Risk: An Enemies to Lovers, Second Chance Romance Standalone (Brothers of Ink and Steel) by Allie Juliette Mousseau

Author:Allie Juliette Mousseau [Mousseau, Allie Juliette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allie Juliette Mousseau
Published: 2020-06-21T18:30:00+00:00

Elle

Present Day

I see him clearly now, the boy inside the man. The teenager he was. I wonder how I didn’t see it before.

That’s why, from day one, he was obsessed with my pendant.

His pendant.

Oh my God!

“Con,” I say and look back up at him slowly. “Like Con-artist or Con-vict?”

He smiles and closes his eyes for just a moment, like he’s savoring my words. “Either works.”

I still like it when that boy smiles.

“You’ve known this whole time?” I state more than ask.

He nods with an intense look on his face.

A thousand emotions crash over me at once. Tears threaten to well in my eyes.

“Connor.” I say his name as if it were the first time, feeling like we’re those same two teenagers locked in that damn room.

My first kiss.

At this moment, I want another.

I unlock myself from Lily. “Go play, love,” I tell her. She hops down and runs into the other room.

We’re not really alone, but I want to be. To say thank you; to explore the rush of feelings washing over me—and everything I’ve been feeling.

Everything has culminated in this moment: My fear and mistrust of Connor the lawyer. My interest, amazement and intense attraction to Connor of North House and The Core. The man who protected us on the mountain, who brought three orphans together without hope of reward and, in fact, probably put his career in jeopardy. He’s also Connor, the boy who sacrificed himself to give me my freedom so I could find my brother.

“Tell me what you’re thinking… please, Elle, I’ve got to know.” The intensity grows in his eyes as he searches my features.

“I can’t say everything I’m thinking.” I shake my head slowly. “It’s all too much.”

He doesn’t move. And I realize he looks… scared.

I don’t know why.

But it compels me forward.

I step up to meet him. I’m so close, I could see myself reaching up and holding his face in my hands.

God, all those kids are going to come crashing back into this room at any second. I keep my hands down at my sides.

“I have so many questions.” I swallow so hard, I’m sure he can hear it.

“Me too.” He’s breathless.

Our eyes search each other’s.

“Are you okay?” he asks.

“I don’t know.”

His gaze drops to the pendant. “I was trying to find a way to tell you.”

“I can imagine,” I sympathize. “The circumstances surrounding our reacquaintance didn’t lend you much of a chance.”

Connor’s gaze lifts back to mine, stormy seas churning in his eyes. “Sometimes I thought I was out of my mind, to think you kept it.”

“I never took it off.” My chest rises and falls with each shallow breath that I manage to take.

He steps in closer, his lips slightly parted. “Never?”

“Never.” My voice is a whisper.

Suddenly, footfalls thunder toward us.

“HOLY SHIT! I CAN’T BELIEVE WE JUST MET THE JACKHAMMER!”

“Watch your vocab, Brandon! Little kids,” Nicole reminds him.

“Who are you calling little?” Jackson’s voice rings above the rest.

“Max and Lily of course,” she assures him.

“I’m not little!” Max shouts back.

“I am,” Lily says.

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