Blind Side (Red Zone Rivals, #2)

by Kandi Steiner

I wanted her. I wanted her so badly my chest had a gaping hole in it whenever I wasn’t with her.

A fool, that’s what I was. A fool who wouldn’t stop playing the game he knew he’d lose.

“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.”

“You want me to be the only one,” he corrected me, and fuck if I didn’t gasp out a weak yes in affirmation.

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