Tarnished Vow: A Student Teacher Forbidden Dark Romance (Boys of St. Augustine Book 2) by R Holmes

Author:R Holmes [Holmes, R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Presley

If there was anything I had learned in the past few weeks, it was that no matter how far you run, life will catch up with you. The very thing that sent you running, will rear its ugly head and show you that you can't protect yourself with lies and untruths. They weren't armor to protect your wounded soul and battered heart.

Sebastian Pierce blew into my life like a hurricane, leaving nothing left standing. All of the unsteady, fickle walls that I had built up around my heart came crashing down into a pile of rubble at my feet. I couldn't take shelter. He was a category five and I was never going to make it past the eye.

I'd asked myself more times than I could count over the last few days if I was willing to risk everything, to blindly go into this forbidden relationship with Sebastian simply based on the feelings he evoked inside of me.

And the answer I'd settled on?

Yes.

The truth is I feel alive. I feel like a new, strong, determined, woman. A woman who wants to feel alive at the touch of someone else. A woman who is working every day to heal, to move on and to rebuild the life that was stolen from her. That's the woman I feel like when Sebastian's steel eyes look straight into my soul. I wanted to turn away, hide behind the intimacy of his stare, but instead I decided to jump.

To take a running leap off the side of a cliff not knowing what was at the bottom. To fly.

To feel alive.

It is crazy. I am absolutely out of my mind. But when was the last time I felt even a fraction of what I do now?

I know the answer.

I am terrified for the future, but at the same time more hopeful than I can remember being in the last years since I escaped.

A grin spreads across my lips on its own at the thought of Sebastian. A giddy, full feeling of happiness expanded in my chest, causing me to sigh. I have been lying on the couch for hours, devouring a book, with Hope sprawled out next to me purring away. Each time the hero made me swoon, my mind automatically drifted to Sebastian, and my cheeks would heat with embarrassment.

Knock. Knock.

The knock at the door causes me to jump, the familiar wave of panic seizing my chest, but I take two long, full breaths to calm my nerves. I walk over to the door, and peek through the hole and see Sebastian leaning against the post on the front porch, clutching a small package against his chest.

I wrench the door open and grab his shirt, pulling him inside. I slam the door shut behind us and lean against it, my heart racing as his gaze locks with mine and his brows raise in question.

“Sebastian.” My words come out breathlessly. “Please come to the back door. Someone could see you. I’m just… I’m scared for someone to see you.

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