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No one knew I was the sole survivor of that dark day at Tennessee Hallows College.
I’d lived when others hadn’t, and this was my second chance. I was just too fucked up to enjoy it.
Damn him for being so hot and such a great kisser. It’s like I’d formed an addiction in just the brief time our lips had locked, and now I was forcing myself through a cold-turkey withdrawal.
As pretty as he was, I wasn’t interested in breaking up the future of American politics. No fucking thank you.
I have a feeling that keeping one Evelyn Lewis safe is going to require a team.”
“Breathe with me, sweetheart,” he whispered, his husky voice close to my ear. “In and out, regulate your breathing. No one will hurt you. I promise. I will destroy anyone who tries.”
“There’s not a fucking chance I’ll ever be another notch on your well-used bedposts, Brodie Keller. But nice try.”
He had trauma in spades. It was almost bonding to know I wasn’t the only one super fucked-up.
I really, really needed to have a serious chat with him before I slipped and fell onto his dick.
“I’ll never lie to you, Eve,” he said seriously, as I sidled around to stand beside him. “But that doesn’t mean you will always want to hear the truth.”
“It’s not what you’ve done now—it’s what you’re going to do. You’re trouble, Evelyn. The others might want to play happy families and pretend you’re not our downfall, but I know fucking better.”
Damn actors and their ability to make you feel things that weren’t necessarily true.
“Jealousy isn’t a bad thing, Lilith. It just makes things…spicy. Trust me to manage my own emotions, beautiful.”
“Fuck, Eve,” he groaned, gentling a fraction as his hands traced down my spine. “Kissing you is destructive perfection.”
“Breathe. Be stronger than your demons, Eve. You can’t keep falling apart, you don’t have the luxury of it, and I wouldn’t rely on Ethan to keep pulling you together.”
“You were having a nightmare, Eve. I’ve been sitting outside your door for hours listening to you cry and scream, and I couldn’t get in to help you.
“Thank you for sitting out here waiting for me. I don’t know what I did to deserve you, Brodie Keller, but I’m fucking grateful.”
“I’m the one who is grateful. You’re the first real thing to walk into my life since these four assholes found me at youth camp. Don’t think I’m ever letting you go now.”
It was simple: she intrigued me, and she fit. With the house, with my found family, and oh so perfectly on the back of my bike.
Andrew might think this was a short-term assignment, but I knew better. She was ours now. For good.
“I think I’m falling in love with you, Evelyn. Like…almost fucking certain.”
“I knew I’d tame the brat into a good girl.” He stepped closer, towering over me as I drowned in his intensity. “You want to be a good girl for me, Evelyn?”
“Fuck,” Ethan groaned. “This is so wrong, but hell if it doesn’t feel completely right.”
