The Bodyguard (ACES #6) by Cristin Harber EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cristin Harber
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Stockholm syndrome did not exist. At least, that was the lesson that
Angela Sorenson should have taken from her therapy sessions. Her shrink
said it. Google said it. Even her mother, the all-powerful senator from the
great commonwealth of Pennsylvania, said it, albeit privately and in a
whisper far away from the press releases and news conferences that
occurred after Angela was rescued from her kidnapper; because, after all, it
wouldn’t do to avoid using crucial buzzwords that polled so well and
created sympathy amongst voters.
But no matter how often that supposed truth had been explained to
her, Angela didn’t believe it. Here she was, wearing a bulky bulletproof vest
during her weekly therapy sessions that required an escort by a bodyguard,
wishing she could snap her fingers and remove the puzzling parts of her
past that still gave her nightmares and tugged at her heartstrings.
“Angela?” Ibrahim, her therapist, raised his brows. “I asked if you had
been reading the headlines.”
Oh, she had. Even in her highly secure cocoon that was Titan Group’s
Abu Dhabi headquarters, headlines from the United States were hard to
ignore—especially when they were about her. Most articles included recent
photographs of Tran Pham, the man who had her abducted. Sometimes, the
articles used law enforcement sketches or AI-generated composites that had
been circulated when international agencies argued whether Pham even
existed. Until Angela’s rescue, he’d never been photographed.
Every image of Pham bothered her. None showed him as the man she
knew. He’d been grandfatherly and giving. Logically, she understood how
many years of her life he had stolen. Pham, the man who asked her
questions and learned about who she was, was different than Pham, the man
who had her kidnapped and kept as a political prisoner.
Angela wondered if Ibrahim thought she was a lost cause. Maybe she
was. “Well…” There’s no such thing as Stockholm Syndrome. There’s no
such thing as Stockholm Syndrome. Her feelings were simply an expected
emotional response to trauma. Her relationship with Pham was best
described as a trauma bond. There was no diagnosis to be made, and she
wasn’t supposed to let her years with Pham—years of captivity and mental
abuse—define her. Easier said than done.
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