Blind Side (Red Zone Rivals, #2)

by Kandi Steiner

All my life, I’d felt the desire to think differently, to act differently, to challenge myself and the world around me. Growing up, I was left in the shadows, the unremarkable middle child in a stack of five annoyingly talented kids. I had two older sisters and two younger brothers, and as such, I slipped into the background of our family without much consequence.

I much preferred to be alone than to be in any sort of forced friendship, I was happy here.

“All you can do is focus on what you can control,”

“I couldn’t eat,” he started, knee still bouncing. “Couldn’t train, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t do anything other than make myself sick thinking about him touching you.”

“I have thought of nothing and no one but you since that night on the observatory tower.”

“I want you,” he repeated on a raspy breath. “And I don’t want to pretend anymore.”

“You don’t want to be someone’s muse,” Clay rasped. “You want to be someone’s undoing. And let me tell you, Kitten…” His voice rumbled against my ear before he sucked the lobe between his teeth. “You’re mine.”

“That’s the thing about love,” he said, kissing my hair. “It doesn’t need to be reciprocated to be real.”