Pitch Black (Until Dawn, Book 4) by J.N. Baker

Author:J.N. Baker [Baker, J.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

When we’d gone a good five miles through the countryside, away from ever-present prying eyes, Josh’s hand shot out and wrapped around my wrist, pulling me to a stop in the middle of a dark, snowy field.

“What the hell are you doing?” he asked, spinning me around to face him.

“What do you mean what am I doing?” I snapped.

“You’re fucking sleeping with him?”

My hand moved faster than he could follow, slapping him across the face with such force that the sound of his jaw breaking echoed through the darkness. By the time he dared look at me again, it was already healed.

“How could you even say that?” I seethed. “You know me—better than anyone else. Is that really what you think of me?”

Josh had the good sense to look ashamed. He scrubbed his hands over his face. “Fuck…I’m sorry, Zo. I didn’t mean it.”

My hands shook at my sides, chest heaving. “And yet you said it.”

He blew out a breath. “I know you wouldn’t, not willingly at least. It’s this damn mate shit. It was bad enough when I was still human and I ached for you daily, but now I feel like I’m going insane. Like, if I don’t get close to you, I’ll die. I feel fucking feral, Zoe. Everything in me since I was changed is driving me to claim you, even when I didn’t know who you were.”

He wasn’t the only one being driven mad. I needed him just as much and couldn’t have him, not fully. Not while Baldric lived.

“So, you just left?” I asked. “Without a single word?”

“I should have told you,” he admitted. He stepped forward, putting a hand on my neck and drawing me closer. His thumb ran across my lower lip and I shivered. “I just couldn’t bear to watch you walk into his room night after night. To watch you go into another man’s bed again when you should be coming to mine. It was killing me. I was worried if I stayed that I might do something I’d regret.”

“Like finally agree to help me kill him?”

He sighed. “Yeah.”

I put my hand on Josh’s chest, listening to the steady, if not slow, beat of his own blackened heart. “Look, Josh, as much as I hate him, Baldric hasn’t even come close to crossing that line with me. I haven’t been with anyone since…”

I couldn’t get myself to say it.

“Alec,” he tried to fill in for me.

I shook my head, biting my lip to keep it from quivering. “Since that night,” I whispered to the ground, unable to look him in the eye. Of all people, Josh knew what that meant.

Josh took my face in both of his hands, tilting my head up until I had no choice but to look at him. He searched my face like he was looking for the truth, but he had to know I’d never lie to him about something like that. The “accident” was the first and only time I’d gone that far, and it hadn’t been my choice.

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