Even If It Hurts (Coastal Elite #1)

by Sam Mariano

I cock an eyebrow. On the face of it, it’s not a lot, but I have a feeling it’s more than he usually offers people. “Why?” “Because I want you to be able to trust me. How I behave with others doesn’t necessarily have to be how I behave toward you. You trust me, and I’ll never give you a reason not to.”

Entranced, I shake my head. “No?” His voice is low, intimate, but confident in a strange way.

He knows he’s taken control of me. He knows he’s my body’s conductor, orchestrating every flutter, every beat of my pounding heart.