Reckless Beat Box Set #2 by Eden Summers

Author:Eden Summers [Summers, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

Undeniable Temptation

Reckless Beat #5

Prologue

Leah stared at the glossy paint of the door, the heavy wood holding back her dreams and protecting her from stupidity.

“Ryan, let me in.” Fantasies and idiocy be damned, she needed to be in there with him. “Talk to me.”

The response was an eruption of noise—a harsh shout, a smash, a thump. He was going postal, entirely destroyed from the news of his impending divorce.

“Ryan.” She banged her fist against the wood. “Open the fucking door.”

Whispers skittered toward her, the flutter of curiosity coming from other hotel guests who cautiously stepped into the hall to snoop.

If she didn’t smother this outburst it would become gossip column news. All those tabloid bastards needed was a sniff of drama and they’d pounce. There’d be photos, old or new, it didn’t matter, and a provoking headline that lacked an ounce of truth. Then she’d have to deal with more chaos. More than the monumental amount she already predicted with his inevitable divorce.

“Ryan… Please.”

The heavy thud of approaching footsteps made her inch back. Then the door flew open, and before her stood the man she adored, his pain and anger transforming his usual at-peace appeal into something toxic.

“Ryan—”

“What do you want?” he sneered.

His gorgeous ocean eyes tried to belittle her, and the heavy rise and fall of his chest aimed to intimidate. His ferocity would’ve worked if she hadn’t anticipated it. She had already prepared herself for the worst, because this moment was exactly that for him.

It was his time to break, and she had to be the one to pick up the pieces. Not because she hoped it would save their rocky friendship. Not because it was her job to do so. And definitely not because her feelings for him were far from platonic.

Nope. His appeal to her needy senses had nothing to do with this. None whatsoever.

She wanted to fix this because he deserved to be the one who was coddled for once. Every other member of Reckless Beat had stolen the dramatic limelight more than a handful of times over the years. Mason, Sean, Blake, and Mitch had all driven her crazy with moments of melodrama, while Ryan had been the peace and civility. The charmer. The goodness that kept her smiling.

“Get out of my face, Leah.”

OK, so maybe he wasn’t the peace and civility right now. But it was only a matter of time before the restoration of the man she admired.

She raised her chin, meeting his defiance with a dose of her own. “Let me in.”

“Why?” He scowled. “Why do you care?”

Ouch. That hurt. “Don’t take your anger out on me.” She strode forward and squeezed past him into the suite. “We’ll talk this out. It’ll ease the shock.”

She could smell alcohol. Scotch. It was potent, the mere scent like a tranquilizer to her senses. Obviously, she’d made the wrong decision to wait in the lobby for ten minutes so he could pull himself together. The only thing he’d been amassing was a more delirious arsenal for the impending explosion.

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