“You think you know me, but you don’t,” I say as I look up at her from underneath my eyelashes.
“I know you hate me as much as I hate you,” she responds.
“I never said I hated you …” I reply, leaning over the tub so she can’t look away. “I hate what you’ve done to me. What you make me do.” I grab her face and inch closer and closer. “How greedy you make me.”
Her lips are wet, the steam rising from the bath drawing smoke between us. But nothing can keep me away from her.
Nothing.
Not even my own damn stone-cold heart.
“I want to hate you,” I murmur so close to her lips I can almost taste them. “So badly …”
“Hate is all you’ve ever shown me,” she murmurs back, her eyes completely transfixed on mine.
“If I hadn’t, there would’ve been nothing left of you.”
She sucks in a breath, her body freezing in the hot bath, her nipples growing taut as I hover so close to her face I can feel every one of her twitches just from the vibrations in the air.
“Show me then. Show me what it means not to hate.”
I press my top lip against hers, and whisper, “Kiss me and find out.”
One second.
That’s all it takes for our lips to collide and for her mouth to finally crave mine as I have craved hers. I’ve claimed her lips before, but she’s never given them to me freely. Willingly. Hungrily.
And fuck me, that makes me hungry for more.
The way she kisses me back wakes the hunter inside me.
I groan against her lips as I coax them to open, desperate for a taste. And when she does, our tongues entangle, and I kiss her deep and hard, wanting to draw out her soul.
I’ve kissed girls before, but none of them ever made me this lusty, this greedy for more.
I lean up and get closer and closer until I’m halfway into the tub with my arms, but I don’t care. The warmth only heats me up even more as I circle my tongue around and lick the roof of her mouth.
She tastes pure, divine, like everything I could ever want to ruin.
The more I have, the more I want to take, and take, and take until there’s nothing left.
I want to break every last inch of her until all she’ll ever want is me.
This can be read as a stand-alone book. However, the is another
book that helps introduce this book called The Wedding Debt. Luca will get what
he wants one way or another. Jill won’t let her sister pay for her sins; she
won’t let her be forced into marrying that boy. Jill isn’t prepared for what is
about to happen though. Luca and Jill have always had a contentious relationship.
Luca has always wanted her and she has always hated him. But things could have
been so much easier if he would have just shown her the real way, he felt about
her. It is going to take a lot to change their relationship easier. Luca does seem
to stand in her own way with her. He wants her to want him but he doesn’t show
her he wants her for more than revenge. So much is going on behind others
backs. I was torn with this book. I was reading the story develop and was
addicted to it. But at the same time, I hate bullying and the way he treated Jill.
Jill is torn between how she feels about Luca and how he makes her body feel.
It is like her body is betraying her. Clarissa writes fantastic books with
amazing characters. She did not disappoint with this book. She is a must-read author
for me. Fantastic job another amazing book Clarissa.
