Mechanic by Amber Bardan

Author:Amber Bardan [Bardan, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-13T18:30:00+00:00

Mike

I turn to her.

We’re not pretending anymore. She knows exactly who I am. I saw it the moment she realized.

Her horror was a hook to my guts—nearly tore me apart.

“You shouldn’t be here.” She grabs the sides of her head. “You shouldn’t—”

“Why?” I go after her.

She backs against the wall. Fuck me. She’s the sexiest thing that ever lived. That tumbling hair, and those expressive eyes.

Her hands fall to her sides.

She makes a sound. A soft moan of heartache that’s worse than any torture any man could inflict on me. “It’s too dangerous.”

“He’s gone, Gabriella.” I close the space between us.

Her stepfather died five years ago.

My hand almost moves to the side of my head, but I stop it. The scar is buried in my hair, but the memory is always with me.

The scar from where they had to open my head to treat the blood clot that formed from where Jeramiah’s blow landed my temple.

“He almost killed you.” She squeezes herself up against the tiled wall. “Because of me.”

My mind flashes. Vivid and pulsing. Of taking this girl in her stepfather’s workroom. My belt wrapped around her throat. Not tight, just enough to get her off.

Exactly how she’d asked for it.

I reach her, bend and whisper. “I’m alive.”

Her chest heaves. Panic’s in her eyes. She’s not afraid of Jeramiah anymore.

She’s afraid of her. Of the terrible things she’s capable of.

Of how I can deliver all of those things.

There was a time she’d sneak out and cross the road to crawl in my window every single night. Nights when she spilled her secrets so sweetly that there was nothing she could reveal, nothing so dark, that I wouldn’t set myself on fire to bring life to them.

“I know who you are.” I grab a handful of her hair. I went so easy on her yesterday. Not today. “I remember what a fucking filthy girl you are.”

“I’m at work.” Her breath shudders.

“You used to like that.”

“I need this job.” Her chest shakes, but her gaze is hooked on mine, her chin rising.

“Do you?” My gaze narrows on her.

Someone would’ve told her that Jeramiah left everything to her. If she could just find the nerve to come home, it’d all be hers.

The old asshole must’ve had a conscience after all.

“I can’t…” She quivers.

I pull her head back sharply. Her neck exposes. “Why?”

“Because everyone knows…” she whispers.

I press myself up against her. She’s so soft, that my hardness gets harder. So sweet that my hunger gets sharper. So desperate that my need swells more violently.

I could break us both into pieces, and it wouldn’t be destructive enough to satisfy this pain.

I know what she means. Not that they knew about us. But that they knew what we were doing.

Dirty things.

It all came out into the open when I ended up in a coma.

“Then come home with me,” I breathe to her, and then, I can’t manage another breath.

I stare at her face. Scan her expression. Wait to know how she feels.

She’s like a sparrow in my hands, but this little girl could crush me with a word.

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