing the

for his clothes, his eyes glinted with a dark possessiveness. "You're no innocent child anymore, Lauren. Landon's had his fill of you. You won't be losing anything if I have my turn