Rough Justice by Sarah Castille

Author:Sarah Castille [Castille, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Erotica
ISBN: 9781466860407
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

Do as you say or walk away.

An angel in the darkness.

Jagger slowed his steps as he approached the clubhouse, his resolve to release Arianne from his claim waning when he saw her on the porch.

Leaning against a pillar at the top of the steps, a blanket wrapped around her shoulders, Max’s head in her lap, she hadn’t noticed his approach. From his vantage point in the shadows, he could see her face clearly in the moonlight, soft, unguarded, vulnerable.

Arianne without the armor. So beautiful, he was transfixed, an agony of desire coursing through his body.

Ever alert, Max looked up and Jagger was sure the damn dog smiled when she stroked his head. He couldn’t begrudge Max her touch, but his hackles rose just the same. Until that moment, he had never realized how desperately he longed for that easy intimacy—the unguarded softness she tried so desperately to hide.

Gravel crunched under his feet as he drew near, barely audible as The Sheepdogs’ “Feeling Good” blasted through the windows. The party was going strong. So why was Arianne outside?

Her head lifted and her lips pressed together as he approached. He could almost see the walls slamming into place, her vulnerability hidden behind an iron fortress.

“You’re back.”

He sat down beside her. “You shouldn’t be out here. You’ll get cold.”

“Max is keeping me warm, and I’m partied out. I should have paced myself. I didn’t realize the Sinner celebration would go on all night.”

“An ice house for a clubhouse. And justice is always worth celebrating.”

“I thought I was the price for your clubhouse.”

The skin on the back of his neck prickled in warning. “You’re the price for Cole. A life for a life.”

“So you have my life,” she said, her voice deceptively mild. “What are you planning to do with it?” She toyed with a piece of paper in her hand—the paper Bunny had given her. It was everything he could do not to snatch it from her hand.

Jagger’s pulse kicked up a notch. Give him a shoot-out or a fistfight any day, but trying to figure out where she was going with this conversation was like walking through a maze of thorns. She didn’t seem angry or resigned, merely curious.

“Treasure it.” He lifted her hand and kissed her palm. He should tell her now he wasn’t going to do anything except let her go, but selfish bastard that he was, he couldn’t do it. Arianne was no victim. And knowing she would never go down without a fight just made him want her even more.

“Is that your way of being evasive?” She leaned over and ran her tongue along the seam of his lips, then dipped it into his mouth. His cock stiffened and he fisted her hair. Fuck. He wanted her so bad, he didn’t know if he could actually let her go.

“Only when there is a question for which there is no right answer.” He ran his thumb back and forth over her knuckles, his anxiety fading as her warmth seeped into his palm.

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