Savage Love (Ash and Innocence Book 2) by Penelope Bloom

Author:Penelope Bloom [Bloom, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-18T18:30:00+00:00

A steady, electronic beep rang in my ears.

I stirred, sitting up quickly and wincing because it felt like I had the hangover of the century once I moved. I looked around the room, blinking while the memory of what happened flooded back to me.

I was in a hospital bed, and I nearly passed out from shock when I saw Cassian Stone looming in the corner of the room, watching me.

He took a half step toward me, then hesitated. “You’re up.” He seemed to settle for trying to sound disinterested, but he was here. He’d come to the hospital and he’d been waiting for me to wake up, hadn’t he?

“Worried somebody else would get the satisfaction of killing me first?”

He flashed a rare half smile at that, then moved to sit in the armchair beside my bed. “Something like that.”

“My knight in shit-stained armor. I’m honored.”

“They say it’s a concussion.” Cassian reached and softly lifted my hair to touch a tender spot on my scalp. “As long as you don’t drop more shit on your head in the next few days, you should be fine. And you’ll need to take it easy. I’ve had a few of these myself, believe it or not.”

“When can I get out of here?”

He shrugged. “That depends if you want to get out the proper way, or if you want me to bust you out.”

I laughed at that. “Busting me out of the hospital sounds like a convenient way to off me. How do I know you’re even telling the truth about my condition? What if I’m terminal. Just minutes to live…”

His lips twitched, almost like he wanted to smile again. When he flicked his eyes up to meet mine, I felt my stomach clench and grow hot. God. If he’d been on the Titanic, he could’ve saved the whole ship if he’d just looked at the iceberg like that.

“I don’t want you dead. Remember? I decided your next punishment is falling for me. I just need to make sure you don’t hit your head on the way down.”

I rolled my eyes. “You would be a shitty comedian.”

“Among other things.”

“Boyfriend. Friend. Son. Teammate. Should I keep listing things you’d be shitty at?”

“No. You should list the names of the guys who did this to you.”

I looked down, then shook my head. “I don’t need you to save me, Cassian.”

“It’s not about saving you. It’s about punishing the people who deserve to be punished.”

“Yeah? Like how you’re punishing me for the sake of your father? Or how you probably punish yourself for the sake of God knows who? When does it stop, though?”

“Maybe it doesn’t.”

“And what will be left of you? The punisher?”

He shrugged. “If you don’t want to tell me, I can figure it out for myself. I already have a pretty good idea.”

I hoped he was bluffing, but I also had a sinking feeling that nothing in Silver Falls could stay hidden from Cassian for very long.

I tried to reposition myself on the bed to get more comfortable.

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