Page 42 of Aftertaste

I told him about his fucking sister and about how she gave me up to the cops because of the lying cunt I kept in my house.

The one I provided for, loved like I had never loved anyone before in my life; the one that turned on me when the opportunity presented itself.

And when he left Irongate, he knew that he would have to fulfill his mission. He didn’t have a choice. Akira reminded him that there are many like “us” all over Los Angeles and if Snow hadn’t been dealt with within the year, he’d have to pay the price for her.

Sariah too.

As I glance at the cards in my hand, I suddenly feel my luck starting to change.

Fuck karma.

I have someone out there ready to get them both for me.

And until the moment comes that I can walk out of the gates and piss on their graves for doing this to me, I’ll wait with the fire of vengeance burning in my heart.

“I call,” I say to Benjiro with a big smile on my face.

Luck is on my side, even if time isn’t.

And if Hudson fails?

Well, I’ll have plenty of time with my new brothers here to figure out a way to get those bitches back myself.

Rivalry

A. A. Davies

BLURB

One look.

One touch.

One decision that would change everything.

Two worlds collided the moment I laid eyes on her. I’d never known that all consuming feeling until the moment Sage came into my life.

We came from opposite worlds, but I didn’t care. The bridge that separated the two sides of our town was just a roadblock I could speed through.

She was my new obsession and I was her perfect Storm.

I refused to give up.

Until buried secrets were exposed.

I was always meant to love her, I just wasn’t sure in what way.

Mansion Paradise

Sage

“I’m not sure about this, Thalia.” I bit down on my bottom lip as we drove past houses that became bigger and bigger, each one grander than the one before it. I’d never been to this side of town—never wanted to—but when Thalia had a bee in her bonnet, there was no stopping her. And tonight, that bee was her attending the prep school party.

“It’ll be fun, Sage.” She flicked her gaze at me where I was sitting in the passenger seat of her beat up Corolla, then looked back at the road ahead. “You only live once, right?” I grumbled under my breath, but it didn’t deter her from continuing, “You can’t live inside the pages of your textbooks all the time, Sage. You need to get out and have some damn fun!”

She wasn’t wrong, but this didn’t seem like fun, at least, not to me anyway. I was nervous. My palms were sweaty, my legs shaking and causing the car to move along with them. These houses were so much different to the two-bedroom apartment me and my mom lived in on the other side of town—the poor side.

“Here though?” I asked, staring out the window, my gut churning as I saw all of the parked cars. They weren’t like the cars that sat in the small lot at the public school I’d gone to since freshman year. No. These were shinier, newer, and a hell of a lot more expensive. “How do you even know about this party?”

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