Deceit (Gallows Hill, #1)
Rate it:
Open Preview
Read between August 16 - August 18, 2025
61%
Flag icon
Then again, she came to me so easily yesterday, crawling on top of me and falling asleep like I was her safeguard. It was easily the best night of my life, and I didn’t even get a wink of sleep.
62%
Flag icon
“I’d tear through your precious virginity so fast, you wouldn’t get the chance to breathe the word no.”
62%
Flag icon
“So, yeah. The jeans stay on,”
62%
Flag icon
“I have a boyfriend,”
62%
Flag icon
“You have two last time I checked.”
62%
Flag icon
“Yeah, I do. I…probably shouldn’t be lying in...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
62%
Flag icon
“Probably...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
62%
Flag icon
“Are you going to let me go?” “No.” “No?” I question. “Yeah, no.”
62%
Flag icon
“But I don’t think Liam and Ronan—” “Aren’t here right now. They are off doing fuck knows what for the Brethren, while there is a predator out there harassing you. Their priorities are fucked.”
62%
Flag icon
“Fuck you. They don’t even know abou...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
62%
Flag icon
“You haven’t tol...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
62%
Flag icon
“But you to...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
63%
Flag icon
Skyla: You, Ronan and a forever replenishing magic buffet. That way I could have
63%
Flag icon
my guys with me, and we would never run out of food. We could live fat and happy forever.
63%
Flag icon
Me: Your guys, baby? I like that. I’d happily be stuck on an island with you for the rest of my life...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
63%
Flag icon
“Out of all people, I never would have thought that you could do this to me.”
63%
Flag icon
“What exactly have I done to you, Asher? You don’t care for Skyla. You can’t stand her. I’m sorry I fell in love with her, really. I am. How do you think I feel? I’m in love with a woman who I will never be able to fully have. I have this piece with her now, but she’s marrying my fucking nephew. I’ll lose her one day, we both
63%
Flag icon
w...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
63%
Flag icon
“How do you think we feel, knowing that we will have to stand there and watch you take the woman we love as your wife while we don’t get ...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
63%
Flag icon
“I don’t give a fuck! You could have had anyone but my fiancée. Do you know what will happen if my dad finds out? He’ll kill us all, your p...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
63%
Flag icon
“Don’t call her that, Asher. That’s your ...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
63%
Flag icon
“What would you call a woman dating two men at the same fucking time? Hell, I’m sure there are more. With you two out of town, I’m sure she has the next one ...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
64%
Flag icon
“What’s going on is I’m engaged to a stupid fucking whore!”
64%
Flag icon
“Say that again, Putnam. I dare you.”
64%
Flag icon
“Fucking hell. I was just joking in the car about her having another man on the side. I didn’t think she actually would. You get around pretty well for a little virgin, Princess. Though, I’m sure after a night with Griggs, you’re the furthest thing from one now.”
64%
Flag icon
“It’s not what you’re thinking. He’s only trying to protect me.” “Oh, he looked like he was guarding your pussy real well from where I’m standing,”
64%
Flag icon
“Baby…”
64%
Flag icon
“Did he touch you, b...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
64%
Flag icon
“She has a stalker. They’ve been leaving her poems and gifts since her first day here. I’ve been watching her for weeks and I haven’t been able to track them down.”
65%
Flag icon
“There are other…societies out there. Other…groups. Ones that may want to get to you.” She frowns. “Why?” “Because you’re marrying me, Princess,”
65%
Flag icon
“Because you’re important to the Brethren. Your marriage to Asher is the start of the next generation. Your pure bloodline makes you the perfect bride, and the perfect target to those wishing to weaken our bonds and traditions.”
65%
Flag icon
“I thought the Brethren weren't a cult, this is feeling very cultish.” “It’s not,” Asher, Liam and I say simultaneo...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
65%
Flag icon
“It’s complicated.” “And you can’t uncomplicate it,”
65%
Flag icon
“And then…we wait for them to make a move,”
65%
Flag icon
Everyone knows that the Parris Princess has an expiration date on her head. They always do. Women rarely last in the inner circle, hence why, almost none of the Elders are still married. They get married out of tradition, have a kid or two, and then poof. They are gone.
66%
Flag icon
Seeing her in my clothes provokes something carnal inside of me. The urge
66%
Flag icon
to keep her dressed in me forever is suddenly an overwhelming need.
66%
Flag icon
My own little backpack.
66%
Flag icon
“This isn’t the first time you’ve seen my tattoos, Siren,” I remind her. She shakes her head. “They’re just so…pretty.”
67%
Flag icon
“Why do you call me, Siren?”
67%
Flag icon
“You’re entrancing. Like a mythical creature dwelling in bodies of water, luring men to their death just for a look at you.”
67%
Flag icon
“That’s how you see me?” “That’s how ever...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
67%
Flag icon
“I thought you despised me. You acted like you hated me.”
67%
Flag icon
“Don’t you know the line between hatred and obsession is extremely thin?”
67%
Flag icon
want to break her in half and then kiss the pieces back together.
67%
Flag icon
I want her to bear my mark. I want the world to know that she is mine and I am hers.
67%
Flag icon
“I’m with Ronan and Liam. I can’t….we can’t…I—” “Do you want me, Siren?”
67%
Flag icon
“I can’t,” she practically whimpers, like it pains her to say it as she closes her eyes.
67%
Flag icon
“Do. You. Want. Me?”
67%
Flag icon
“Yes,” she breathes out softly.