Beautiful Things Evil People Do by Kailee Reese Samuels & Kailee Samuels

Author:Kailee Reese Samuels & Kailee Samuels [Samuels, Kailee Reese]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947362932
Publisher: The Sugargrove Book Company
Published: 2021-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

24

Blow Out the Candles

Jynx

“What are we doing?” she asks as we drive into Columbia in the early morning on the last day of July.

“We’re purchasing items for the special day ahead.”

“What special day?”

I glance over to her eager, smiling face. “It’s my birthday.”

“Jynx!” She excitedly squeals, “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I just did!” I grab her hand, wishing she would move back into my bedroom. I could push the issue, but we’ll both do better if I lure her out on her own volition. “I thought we would grill some steak and shrimp, have a bottle of wine, and spend a quiet evening together as I ring in thirty-seven.”

We are now fifteen years apart by the numbers.

“Mine is February 9. I’m an Aquarius.”

“I know,” I smirk, recalling hours of research I poured into this girl before ever crossing her path. The girl. Not her family or her past. I should’ve known about the viper pit I was treading into with Colton’s suicide and her father’s biker history. My faux pas. My fuck up. “Leo. The day is actually a present for you.”

“How so?”

I exit the highway and stop at the light. “You said I didn’t understand what it felt like to be you, so we’re altering that. For one day, you get to take the lead—within reason. No sex.”

She giggles, “Hard limit?”

“Very,” I warn, snarling. “Don’t push me on this, Ek.”

“I won’t,” she whispers. “But does this mean that every birthday I get to play Mistress Echo?”

I snarl, trying not to think about the future, which is almost impossible. One minute I want to hitch the girl to the altar, and the next, I want to liberate her innocence with an insidious act, only to ghost out.

I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’m fucked up, and she isn’t much better. So we take it, one day at a time, and I pray for a solution, knowing it may never come as a clear, concise answer.

Not clean or neat.

But very real.

Like she is.

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