{"id":408,"date":"2011-08-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2011-08-20T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:00:00","slug":"her-guardian-angel-her-angel-romance-series-4-chapter-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/her-guardian-angel-her-angel-romance-series-4-chapter-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Guardian Angel (Her Angel Romance Series #4) &#8211; Chapter Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel\"><b>Her Guardian Angel (Her Angel romance series #4)<\/b><\/a> as part of my<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/paranormal-pandemonium-blog-tour.php\">Paranormal Pandemonium 2011 Blog Tour<\/a><\/i>. I&#8217;ll be posting the first five chapters for FREE. You can find them all by clicking here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indieparanormalromancebooks.com\/search\/label\/Her%20Guardian%20Angel%20-%20chapters\">Her Guardian Angel chapters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel\"><b>Her Guardian Angel<\/b><\/a>  is currently available in e-book direct from my website, Amazon Kindle  Stores, and Smashwords, Apple iBookstore and Kobo. It will soon be available from Barnes and  Noble, Sony. It&#8217;s also available as a paperback from Amazon  sites.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories in the <i>Her Angel<\/i> series are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\"><b>Her Dark Angel<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Fallen%20Angel\"><b>Her Fallen Angel<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Warrior%20Angel\"><b>Her Warrior Angel<\/b><\/a>. Details of them and where they are available in e-book and paperback can be found at my website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Her%20Angel\">http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Her%20Angel<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/images\/uploads\/picDetailherguardianangel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Her Guardian Angel<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Felicity Heaton<\/b><br \/>A simple mission becomes a fight for survival in this fantastic instalment in the Her Angel series.<\/p>\n<p>A  guardian angel dedicated to his duty, Marcus will do whatever Heaven   asks of him, but even his loyalty has its limits. When his superior   orders him to gain Amelia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trust through seduction, Marcus starts to   question his mission and his feelings for the beautiful woman he has   watched over since her birth.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia has gone from one  bad relationship to another, so when a  gorgeous guy moves in next door  looking like Mr Right, she hopes he  doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turn out to be another  black knight in disguise. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  more to Marcus than meets the  eye, and when he rescues her from three  demonic men, Amelia is thrust  into his nightmarish world\u00e2\u20ac\u201da world where  God and the Devil exist, and  only one angel can save her from  death\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMarcus, the angel she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s falling  in love with.<\/p>\n<p>On the run from demonic angels and the  Devil himself, aided by Marcus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  angel friends and their amazing women,  fighting for survival against  the odds, Marcus and Amelia discover a  love that will last forever.<\/p>\n<p>A love so strong it will shake Heaven and Hell.<\/p>\n<p>ebook price: $3.99<br \/>paperback price: $9.99 <br \/>genre: paranormal angel romance<br \/>length: 110000 words<br \/>rating: sultry<br \/>released: July 2011<br \/>Book 4 in the Her Angel series<\/p>\n<p><b>Available in e-book from:<\/b><br \/><b>Author&#8217;s website:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel\">http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle Germany:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle UK:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/<\/a><br \/><b>Kobo Books:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Guardian-Angel-Her-Angel\/book-lVb0k7lC80OOiMBAOa-Ldg\/page1.html\">http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Guardian-Angel-Her-Angel\/book-lVb0k7lC80OOiMBAOa-Ldg\/page1.html<\/a><br \/><b>Smashwords:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/77776\">http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/77776<\/a><br \/><b>and the Apple iBookstore<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Available in paperback from:<\/b><br \/><b>Amazon.com:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1463788363\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1463788363\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif; font-size: large;\">CHAPTER FOUR<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p>Amelia sat back in her seat when Marcus took his hand away from hers and  leaned back in his chair. She toyed with her slim black mobile phone  for a moment to distract herself from the disturbed look on Marcus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  face. When he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop glaring at her, she put her phone down on the  round dark metal table and nursed her drink, feeling incredibly foolish  for taking hold of his hand. She sipped her coffee, grimacing internally  as the cold liquid touched her tongue. Nothing was going right for her  today. No, some things had been going right. She hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been imagining  the way Marcus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes had lingered on her body, or how quick he was to  smile at her whenever she smiled at him. Those smiles had reached his  beautiful silver-blue eyes too, lighting them in a way that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fake  and that told her they were real this time, not the usual polite ones he  forced whenever someone spoke to him.<\/p>\n<p>He had been different since last night.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t usually in the habit of relying on men to fight her battles  for her but she had appreciated his intervention. It was the first time  that a man had come to her rescue and when he had punched Mike, her  heart had fluttered and she had looked at Marcus with new eyes. She had  noticed him the moment he had moved in next door to her, had registered  him as handsome, but she had never really taken the time to look at him.  The man had a body that could put models to shame and she hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  stopped wondering what he did for a profession since setting eyes on it.  Was he a model? She hoped to God he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a hand model because her own  stupid choice of men had gone and wrecked one of his lovely strong  hands.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia stared at his injured one, her heart beating hard in her throat.  He had large hands, made for cupping and holding, or made for fighting.  He had landed a hefty punch on Mike, sending him down with one blow,  and for a brief moment she had feared he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to get back up.  She had almost gone to him but then instinct had kicked in and reminded  her that Mike had been intent on fighting Marcus. He must have been  drunk. Only an idiot would pick a fight with Marcus if they were sober,  and Mike wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that stupid. He should have known he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand a  chance.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus had a seriously cut physique, lithe muscles that radiated strength and raw masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>Once she had noticed that he was topless, it had been difficult not to  stare. The few times that she had managed to peel her eyes off his body  and found the courage to meet his, he had been looking at her with wide  pupils darkening his amazing eyes, a sure sign of desire.<\/p>\n<p>So why had he been so quick to snatch his hand away from hers?<\/p>\n<p>Amelia almost laughed at herself. Since when had she given a damn about  what men thought of her? Men were trouble. Mike had hammered that nail  so firmly into her head that she had got the message this time. Men were  something she could live without and that life would certainly be a lot  easier and less painful than hers had been up to this point.<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes betrayed her and snuck back to Marcus. He sat opposite her  with his head tilted back and eyes on the sky. The lines of his defined  jaw led her gaze up to his square chin and sensual mouth and her pulse  picked up, jittery in its beat, when she licked her lips and  contemplated what kissing him would be like. He lowered his head, their  eyes met and then he looked away, an air of irritation about him.<\/p>\n<p>Her fault?<\/p>\n<p>She had taken his hand last night when icing his knuckles and he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  reacted so coldly then. If anything, the desire in his eyes had  increased. What had happened between then and today? Had she said or  done something wrong? She could have sworn that she had read the signals  right and that Marcus liked her. Now she felt as though a vast frigid  ocean had opened between them and that she would drown if she tried to  traverse it to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>Last night had opened her eyes to the fact that there was a fantastic  man living next door to her and since then she had felt tied up in  knots, twisted inside out and back to front. She had never been  backwards about being forward before but something about Marcus made her  hesitate. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just because he would think she was rebounding. It  was because he seemed like a nice guy, a cut above gorgeous in looks and  personality, and she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to screw things up. He had been on her  mind all day and she had tried to think of a way to bump into him again  so she could strike up a conversation and get to know him better. When  she had spotted him outside their building, it had felt as though fate  had brought them together, but her nerve had failed at the sight of him  standing staring at the floor as though it was the most fascinating  thing in the world. He hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard her at first. It had taken her three  attempts before he had lifted his head and noticed her, and by then her  confidence had been shattered. Had he been thinking too?<\/p>\n<p>About her?<\/p>\n<p>Amelia rolled her eyes at her thoughts. As if. The poor man was  sleep-deprived thanks to her terrible choice in men. He had probably  been spacing out just as she had said he was, unable to function with  only a few hours sleep. When he had gone back to his own apartment half  an hour after she had iced his left hand, she hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard a peep out of  him until gone six in the morning when there had been some movement  next door. She hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been able to sleep herself. Fear had kept her  awake and she had watched one movie after another in an attempt to push  it to the back of her mind. She was running on empty today, half asleep  and feeling as though what had been a dream was turning into a  nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia leaned one elbow on the metal table and stared at Marcus,  studying the nuances that crossed his handsome face as he watched the  people passing them by on the pavement. For all she knew, Marcus was Mr  Right for someone already. It wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t surprise her. He had looks, a  fabulous body, was quick to defend women, and had proven himself  intelligent in the brief conversations they had shared. Her younger  sister would have taken one look at him, with his dark tousled hair that  caressed the nape of his neck and sometimes fell down to brush his  forehead, causing him to sweep his fingers through it to groom it back,  incredible pale blue eyes, and scorching hot body, and declared him  \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsmexy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Smart and sexy apparently. Her mother would have taken one look  at him and told her that he was a keeper and not to give up on him.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else was probably already keeping him.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that was why he had taken his hand back so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus looked across the table at her and Amelia felt cold inside from  the emptiness in his eyes. Where had the nice Marcus gone? Had she  chased him away? A sense of impatience surrounded him, as though he  didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to sit with her anymore, and he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold her gaze for  more than a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia mused that he was always detached from everyone and distant. She  shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be so surprised that he had withdrawn from her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any good for you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, his deep voice as devoid of  emotion as his face, and Amelia held her hands up, desperate to shift  the course of conversation away from her feelings. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You are better off  keeping away from me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean it like that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She had but he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to know that.  Her heart ached as he crushed it in her chest with just a glance and a  handful of words. She blushed, her face on fire, and stuttered, trying  to get an excuse into order.<\/p>\n<p>She couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find the words as he stared at her, his expression  gradually turning from awkwardness towards anger, and she knew in her  heart that she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been more wrong about him.<\/p>\n<p>His appearance now was a harsh contrast to how he had looked just a few  minutes ago and last night. The heat that had touched his handsome  features then, warming them and giving her the impression that she stood  a chance with him, and the undeniable spark of desire that had lit his  eyes, made her feel as though she had met a different person in that  moment and not the real Marcus.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps all her thoughts about him were wrong, even last night, and he  was right. She really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know anything about him. Her white knight  might just be another black one in disguise and she really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need  that on top of everything else. What would she do if Marcus turned out  to be another wrong choice when he looked so much like a good man? It  would certainly compound the growing notion inside her that she was  doomed to spend her life with a string of Mr Wrongs in an impossible  search for one Mr Right.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did I thank you for last night?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Desperate times called for desperate  measures. All she could do now was try to deflect his attention away  from what she had done in some dire hope of easing the tension mounting  between them.<\/p>\n<p>He nodded. Silent treatment was it? He was the first man to do that to  her, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to deter her. Once they were back on steady  ground, she would make her excuses and leave, and hopefully things  wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be too awkward between them whenever they met in the hallways  of their apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Was your coffee good?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Amelia looked at the white mug. He had barely  touched it. In fact, he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done or said much since sitting down with  her. He really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be here. Had he only agreed to coffee out  of politeness?<\/p>\n<p>Marcus lifted his broad shoulders in a shrug. He had looked so good in  only his deep grey sweat pants, his bare upper body on display as a  midnight feast for her eyes. She tried to keep her focus on the more  pressing matters of her present situation and failed, ending up  picturing him as he had appeared last night instead. He had an athletic  physique, toned and powerful but not overly built. The sort of body she  would love to run her fingers over and had fantasised about. The sweat  pants had barely hidden the muscular shape of his thighs and had rode  low on his hips, revealing a V line that had stirred all manner of  wicked thoughts in her head, as well as a treasure trail of dark hair  that her lips and fingers ached to follow. When he had punched Mike, his  entire body had come alive with movement, fascinating her. The way his  muscles shifted and moved with him, tensing or stretching beneath his  pale skin, had been mesmerising. It had taken her a moment to realise  that Mike was flat on his backside and that she should react to it in  some way other than gawping at Marcus.<\/p>\n<p>When she had taken him into her apartment and iced his knuckles, she  had put his body to memory, including the beautiful tattoo of angel  wings he had on his back. She hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figured him as a tattoo type so the  swirling blue-grey elaborate wings that decorated his shoulder blades  had surprised her. She had wanted to ask him about them but hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been  able to find her voice at the time, and asking him about them now  certainly wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help her cause, not when she wanted to ask him why  such an elementally masculine man had such beautifully delicate tattoos.  They seemed like a strange choice.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he was gay.<\/p>\n<p>Was that a possibility?<\/p>\n<p>Amelia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gaze darted to his face and her eyes widened when she caught  him staring at her chest. He quickly looked away, turning his right  cheek to her and taking in the people walking along the street, lending  her a view of his noble profile. Bi? He was gorgeous, clearly looked  after himself, and also kept to himself. Was that a bad sign? Amelia  frowned at her thoughts. She was overanalysing things. Just because he  was good looking and not interested in her didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean he was gay or  involved in a relationship, or any of those things that she wanted him  to be so she would feel better about his rejection.<\/p>\n<p>He just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find her attractive.<\/p>\n<p>He had said it straight. Stay away.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe she would do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia went to pick up her black leather handbag and then hesitated.  Flushed with bravery and unwilling to give up so easily, she fixed  Marcus with a hard look and was surprised when he turned his head and  looked at her, as though he had felt her staring.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is something wrong?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Not a trace of a tremble in her voice. Her heart  pounded, adrenaline thundering in her veins, but she held her ground. It  was a horribly personal question to ask him but she had to find out  whether his reaction to her touch was because he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want her or  because he did but felt he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t good for her, as he had said.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus stared at her for almost a full minute, the fading evening light  reflecting off the windows and his white shirt, illuminating his face  and chasing the shadows away. The edge of darkness his expression had  gained lifted to reveal something that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite warmth, but wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  icy cold either.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A slight frown pinched his black eyebrows together.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just you seem more out of spirits than normal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He gave her an odd look. It was the truth. He never seemed very happy  and now she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help wondering why. His warning to keep away from  him had brought back all the previous times she had seen him and the  distance he maintained between him and everyone in their building, and  now she wanted to know whether the man sitting opposite her was more  similar to her than she had thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>Did he go from one bad experience to the next too?<\/p>\n<p>He had to have a reason for wanting to keep his distance from everyone  and not letting anyone in. Was he afraid of being hurt or feeling  something for someone? She feared that too, entered into relationships  believing that eventually they would end and she would be hurt, but as  much as she tried to live alone and be the independent woman she wanted  to be, she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help feeling lonely and wanting to share her life  with someone.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief moment, Marcus had seemed like someone she could do that with, and this time she had felt it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t end in tears.<\/p>\n<p>He could have been her Mr Right, but such a man wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have told her  to keep away from him. That hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been in her dream of what would  happen today when she bumped into him. She hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anticipated that  response at all. She couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blame him though. Chatty old Mrs McCartney  next door had probably told him all about her poor choice in men and he  was telling her to keep away because he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to get sucked into  her miserable life.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia jumped when her mobile phone rang, the jaunty tune breaking the  heavy silence as it buzzed on the table. Marcus frowned, his blue eyes  darting to it. She wanted to ignore it, knowing that it would be Mike  calling to chew her ear off about last night and make her feel wretched  for the rest of the weekend, but the ring was so loud that people around  her were staring.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of answering, she picked it up, put her handbag on the table,  and dumped the phone into it, muffling the annoying ringtone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you answer it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Marcus stared at her bag. Amelia tapped the  table, cringing inside and wishing the phone would stop ringing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my ex.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ignoring him was preferable to speaking with him.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus surprised her by reaching across the table, fishing the phone  out of her handbag, and flicking it open. Amelia could only stare as he  brought the phone to his ear, his face set in grim dark lines, and  glared at the table as though he wanted to kill it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought I told you to leave Amelia alone?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He paused, his expression  darkening further and the muscle in his jaw tensing. Amelia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart  pounded hard and she wished she could hear what Mike was saying to  Marcus, because he looked close to going ahead and breaking something.  Anger radiated from him in strong waves and everyone stared as he barked  into the phone, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stay away from her because the next time you dare to  go near her, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to be so kind as to let you walk away.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Amelia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hands shook, her limbs trembling with them, and she joined  everyone in staring at Marcus as he clicked the phone shut and dropped  it back into her purse. What had just happened?<\/p>\n<p>He had defended her again when she had been convinced that he wanted nothing to do with her.<\/p>\n<p>His eyes met hers across the table and the trace of compassion in them  only confused her further. He blinked slowly, dark lashes shuttering his  pale blue irises, stealing them from view before lifting again to  reveal the full extent of their beauty. Warmth shone in them, a softness  that reached out and curled around her, filling her with a sense of  safety even as her whole body quaked with the fear that Mike wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  heed Marcus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s warning and would come after her again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let him near you, Amelia. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about him. I  will keep you safe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Those words, so softly spoken in his deep voice,  weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a lie. There was truth in his eyes and his open expression, and  she believed him.<\/p>\n<p>She just wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure what to make of him.<\/p>\n<p>What sort of man told a woman to stay away from him and then promised to keep her safe?<\/p>\n<p>Marcus was an enigma and something inside her was telling her to take  his advice and keep away from him, because if he turned out to be  another black knight and broke her heart, she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think she would  recover from it.<\/p>\n<p>She gathered her things, rose from her seat and hesitated only long  enough to catch the confusion surfacing in his eyes before making a  swift exit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Available in e-book from:<\/b><br \/><b>Author&#8217;s website:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel\">http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Guardian%20Angel<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle Germany:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle UK:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B005EUJIG8\/<\/a><br \/><b>Kobo Books:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Guardian-Angel-Her-Angel\/book-lVb0k7lC80OOiMBAOa-Ldg\/page1.html\">http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Guardian-Angel-Her-Angel\/book-lVb0k7lC80OOiMBAOa-Ldg\/page1.html<\/a><br \/><b>Smashwords:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/77776\">http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/77776<\/a><br \/><b>and the Apple iBookstore<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Available in paperback from:<\/b><br \/><b>Amazon.com:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1463788363\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1463788363\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to come back next week for the next free chapter of this angel romance novel!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"97\" src=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/images\/signature.gif\" style=\"background: none; border: 0px; padding: 0;\" width=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another chapter of Her Guardian Angel (Her Angel romance series #4) as part of my Paranormal Pandemonium 2011 Blog Tour. 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