Stab at Love: Bid on Love: Bachelor #6 by Kristine Mason

Author:Kristine Mason [Mason, Kristine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

ASH HELD HIS breath and waited for Ivy to tell him to go to hell. He didn’t want her to, even if she should.

If he’d used his normal lines on her, he would have already had her in his bed—multiple times—and had her death plotted and planned. Because Ivy was different, he’d chosen to be blunt and honest, and say things he knew most women would balk at, not to shock her, but to show her the real Ash. For once in his life, he wanted someone to see him. See inside of him.

He wanted to know love. Tonight, when they’d been on the ghost tour and he’d secretly tasted one of her salty, hot tears, his stomach had grown sick. He’d seen women cry, he’d made them cry. But he never wanted his woman to shed another tear. Never wanted to be the cause of it. Which had been why he’d decided to give her a choice. He could have easily played her, cajoled her into believing they could be a couple, then, when her guard was down and he was deep inside her, have wrapped his hand around her throat and killed her.

He didn’t want her dead. That something that she kept pulling from him, had told him it would be wrong to take her life. Was the something his morals? His conscience? Doubtful. He had no morals and constantly told his conscience to fuck off. Whatever that something was, he wanted to discover its meaning. If that took the rest of his life, then Ivy had to live, be by his side. Every single day and night.

“You asked me if I wanted to love someone as much as my mom loved my dad,” she said, finally breaking the silence.

“You said it was a scary kind of love. Not more than ten minutes ago, you also told me I scared you.”

“I said you were scaring me. Big difference.”

Another unfamiliar emotion tugged at him and had him wishing he’d chosen his earlier words differently. Was this guilt? He thought about Elena, how horrible and disgusted he’d been with himself when he’d realized he’d accidentally killed her, then how quickly he’d dismissed those thoughts as he’d photographed her beautiful face and eyes. He was a bastard who’d never dealt with guilt until this woman had rolled into his life. And he hadn’t even killed her.

“I didn’t mean to scare you.”

She tossed her auburn hair over her shoulder. God, he wanted that hair on him. Caressing his chest as she dragged her lips down his torso.

“I know I said things that most men wouldn’t, but—”

“You’re not like most men,” she finished for him, a small sexy smile tilting her mouth. “I’m realizing this. And while I love that you’re different, what scares me is falling in love with you. Men leave. That’s what I know. That’s all I know. I’m afraid of loving you, only to have you leave me.”

It took everything in him not to go to her. He had no intention of leaving her.

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