Chapters (66)
- Cover
- Dedication
- Keep Reading
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Forty-Eight
- Forty-Nine
- Fifty
- Fifty-One
- Fifty-Two
- Fifty-Three
- Fifty-Four
- Fifty-Five
- Fifty-Six
- Fifty-Seven
- Fifty-Eight
- Fifty-Nine
- Sneak Peek
- Find Me
- Books by Mary Catherine Gebhard
- Acknowledgments
I was too far gone to stop it. Too far gone to push him away, to stop the wave of pleasure. I grasped his shoulders, coming undone.
He didn’t stop massaging my clit or pumping inside me. Didn’t stop forcing me to come as his words echoed within me.
I don’t want you.
His words dripped inside me, mixing with the taste of him, the want I couldn’t suppress, until I could barely stand.
When I finished, he licked my upper lip, slow, easy, until flames threatened to burn me to the ground.
Then he stood back.
He eyed me from down his crookedly beautiful nose. “I could never want you.”
I fell to the floor, tears burning the corners of my eyes, but thank fuck they didn’t fall. I stared at my knees, knobby, bruised.
I could never want you.
I knew he’d opened the door by the sudden rush of sound. Of laughter and music.
“Who was that for?” his cold voice drifted back.
“What?” I blinked through my tears.
Suddenly my hair was in his fist and he yanked my stare to his. “Who was that for?”
It dawned on me what he meant, and then I couldn’t stop the tears from falling.
“Lottie,” I rasped.
He dropped me.
I put my head in my hands as the door slammed shut.
I had only one fucking rule, and here I was breaking it, falling for the cruel prince once more.
Thirty-Three
STORY
I could never want you.
I promised myself I wouldn’t cry, but back on the island, through the open window the Riviera skyline was a blurry, twinkling treasure through my tears.
I stayed in that room until Grayson came and got me. Silently ordered me to follow him back to the boat. Grayson had spent the rest of the time at the club with Lottie, and now back home, I don’t know where he was, but I didn’t care.
I pretended to be asleep.
But I cried.
Messy tears I refused to let him see.
I heard the subtle, muted creak of a door opening. A moment later, Gray’s cold voice followed. “Why aren’t you in bed?”
I didn’t respond, hoping he’d think I was asleep. My chest couldn’t take it.
“Get up here, Snitch.” Grayson bent down, blocking the open sea window, and placed one careful finger below my chin, lifting it so I met his eyes. “Or have I broken you already?”
Grayson Crowne was the cruelest person in the world.
Cutting, ice-blue eyes. A nose slightly broken. Plush pink lips. Blond hair that was constantly falling out of his coif, messy like his personality, messy like his soul, messy like the way he’d kissed me when he’d woven my love irrevocably with his hate.