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CHAPTER 3
REID
Lies.Lies. Secrets and fucking lies.
My Tauren—not mine.
Not really.
Not yet.
She was a goddess of the forbidden. The seductress of deceit. A little touch, here. A moaned promise, there. I never fucking saw the truth coming. And that’s because she hadn’t wanted me to. Even now, I wasn’t certain how much was real and what was all in my head.
Back and forth, I paced. Remembering. Seeing.Feeling.
Liquor sloshed in the bottle as I made it to the end of my small cabin’s living room and turned. I lifted my hand to take a drink, noticing the way it was shaking. I didn’t need more—I needed her.
I was drunk. Shitfaced. Fucking dying over here as I tried to push away how pathetic I must have sounded on her voicemail. Was she laughing at me? Thinking how broken I’d becomewithout her?
What sort of man fell for his sister? For someone he should have looked atasa sister? She wasn’t my blood. Deep down I knew that. But even if she was, I’d still be here. Pacing. Pissed.Loving only her. I was past the point of caring about morality. My humanity was sitting with my murdered mom. With the bullets and corpses I’d left behind for my country. Tauren was all I cared about now. Four years—wasted. Four fucking years questioning how I could have let myself fall like this. I didn’t want to love her, but I wasn’t a fool. I knew I’d never stop.
In the stolen months between us, I’d lost part of myself to her. No—I’d given myself to her. Every disappointed part of me that I’d hidden behind lock and key. Now that part was free, and there was no going back. I’d tried that. I’d tried everything to erase what was so cemented into my soul.
It was Tauren or nothing.
It was our love or a bullet.
She either was mine…or nobody’s.
I headed for the door, ignoring the splints and chunks of wood missing from when I’d taken an axe to the barrier that kept me secured and hidden from the outside world. There was no escaping this pain. No helping me. Tauren had to do that. She was going to make this right.
I turned around, practically stomping back towards the old fireplace. Pops and crackles still sounded from what were logs almost turned to ash. It wasn’t quite cold enough for a fire yet, but the heat reminded me of the desert, of past days, and I let it feed the anger that came from that.
A few more hours… Just a few… Until…
Liquor sloshed again, and the sound had me throwing the bottle right at what was left of the orange glow. Glass exploded, and I let out another roar as I doubled back. I pushed my hand into my pocket, fisting around my phone as I brought it back out.
Hours. I’d already been waiting for days. Who the fuck did he think I was? Emmett knew I was done playing games. He took my call at the police station. I told him I was back in town and wanted to see Tauren. I had expected a fight but was surprised when he said he’d see what he could do. First, he wanted to talk. He had questions… lots of questions. But he would work with me when we met in person. Soon.
Soon? When? Work…with me? Talk. To him?
My fingers fisted in my short hair. I hated that smug-ass fucking cop. I hated how he coveted what was mine. Protected her…from me.She was mine!What did he want to know? That I was the first boy she’d kissed? The first one to have my fingers inside her? The first to taste her pussy and make it mine? Did I need to show him that she’d never truly belong to anyone but me?
Icouldshow him.
My lids closed, and I swayed as memories bled colors over the earth tones that surrounded me. I crashed to my knees, dropping the phone to the hardwood floor as my head bowed. The scent of cedar and Jack Daniels was thick in my nostrils, but it all left me as I became hers. I could still smell the green apple shampoo she’d used not an hour before. Her hair was even still damp as I fisted it on each side of her head.
“Did I hurt you?”
Tears raced down Tauren’s face. She didn’t answer as she pulled me back down, lifting her head so she could meet my mouth. Our tongues massaged into each other and I withdrew, easing my cock back into her at a slow pace. Tauren broke from my mouth, gasping as her eyes widened and she looked up to me with surprise.
“Reid, I think—” She moved against me as I continued to thrust at a slow pace. “I think I like this.” She moaned, slightly shifting as her fingers dug into my back, urging me on.
“I never thought your party would end, or that mom or Frank would go to bed. I couldn’t wait to have you to myself. Eighteen, Taur. No one can tell you what to do anymore. We could run away together if we wanted.”
A louder moan had me putting my palm over her mouth for only a moment. I pushed even deeper, diving down to drink in her whimpers and pleasure-filled cries. She was so wet. So perfect as her pussy clutched around me. I could feel myself getting lost within her. To her.
“Once I join and I get us out of here, I’m going to make you so happy. We’ll get mom set up in her own place, and then you and I, we’ll be together. Like this. No one has to know anything. They won’t if we’re away from here.”
