On Thin Ice (Arctic Titans of Northwood U Book 6) by Hayden Hall

Author:Hayden Hall [Hall, Hayden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

Jordan

That just wasn’t something I would accept.

For one moment in the night, his lips had been on mine, and the world hadn’t fallen apart. In fact, the world had never been in a better shape. Everything had fallen into place in ways I hadn’t dared to hope for.

But I hoped.

In those few heartbeats, so many wild hopes roared to life within me that I couldn’t hold them back anymore. Years of holding it together had cost me the kind of strength I hadn’t been prepared to spend. There was no way I could cage the feelings that had escaped their confines. I couldn’t put a leash on them anymore.

Even if he was too scared to admit it now, he felt the same. Nobody had been so eager to kiss me and feel me before. I’d had my fair share of action to keep myself distracted from my little stepbrother, but the few moments I had spent with him obliterated every joy I had ever felt with other people. Nothing could compare to the electric current that coursed between us.

He had to see that.

He had to understand.

And I would protect him from all harm. I would swear to him.

As I walked across my room and stepped outside for a breath of fresh air on the balcony, my resolve strengthened. Yes, our parents were married. Yes, he was my stepbrother on paper. And no, we would never be able to hide it. Not for the rest of our lives, at least. But nothing was going to stop me from trying.

The little joys we had shared in these few short days of privacy had been the sweetest prelude to a passionate moment — one that ended too soon.

I leaned against the balcony balustrade and closed my eyes. Asher’s little pout emerged from the darkness. I wanted to kiss it away like I had the other night. And when I opened my eyes, I looked at the very patch of grass where I’d had him pinned down, gloriously topless, devastatingly hot.

I clenched my teeth and balled my fists.

It wasn’t going to end like this.

Since the very first time I felt the pulse of attraction for him, I had done everything in my power to kill those feelings. I had given him up. I had settled for looking at him when he couldn’t see me.

But that was all gone now. What we had done was impossible to change. And I couldn’t accept any less. My heart wanted to tear into shreds, to pound out of my chest, to sink into my stomach.

I slept, although he was in my thoughts when I woke up. It was like he hadn’t left. Another thing that hadn’t gone anywhere was my resolve. If anything, it had hardened overnight.

I tossed on my loose, billowy T-shirt without sleeves, a pair of cargo shorts, and my brown sandals. It was a casual enough combo, but I must have known, deep down, that there was more to it. When I joined Dad, Eileen,

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