ASHER
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ABOUT ASHER:
Now eighteen,
Audrey returns to her hometown for the first time after the accident – the car
crash that took her dad and scarred her for life. She’s here to start again. Go
to college and have fun. Make new friends. Get over the past.
But the past won’t
let go. Asher is here – her first kiss, her first heartbreak. More handsome and
distant than ever, he’s still the boy who used to be her best friend. That was
before he changed into someone she hardly knows anymore – the boy who started
getting into fights and gave her the cold shoulder for years.
Asher isn’t what
she needs. In fact, she hates him and should try her best to keep away from
him.
Yet her body
doesn’t seem to care about how she feels, and maybe, just maybe this time her
body got it right. Not that she has much of a choice. Asher draws her like a
bright flame, and if she isn’t careful, she’ll burn.
And that may not be
such a bad thing after all...
*Warning: this book contains graphic language,
sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young adult readers.*
EXCERPT :
“What do you want?”
Ash asks, his voice low and hard. Ah, there’s the anger I missed in his eyes.
“To see you.”
He sits down and
looks away.
I make myself move.
I step to the other end of the sofa and sit down. I feel like I had when I
played a theater part during elementary school. Stage fright.
I will the words to
come but there’s a blank forming in my mind where my thoughts should be.
Seeing him from up
close is making things worse. My brain is too busy taking in his image, his
beautiful features, his strong body; having its usual short-circuit.
He leans forward,
dangling his hands between his denim-clad knees. His dark hair falls in his
face, hiding his expression. I can’t take my eyes off his long fingers, and the
fresh, red scar on his knuckles. Can’t help thinking he got that saving me.
“You guys want a
drink?” Zane asks, and Dakota — thankfully fully dressed again — is already
heading toward the kitchen as if she owns the place.
When neither of us
say anything, Zane shrugs and turns to follow her.
Leaving us alone in
the room.
“So...” Ash raises
his eyes and licks his lips.
God, the gesture
sends tingles all over my skin. I open my mouth to speak but can’t remember
what I want to say. My body always knows how much I want Ash, even when my mind
is confused.
“Your ankle seems
better,” he says.
I nod, dumbly. I
have to speak, tell him, ask him... Nothing comes out of my lips. My head is an
echoing empty room.
Silence stretches.
His dark brows draw
together. “Well, if you have nothing to say...” He gets up and strides across
the living room, leaving me there.
“Wait.” I shoot to
my feet, almost tripping over myself, and hurry after him. I want to say I’m
sorry, but I’ve barely touched his arm when he spins around.
Now he advances on
me, his gaze furious, and I back away, shocked. He pushes me until my back hits
the wall, and then he leans over me.
I suddenly have the
full length of his tall, muscled body pressed against me. I put my hands on his
chest, pushing in vain against his rock-hard abs, caught between giddiness and
fear.
“Ash...”
“What do you want
from me?” He bites each word out, his hand coming to rest next to my head on
the wall. “What is it you want?”
“I want...” I don’t
know. All I know is I hate the anger in his eyes, hate the tension in his body,
the bruises on his face. I want to hold him. I reach up, brush my fingertips
along his square jaw. “You.”
He blinks, eyes
widening.
What have I said?
You.
Oh god, I really
said it.
As it sinks in, I
open my mouth to fix this — but he doesn’t give me the chance. His bigger hand
catches mine, keeping it on his cheek. Under his skin, I can feel a vein
pulsing madly, his heart pounding.
“You don’t want
me,” he says, his voice hoarse, and his gaze searches mine as if it’s a
question and he’s waiting for an answer. “I’m no good.”
Again that barely
there question mark at the end of his statement.
Or maybe I’m
imagining it. I’m caught in his beauty. I love his wolf-like eyes, silver-blue
with a darker rim, shaded by long lashes. And his lips... They’re perfect. I
rise on my tiptoes to kiss them. He’s like gravity, pulling me close.
“You should stay away,”
he says, softly, but his mouth descends on mine, sealing my lips, marking them
with fire. His tongue invades my mouth.
He tastes of
lightning and dark spice. He draws me in, and I’m lost and falling, his hard
arousal a counterpoint to the hot throb between my legs.
Closer. I want to
feel him closer. My hand drops from his chest to his hip and snakes around,
pressing into the small of his back.
Big mistake. Ash
jerks back with a groan and slams his other hand on the wall, missing my face
by an inch.
What the hell?
“Ash, what—?”
“Leave,” he spits
and steps back, away from me. “You were right to hate me, Auds. Stay away.”
I watch him go, my
lips burning, my heart sinking. Like gravity, he lets me think I’m flying only
to let me slam into the ground once again.
Inked Brotherhood
Series
Five boys brought
together by fate. Five young men trying to overcome their troubled pasts. Five
tattoos marking them as a brotherhood built on tragedy. Will they find
understanding and rise above the pain?
Five girls tied by
friendship. Five young women fighting their own demons. Five lives laced with
sorrow. Will they be strong enough to save the men they love and make them
happy?
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