Undone (The Guardians Book 1) by Roe Jessica

Author:Roe, Jessica [Roe, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: The Guardian Series
Published: 2014-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

GABLE HAD BEEN living on and off—mainly on—the streets for almost a year before she met Sacha. Although, met was probably the wrong way to put it. Stalked by maybe more appropriate.

It had been getting late and night had fallen. The sky was at its darkest, and though the city never slept, the dirty streets Gable paced were quiet, almost empty. She had just been wondering where she could find a place to crash for the night when she heard the steady pound of footsteps behind her. Living rough had made her cautious, paranoid, and after a while she was sure she was being followed. She took random turns, and the stalker followed, she sped up, they sped up, she slowed down, and so did they. Even before living on the streets, when Gable had been ditzy and over trusting, she'd have known that being followed when alone at night very rarely led to anything good. She was no longer ditzy and over trusting, and she knew that most of the time, her only options were fight or flight.

She'd never been all that fast at running.

She had, however, become pretty frikkin' nifty with her little fists, and had a tendency to act without thinking through the consequences first, which was the only explanation she had for turning around and slugging the stalkery ass right in the face.

But the stalkery ass was quick—very quick—and dodged her second fist. She was surprised, and the momentum of her punch carried her forwards, knocking them both to the ground. Shock stunned her for a couple of seconds, and then she recognized that the body she lay on top of was very large and decidedly male, and the freaked out girl in her began to attack every inch of him she could reach with her fists and her nails. He rolled them over so that he was on top of her and pinned her fists above her head. Pure, unadulterated fear washed over her in hot and cold waves. Her heart pounded ridiculously fast, her eyes watered, and every self defence technique she'd taught herself vanished into some dark part of her mind.

“I won't hurt you,” Stalkery Ass promised quickly. His voice was low and super deep and he sounded desperate, like he needed her to believe that he was being honest. “I just wanted you to stop hitting me. I think you made me bleed,” he said, as if he expected her to feel sorry for him or something. He touched his bottom lip with the tip of his tongue. “Yep, see? Blood.”

Gable stopped squirming underneath him and looked up into his eyes—clear, beautiful blue, like the sky at noon—and he seemed so genuine that for a moment, she almost believed him. She hated herself for that, and she hated herself for wanting to believe him. It was that kind of naïve bullshit that got a girl butchered and baked into homeless hussy pie.

It had been such a long time since she'd trusted anyone, and she was exhausted.

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