Melt Into You by Roni Loren

Author:Roni Loren [Loren, Roni]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, erotica, Romance, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781101569016
Google: xIDnlNoZgvEC
Amazon: 0425247716
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-07-03T05:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Jace sank onto the couch across from Andre. “She’s sleeping.”

Andre was sitting forward on the loveseat, his elbows on his knees, fingers steepled. He nodded, though he looked lost in thought. “That’s good.”

Jace ran a hand through his towel-dried hair. The shower hadn’t cleared his mind like he’d hoped. It’d only left him more worried. And Andre looked to be on the same mental path as he was. “Seemed like more than just a reaction to subspace, didn’t it?”

Andre sighed. “I don’t know. I’ve seen people get emotional afterward, but it felt like more. Yes.”

Well, wasn’t that always the theme with Evan? Everything always felt like more. More intense. More important. More special. He glanced at Andre, debating whether or not he should share what he knew about Evan. Share the fear that wouldn’t stop tapping at the back of his brain. If they were going to continue doing this with her, Andre needed to know.

Jace blew out a breath. “She used to have emotional problems . . . as a teenager. Maybe something like this is too much for her to handle.”

Andre’s gaze lifted. “What kind of problems?”

Jace held his stare. “The night I slept with her, I found healing scars on her stomach. Some old, some new. Deep cuts. All in a perfect alignment.”

Andre winced. “Christ.”

Jace sank against the couch cushions, the weight of the memory making him feel tired. “I was so freaked for her when I figured out what she was doing, and then I was so fucking pissed at myself for falling into bed with her. We were close then and I should’ve seen that she needed help, that she was lost. But I was too damn preoccupied with how much I wanted her to realize anything was wrong. Dude, she told me she loved me that night, and I fucked it up completely.”

Andre rubbed the back of his neck. “That’s heavy stuff to process, especially at nineteen.”

“We had this perfect night in bed. The lights had gone out from a summer storm, and the whole evening seemed to bring us to some other world where reality didn’t exist. But while we were lying there afterward, the electricity came back on, and I saw her scars. I panicked and backpedaled like a damn coward. Told her that I should’ve never touched her, that I had drunk too much and made a mistake, that she needed to tell my mom what she was doing or I was going to say something for her.” He tilted his head back and stared at the wood-beamed ceiling. “Then my parents came home unexpectedly and found us together, still half-naked. My dad kicked me out of the house for good that night and told me he would report me for statutory rape. Evan disappeared before brunch hit the table the following morning.”

“God, man. No wonder you were relieved to see that Evan was okay. It had to be brutal not knowing where she was or if she was all right.”

“You have no idea.

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