The Worst Kind of Promise (Riverside Reapers #2)

by Celeste Briars

CRUEL SUMMER INDEED

Oh yay a taylor swift reference

She looks beautiful.

Well id definately date her over you

and I pass it off as a throat clear, which may or may not be very convincing.

It probably wasnt successful

“Unfortunately, yes. And none of the guys know that, so I’m praying you won’t say anything.”

You better tell his teammates

one that makes my dick perk up in my boxers.

Oop

You couldn’t possibly want me.”

Absolute fool

Why are you hitting me?”

Great question

“I can’t! I’m so fucking hard right now that I can’t think straight. You do this to me. No other girl does, okay? All of the girls I’ve been with haven’t held a candle to you. You’re all I ever think about, and it kills me that I can’t have you.”

Omg i love you author

“I think I can survive two days in the car with you.”

Sure

Is he on crack?

Lol

“Nothing makes sense when it comes to you.”

Awwww

Kit roughs his hair with his hand, the faintest groan catching in his throat. “Fuck, you’re gorgeous when you blush,” he says.

but oftentimes when I speak, I usually have zero recollection of what came out of my mouth.

Bro thats so real i do that so often

That’s like—at least in my eyes—the equivalent of blowing your load just from a girl giving you some over-the-clothes action. I can’t be a one pump chump.

Omg i love you author

She needs to stop being so beautiful.

Pretty difficult to do in the moment

I live with him.

Wait you live together? I thought you lived on your own

In the past forty-eight hours, I’ve confessed my feelings, kissed the woman of my dreams, and somehow lost her. That has to be a fucking record.

Nah ive seen it happen faster

But this…this has to be the worst mistake of my life.

And you guys still have two days of driving to go even though it should technically take you a week to drive from philly to California but still

“Flattery gets me everywhere.”

At least he knows it

“Not with me,” I say, but my pitch fluctuates to an embarrassing register. “I’m a hard woman to please.” A knee-weakening smirk strikes me down like a bolt of lightning. “I wouldn’t be so sure about that.”

Bro -.- stop being so cocky

the groggy rasp of her voice making my boxers suddenly feel way too tight.

God youre whipped

“That’s how you want to spend your summer? Inside, hiding away from sunlight like you’re some vampire, staring at a bunch of words?”

Hey >:(

“What do you read?”

Wouldnt you like to know

“It’s embarrassing.” I flap my hand. “I bet it’s not. Hell, you could tell me you read porn, and I wouldn’t judge you.”

Ok well then yea its porn

Faye grows deathly silent, evades my eyes, and blushes so brightly it looks like she’s glowing. Holy shit. My jaw drops open.

How are you not shocked

picturing shy, sweet Faye reading some of the dirtiest things in her books has my steel-hard cock stressing against the zipper of my pants.

Lol

“Mmm” is all I can manage. And not an, oh-that’s-so-interesting-tell-me-more “mmm” but a please-stop-talking-or-my-dick-will-explode “mmm.”

Omg i love you author

My gaze pirouettes around the room, taking in the traumatizing sight of Hayes’ wrists tied to the headboard and a blindfold over his eyes. Aeris, who I’ve grown to love like a sister, stands in a black corset, thong, thigh garter, and heels, wielding a shoe in her hand and huffing like she just ran a mile.

Omg author...

Aeris and my brother have been dating since September. Ironically, just like with Kit and me, it started with a secret. Or I guess a lie is a more appropriate word. Hayes made a questionable, alcohol-fueled decision one night, and he believed the only way he could better his image was to get into a relationship to show Reapers’ fans that he wasn’t the sleazeball everyone thought he was. Except his dumb ass didn’t tell Aeris their relationship was fake. But then, after a bunch of groveling and some pricey purchases, he earned her forgiveness. Now they’re living happily ever after together on the road to marriage. I think. I hope. I’d love to have Aeris as a sister-in-law.

So im gonna take a leap and guess they were the target couple of the first book on this searies, seeing as this is the second one?

“I see those anger management classes I bought for you haven’t been working out.”

Oh yea we already figured that out

Except Kit Langley is more attractive than any woman-written book boyfriend in existence.

Geez thats a little egotistical don’t you think author

I don’t deal well with change, which is ironic because nothing in my life has been very permanent. Boyfriends, parents.

spoken like a main character

“Tell me, G. How’s your sex life going?” “Great, thank you. I do it twice a day.” “That explains why your arm’s looking bigger.”

Omg :)

She flings her toothbrush to the carpet,

Wtf why would you do that now its dirty >:(

Mouth, meet brain. Brain, meet mouth. Next time, get motor functions involved and just fast-walk out of there. You don’t need to explain. Just leave. When one encounters danger, one flees. One does not reveal bodily movements in a last-ditch effort.

The space was small. So small that my ass got pretty cozy with his dick.

Oo?

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! WEE-WOO, WEE-WOO. BRAIN IS NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE SUCH SENSITIVE INFORMATION.

Lol

“You sound mad.” Three words you should never say to a woman. Ever.

Very true

“Fuck me?” His mouth hovers near mine, our breaths a kiss away from unreturnable, the bulge in his pants grazing the inside of my thigh.

Yea im sure youd like that

A shirtless Kit is an Avengers-level threat for women everywhere.

Lol

sometimes pee on the toilet seat—which is weird since I thought hockey players were supposed to have good aim.

Yea you would think

and I guess the tiny piece of fabric only covering my nipples could warrant some lewd stares.

Yea that makes his response much more rational

DON’T DO DRUGS, KIDS

But- but she just did

Faye’s made me soft—my personality, not my body.

Yea weve learned that real quick

Her choice in guys was fucking abysmal. I hated every single one of her boyfriends. Pieces of shit that didn’t know how to treat a woman right, let alone treat her right. They were…” He pauses, then looks me up and down. “Well, they were like you.” Hold up. What?

Wait what. He definately knows

Fuck. Am I hurting her? Leading her on to imagine this life that I couldn’t possibly ever give her?

Bro hes manipulating you so hrd rn. He definately knows you guys are a thing and doesnt like it

roughly turn KJ in his stupid hat toward me, and clock him directly in the face. My knuckles ache to hit him again, gouts of blood already clinging to reddened skin—whether it’s mine or his, I have no idea. And I don’t care. His head snaps backwards, and even Zaven’s inhumanly fast reflexes can’t stop me from breaking cartilage in another unrestrained hit. There’s a nauseating squelch of bone and muscle, followed by panicked shouts whaling on me from all directions. Adrenaline blots every sound out. The only noises I can focus on are the blood echoing in my ears and the beat of my heart resonating deep in my chest. The rage localizing in my belly kicks into high gear, prompting me to flick my hand out and re-curl it, but before I can give KJ a matching shiner to go with his newly broken nose, somebody jerks my arm back. “Enough!”

:))

My shorts are suctioned to my nether regions, and moisture down there is…a recipe for disaster.

Eww didnt need to know that

What I don’t hear is how difficult it is to be the one doing the heart breaking, secretly knowing it’s the last person you’d ever want to hurt. Knowing that you have to end things because they deserve better, or because they were simply the right person at the wrong time.

Thats cause it literally doesnt happen

Don’t get me wrong—I’m a douchebag. No matter how shitty I feel, I know Faye is feeling it ten times worse.

Well at least you know it