Bad Boy Prince: A Modern Fairy Tale (Twisted Royals Book 3) by Sidney Bristol

Author:Sidney Bristol [Bristol, Sidney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: modern fairy tales, contemporary erotic romance, romantic suspense, Series, interracial multicultral romance
Publisher: Inked Press
Published: 2017-05-09T07:00:00+00:00

12.

Freya pulled on Jaxon’s arm, treating him more like a human blanket. She liked his warmth, feeling surrounded by him. That, too, was new. She liked the company of a man as much as the next girl, but she also liked her space. With him, she wanted him close all the time.

It had to be a byproduct of their circumstances. Wasn’t it?

He shifted, mumbling something in his near-sleep state.

They’d moved to the bed, but she couldn’t find it in her to sleep. Uncomfortable thoughts and feelings were knocking around inside of her.

Why was Jaxon here?

Why would a man she’d never actually gone on a date with drop everything to save her? People didn’t do that. This wasn’t a fairy tale. This was her life.

Good guys held the door for a person, they shared their umbrellas, offered to get a cab. They didn’t put their lives on the line for someone else unless...unless that person in danger was someone they cared about. Deeply. Probably even loved.

Freya swallowed.

Did Jaxon think he loved her? Was that why he was here?

She’d told him she couldn’t love, that she didn’t believe in it.

She stroked his forearm, wrapped around her chest. His warm breath stirred her hair every couple of seconds.

Freya cared for Jaxon. He’d interested her when not much else had. But...love?

The only meaningful connection Freya had experienced in her life was with her mother. Even the relationship she had with her sister wasn’t always healthy. Michelle had issues, she took more than she gave, and she was manipulative. But Freya still cared her sister. Felt responsible for her. Things would always be lopsided with them.

How could someone Freya had just met, who’d been in or around her life for just a little while, care so deeply for her?

Okay, they’d been acquaintances for a year. They’d hung out in the same circles. She’d seen him anywhere from four to seven days a week. He’d been a constant in her life. Always there. A comforting, familiar presence she’d gravitated toward.

She’d liked his smile, his quiet strength. And then he’d opened his mouth. Jaxon was more than a bouncer or a thug. He was smart, even if he didn’t see that himself. For her, that first time he’d begun discussing anatomy with her as part of a weird, crazy conversation about the impact of party drugs she’d just... She’d wanted to go out with him. Under that swag, under the appearance of just another club guy, he was more. And she’d been drawn to that.

He couldn’t love her.

She couldn’t love him.

That was crazy.

She could care for him. She did. But love?

She didn’t believe in love.

Look at what so-called love had done to her family. Her father loved the idea of her mother. Her mother had liked their father, but she hadn’t loved him.

Did she even know what love was?

She’d dated plenty in college, looking for something more, for that fairy tale romance every girl but her seemed to luck into, but all she’d found were people interested in her name.

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