Sick Wicked Love: An Enemies-to-Lovers Hockey Romance (Savage Kings of Bradwyn U Book 3) by Rachel Jonas & Nikki Thorne

Sick Wicked Love: An Enemies-to-Lovers Hockey Romance (Savage Kings of Bradwyn U Book 3) by Rachel Jonas & Nikki Thorne

Author:Rachel Jonas & Nikki Thorne [Jonas, Rachel & Thorne, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-25T16:00:00+00:00


17

Ash

It’s certainly not the Ritz, but it was close to where we exited the freeway, and they had vacancies, so Mo’s Motor Inn is where Bird and I are laying our heads tonight.

She’s sitting on the edge of the bed, scrolling her phone in a daze. She hasn’t said much since we left Nora back at the facility, and I’m guessing that’s because coping with her sister’s death as a suicide was one thing, but to now question whether it was murder? I can’t even imagine what she must be thinking.

“Come here.”

She glances over her shoulder when I pull my shirt over my head, tossing it to the armchair in the corner before pulling back the covers. I turn off the lamp beside the bed, and then climb onto the mattress. She smiles when I pat the space beside me, and doesn’t hesitate to join me.

She’s sleeping in the tank she’d been wearing under her long-sleeve tee and a pair of panties, seeing as how neither of us packed or planned to spend the night in this small town. But the low visibility made braving the hours long drive home a hazard. So, we’re making the best of it.

Not that it’ll be so hard to enjoy a night of solitude with my girl.

“Talk to me,” I say, my lips pressed to her forehead as she snuggles into my chest, her nose pressed to my throat. Our arms lock each other in, and as her tits push against my chest, I swear our hearts are beating in sync.

“I feel… I don’t know what I feel,” she says, stopping herself from speaking her original thought out loud.

“Whatever it is, no matter how dark, no matter how ugly, you can say it with me, Bird. You know I don’t judge.”

She lets out a breath and it warms the hollow of my throat.

“It’s just that… I… Is it bad that I’m almost hoping Nora is right? Does that make me a terrible person, because I’d be somewhat relieved if what happened to Mel wasn’t just the result of a culmination of failures and missed signals on my part?”

I take in her words, letting their meaning sink in.

“First of all, nothing you could say or do would ever make me see you as a terrible person.” Her fingers, splayed across my back, flatten into my skin more when she grips me tighter. “Secondly, I get it. You’ve spent all this time blaming yourself, thinking you failed your sister in some way that led her to do what she did. And now, if she died at the hand of someone else, it takes away that possibility altogether.”

She nods against my arm that rests beneath her head, confirming that my assessment is spot on. “Yes,” she says. “That’s exactly it. And I hear what you’re saying, but… it feels counterintuitive to be relieved by the idea that someone hurt her.”

I squeeze her a little tighter. “But is it, though? Is it really that hard to understand why



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