Gray Witch (Black Hat Bureau, #5)

by Hailey Edwards

“You’re not your father,” Asa said after a while of me staring down the road. The impact of those words coming from Asa, who feared that most of all, forced me to face him. “I love you enough to become something more terrible than I have ever been if I lose you.” “And you love Colby enough not to put her in the middle of what’s between us.” “That doesn’t mean I don’t want to.” I pressed my face into his chest and looped my arms around his waist. “I love her, so much, but you…” I tipped my head back. “I can understand why Dad did what he did in the moment. He didn’t want to live in a world without Mom. There was no world without her.” “You won’t make that choice.” He breathed me in. “You would never take that decision from Colby.” “I want to believe you’re right.” I turned when gravel crunched behind us. “But it gets harder every time I see your slacks lift and sculp your butt to ever imagine my life without that view.” Laughter crinkled the corners of his eyes, and he captured my mouth in a kiss that tapped his newest piercing against my teeth. “I never should have told you that.”