The Pain We Nurture - S K Presley - Bog

Pain, and desperation. It has become Olivia's world and identity for the last four years as she struggles to help financially support her dying niece. But the bills are getting increasingly more difficult to manage, and what little stability she had begins to waiver along with her hope. With thoughts of failure ever looming, Olivia takes on a secret, forbidden, and taboo lifestyle in order to insure her nieces' survival. Struggling to hold the hopes and dreams of the past at bay, she submerses herself completely in the present to survive. And soon, Olivia's world becomes purely driven only by sacrifice and adrenaline. And now, fighting an injury, she knows time is of the essence. But unfortunately for her, time has never been on her side.Until she meets Colin. A sexy, mysterious billionaire with sadistic tendencies who harbors a heavy emotional secret of his own. Colin barrels unexpectedly into her life and demands the one commodity she cannot trust herself to give him. Time, in exchange for a mutually beneficial proposition that is as insane as it is fascinating. Soon, thoughts of time are all that consume Olivia. The time Colin demands, time she gives up with Allison, time to discover who she really is as a person.>As Olivia falls deeper into Colin's tangled web of dominance, he simultaneously tightens the reins around her gilded cage and his own secrets. Slowly, time starts to mean progressively less, as trust becomes the new hot commodity. And soon, the one thing Olivia realizes is that she can trust no one, not even herself. This is the first book in The Assurance series.