Page 1 of Burn It Down
Prologue
I knew that night would happen. Of course, I knew. It was inevitable, as was the upending of my world that followed. The night had felt like the many nights we had spent before. Two months of sneaking around and lying to the one person we knew would hate this. Would hate us.
I knew him well enough to know he would forgive us both. We were both important people to him. Her more than me. Of course, her more than me, which is why tonight was never going to happen any other way. When your best friend catches you banging his little sister, who he warned you to stay away from, it’s never going to end any way but bad.
“Please tell me you are fucking kidding me?” Cage Cooper roared seconds after bursting into my apartment to find his sister, Gigi there. At 2:30 am. In my t-shirt and nothing else. The place reeking of sex because, well, we had finished round six moments before.
I wondered later if I felt the end coming. Coming home that night, Gigi waiting in panties and nothing else, I was insatiable. I mean I almost always was for her, but that night felt different. I fucked her all over the apartment, the dinner she made forgotten as I bent her over the table. Gigi just took it, just let me take what I needed and I wondered if she felt it too. Like it might be the last time I got to be inside her. Because it was.
Literally moments after washing her perfect body off in my shower, Cage was pounding at the door. Before she opened it, I knew it was him. I could have answered instead of her; maybe made her hide like I had once or twice before. I was done hiding by then. Gigi didn’t deserve me fucking her like an animal then shoving her into my closet.
Instead, I let her answer the door and both of us faced down a raging but heartbroken Cage. Charli Dixon, the girl who had him so twisted he missed our relationship happening right in front of him, had left him. Run back home after finding out some truths. Truths that I insisted he lie about. For her own good, I thought.
Apparently, neither Gigi or Charli agreed her good was what we were thinking about. Cage filled her in on some of my own truths. About what a whore I was before her, which she already knew. Without the gory details. The truth ripped her away from me and I knew it had been inevitable. Gigi tore away from me when I reached out for her and broke my heart. Piece. By. Piece.
“Don’t you touch me!” Gigi snarled before storming from my apartment and my life.
Cage was gone. Gigi was gone. The two most important people in my life were gone because I was nothing but a fucking liar.
