Ruthless Hawke by Gwyn McNamee

Author:Gwyn McNamee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gwyn McNamee

JACK

I can’t move…

And it isn’t just the weight of Isaac’s body on top of me, pinning me to the bed and cocooning me in his warmth. It’s the way this man has somehow managed to break his way into my heart and cement himself there, despite my best efforts to keep him out.

All these years, all the times I imagined what it would be like to find him, to be able to tell him about Viviana, it never occurred to me that I might see him and still have the same rush, the same feelings I did that weekend.

I tried to convince myself that it was all just lust. That my fun few days away I needed so badly back then had been conflated in my head and turned into something it never was.

Because how could that have been real?

How could a man like that be real?

But the moment Isaac walked into that office, the second I saw the same blue eyes Viviana has staring back at me, it was like I was back in that bar again, seeing him for the first time.

The more time we spend together, the clearer it becomes that he is that man I met five years ago. A man so loyal to his family that he was willing to bear the weight of their expectations in order to protect them. A man who loves completely. A man who beats himself up over his perceived failures even when things are completely out of his control.

Now, our hearts pound against each other, our hot breath mingling as we try to regain control of our bodies, and it might as well be that morning. When I woke and saw the message from Dad that he was coming for me. When I wrote that damn note and then stared at “Nolan” for what felt like an hour, memorizing every feature while he slept peacefully, expecting me to be there when he woke.

All the regrets I had that morning come rushing back, and tears begin to pool in my eyes. Isaac nuzzles the side of my neck and presses a soft kiss there, sagging even farther onto me, like he’s trying to melt there until we’re so entwined it will be impossible to separate us.

Maybe it’s working because even with all the turmoil swirling around us, a sense of peace finally settles over me. I have no right to be feeling it, not with so much uncertainty, with so many conflicting desires warring within me.

Wanting to have my own life, to go to school and be anyone else.

Wanting to let Vivi have her grandparents and the life she’s used to.

Wanting her to have her father every day.

Wanting to have him myself…

Finally, Isaac rolls to the side, bringing me with him, and wraps his arms around me with his right hand nestled under my cheek. He brushes his fingers over my temple, and I open my eyes and meet his heavy-lidded ones.

“You’re not leaving.”

I release a heavy breath. “I don’t want to leave.

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