Flock (The Ravenhood Book 1)

by Kate Stewart

I’d never return. But the infuriating truth I’ve discovered is that I’ll never be able to move on. It’s the reason I’m back. To make peace with my fate.

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The only love I’ve ever known or craved is the kind that keeps me sick, sick with longing, sick with lust, sick with need, sick with grief. The distorted kind that leaves scars and jaded hearts.

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My dilemma has a simple solution. From now on, I’ll say yes more often. To whatever and whomever I choose. Playing it safe my first eighteen years has

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Coming out and announcing I was the boss’s daughter was a stupid move, but I can’t take it back.

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Those were boys—find a man. These guys aren’t anything like the guys I knew back home. Sure, they seem just as arrogant, some of their routines the same, but there’s something oddly different about them. I’m wondering now as I peer at Dominic if that’s such a good thing. Sean’s smile comes to mind; the brilliance of it, the light in his eyes and the way he takes care of me when I’m around him, whether I need it or not, and it puts me at ease. Dominic senses my intense stare and barely spares me a glance before jerking his head to Tyler to join him.

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My first two weeks at the plant are bearable due to my supervisor and the extended breaks he grants me. Still, I hear the whispers of a few as I walk by, and there’s no mistaking the sneer of a group of women who more than likely hate me for my last name. One in particular, a beautiful Latina named Vivica, constantly eyes me like my day is coming. The news must have spread fast throughout the plant that I was the owner’s daughter because more and more of my smiles go unreturned.

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The irony is that because I’m with him, I’m managing to get by, and it has nothing to do with my last name.

selfish with my time, and sometimes about the things I want.” “Okay.” “But whatever choices I make, I work with, with little regret, no matter the consequence.” “That sounds . . . dangerous.”

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I do. I like doing laundry, because of Sean. He makes menial tasks a hell of a lot more fun, especially when he runs his crotch along mine where I sit perched atop a washer, leaving me wanton, wondering if it was purposeful, before his lips lift into a smirk.

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It wouldn’t be the same without her. And the assholes that own it haven’t given her a raise in eight years.” I swallow. “I couldn’t wait to tell you she was stealing. I didn’t think you would believe me. I almost didn’t believe it myself until I saw it happen.”

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can’t help but note the presence of a familiar tattoo on Eddie’s arm

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When I got here—and although I was pissed about it—I tried to keep an open mind, but it’s proven pointless. If I had to choose one word to describe him and our relationship, it would be evasive.” He nods and takes another sip of his beer. “And your mother?” “Absent,” I say softly, shaking off the threatening emotion and muster up a smile.

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says the shit many are too afraid to say and then tosses in some insight here and there that will stun you, make you think. He walked away from fifty million dollars, refusing to sell his soul in a way so

Right there in the crowded parking lot, feet away from the bar . . . We fuck.

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He’s everything I didn’t know I wanted in a man and so much more than I ever hoped to have. He’s considerate, thoughtful, and ridiculously smart, and my attraction to him is boundless on so many levels. With him, I feel lucky, like I won some sort of man lottery.

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We’d spent our time diving into each other with heated whispers. It had been a marathon of moans and groans, and I’d never wanted it to end. We’d had drunken sex, which was a first for me. I’d let my inhibitions go and

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“Your girl just rubbed on my dick,” Dominic says as if reporting the weather while he snags a beer from Sean’s bag, twists off the cap and flicks it toward the sink. My jaw goes slack and Dominic shrugs, “She likes watching me sleep, too. Thought you should know.” I shake my head furiously, tears threatening as I look over to Sean. “That’s not true, Sean, that’s not true.”

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“Even better,” he smears the frosting onto my face and chuckles darkly for a second before I hear the rip of a condom wrapper.

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a man seems too good to be true, he usually is a liar.

expect passion and butterflies, and one or two fairy tale moments. When we fight, I want it to hurt. When we fuck, I want to feel it with every fiber of my being. When a man confesses his love to me, I expect him to mean it. I don’t want to question the words’ authenticity. I want to be claimed and owned and ruled and possessed by love.

My father just admitted he didn’t love me. I wipe the tear from my face with my finger and study it. Roman Horner probably would have preferred an abortion to an heir, and he thinks an inheritance will redeem him in some fucked up way.

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“It’s as relaxing as a few beers to me. And if you relax, and don’t think about anything or anyone but where you are and who you’re

“Knowledge is power, baby. Strongest weapon out there.”

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Complete and utter bullshit, and the masses bought into it. All because the greedy fuckers couldn’t figure out how to tax it and control the distribution, they outlawed it. Now, all these years later, they’re using it to relieve people of pain, stop seizures, help treat incurable disorders with just the plant itself without the THC.

“You put me in this position,” I counter as I take the seat next to him. “You wanted me to take my job seriously. Well, this is me, taking it seriously.”

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“Used? Degraded? That’s you doing it. That’s you, baby. Not me.” He leans in. “Any judgment being passed right now is yours and yours alone.”

Sean to one side of me, Dominic on the other. Both are bare-chested in dark swimming trunks, and I’ve had a hell of a time ripping my eyes off them today, especially after what transpired this morning.

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Sean groans as if he feels it happen and moves to my other nipple, sucking it greedily into his mouth. Thunder sounds again, as Dominic slips his tongue past my lips, and thrusts a hand into my hair, kissing me deep, his tongue

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“Feels so good,” Sean murmurs, tensing, his orgasm close. I cover his working fingers with mine and in seconds, I come between our efforts, my eyes fastened on Dominic, just as Sean grunts out his release. We collapse on the float, our breaths erratic, limbs tangled, just

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showed their true colors. All of the pain I assumed I felt when they’d ultimately rejected a future with me felt empty, meaningless, pale in comparison to any experience I’d had with them to the one I had today and to the possibilities of what’s next.

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“You don’t find it odd that every one of these men has the same tattoo?”

You know me. I made sure of it. But this is my world, our world, and if you want in, you have another decision to make.” Sean speaks up, jerking me out of my reverie. “I can see I’ve blown your mind again. And not in a good way.”

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I’m too exhausted from the crash of adrenaline to fight, and he clearly is as well. He unbuckles his jeans and shoves them off, along with his boxers. The sight of him naked has my fingers itching to touch his body; my blood pulses more rapidly, but inside all I feel is dread.

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lying, and if I can’t keep a secret, it will cost me a lot more than a broken heart.

“So, I’m guessing reading is a hobby?”

Same

All the time. And you’re not as cruel or scary as you make yourself out to be.”

Defense mechanism