Neat (Becker Brothers, #2)

by Kandi Steiner

“You want to read one of my books?” “I do. In fact, I want to read your favorite one. You said we should get to know each other better, right?” I shrugged. “I imagine reading your favorite book is a good place to start.”

“There’s just something about a boy with a book in his hands.”

I hated her. I wanted her. I needed her to leave. I longed for her to stay. The

“You want to kiss me, don’t you, Logan Becker?”

Maybe if I didn’t point it out, if I didn’t say a word, I could just stay there. Stay the night. Stay forever. And maybe, if I played my cards right, I could get her to stay, too.

“I see the first woman to steal my heart, and the only woman I ever want to keep it.”

“Do you think there’s a universe that exists where you could be mine?” Her eyelids fluttered open, and she turned in my arms. Even in the dark, those blue eyes of hers shone, and she locked them on mine, one hand crawling up to frame my face, sliding back into my hair, pulling me closer, her lips brushing mine when she gave her answer. “Let’s make one.”

“I was so blinded by you that I couldn’t see,” he whispered, his voice shaking. “All I wanted was to love you. Nothing else mattered. And now…” he swallowed. “Now, I’ve lost everything. Including you — and I never even had you at all, did I?”

When we fell, we fell hard. When we loved, we loved with all we had. When we fought, we fought until we dropped. And when one of us was knocked down, the whole team stopped everything to get them back on their feet. That was the Becker way.

“He looked at her the way I look at you,” I explained easily, moving her hair away from her face. “Like forever was sitting right there in her eyes.”