Page 5 of Blood & Honey
“Not exactly.”
“Your sister is alive, but if she comes back around.”I gather sand in my hand and fling it out.
“If she comes back, you’ll what?”
“I’ll kill her.”
“Why?Because she screwed someone else?I get it.That’s messed up, but to kill her.”
“She murdered my father.”
Thwack.
Ashley’s hand sweeps across my cheek with a stinging slap.“Liar.”
I grab her by the wrist, and she tries to pull away.We wrestle in the sand, and I end up straddling her.“I’m not lying.She killed him and Eightball.Gave them laced drugs.”
Ashley stares up at me, her eyes burning with intensity.
I loom over, every breath a fight for control.
Tears well up in the corners of her eyes, and all I want is to take away her pain.
“Shelby wouldn’t do such awful things.”
“She did.”I roll off her and onto my back.
She goes up on an elbow.“I’m sorry, Blood.”
“Me too.I thought I loved her.”
“We both did.”Ashley squeezes my hand and brings her lips down on my knuckles.
“Don’t.”I warn her.I’ve had too much to drink, and she’s too damn tempting right now.
“Don’t what?”She pushes the thin straps of her dress down off her shoulders.
“Stop.I’m drunk, and you don’t want this.It’d be a mistake.”
“It’s mine to make, Blood.I’m moving out, and we’ll never see each other.Not often.You don’t want to be my first?”Her lips meet mine, and I close my eyes.
“Don’t ask me that.”
“I’m asking.”
“I’m a man, honey.Of course, I want you, and I hate myself for it.”
She presses her lips harder against mine, urging me to give in to the sweetest sin.
One taste of her and I’ll ruin us both.
Chapter One
Ican’tbelievethisis happening.Rough and greedy, Blood kisses me like his last breath depends on it.I’ve dreamed about this moment a million times over the past year.I never thought he’d see me this way.Romantically.
Reality is better than any fantasy I’ve conjured.
Sand grits between my toes as he kisses me deeper and harder.Wet with lots of tongue, his breath tastes like liquor and smoke.He smells of asphalt and leather.
