Brutal (Pleasure And Prey) by AJ Merlin

Author:AJ Merlin [Merlin, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781955540230
Published: 2023-01-26T18:30:00+00:00

Collapsing into the passenger seat with a sigh, my head flops back against the seat. “I’m sleeping for six days,” I inform my serial killer as he gets in as well, oddly quiet. “I’m only getting up to eat pizza and feed the cats.”

“Why Malta?” he asks as if he hadn’t heard me. “How’d you come up with all of that?”

I open my eyes and look at him as he shifts into gear and pulls out onto the museum’s side road. “What?” I ask, momentarily confused. “What do you mean?”

“I was nervous,” he admits. “That was a pretty elaborate story to remember all the details of.”

It hits me, suddenly, that Wren barely knows me at all. Part of me feels like I’ve known him forever, even though it’s been only a few weeks.

“It wasn’t a lie,” I say carefully, fingers gripping my phone in my lap. “All of that was true, except for how we met. And, well, that I’m finishing my degree.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m eight credits out and not enrolled anymore,” I shrug, pretending it isn’t important. “But I really did go to Malta, and I really was an anthropology major.”

He’s quiet for a few minutes that feels like hours. Finally, he says, “That was amazing of you, Hazel. I knew I made the right choice all along, but that was just brilliant. Do you know how much they liked you?”

“Did they?” I ask, looking over at him in surprise. “I kind of felt like they thought I wasn’t good enough for you.”

“Not a chance,” Wren denies quickly. “Not a chance in hell.”

Minutes later, he pulls up to my apartment building, but I don’t get out of his car. I don’t want to, I find, even though I definitely need to. “Guess you don’t need me anymore,” I sigh, leaning back. “Though, I thought ‘alibi’ meant more ‘talk to the police’ and less ‘pretend to be your girlfriend at a banquet.’”

Wren doesn’t reply for a moment, but when I reach for my keys, he slips his fingers over mine. “Me too,” he admits with a crooked grin. “Guess I’m better at staying under the radar than I thought I was. Hazel?” I look at him and he leans across the console to pull me in for a kiss.

When he withdraws, his lips still close to mine, I’m gasping in the air I need, even though he seems completely unaffected. “Don’t follow any more serial killers into the woods,” Wren purrs, his eyes glittering. “I don’t think it would go well for a little bunny like you.”

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