Scorch (Virtues & Lies Book 2) by Alexandra Silva

Author:Alexandra Silva [Silva, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Christopher

The lounge is quiet as I step out of the bedroom. Anger and frustration ribbons around all my other spiralling senses. They spin, knotting like DNA. Strand for strand. Rung to rung. They meld until my entire being is vibrating, screaming for me to rid of the two men waiting for me.

What are they doing here?

Casper and Freddie are both looking at me with confused expressions. Like I’m a stranger. Or maybe like I have morphed into something they don’t recognise.

You have.

We all have.

We’re all strangers trying to hold on to what’s left of the people bound together by duty, friendship, brotherhood, and blood…

The voice in my head nags at me with guilt for pushing Arabella. For leaving her. For being a bastard when any other man would be doting and docile.

Leo was right.

That’s not what she needs.

And her words from earlier come back to flay my soul, tearing my insides with loath at myself for how I’ve fumbled to do the right thing by the normal standards the world demands.

You looked at me with your whole world broken in your eyes.

My whole world is broken. Because she is my world. And I won’t rest until she realises that. Until she realises that we aren’t two people bound together.

We are one existence.

Her soul is my soul.

Her heart is my heart.

Her blood is my blood.

The clearing of a throat drags me from my thoughts, but I’m still in that room with her.

I feel her apprehension pull me backwards, tempting me to sack all this off and torture her some more.

She lives for it. Her need is palpable beneath my fingertips. It coats every fibre of her being…and the harder I push, the higher it sings. Pulsing between us a staccato crescendo that will culminate in an explosion of wills and sex and power and love.

So much fucking love. More than an eternal lifetime’s worth. More love than an endless sky and bottomless ocean.

Inhaling as I run my finger along the seam of my lips, my mouth waters at her sweet scent. My dick threatens to full mast, and as much as I want to fuck Arabella, I want to undo her more. Because if she isn’t strong enough to show me her scars, then she isn’t strong enough to pursue our vendetta.

If she can’t face the demons between us, then she can’t fight the ones around us.

“Why are you here?”

Freddie looks at Casper with a wave of his hand. “It was your idea, I’ll let you explain it.”

Standing with a roll of his eyes, Casper moves closer, perching himself on the arm of one of the sofas. Freddie’s already made himself right at home.

“Well?” I press. “I’m not interested in late-night tea.”

“What?” Freddie purposefully takes a sip from his teacup. “You were taking your time, so I thought I might as well fill my reserves. Want some?” He nods to the cake slice on the coffee table. “Besides, we had to shut her up somehow…apparently cake is all you need.”

“You’re

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