Falls Boys (Hellbent Book 1) by Penelope Douglas

Author:Penelope Douglas [Douglas, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penelope Douglas LLC
Published: 2022-03-20T18:30:00+00:00

“Did you take ibuprofen?” she asks, fidgeting in the seat next to me.

“Yes.”

If there’s anything Hawke has a lot of in that place, it’s first aid supplies.

And food. I know where I’m going when the zombie apocalypse hits.

“Juliet says it hurts,” she tells me, “but it goes fast.”

I look over at her as we sit in the Zen lounge of the day spa, complete with a giant Buddha and a bowl of water chimes. “You’ve never done this?” I ask her.

I thought all rich girls were perfectly groomed.

But before she can answer, a woman calls us. “Ladies?”

We rise and follow the technician, who’s dressed in dark blue scrubs into a room, bamboo flutes drifting out of speakers from somewhere I don’t see. Two massage tables sit parallel, separated with a privacy screen.

“This’ll be my first time too,” Dylan finally answers.

I take off my jacket, another woman turning down the sheet on each bed.

“Remove everything,” the short-haired blonde one tells us. “Wrap yourself in the robe and then lie on top of the sheet.”

Both of them duck out, closing the door, and I kick off my shoes. “You don’t have to do it with me,” I tell her, seeing her shadow on the other side.

But she chirps, “I want to. You know, just in case.”

Just in case…

We strip, and I spot the shadow of her wrapping the robe around her body and hopping up to the table. I follow suit.

I bob my feet as I lie there, my pulse picking up speed. She’d texted me right after we hung up and told me to take a painkiller, but it can’t be that bad, right? People do this all the time.

But they also give birth all the time too.

“Juliet,” I repeat the name she’d said. “Hawke’s mom?”

“Yeah.”

Juliet Chase writes Young Adult novels about a world happening right under our noses where ninjas, pirates, knights, and other elite warriors still exist. It usually centers around young women finding their power and leading, no fear, strong, etc.

I try to picture someone like that raising Hawke, and how he is makes total sense and then none at all. Does he like her books?

“She and my mom are besties from high school, but I don’t dare tell my mom about this,” Dylan continues. “She’ll tell my dad, because she tells him everything, and then that’s going to be a tantrum I don’t want to deal with.”

“Your dad seems like a baby.”

She laughs quietly. “He’s set in his ways, but it’s more than that.” She pauses and then continues. “He was a right asshole at my age, you know? Now that he has a daughter, he knows he’d kill anyone who treats me how he treated my mom at first. I’m pretty sure he still thinks he doesn’t deserve her.”

Well, regardless of what their parents were like, it’s clear they’re a big family. All three of those men I ran into at the park helped raise Hawke. They must’ve done something right.

And Dylan, I hate to admit, isn’t all that bad.

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