The Isolation Series: Books 1-3 by Taylor Brooke

Author:Taylor Brooke [Brooke, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

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Gabriel couldn’t sleep.

She’d spent all day looking for Julian, but every time she got close to his training room, she was redirected. Her back cracked as she shifted her hips against the soft sheets and blinked at the shadows that covered the door of their bathroom. The quiet was stagnant, a force that smothered whatever conversation her and Dawson might have on the night before their debut.

The bed dipped. Dawson sat upright, rubbing his temples with his thumb and two fingers. She rolled over just enough to peer at his back, the sculpted muscular frame that held him together, long neck, broad, rounded shoulders. The urge to reach out and touch him tickled her skin, but as she opened her mouth to say something, anything, his voice cut the room in half.

“I love you,” he said, easily and without pause. The words flew off his lips, but they were like stone pebbles, cold and small, falling out of his mouth.

Her heart skipped. The mechanism that kept it beating may as well have faltered. She whipped around to face him and sat up, the sheets pooling around her waist. She’d hoped that when this happened, when they finally came back together, it might feel different—like flying rather than falling, or like bursting rather than breaking.

When he said it: I love you, it sounded like he was telling her of an ailing disease. I have cancer. I’m going to die. I’ve given up. They were all admittance interchangeable with Dawson’s I love you.

“I don’t want to,” he added, shrugging one shoulder. “But I can’t stop, I guess. I’ve been trying to. Every night I tell myself that you’re going to betray us all, that one day I’ll wake up, you’ll be gone, and we’ll be in different facilities. Sometimes I think you’re going to steal my friends and separate us just to prove a point.”

Gabriel swallowed. Her eyes burned. She stared at the bed. “I’m glad you think so highly of me.”

“What did you expect?”

“They’re my friends too,” she snapped.

Dawson turned and flopped down on the bed, slung an arm around her shoulder and dragged her with him. She scowled and scooted away, but he latched a hand on her hip and pulled her in against his chest. Her cheek brushed his chin, the tips of their noses bumped, and Gabriel squirmed. They hadn’t been this close since before the Sacrifice Mimicking. Somehow it didn’t feel close at all.

“Stop,” Dawson sighed, irritated and tired. He held on to her as she tried to twist out of his reach. “Is it too late? Did we let it go for too long?”

“Let what go?” Gabriel mumbled. A delicate pink blush crept down her neck from the center of her cheeks.

Dawson leaned forward and kissed her, his lips swooping down against hers, but as soon as they connected, Gabriel found that her struggle came screeching to a halt. Her mouth parted, allowing him room to do as he pleased, deepening the kiss, roughing up her plump lips with his teeth, hands grabbing for her beneath the sheets.

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