Heartless Boys Never Kiss: A Hate-to-Love Best Friend's Brother Romance (St. Mary's Book 4) by S.J. Sylvis

Author:S.J. Sylvis [Sylvis, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

The silence in the hall was piercing as I crept my way toward where Tobias was. The dark wasn’t helping much because I still felt seen. My emotions were on lockdown, but the flipping of my stomach was near paralyzing as I heard the sudden jolts of thumping from Tobias hitting something over and over again. I could see him through the small glass window in the door, and I chewed on my lip as I let every smack of his fist against the punching bag hit me without force.

The angry scars against his back were rippling right along with the defined lines of his muscles, and the sweat dripping off him accentuated them like warning signs. One of his legs came up, and he swung around, giving me a full view of his sharp jaw and midnight glare. His dark lashes surrounded red-rimmed eyes, and my throat tightened.

Before I could take a step back and turn around, I opened the door and dropped my bag to the ground with a loud thump.

“Leave.” He was out of breath and didn’t turn around when the word flew from his mouth. “Get out.”

“No,” I said, taking another step toward him onto the mat.

Tobias paused, and his head fell onto the swinging punching bag as his hands came up and held it in place. My lips parted at the redness on his fists and the already forming bruises. “You are the last person that should be in here right now.”

I gulp, moving closer. You can do this, Sloane. “Why?”

“Because I’m fucking dangerous like this, and you’re an easy target.”

I dodged the obvious blow that he used to wound me and crept forward until I was mere inches away. Heat surrounded us like we were in a steam room. “You think I haven’t been around danger before?”

My hand was shaky as I covered one of his fists. It was burning beneath my touch, and he spun around quickly, yanking it from my grasp. His fingers pushed his inky, wet hair off his forehead, and his eyes drove into mine, stunning me for a moment. “Do you know that my hands have literally been covered in blood before, Sloane?”

I blinked, trying to hide from the memory of my best friend’s parents. “Are you just trying to scare me to make me go away? Because I’ve seen blood before, Tobias. You don’t know the things I’ve seen. I’ve been around dangerous people before.”

He threw his head back and laughed, the sarcastic sound hitting me right in between my legs. Why do I love the sound of his hoarse laughter so much? It was dark and dangerous, and it swam inside my head, making me think things I shouldn’t have been thinking. “Are you talking about the Rebels?” He suddenly grew serious again. The tiny, thin scar through his eyebrow disappeared for a moment before he smoothed his expression, appearing lethal. “Their hands are sprinkled with blood, Sloane. We are not the same. Mine are permanently stained. I don’t know why you, along with my sister and my father, can’t fucking understand that.

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