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I let out the breath I was
holding and took another step closer to her. The water was splashing on the
sleeve of my shirt as I reached up to grab both of her cheeks in my palms. “Are
you scared of me?”
It was the start of the questions
I had asked her what felt like a lifetime ago. Her answer didn’t change, but
this time when she answered, she was holding back a smile that made my heart
hurt.
“Terrified, but I kind of like it
now.”
“Do you trust me?” My voice
broke. I had never really trusted anyone but Race and now there was her and my
brother and just all kinds of new things making my life so much more
complicated and undeniably fuller.
“With my life. I trust all the
parts of you, Bax. You need to know that.”
“You going to go to bed
with me?” That made her outright laugh and she reached up to curl her hands
around my wrists.
“As often as I can and
anyplace in between when the mood strikes.” The rest of the blood racing around
I dropped my forehead so it was
resting on hers and the water from the shower head was cascading down around us.
I was making a mess, but I didn’t care because I had her, and she was my home.
“Do you love me?”
The words sounded so foreign, but
so right, when I was saying them to her. She brushed her full lips across mine
and the last three months without her faded away.
“Do you want me to lie to you or
tell you the truth?”
I smiled against her mouth
and kissed her back twice as hard as she had kissed me. “Lie to me.”
She reached up and put her
arms around my neck and took a step back, dragging me all the way into the
shower stall with her. The water was lukewarm at best, and it made me shiver.
So did the fact that she started to impatiently pull the tail of my shirt up
over my head. A task made increasingly difficult considering I was now soaked
head to toe and the material was clinging to me.
“Of course not. You’re the
last person in the world I could love.”
About BETTER WHEN HE’S BAD:
New York
Times and USA
Today bestselling author Jay Crownover returns with a
heart-stopping new series… Welcome to the Point.
There’s a
difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad . . . meet Shane Baxter.
Sexy,
dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is
the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he’s the
master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five
years. Now Bax is out and looking for answers, and he doesn’t care what he has
to do or who he has to hurt to get them. But there’s a new player in the game,
and she’s much too innocent, much too soft…and standing directly in his way.
Dovie
Pryce knows all about living a hard life and the tough choices that come with
it. She’s always tried to be good, tried to help others, and tried not to let
the darkness pull her down. But the streets are fighting back, things have gone
from bad to worse, and the only person who can help her is the scariest,
sexiest, most complicated ex-con The Point has ever produced.
Bax
terrifies her, awakening feelings she never thought she’d have for a guy like
him. But it doesn’t take Dovie long to realize . . . some boys are just better
when they’re bad.
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About Jay Crownover:
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author of the Marked Men series. She will also be introducing the
dark and sexy world of The Point in a new series this summer starting with
Better When He’s Bad. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She
loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude
for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with
interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in
Colorado with her three dogs.
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