A Very Merry Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #5)

by Lyssa Kay Adams

“Does it make me a bad person if I say I don’t really give a shit?” Did it make him a bad person? No. But it made him not him. “You hit my brother tonight, Colton. You. Who has never gotten in a fight in your entire life.” “And I’d do it again.” “That’s what scares me. That wasn’t you tonight. But this is what happens when you get involved with me. My family stains everything.” His jaw hardened. “If you’re about to say what I think you are, just stop.” “I have to say it.” She rose on an elbow. “I’m bad for you.” Colton suddenly rolled away from her and rose from bed. He towered over her, hands on his hips. “Let me make one thing very clear to you, because it obviously isn’t.” She gulped at the gravity in his tone and his eyes. “I am in love with you.” Her mouth fell open. She snapped it shut for fear her heart would leap clean out of it. “I am in love with you,” he said again, “and I would give up any amount of money for you. I would protect you a million times if necessary. All those horrible things your brother said, none of it was true. None of it. All I want to do is prove that to you. That you are worthy of love.” He returned to bed and covered her body with his. “Just let me in, Gretchen. Let me show you how I feel.” So she did. She let him show her what love was like. She let his hands and his mouth and his body teach her what it meant to be cherished.