Bear Razed by Kayla Gabriel

Author:Kayla Gabriel [Gabriel, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kayla Gabriel

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Kellan sat at the far end of The John, his favorite utterly shitty dive bar, knocking back shots of tequila. The fact that he was drinking tequila was a bad, bad sign. Kellan plus tequila never went well, without exception. It was the gateway to his angry, lonely place, the place he went when life was just pissing in his eye.

And the hangover from the tequila? Salt in the wound. Still he drank and brooded, even smoking half a cigar before growing disgusted with it and stubbing it out on the ground. The John was all cement floors and metal chairs, the kind of scuzzy place that they likely cleaned with a firehose at the end of the night. It had a certain atmosphere, which suited Kellan’s mood.

I’m not going to choose, she’d said.

Fuuuuuuck. Her words had completely floored him. Worse, he understood her side of things even as jealousy raged within his chest, ripping and tearing at his ego and his heart. So he drank and moped, needing some time away from Sera and Kieran. He especially didn’t need Sera to see this side of him, this childish competitiveness and selfishness that he couldn’t seem to ever get over.

He knew better, damn it. He knew what he needed to do, the words he needed to say. But he kept imagining the grin that Kieran would give him, the same one Kieran had every single time he stole one of Kellan’s bed partners or somehow got one over on him. That cocky, shit-eating, unrepentant grin that made Kellan see fucking red. Every. Single. Time.

Since their childhood, the twins had been pitted against each other. Once their individual brands of magic had been discovered, Kieran had been the instant black sheep, the Dark Prince. It was unfair, and Kellan had been the first to stick up for him, but then Kieran did what he did best: he turned it to a kind of advantage.

He’d taunted Kellan, saying that the Dark Prince was much stronger than the Light, that Kellan was a coddled little baby, all the stuff that would give a young boy a stiff upper lip. Then they fought, beating the crap out of each other, and eventually the whole argument was forgotten.

Until the next time someone brought up the Light and the Dark. Always, Kieran internalized the whole thing. Always, he turned it into a fight between the brothers, rather than a hurtful comment from an outsider. It should have been the two Princes against the world, the Gray brothers versus everyone else.

Instead, Kieran chose to fight Kellan. Using his reputation as the faster, looser, and more dangerous brother, Kieran plucked women, cars, and jobs out of Kellan’s hands. Anything Kellan was given, anything he worked for… it didn’t matter. Kieran wanted it, and he took it.

Worse, women often wanted to leave Kellan for Kieran. Kellan was safe, boring, emotional, messy… Kieran was exciting, dashing, heart-stopping. It drove Kellan mad. It also drove the brothers apart again and again, fighting and separating before eventually drifting back together.

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