Kings of the Fire Box Set by Lily Cahill

Author:Lily Cahill [Cahill, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nameless Shameless Women LLC
Published: 2016-05-04T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Blayze

BLAYZE WOKE UP THE NEXT morning with his face buried in his pillow and someone repeatedly poking his side. He shot his hand out and grabbed at whoever was there, surprised when he caught Arryn’s foot.

He lifted his face from the pillow to find his youngest brother balance on one leg and glaring at him.

“Let go,” Arryn said, shaking his foot.

“Don’t poke me,” Blayze countered.

He let go of Arryn’s ankle and rolled over to glare at his brother properly. In response, Arryn backed up a few feet.

“I was seeing if you were dead. You do realize it’s after noon, don’t you?”

He hadn’t actually, but now that Arryn said it, the room did seem to be especially bright. Groaning, Blayze pushed himself up.

His makeshift bed was a pullout couch in Arryn’s living room—perfectly fine for a weekend visit, but he’d now been in Augustus going on a week and a half, and his back was feeling it. From the expression on Arryn’s face, he was feeling the strain of it all, as well.

“It’s great having you here,” Arryn said, shifting back and forth on his feet. “But…”

“But it also isn’t? I get it, Arryn.”

Houseguests made life stressful. Blayze knew that. Hell, Vincent would have kicked him out the day after he was supposed to leave.

He’d stayed for Ramona, but now Blayze could see how ridiculous he had been. She was his love, he knew it in the depths of his soul. The thought of her made the dragon inside of him stir in a way it never had before. It made him feel connected to the other part of himself.

But just because he was destined to love her, she didn’t have to love him back. Sure, none of the fairy tales played out that way, but they were fairy tales. They weren’t supposed to.

She’d told him about her fiancé, and she’d said she couldn’t handle serious. Neither of them started whatever this was looking for more. But when she’d pulled away last night, it hadn’t felt like she was just tired—it had felt like she was stopping something she didn’t want to start, stopping them. Because they both knew it wasn’t casual between them, not anymore. Maybe it never had been. He knew how to woo a woman into his bed, but how did he get a woman to fall in love with him? That was so much harder, and he had no idea how to go about it.

Maybe it was time for him to call it a day, head back to NYC.

“Finally giving up on that singer from the bar? I’m surprised it took you so long.” Arryn grinned at him. “I tried to tell you that you were wasting your time, man. I’ve seen all sorts of guys go up and ask her about herself, and she always turns down every single…”

Blayze’s face was contorted in pain. He tried to hold it back and remain neutral, but it was impossible. Arryn cut himself off, and Blayze knew his brother had seen it, and that he now knew what was really happening.

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