Bad Romeo (The Starcrossed Series Book 1) by Leisa Rayven

Author:Leisa Rayven [Rayven, Leisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Starcrossed
Amazon: B00L0I2GQ2
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2014-12-23T06:00:00+00:00

Six Years Earlier

Westchester, New York

The Grove

Opening night—Romeo and Juliet

There are times in every actor’s life when the enormous mess of possibility and make-believe is distilled into a crystal-clear point of clarity. When the line between imagination and invention blurs, and talent and conviction converge for a brief, shining moment.

Tonight is one of those nights.

The moment I stepped onstage, my transformation was complete. Juliet inhabited me completely.

Now, I’m living her reality, and as the play wears on, my voice says her words, my body feels her emotions, and my brain struggles to understand that the man I’m looking at is real, perfect, and mine.

He’s under my balcony, drawn here by his need to be with me. I’m embarrassed he’s just overhead me lamenting about how much I love him, but I wouldn’t have him unhear it for all the world.

He climbs the trellis, his face dark and determined.

“How camest thou hither?” I whisper down at him. He’s being so reckless. “Tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, and the place death, considering who thou art. If any of my kinsmen find thee here—”

He jumps onto the balcony with a thump and smiles while I look around nervously.

“With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls,” he says as he walks forward. “For stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do that dares love attempt. Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.”

He touches my face, then leans forward to brush his lips against mine. Featherlight but heavy with desire.

“If they do see thee,” I say, breathless against his mouth, “they will murder thee.”

“Alack,” he says as he runs his thumb across my cheek, “there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet, and I am proof against their enmity.”

There’s a drunken roar from inside my house and I push him back against the wall, into the shadows.

“I would not for the world they saw thee here,” I whisper. My hands are on his chest, caressing him. He’s watching them in awe.

“I have night’s cloak to hide me from their sight,” he says as he places his hand over mine and presses it more firmly over his heart. “And but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”

He’s looking at me, torn and passionate, and I don’t know how I thought I was truly alive before I met him.

This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel.

No wonder people live and die for this feeling.

Time passes in a blur, and over the course of the next couple of hours, my world is altered. Completely upended. Everything I’ve known is now rewritten by my need for him.

We ignore everything and everyone to be together, and just when I think we’ve outwitted our disapproving parents and friends, I wake up to find him gone.

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