Shame (Ruin #3) by Rachel van Dyken

Author:Rachel van Dyken [Dyken, Rachel van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00O746SJ2
Publisher: Rachel Van Dyken
Published: 2014-10-03T23:00:00+00:00

Tristan

THE HOUSE WAS completely dark. All I could see was the outline of the path to the kitchen, and only because the blinds hadn’t been pulled. The door shut softly behind me.

I knew it was Lisa, knew that she had followed me, not knowing what I had planned for her went for longer than just one night, but several nights. Because I’d already decided with my own sick justification to have her, even if she wasn’t mine to have, even if he’d had her first, even if he’d destroyed a part of her I’d probably never be able to get back.

The room was so charged with sexual tension it was almost hard to breathe, and when she stepped up behind me, her clothes brushed my back. I almost slammed her against the wall and just said screw it. It’s not like my moral compass had been actually working as of late. And she woke up something primal in me, something that I hadn’t ever felt. I think I despised it as much as I craved it.

Sighing, I hung my head and let the seconds of charged silence trickle by.

“It won’t be easy,” I whispered. “Letting you in.”

“It won’t be easy,” she repeated. “Keeping you out.”

With a smile, I turned and looked down at her wide blue eyes, the same eyes that had seen tragedy at his hands. Pain, ruin, shame. The only thing I could do was be the exact opposite of what he’d been to her.

But it meant fighting against every urge I had to selfishly take what I wanted and leave come Christmas.

If I did that, I’d be just like him, and I wanted to be different. It was so tempting to burn that damn journal. To throw away my past, to live the lie, to make it so she never discovered the truth. Hadn’t I lived my entire adult life in that way? Right along with my parents?

What was one more dirty secret between lovers? Friends? Enemies?

Maybe if she let me in, she’d divulge the information I needed anyway. It was always the fear that kept me pursuing the truth. The fear that I would end up like him; the fear that, in some ways I was him. The Jekyll to his Hyde.

“So, this rule…” Lisa folded her arms in front of her and leaned forward. “…does it apply to objects?”

“For not being such a rule follower you sure are eager to learn what they are,” I said smugly.

“For being such a controlling tight ass you sure don’t seem to be in a rush to explain them.”

I smirked. “You think my ass is tight?”

“No.” She swallowed and looked down.

“Denial’s so sexy…” I teased. “It’s okay to look all you want, Lisa. You just can’t touch, remember? A night of being anonymous… a night where it’s just you and me. But technically, we’re strangers and things…” I leaned in so close I could almost taste her. “…are about to get very intimate.” Taking a step back, I lifted

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