Alien on Fire (Bound by Fire #1)

by January Bell

“I like your honesty.” “Well, I don’t like anything about you at all, so go away.

I could stare for days and still be starved for her.

“In your dreams, asshole,” she retorts. “Always,” I tell her. “Every night.”

“The part where I tell you that we are not equals because we are mates, Leigh,” I say her name on an exhale. “Because you will always, always be the one I look to first, the one that comes first… in all ways.”

“She went to your rooms,” Lyko says, the pair stopping their easy conversation as I glance around the kitchen. “She seemed angrier than a garwe roped to a wagon,” Ayro adds. “I wouldn’t have it any other way,” I say glibly. It’s a lie. It hurts that she hates me so much.