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    Love's Burden (Torres Crime Family #2)
    Love's Burden (Torres Crime Family #2)
    Love's Burden (Torres Crime Family #2)
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    Love's Burden (Torres Crime Family #2)

    By Vera Roberts

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    Caught in the clash of two warring families, Romeo Torres will be forced to decide between protecting the woman he loves, and being loyal to the game. With time running out, Romeo must get creative with his girlfriend’s survival, even if it means he’ll become a target himself by his own family.

    Love’s Burden is the second part of the H.E.R trilogy. It deals with revenge, true love, and if time really heals. It’s a modern-day remix of Romeo and Juliet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVera Roberts
    Release dateMar 10, 2019
    ISBN9780463529966
    Love's Burden (Torres Crime Family #2)
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    Vera Roberts

    Vera is the bestselling author of the number one D'amato Brothers series, the Scott & Mariana serial, and the Breakaway series.She loves chocolate, has a Netflix addiction, and seeing the Maury show in person is currently on her bucket list. She's also a member of both the BeyHive and RihNavy.Vera currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Maks, son Bear, and cat Sushi.

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      Love's Burden (Torres Crime Family #2) - Vera Roberts

      Love’s Burden (H.E.R. 2)

      by

      Vera Roberts

      Copyright

      For BESM.

      © 2019 Vera Roberts, All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient.

      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

      Other Titles

      The Breakaway Series:

      Breakaway

      Game Misconduct

      Face-Off

      Power Play

      Scoring Chance

      The D’Amato Brothers Series:

      The Nanny

      To Love and Obey (BDSM)

      Where I Wanna Be

      All I’ve Ever Wanted

      Love

      Nothing Even Matters

      One More chance

      War

      D’Amato

      Stay With Me

      The Ellison Brothers Series:

      Her Savior

      Simply Complicated

      Her Ocean

      Watercolors

      Her Soul

      The Feeling Some Type of Way Series:

      Feeling Some Type of Way

      Bad and Bougie

      Not about That Life

      The D’Amato Brothers/S&M Crossover (BDSM):

      Anticipation

      Yes, Master

      I Need You

      The Jackson and Liane Series:

      Daddy’s Angel

      Fire We Make

      When Love Calls

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      S&M

      S&M II

      Discipline

      S&M III, Vol. I

      S&M III, Vol. II

      S&M IV, Part 1

      The Ex-Factor

      Stronger Than Pride

      Unravel Me

      The State of Affairs Series:

      State of affairs

      Superpower

      Standalone Novels:

      I Knew You Were Trouble

      Wait for Love

      Soul Infinity Crew (under Maya Brooklyn)

      Short stories:

      Blow by Blow: Diary of a Call Girl #1

      Blow by Blow: Diary of a Call Girl #2

      Boo’d Up

      Dear Diary

      Gettin' It

      H.E.R.

      Hot Like Fire (Sweet and Clean Romance)

      The Train Ride (Free on Smashwords.com)

      The Erotic Intoxication, Vol. I: Bad Girls

      The Painter

      Til Tomorrow

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      Blurb

      Caught in the clash of two warring families, Romeo Torres will be forced to decide between protecting the woman he loves, and being loyal to the game. With time running out, Romeo must get creative with his girlfriend’s survival, even if it means he’ll become a target himself by his own family.

      Love’s Burden is the second part of the H.E.R trilogy. It deals with revenge, true love, and if time really heals. It’s a modern-day remix of Romeo and Juliet.

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      He was going to kill her at any moment. And she totally deserved it.

      Julia expected Roman was going to shoot her at any moment. Maybe he won’t use a gun, but a knife. Maybe he’ll torture her instead. Maybe he’ll rape her and beat her before he finally killed her.

      The possibilities of destroying her life were endless and Julia Lewis knew what was up.

      As she stood under the pouring water, she faced the bathroom door. She wanted to see him when he finally killed her. She wanted to see the anger in his eyes. She wanted him to remember the defiance within hers as he pulled the trigger.

      He didn’t show up. She wondered if he was going to. Julia knew what she did was horrible. Horrible? Horrible would be an accident she could’ve prevented. Horrible would be going under a celebrity’s page and trolling them.

      No, what Julia did was deadly. Once Santiago told who shot him, she was a dead woman guaranteed. Women don’t get involved in crime rings. That was a given. No woman has lasted and no woman would ever channel her inner Griselda Blanco.

      Now Julia was a dead woman walking. If they – meaning anyone Santiago trusted enough to put a hit out on her – wanted her dead, she would be within an instant. Or worse, because she was Rodney’s daughter, they would torture her, possibly rape and beat her, make her suffer excruciating pain, before finally killing her.

      On second thought, Julia was better off committing suicide.

      Just when she was about to entertain those horrible thoughts, she saw the bathroom door open. Through the steam, she could make out Romeo’s figure. She couldn’t tell if he was holding an object, but she wasn’t going to fight him. Whatever he was going to kill her with, she deserved.

      He slowly opened the door, revealing a nude body. His brown eyes were full of concern. His overall face frowned from the top of his forehead to the small quiver of his bottom lip.

      He was just as scared as she was.

      Julia stepped back from Roman and her body naturally shook from the loss of heat. At least that’s what she told herself. He was going to kill her with his bare hands and possibly make it seem accidental. Everyone would believe him.

      She swallowed the lump in her throat and watched him step under the showerhead and rinse himself off. His back faced her and it wasn’t lost on Julia Romeo intentionally did that. If she wanted to kill him, he allowed it. Dare she thought, he encouraged it.

      After a short while, Roman turned around and faced his love. She was backed away in a corner, yet she didn’t look frigid or scared. She had a defiant look in her eyes as if she waited on him to make a move, any move.

      They were at a stalemate.

      He finally walked towards her and pinned her against the wall. He caressed her face and forcibly grabbed her

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