The Heart You Break by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-06-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A soft knock sounded at her door.

Julia tensed. She’d been in bed, staring out of the window, gazing toward what she knew to be Cole’s cabin while Bran’s words spun in her head.

Want me to kill him for you?

No, no, he hadn’t been serious. But goosebumps still covered her skin.

The knock came again. “Julia?”

She slipped from the bed. Her bare feet slid across the floor as she made her way to the bedroom door. She opened it, and Bran stood on the other side. Tall. Sexy. Dangerous.

“I’m sorry.”

The apology surprised her.

“I scared you.”

She didn’t know what to say, so she simply gazed up at him and waited.

“I just didn’t like the idea of someone hurting you. I don’t like the idea. I never want you hurt. Not ever.” His hand lifted, and his fingers pressed to her cheek. A soft caress. “So when you told me about that jerk, my first instinct was to kick his ass.”

Confession…she’d already known about Geneva Ruby. It appeared that Geneva’s father had sent his daughter out of the country recently. At least, that was what the plane tickets they’d found indicated. Geneva had been sent to Rome so she could hide from the media. Hiding, when she’d once sought out the paparazzi.

Wilde Securities was working to confirm her location, but, no, Geneva didn’t seem like the current target they were after in Bran’s case.

But when I think about her coming after Bran with a knife…don’t I want to kick her ass? Perhaps, Julia realized, she and Bran weren’t so very different.

“My control isn’t always what it should be.” His hand fell away. “I’m not some nice gentlemen. Hell, I’ll never be one of the good guys. Those decent guys that you think are so sexy.”

Yes, she had said that. She did think that. Yet hadn’t she once thought that her ex, Daniel, had been a good guy?

“I’m a bastard. I’m demanding. I’m cold. I’m reckless. I live life at ninety miles an hour, and I know I need to slow the hell down.” His gaze never left hers. “That’s the thing, you see, I never thought about slowing down. Not until I opened my door and saw you standing there.”

“Bran…” She could only shake her head. “I don’t know what this is.” This. The thing between them. The wild way that he made her feel. She should be keeping distance between them, but instead, she wanted to get closer and closer. To feel the fire even though she—above everyone else—knew how badly it could burn.

“It’s us,” he said simply. “It’s me wanting you. Me trying to figure out how to be the man you deserve because I swear, I want to be better. For you.” He gave a brisk nod. “That’s all I wanted to say. I, uh, I’ll let you get back to sleep.” He turned on his heel.

She reached out and her fingers touched his shoulder. “I wasn’t asleep.”

Bran glanced back at her. “No?”

“No.”

***

Cole scraped a hand over his jaw as he slapped his laptop case closed.

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