For Her Pleasure by Maya Banks

Author:Maya Banks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

It had begun to rain, and Ryder was soaked to the skin. Typical late summer Texas shower.

Blew up from nowhere and wouldn’t last long.

He rode blindly, opening up the Harley until the wind and rain lashed his face. He hadn’t meant to go the old familiar route to the closed-up house high atop Barkley Hil . But here he was.

He slowed and turned into the drive then stopped and set his feet down on the ground to steady the bike. The house loomed in front of him like some goddamn bad omen. Why had he come

here of al places?

You’re a goddamn mess. Just look at you. Doyou think anyone will ever take you seriously withall those earrings and tattoos?

His father’s voice echoed so loudly in his head he flinched and looked around. But he wasn’t here. He was dead. Long buried in the esteemed family plot reserved for the lofty Sinclairs.

I thank God every day that your mother isn’t aliveto see what you’ve become.

A heavy ache settled into his chest, tightening until he was sucking harder to get air into his lungs. Mac’s words echoed next to his father’s in his head.

Not everyone hated their parents like you andKit.

“And not every parent hates their child,” Ryder muttered.

He should have burned the house to the ground the day his father passed away. There was no

reason to keep it. No reason to sel it. He sure didn’t need the money. It stood on the hil looking down on the world just like his father had.

“Fuck you,” Ryder bit out. “Fuck you and your goddamn expectations.”

It rained harder and stil Ryder stood there, glaring up the hil . His fingers curled into fists. Mac might have had a June-fucking-Cleaver upbringing, but it didn’t mean the rest of the world had.

He had no right to assert his own Pol yanna view on everyone else. Or on Kit.

And what could you offer her? a voice jeered in his head.

“Understanding,” Ryder muttered. “I could offer her understanding.”

Kit snuggled deeper into Mac’s arms and listened to the steady downpour of rain as it echoed off the roof. They were lying in bed watching the credits role on the movie that had just finished.

“I love the rain,” she murmured.

“Tel me why you hated your parents,” Mac said. She reared her head in surprise and pushed

away from him to stare in astonishment. “What? Why would you ask something like that? What

on earth brought that up?”

He regarded her with a thoughtful expression.

“Ryder says I should already know, but I don’t because you’ve never told me.”

Her heart sped up. “When did you talk to Ryder?”

An annoyed expression covered his face. “It doesn’t matter when we talked. What matters is that you tel me what happened with them. Why you hated them so much.”

She slid further under the covers and turned her face away from Mac to stare out the window on the opposite wal . Rain splashed against the window and ran in rivulets down the glass.

“I don’t want to talk about them,” she whispered.

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