"The snare is set—leaving, friendships, lives, and futures dangling in the balance"
ENTRAPMENT continues the epic new romantic suspense series INFIDELITY, featuring Lennox "Nox" Demetri, Alexandria "Charli" Collins, the Montagues, and the Demetris.
The thrills, heat, and suspense continue to add up...
One chance meeting
plus...
One sexy, possessive alpha and one spunky, determined heroine
plus...
One week of uncontainable, unbridled passion
plus...
One impulsive decision
times...
Two declarations of love
divided by...
The sum of intertwining pasts, lies, and broken rules
equals...
ENTRAPMENT
"Infidelity - it isn't what you think"
Don't miss this latest novel in the Infidelity series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig. The classic twists, turns, deceptions, and devotions will have readers on the edge of their seats, discovering answers that continue to pose questions. Be ready to swoon one minute and scream the next.
Have you been Aleatha'd?
ENTRAPMENT is the fourth of five full-length novels in the INFIDELITY series: Betrayal, Cunning, Deception, Entrapment, and Fidelity.
*This series does not advocate nor does it condone cheating.
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EXCERPT:
DETONATIONS
OF RED.
Flashes of white.
Explosions—visible to
only me—momentarily hindered my vision. Blinking, I tried to make sense of
Deloris's text message.
“ALEX
GOT INTO A CAR WITH ALTON FITZGERALD. WE ARE FOLLOWING.”
Though the plane
ascended higher and higher, my heart fell to an abyss, the place where my
stomach used to be.
I read it again.
The words refused to
change.
Emotions boiled within
me, creating a turbulent concoction capable of destruction. I looked toward the
small window, expecting to see swirling clouds, but saw only the deceiving
blueness of a complacent sky. Despite the misleading calm, disbelief, hurt, and
rage swirled through my body, rushing through my blood, tightening my chest,
and weakening my knees. Unconsciously, my fingers balled, creating fists that
needed to connect with something—with anything—as I increased the pressure on
the phone. Surely it would crack and shatter.
I read the words again
and again.
They didn't make sense.
Charli wouldn't do
that. She wouldn't willingly get into her stepfather's car.
Something terrible had
happened.
I'd witnessed her
apprehension and disgust when it came to Alton Fitzgerald. She'd shared her
fears and some of her stories. He was the other devil, the one she spoke of. No
matter what he'd done to her or not done to her in the past, being with him was
dangerous. She knew that and so did I.
Charli wouldn't
willingly go with him, not after she'd promised me she'd stay safe.
I clenched my teeth,
hearing her words in my mind, her promises...her lies.
When she refused to
wait for me for this trip to Savannah, Charli had promised she'd stay with Deloris.
According to this text
message, she hadn't.
That's what the words
on my screen were telling me. Deloris's message confirmed that Charli had done
the one thing I forbade her from doing. She'd put the one person whom I'd
entrusted to her care in danger.
She'd willingly
sacrificed herself.
I needed to understand
why.
I needed to speak to
her, but I couldn't.
Since the plane had
just left the ground, I couldn't make a call until we were high enough for the
Wi-Fi to be activated; however, that didn’t stop my rant. Pounding the tabletop
before me with the butt of my fist, a tirade of words spewed forth. The outburst,
infused with obscenities, echoed uselessly through the cabin.
Wisely, Isaac remained
quiet, rightfully assuming I'd share more when I was ready. The flight
attendant, though, was new. She didn't know me.
“Mr. Demetri, is
everything all right?” she asked, her eyes bigger than dinner plates as she
hurried around a wall and moved toward me. With each step she teetered one way
and then the next, her body thrown off balance as the plane continued its
ascent.
“No! Nothing is all
right. Go sit down before you fall. There’s nothing you can do.”
“Sir,” she said,
looking down at the phone still in my hand. “If we’re not yet out of the range
of cell towers, we will be soon, but once we have Wi-Fi you'll be able to Face
Time.”
I reined in what little
self-control still remained. This wasn't my first flight. “I’m aware.”
“However, if you don't
want to wait, the plane has a satellite phone. Would you like to use that?”
What? Why didn’t I
think of that?
Because I’m too stunned
to process.
“Yes. Get it right
away.”
Her knees buckled as
she maneuvered toward the cockpit, her hands supporting her one way and then
the other.
“I’M CALLING ON THE SATELLITE PHONE. I WANT DETAILS!”
I sent the text to
Deloris, not caring if it would send or if she would get it. Just pushing the
letters gave me something to do.
As soon as the flight
attendant placed the satellite phone in my hand, I began dialing the
longer-than-normal string of numbers. With each second that I waited for the
connection, my blood pressure rose another notch. The rush coursing through my
veins filled my ears with an internal roar, muting the engine’s drone.
Ring.
Ring.
Ring.
"You have
reached—"
Though the plane
continued its climb, at the sound of her voice,
my stomach took another nosedive. Hitting the disconnect button, I called Mrs.
Witt. She probably should have been my first call, but I needed to try to reach
Charli. I wanted to know that I could.
Now, I knew that I
couldn't.
As the satellite phone
again waited to connect, I reached for my own phone and pushed the app on
Charli's tracker.
Nothing.
My mind reasoned that
it wasn't because she was unreachable. She may have gotten into a car, but she
wouldn't take off the necklace. There was nothing on the app, because we didn't
yet have Wi-Fi access and the cellular service was unavailable.
As soon as the
satellite phone began to ring, Deloris answered, “Lennox we're following
her...”
“What the hell
happened? Where is she? Where is that bastard taking her? Why the fuck did she
get in his car? Why didn’t you stop her? Did he threaten her?”
“She’s a few hundred
yards ahead of us on the street. We’re making our way out of the city.
According to her tracker, her heart rate is elevated, but otherwise, we believe
she's safe. According to the GPS it seems as though we’re headed toward her
home.”
“Her home?” I asked
incredulously. “No, Deloris, her home is in New York.”
One week. No future. No past. No more. Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree—no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli," she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in the dark of night reappear in the bright light of day. "Some of my tastes are unique. They aren’t for everyone. I understand that.” Lennox "Nox" Demetri is wealthy, confident, and decisive—he knows what he wants. From the first time he sees Charli at an exclusive resort, he knows he wants her. Although he is usually the one to make the rules, together they agree on one: One week. No more. When betrayal comes from those closest to Alexandria, she must decide how far she is willing to go to survive. Choices are not always easy, especially when they involve the heart, body, and soul. After all, Infidelity is a business, and some rules are meant to be broken. "Is it really cheating if you're doing it to yourself?" From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a sexy, new dominant hero who knows what he wants, and a strong-willed heroine who has plans of her own. With classic Aleatha Romig twists, turns, deceptions, and devotions, this new epic dark romance will have readers swooning one minute and screaming the next. Have you been Aleatha'd? BETRAYAL is a full-length novel and the first of five in the INFIDELITY series.
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