Up In Flames by Alexx Andria

Author:Alexx Andria [Andria, Alexx]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alexx Andria
Published: 2014-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

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Angel wound her arms around Pyro’s solid body and closed her eyes as he revved the motorcycle and put them back on the road. As much as he tried to hide it, Pyro was a good man and she was a rotten bitch for doing what she planned to do to him. He believed her — he believed that he was helping her out of a bad situation when in fact, she was delivering him into one.

She was practically feeding him to the wolves.

Angel squeezed her eyes shut more tightly and wished she could change everything but she didn’t know how to do that without endangering Mila’s life. She’d left out huge chunks of her life after Ashley had died because it seemed unnecessarily cruel to burden him with more guilt. Running on the streets had been dangerous, each night filled with umpteen possibilities for death or worse, because the predators roamed the desolate streets at night, looking for desperate kids to snatch up. One night, after ditching the commune, she’d been desperate for a place to sleep and had gone against her better judgment in accepting the invitation of a group of rangy street kids to bunk down with them. They told her, safety in numbers and even though her intuition had told her they were bad news, it seemed far worse to sleep alone under a bridge. They’d taken her down to their hideaway, an abandoned shoe factory on the edge of the city where a number of street kids hung out. That’d been one of the worst nights of her life. She’d been gang-raped by no less than five guys that night.

And she’d gotten pregnant.

Of course, her first thought had been to end the pregnancy. But she couldn’t do it. Not when she’d been forced to watch as her sister’s unborn child died in her belly. She couldn’t end a life, not when she had a chance to give it life. So she’d briefly found a teen pregnancy shelter and hung out there for a few months but when the rules became stifling she bailed and found her own place with the hopes of finally getting on her feet.

Best of intentions. Funny thing, they never worked out the way you planned.

Just when she’d finally started to see the light, Benton entered her life and the rest was fucked up history.

How could she burden Pyro with that knowledge? He would blame himself even more so than he already did. And yeah, she’d blamed him something fierce for a long time but she couldn’t bring herself to do that any longer. He wasn’t the monster she’d thought he was.

Which brought her back to the situation presently leering at her like a lunatic clown.

I’m so sorry, Pyro. I wish there was another way. God, please don’t hate me.

Mila’s life was on the line. She had to do whatever it took.

Even if it meant betraying the one man who wanted to help her.

***

“You’re quiet. Everything okay?” Pyro asked when he realized Angel hadn’t said much since returning from the lake.

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