Unhinged (Unhinged #1) by Timberlyn Scott

Author:Timberlyn Scott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: SL Independent Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-08-25T23:00:00+00:00

Half an hour later I was in my workout room, Holler Til You Pass Out by 3OH!3 blaring from the speakers, sweat pouring from my face as I pummeled the heavy bag hanging from the ceiling. The bass reverberating off the walls matched the pounding in my skull and the throbbing in my knuckles.

While I threw one punch after another, gasping for air as I exhausted my muscles, I pictured Conrad’s face on the bag.

This was my stress reliever, something I relied on to keep me sane. That and racing. Those were the only two things that helped to quiet the voices in my head, to calm the fury that pounded in my blood.

I stopped moving, my chest heaving as I wrapped my arms around the bag, trying to keep from falling to the floor.

My thoughts immediately drifted to Payton.

She had calmed me in a way I’d never known before. In a way that no amount of punching a faceless enemy or redlining a powerful engine to its breaking point ever could.

For as long as I could remember, I’d battled the fury that was a living, breathing thing inside me. Chaos was how I referred to it. A constant state of chaos that had a stranglehold on me.

Stay away from her.

My father’s words invaded my thoughts, a red haze clouding my vision momentarily.

In all the time that I’d known the man, after all the warnings he had dished out, all of the threats he made, never had I wanted to defy him so badly.

But for the first time, it wasn’t to get back at him.

It had nothing to do with him period.

I wanted Payton. I wanted her with a passion I’d never experienced before. I wanted to hold her in my arms, to lay her out beneath me and bury myself so deep inside her that she no longer thought about any other man. I wanted to own her, to possess her.

It was crazy.

I was crazy.

Pushing away from the heavy bag, I retrieved the bottle of water sitting on the window sill. Staring out into the night, I could see my reflection on the window glass. The crazed look in my eyes was something I’d gotten familiar with. I knew what was inside of me. A beast that needed to get out.

No amount of adrenaline had ever extricated the turmoil though, and Lord knows I had tried. Too many times.

I downed the rest of the water and tossed the bottle into the small recycle container in the corner. Placing my hands on the wall above the window, I leaned forward, trying to see past the reflection into the night and that’s when it came back to me.

Payton.

The dreams.

It was her I’d seen, even before I met her.

She was the one I’d been drawn to, the reason I hadn’t wanted to wake up. Closing my eyes, I tried to conjure up the image of the woman who infiltrated my dreams, the way she looked then. She was just out of reach.

Just like Payton.

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