Seek by Mia Sheridan

Author:Mia Sheridan [Sheridan, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2018-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Thomas

I made it a point not to avoid the bumps and divots on the road, because I needed to keep jarring myself not to pull that damn bike over and press myself between her legs like I was practically dying to do. Fuck, fuck, fuck. We'd been riding for half an hour, and I still had a hard-on begging for release. I moved my mind away from the way she'd tasted, the way she'd come undone under me, the way I'd felt half crazed with lust for her.

I looked back at Livvy and pointed ahead where the sparkling turquoise of the Caribbean sea had appeared in the distance. Palomino.

We were nearing the end, and I didn't know what the hell to do. I wanted to warn Livvy what she'd be walking into. I wanted to include her in my plan. But I knew that was fucking stupid—there was too much on the line here for me to start making choices that would ruin everything. The woman would wear the information right on her beautiful face. And her fiancé would see it in a heartbeat—hell, anyone would.

Fuck, it'd been so easy when I'd believed she was nothing more than some foolish debutante. I'd been okay with letting her live with her own consequences, whether she was being manipulated or not. But now . . . God, now everything had twisted and turned, and I'd landed upside down. Livvy wanted to rescue people because no one had rescued her. I understood the need, the burning drive. Hell, I lived it. But Livvy had set her sights on the wrong person, and she was going to learn that lesson the hard way. Damn if that didn't cause a piece of my heart—the one I didn't know I still had—to break.

Had she, like me, looked into the bright glow of strangers' windows, longing to know what it was to be part of a warm family unit? To belong to others? To . . . matter? Not to be the one always standing outside, cold and alone? Maybe. But this woman with the dreamy eyes still wore her tender heart on her sleeve. She still stood with her face pressed to the glass—her yearning transparent—whereas I had turned away, unwilling to be the one looking in ever again. Never again.

My heart clenched with the memory of the way she'd looked at me when I'd told her about the dogs, my mother, my uncle's cruelty, my aunt's indifference . . . The raw sympathy in her eyes had touched a place inside me I hadn't acknowledged for a long, long time. The people I'd counted on to save me had turned their backs. They'd looked the other way as I’d suffered. But as I looked at her, I realized Livvy wouldn't do that. Ever. The woman would fight like a wildcat for the family she'd have one day. She'd trek through jungles or across deserts; she'd risk her safety and her pride, never giving up no matter the cost.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.