Regretting Gabriel by Anna Brooks

Author:Anna Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reason to Ruin, Book 2
Publisher: Anna Brooks
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Cady

He’s been so sweet to me, and he was just so gentle. He’s just as perfect as I always hoped he’d be.

“And since you’re mine, I want to know everything there is to know about you.” His hand slides out from between my legs and rests on my hip.

“Can we put clothes on?”

He smirks. “Yeah. But let it be noted that I’d be perfectly fine with you being naked all the time.”

I roll my eyes and get out of bed. He does the same, and we both throw on the clothes we were wearing before, and then head to the living room where we sit on the couch.

He’s giving me so much, so the least I can do is tell him a little about me. “I’m not from here.”

His tongue darts out and moistens his lips. “I coulda told you that.”

“How’d you know?”

“You have an accent.”

“I do not.”

He rolls his eyes. “Let me rephrase. You don’t sound like you’re from here.”

“Where do I sound like I’m from?”

“Well…” He settles in a little deeper. “Not Southern and definitely not East Coast, so that really only leaves West Coast. My gut is telling me you’re a Cali girl.”

“Well, your gut would be right.”

“What made you come here? To the land of beer and brats and winters that hurt your face?”

I just spit out the truth without thinking about the consequences. “My stepbrother.”

And just like that, in a flash of lightening, his jaw is hard. “Why?” he clips.

Shit, what am I doing? He got to me. What he just gave me, in my bed and in the shower, it was straight-up beautiful. He sang to me, he gave me the beauty of taking my virginity, and I know it’s not fair of me to keep hiding everything from him.

He’s going to find out eventually, but I’m terrified that when he does, he’ll be upset with me for lying. But I’m not doing it to hurt him. I’m doing it because once he figures it out, and he realizes that I killed my father, his idol, I know he’s going to hate me.

“Why did he make you move?” I roll my lips and open my mouth, but he keeps talking. “What did he do? How did he hurt you? I’ll fuckin’ kill him.”

I shouldn’t like that he wants to protect me, but I do. I miss feeling safe. “I’m fine.”

“What did he do to you?” I try to get some distance from him, but he’s not having it. “What the fuck did he do to you?”

I wince when his fingers tighten and dig into my skin.

“Shit, Cady. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

“I’m fine. And he didn’t hurt me. Not in the way you’re thinking. I told you my dad passed when I was sixteen. Well—”

“Is your mom still alive?”

How do I answer that? Truthfully, I guess. “I don’t know. She, uh, got pregnant unexpectantly and was going to have an abortion, but my dad didn’t want to get rid of me.

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