Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)

by Brynne Weaver

“That woman you were watching…?”

“She is mine.”

“No one competes with Sloane.” Rowan’s eyes anchor on mine, dragging me into the depths of a navy sea. “She just hasn’t realized it yet.”

beef.

Here lies the accidental cannibalism

“Getting revenge for hurting my girl, of course.”

We’d better burn the place down

“Because I’d bend you over my knee and spank that perfect ass of yours until it glows. And then do you wanna know what I’d do?”

“You’re all the best things to me, Sloane. No matter how many bruises are in your heart or on your skin.”

“I’ve been suffering for four years, Sloane. I’m begging you here. Get in the fucking bath.”

“I told you already. Stop hiding. It’s not going to work with me, not anymore. You want this? You want me? Then fucking tell me, Sloane.”

“Did I get the raven you left on the table tattooed on my back?” His smile is teasing, but there’s a hint of shyness in it as he finishes my thought. “Yeah. Appears to be the case.”

You think I just like you when I fuck you like this?”

“I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.”

I detonate.

I weaponized her real insecurities. Even if I only said them to save her, cuts like those still run deep and heal slowly.

“I fucking adore you, Sloane Sutherland. I wanted you from that first day at Briscoe’s. I have loved you for years. I’m not stopping. Not ever.”