Sweet the Lies
by Jennifer Dee
Passion. Lies. Heartbreak.
Nineteen-year-old Belinda Perry has known the Preston brothers her whole life. Heirs to a multi-billion dollar real estate empire, Reese and Lucas Preston are American royalty–rich, handsome and notorious for their bad-boy reputations. Having been in love with Reese for as long as she can remember, Belle finally gave in to the simmering passion between them, igniting a romance that was too intense to control and too volatile to endure. Soon she found herself caught up in a bitter family deception and was forced to pick up the shattered pieces of her life, leaving everything behind and vowing never to fall in love again.
A betrayal that tore them apart.
Some mistakes will haunt you for the rest of your life. For Reese Preston, it was the day he broke Belle's heart and threw her out of his life. Now he has to live with the guilt and regrets of his action, his days and nights haunted by thoughts of her, desperately yearning for the once-in-a-lifetime love they had shared and suffering the quiet agony of wanting a woman who wants nothing to do with him.
A love they couldn’t forget.
Eight years later, Belle rekindled her friendship with Lucas and found herself crossing paths with Reese again. Refusing to reconcile or forgive him for their tumultuous past, she tries to keep him at a distance. As tension and passion reignite between them again, so does bittersweet memories, leaving them wary, vulnerable, and uncertain. Reese will do anything to have her back in his life, but can Belle ever forgive him for the past? Or do some wounds run too deep to ever heal from?
*This book has been professionally edited as of July 2020 for a better reading experience. The book's content (story, plot, characters, etc) remains exactly the same as the original version published.*
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"He wanted her more intensely than he’d ever wanted another woman before. He hadn’t known sexual frustration could be this intense, but with Belle, everything he felt was intense. Every touch, every taste, every emotion. Everything was magnified a hundred times when he was with her."
"The sexual chemistry between them had always been powerful and immediate. There was no denying it. And yet she couldn’t imagine how they could ever be together again. She didn’t know if she was capable of forgiving him when the rift between them seemed so final and absolute. The physical scars...were long gone, but the emotional ones inflicted by Reese had devastated her psyche, and even after eight years, she didn’t know if she was strong enough to bear that devastation again. Loving him had taken everything from her, heart and soul. She couldn’t be in the same room with him without having a mental breakdown. She couldn’t talk to him for five minutes without wanting to rip off his clothes and screw his brains out. Whatever they had going on right now was twisted and dysfunctional and downright masochistic. Nothing good could come from them being together again. They needed to stay away from each other if they wanted a normal, sane existence."
Nineteen-year-old Belinda Perry has known the Preston brothers her whole life. Heirs to a multi-billion dollar real estate empire, Reese and Lucas Preston are American royalty–rich, handsome and notorious for their bad-boy reputations. Having been in love with Reese for as long as she can remember, Belle finally gave in to the simmering passion between them, igniting a romance that was too intense to control and too volatile to endure. Soon she found herself caught up in a bitter family deception and was forced to pick up the shattered pieces of her life, leaving everything behind and vowing never to fall in love again.
A betrayal that tore them apart.
Some mistakes will haunt you for the rest of your life. For Reese Preston, it was the day he broke Belle's heart and threw her out of his life. Now he has to live with the guilt and regrets of his action, his days and nights haunted by thoughts of her, desperately yearning for the once-in-a-lifetime love they had shared and suffering the quiet agony of wanting a woman who wants nothing to do with him.
A love they couldn’t forget.
Eight years later, Belle rekindled her friendship with Lucas and found herself crossing paths with Reese again. Refusing to reconcile or forgive him for their tumultuous past, she tries to keep him at a distance. As tension and passion reignite between them again, so does bittersweet memories, leaving them wary, vulnerable, and uncertain. Reese will do anything to have her back in his life, but can Belle ever forgive him for the past? Or do some wounds run too deep to ever heal from?
*This book has been professionally edited as of July 2020 for a better reading experience. The book's content (story, plot, characters, etc) remains exactly the same as the original version published.*
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"He wanted her more intensely than he’d ever wanted another woman before. He hadn’t known sexual frustration could be this intense, but with Belle, everything he felt was intense. Every touch, every taste, every emotion. Everything was magnified a hundred times when he was with her."
"The sexual chemistry between them had always been powerful and immediate. There was no denying it. And yet she couldn’t imagine how they could ever be together again. She didn’t know if she was capable of forgiving him when the rift between them seemed so final and absolute. The physical scars...were long gone, but the emotional ones inflicted by Reese had devastated her psyche, and even after eight years, she didn’t know if she was strong enough to bear that devastation again. Loving him had taken everything from her, heart and soul. She couldn’t be in the same room with him without having a mental breakdown. She couldn’t talk to him for five minutes without wanting to rip off his clothes and screw his brains out. Whatever they had going on right now was twisted and dysfunctional and downright masochistic. Nothing good could come from them being together again. They needed to stay away from each other if they wanted a normal, sane existence."
