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Elisabeth Naughton - Hold On To Me

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Shes almost ready for a second chance. What started out as a casual hookup with a rugged geologist has turned into something a whole lot more. Simones on the verge of handing over her heart, but fear over what Mitch will say and do when he learns who she used to be holds her back. The past could destroy their future... Just when Simone is about to take a chance on forever with Mitch, the mistakes of her past catch up with her. Suddenly its not just her safety on the line anymore, its his too. Forced into hiding, Mitch demands answers, and Simone realizes the only way to protect everything she holds dear is to delve into a past shes spent fourteen years trying to forget. As they search for the truth, they discover secrets, lies and a rekindled passion that burns hotter than before. But they also uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very fabric of society. One that could cost them more than just their futureit could cost them their lives.

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Hold on to Me.

Against All Odds - 2

Elisabeth Naughton

For all readers, young and old, who have experienced the joy of love and the heartbreak of loss.

CHAPTER ONE

Simone Conners had done some really stupid things in her life, but she was pretty sure what she was currently contemplating topped all of it combined by at least a mile.

Ladies and gentlemen, were about to make our final descent into San Francisco. Please bring your trays and seat backs into the locked and upright position.

She shifted in her seat, gripped the armrest, and looked out the planes window. A thin layer of fog hugged the coastline, but for once she didnt care about the incessant cold and perpetual fog on the West Coast. She wanted to get home. She wanted to see Mitch. She wanted to tell him

Tell him what? Tell him she missed him? That shed spent the last week thinking about the future? That she was ready for that next step? A wave of nausea washed through her, the same one shed been dealing with for days, and she pressed a hand against her stomach. The answer to every single one of those questions scared the crap out of her.

I don't know what young people are thinking these days, the white-haired, eighty-something woman seated to Simone's right muttered as she flipped through a gossip magazine. Look at this couple here. Divorcing already after only a month. And they're so attractive. People just don't commit like they used to. It's ridiculous. They should just stay single and avoid the whole mess.

Simone could care less about some Hollywood power couple. Managing a Hm, she went back to looking out the window. Her seatmate had talked nonstop through the entire flight from DC, and more than once Simone had cursed herself for forgetting her earbuds, but she'd been too wound up to tell the elderly woman to stop chattering. Because right now, commitment was foremost on her mind.

What if it was too soon? Shed grown complacent, but thenwhy shouldnt she? Ten years had passed since her life had been upended, and her husband was now dead. Whatever Steve had been afraid might happen when they were married was no longer a threat. Shed been living half a life since shed lost him. Wasnt it time she started living the whole thing? Taking chances? Being happy? Wasnt that the next step?

Her heart told her it was. But in the back of her mind, she couldnt stop worrying that if she took that step, if she made that leap of faith, that something would go wrong. And the worst thing she could envision was that in a month from now, Mitch could change his mind about what he wanted. That would kill her more than never taking the risk.

Simones chest prickled with a rash of nerves as the city spires grew larger in the window. She didnt know whod shed be today if she hadnt chosen to run away with Steve, but part of her was thankful she didnt have to wonder. Because if she hadnt been that reckless girl she barely even remembered, shed never have met Steve in the first place. She wouldnt have her daughter, Shannon, now. She wouldnt be worrying about a future with a man who made her so crazy sometimes she could barely think straight.

Mitch

Warmth gathered beneath her ribs and sent that flutter through her belly she felt every time she thought of him.

The woman beside her slapped the magazine closed and sighed as she tugged her glasses off to hang from the chain around her neck. You're smart to still be single at your age, young lady. Mark my word. A man will rip your heart out and trample all over it if you let him. These women in this magazine are the perfect example. Better to be savvy, successful, and single rather than miserable with a man who will only disappoint you in the long run.

Savvy and successful hadn't done anything but remind Simone just how alone she'd been since her husband's funeral. Was two and a half years long enough to mourn? What would Shannon think? Simone hadn't been avoiding relationships since Steve's death, but she hadn't been looking for a man either. Mitch Mathews had simply stumbled into her life.

No, whirled into it was more like it. Just like a tornado, sucking up everything around him and drawing it all in, including her.

Tuning out the old woman's muttering, she closed her eyes as the planes wheels touched down. Mitchs goofy smile flashed in her mind, his shaggy, unkempt hair, and the way he could always make her smile, even when she'd had the day from hell or Shannon was in the midst of one of her preteen tantrums.

That flutter in her stomach grew larger and more insistent.

The plane came to a stop, and a bell dinged, indicating it was okay to get up. Stomach still swirling, Simone gathered her bag, muttered good-bye to the woman next to her as she pushed out of her seat, and reached into the pocket of her slacks for her cell. As she followed the rest of the passengers off the plane and up the Jetway, she turned on her phone and waited for the screen to load.

Four unread messages flashed, the first from the man shed just been thinking of.

MITCH: Youd better already be on a plane, sweetheart. My hand and I have gotten way too reacquainted during the last week. Get home soon! I promise to make it worth your while.

A wicked-hot sensation rolled through her belly, and a smile spread across her lips. No, he wasnt the kind of guy who would disappoint her in the long run. She knew it in her heart. He was the kind of guy who could make a woman happy. Blissfully so.

She moved through the terminal and read his next message, telling her he was watching her plane on the airlines tracking website and couldnt wait to see her. Who did that? Monitored flights because he was so anxious? Not any guy shed ever dated. Not even her own husband.

Yards from security, she caught sight of a man with shaggy brown hair, dressed in jeans and a gray sweater, standing on the other side of the glass, holding a handful of flowers. Simones pulse picked up speed, and all that excitement shed tried to keep tamped down rushed in on a wave of emotion that stole her breath.

Her feet picked up speed. She hurried through the security gate only to realizeit wasnt Mitch.

Her steps drew to a stop. Disappointment dropped her heart into the pit of her stomach. Beside her, a woman squealed, held out her arms, and ran into the mans waiting embrace.

And in that moment, as Simone watched the romantic reunion, she realizedthat was what she wanted. That was how she felt. The disappointment was quickly replaced with a fire that sparked in the center of her chest and spread outward through every limb and vein and cell until her entire body felt alive.

She loved Mitch.

She loved him more than any man she'd ever known, even Steve. This crazy, maddening, spur-of-the-moment man who'd completely flipped her world upside down and inside out and left her so frazzled some days she wanted to scream. She loved him, and she wanted him, even knowing her past might one day come back to bite her in the ass. But for himfor themshe was willing to take that chance.

Her palms grew sweaty. All other thought fled, and her head grew so light, she was afraid it might fly right off her shoulders.

She looked down at the cell phone in her hand, wanting, needing to text him back to tell him that she felt the same way. That shed missed him more than she ever thought she could, that she was on her way to see him right this very momentthat she couldn't freaking wait. But before she could hit Reply, her phone buzzed.

Mitch.

Excitement bubbled like champagne in her veins. She fumbled with the phone and pressed it to her ear. Mitch?

Silence, then No. Its William Holdt.

Every cell in Simones body went cold. She hadnt heard that name in years. Hadnt expected to hear from him in just as long.

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