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“Fine. I put it there, hoping to get some dirt on your princess.
Fuck him
“I did it because that girl needed to be taught her place. As did you. You’re eighteen now. You’ve got a week, and then you start working with me.”
I could never escape that I was Todd Simmons’ son. Which meant I was half evil. Because that was the only word to describe my father. A horrible, evil, self-obsessed man. An abusive father and husband. The man I hated with every ounce of my being.
“Because this isn’t it. You’re what I want, Lacey Knight. You’re who I want. And I was this close to having you. I’m not giving up.”
“Then I’ll believe for the both of us. I’ll show you, Lacey. Every day. I’ll show you I’m the guy you thought I was. And that starts right now. I’m walking into that school by your side.”
I grasped both sides of the boy’s head and then slammed his face down as if it were a basketball. His nose hit the table with a crack, blood spurting everywhere.
Fuck yeah
Amusement danced all over his face. “You’re such a fucking firecracker. Please, Lacey. Will you hold my things while I go kick this guy’s ass?”
While Lacey Knight might not know it, she had the potential to destroy my sister. She had the potential to destroy me. That didn’t stop me from wanting her.
She was so damn bossy. But I liked it.
It hadn’t been since Lacey had come back into my life.
Yeah - back into your life. Plus his mom and the coach knew her from something.
She was sexy as sin when she was angry.
Because your uncle isn’t who you think he is. Because you’re not. Because I’m not. Because everything you think you know is a lie.
Knew ittttt
I slammed my lips down on hers.
Yesssss
“Shit. That’s my dad. They graduated the same year.”
I knew they knew each other dammnitt
“I’m good with whatever you want. If that means we bring Colt in on this, then…actually, that’s kinda hot.”
My heart and soul, all right there for her to read and destroy. Or to read and tell me she understood.
“Still here, Rafe. Still want your friendship.”
“Still want you.”
UGHHHHH
His kisses were everything. The sun and the moon and the stars, all rolled into one fiery ball of heaven. Or maybe of hell. I had no idea. But it felt wicked. Kissing him in this way would send me straight to the Devil’s court. And I couldn’t get enough of it.
They were soul mates, these two. There was no denying it, seeing the two of them like this.
I couldn’t have another person’s pain on my conscience, the way I did with Aria’s. I needed to know Lacey could protect herself. Even if I was the monster she needed protection from.
“I’m glad you did it,” she choked out. “I’m glad you killed him.”
I stared at the face on the screen. The face of the man who’d saved me from death and taken my uncle’s life. I knew. I knew his eyes. His nose. His lips. I’d kissed those lips just last night. Colt.
Because I lived right next door to you until you went away, Lacey. Unlike you, I haven’t blocked all that out.”
There was no forgetting your first love. And Lacey had been mine. At five years old, I’d loved her so fiercely I would have moved mountains for her if that sort of thing were possible for a five-year-old. And then she’d disappeared.
“I hate things that happen around you. Things you obviously don’t even know about. Things that aren’t your fault. It took me a long time to realize that.” He paused then sighed. “Fuck. What I’m trying to say is I’m sorry.”
That was always the way with the two of us. I gave her shit. She gave me hell.
If this was all we had, if I went back home and cops had my house surrounded, then this would be enough. This one night with the girl who had owned my heart for as long as I could remember.
She’s your mother!”
