Page 46 of Torment

If only he could stop it. If only there was a switch he could flick off when it came to her, it would be so much easier. If he could stop wanting to protect her, to make her his, none of this would be so damn hard. But he couldn’t, and it finally dawned on him why. He finally realized why it was just too fucking impossible for him to walk away.

His heart was already in it. If he walked away now, he would be leaving his heart behind, and apparently, that just wasn’t an option anymore—not for him.

He turned around and called out, “Scar?”

She stopped, but didn’t turn around. “Yeah?”

“You were going to take a ride, weren’t you?”

“I sure was.”

He snorted. “Not stupid, huh?”

She turned and faced him. “Actually, I think I am. I might just be the stupidest woman in the history of mankind.”

“Why do you say that?”

“If I was clever, Ace, I would have never allowed myself to like you in the first place.”

Hunter lifted a brow. “Like?”

“Yeah,like.” She flicked her hair over her shoulder. “I once heard someone say that people like us are incapable of loving.”

Hunter narrowed his eyes, but then she turned and walked out of the garage.

She’d heard. Scarlet had heard what he told Baxter the day before when he got stitched up. Motherfucker, of course she heard. Just another sign the entire universe was against them.

Unfortunately for the universe, it chose two highly stubborn individuals whose lives it was trying to dictate.

“Fuck you, universe,” he said up into the air. “Fuck you and that bastard named Murphy.”

Hunter stomped out of the garage, but not before taking one final glance at all the impressive cars and motorcycles.

“Adam, you son of a bitch. You would have loved this.”

Suddenly, Hunter missed his cocksure best friend. He could practically here the bastard say,“Goldilocks, out of all the pussies in the world you had to go and pick the one that managed to get you into this huge bucket full of shit. Congratulations, dildo.”

Hunter snorted. Yup, that was exactly what Adam would have said.

After hovering around the garage for a bit, trying to get his shit together, Hunter made his way back to the house. As he walked up the stairs to the front door, the door opened and Colton came walking out.

As if his day couldn’t get any shittier.

Colton glared at him. “I was looking for you.”

“Sorry, soldier boy, I don’t roll like that. My dick prefers pussy. But I don’t blame you. Since you lack in the testosterone department, you’re looking to compensate with my abundance of the male hormone.” Hunter shrugged. “I get that.”

Colton stared at him, straight-faced. “Are you done?”

“Oh, I haven’t even started yet.”

“Okay, well, once you’ve managed to thoroughly convince yourself that your dick is bigger than mine, we need to go over the plan for tomorrow.” And then he walked back into the house.

“Oh, mine’s definitely bigger than yours,” Hunter said after him. “Plus, I have the balls to back it up.”

Ugh.Hunter’s comebacks were starting to get lamer by the second.

Fucker.

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