Stolen Bride (Twin Swap Book 2) by Cassie Mint

Author:Cassie Mint [Mint, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Cherry Publishing
Published: 2021-02-18T18:30:00+00:00

Four

Reuben

I’m not going to manage this. I’ve made a huge fucking mistake. Every time she bats those big green eyes at me, my willpower fades a little more.

I’ll never get her to the safety of my aunt’s ranch untouched.

Not when Lily squirms so hot and needy under my gaze. Not when she sighs and melts into me like there’s no place she’d rather be.

I’m not a fool. It’s normal that Lily would be… curious. That she would want to experiment. Explore.

But I’m not the man for her to do it with. If I got my hands on her, I’d never let go. I’d own her, body and soul, demanding every last part of her. I’d consume her, and be entirely hers in turn.

Besides, it’s not me she wants. I’m just the closest man, and the only one she trusts. One day, now that she’s out of her father’s grip, she’ll meet a boy. Someone her age. And she’ll look at him the way she looks at me sometimes—like she’d die and go to heaven for a single kiss.

I clench the steering wheel until it creaks.

I can’t fucking think about this. It makes me want to tear this car apart, to rip the doors off with my bare hands.

“What are you thinking about?” Lily murmurs from the passenger seat.

“Karma,” I clip out.

The agitation snaking through me only builds through the day. We stop off in a strange city and ditch the car, moving the few supplies I brought into a new ride. I drop a chunk of my savings on the new car without blinking.

It’s worth it to keep Lily safe.

We go by new names out here. She picks the same last name as me, pretending to be my young wife just to torment me.

By the time late afternoon rolls around, as we drive along the endless coast road, the novelty has worn off. She’s bored. She plucks at my sweater where it clings to my shoulder. Then scrambles around on the passenger seat and rests her feet in my lap.

Jesus. I breathe in hard through my nose and will my cock to stop swelling.

“Where are we going, again?”

“I told you. Somewhere safe.”

She scoffs, and the sound makes my mouth twitch.

“Right, yeah. Because that’s a helpful answer.”

I flex my fingers on the steering wheel. Over the last three years, I’ve taken great care not to share too much about myself with Lily.

It’s a self-preservation thing. When I leave her at the ranch, I’ll already be leaving my heart with her. I can’t leave the rest of my soul too.

There’s nothing for it, though. She needs to know where we’re headed, and she’ll find out all about me one way or another.

About my parents dying when I was a child. Being raised on my aunt’s ranch. Leaving for the military, then spending every night I was at war vowing to one day come back to that ranch.

I’d been on my way there when I took the job for Lily’s father. I’d just been honorably discharged, and the bodyguard gig was meant to be a temporary thing.

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