Torn (All Torn Up #1)

by Carian Cole

I don’t want to hide my feelings anymore, so I embrace this moment of new bravery. “Oh yeah?” His voice is low and sexy, and it does indescribable things to my insides. “Who am I?” “Did you forget?” I ask playfully, leaning a little closer to him, his hand on my neck pulling me forward, gently coaxing me even closer. “You’re the man I’m going to marry someday.” “Fuck.” He exhales the word and pulls my lips down to his, and our second collision is just as amazing as the first—slow, tantalizing, and consuming.

“Why all the questions, Toren?” “I’m curious. I met someone younger…” Her ice-blue eyes home in on me like two bright beacons cutting through fog. “Holy shit,” she breathes out slowly. “It finally happened.” “What?” “You and Kenzi Valentine. I knew it!” She smacks her palm down on the table triumphantly. “I always knew something was there between you two.”

“If you guys do somehow make this work, it’s wicked romantic. For you to be her first and only for her entire life? That’s just crazy awesome.

Somewhere in hell, Satan has just pulled out a bag of marshmallows and is roasting them in my honor.

“I want you to stay the fuck away from my daughter.” I shake my head, refusing to back down. “That’ll never happen. I’ll never let her go, Ash. I love you like a brother, man, and I want to fix this shit with us. But I’ll never give her up. I love her too much.”