Adrenaline: A Standalone Second Chance Enemies-to-Lovers Dark Romance (In Secret We Sin Book 1) by A.L. Woods

Author:A.L. Woods [Woods, A.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-24T18:30:00+00:00

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My eyes moved under my heavy eyelids, a stream of sunlight pouring in from the parting in the floor-length curtains, warming my face. An enthralling ache existed in my satiated muscles, my mind quiet for a moment more before it all came rushing back to me and dread interrupted my peace.

Last night, someone had been in my apartment, determined to kill me.

I stirred in the middle of the bed, and my foot brushing against Gabe’s. His loud, rhythmic snoring filled the room.

They’d made me forget about it all last night. I’d been weightless between them, and for the briefest moment, I’d felt like I’d gotten a glimpse of something I thought I’d lost.

Myself.

I hid parts of who I was for my family’s sake. Over the years, I’d tested the waters to gauge their reactions, but they’d never understood me, had they?

That was what made falling in love with Adam easy back then. I hadn’t had to lie.

And last night, Gabe and Vince had made me remember what it was like to be free again and feel safe without having to play within the confines of what was socially acceptable.

I missed that almost as much as I missed him.

Even now, with my eyes shut, my sense of smell plucked up the memory of him with each of my steadying inhales through my nose, inflating my lungs. The smooth sweetness of warm sandalwood, accompanied by sharp notes of ginger harmonizing with the tantalizing notes of smoke, heated my stomach. The scent provided me a comfort I tried to soak in before it vanished as quickly as it arrived.

It wasn’t real.

None of it had been real.

The incessant pricking at the back of eyes stung with the promise of tears.

Stupid girl.

I sucked my wobbling bottom lip between my teeth. I didn’t want to cry, not over him. It felt like I had shed an ocean’s worth of tears over the years for him.

Flanked by Gabe and Vince, who’d done everything to make me feel something again, I had nothing to feel guilty over.

Nothing.

But I did, and the feeling was insufferable. It wrapped itself like an anvil around my ankle and dragged me to the bottom of the ocean, where I belonged.

I shouldn’t feel like I had betrayed him.

It had been he who drew the lines in the sand.

How many times did I need to hear him say I was nothing to him? Yet I hated myself for wanting to be something to him.

Anything.

Just like I was back then, when he couldn’t take his eyes off me.

I sensed someone was watching me, my skin tingling, and I forced my eyes open, the rogue tear escaping. Vince’s eyes remained shut, and the rumbling of Gabe’s sonorous snoring filled the room.

I tensed, every hair on my body standing upright. There was only one person who could put every nerve ending in my body on high alert like this.

With the sheets tucked under my arms, I sat upright. Adam’s stoic hazel eyes stared at me dead on, the deep rings of purple like bruises under his eyes.

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