The Good Liar (Infidelity #1)

by C.P. Harris

“I’ve had the pleasure of loving you through three birthdays, and you’ve been somber for every one of them. You’ve been somber since the day I met you, Jasper.”

Cole Kincaid. Even with his back to me, engaging with the wide-eyed vultures swarming him, I knew. Even with the obvious changes to his body during our years apart, I knew. To hell with my mind, it was my body that would never forget him.

“And I missed my brother,” he admitted, his tone held a vulnerability his stoicism would never betray. “Stepbrothers,” I corrected. “And we were never just that, Cole.”

Cole was an animal with a suit as his cage, and no forged piece of jewelry on my hand or legal document binding me to Daniel would keep him from what he wanted, if what he wanted was me. I couldn’t afford to forget that.

But I’d given him all I could give, because the rest of me belonged to someone else. And I couldn’t make the belonging stop no matter how hard I tried.

I loved him, and regardless of the lie I’d readily told him yesterday, I was still in love with him. Madly so. Jasper had a way of appearing helpless, even though he was the strongest person in the room.

He was a slut, a virgin, the devil, and an angel rolled into one. A case study in contradictions, leaving my cock hard and my heart soft as putty. I wanted to break him, and then piece his fractured parts back together again.

Hurting Daniel would win me no points with Jasper. Not as long as he was intent on only seeing the bad in himself. Until that changed, he’d continue to believe himself worthy of what he was receiving, which was nothing.