Inked Temptation (Inked Series, #1)
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...So, for now, this is The End, but it’s also a brand New Beginning.
THE PAST
Bracing my palms down against the smooth wooden surface, I take a shaky breath as the words of Little Wonders by Rob Thomas plays above me. I try to drown it out, but I feel it right to my soul as my heart splits into pieces. I don’t think the pieces will ever fit back together again.
“I will always love you,” I choke out.
Bending forward, I graze my lips over the cool wooden casket. Breathing in deep through my nose, I try to take one last breath of him inside me, but all I smell are the roses surrounding me. A chill takes over my body and I’m left feeling as cold as stone. Closing my eyes, I try to block everything out. I’m hoping when I open my eyes that I’ll find this has been a nightmare and everything will be back to the way they were a week ago. A time when we were happy and in love, excited about taking the next step into our life together.
Feeling my legs wobble, I try to lock my knees together so I don’t crumple to the ground. It’s no use and I feel myself start to fall. My hands slide against the wood, I have nothing left. I feel myself fading away and I allow it to happen. What’s the point in fighting? My stomach twists and gut-wrenching sobs wrack through me. I feel the urge to be sick and try to ignore my bodies reaction when a feeling of being shackled to the ground comes over me.
Strong arms wrap around me, trying to lift me to my feet. I push them away, wanting no-one’s touch. I hear the deep soothing voice of my father in my ear and after a moment, I allow him to lift me into his arms. He cradles me to his chest like he did when I was a little girl and I would scrap my knee. But this time I know he won’t be able to take the pain away. I breathe in his familiar woodsy smell and allow it to settle deep inside, hoping it can reach into some of the cool places inside me to warm them. Even if it’s a wasted effort, I’ll try anything right now to feel something......anything rather than nothing at all.
“I’ve got you, Sweetheart,” he whispers in my ear as he rubs his hand in soothing circles over my back.
I lift my arms and wrap them around his neck and cry hard. I know, no matter what anybody says or does, I will never be the same again.
Can someone so Perfect heal someone so Broken????
Inked Perfection
Coming in late 2018
Did you love Inked Temptation? Then you should read Angel Mine by Kay Maree!
BROOKLYN -I'm scared but I have to be strong not just for me but for my beautiful daughter. After years of being emotionally and physically abused it needed to end.I always wanted a love like the fairy tales I was told as a child, a love like my parents had, but after escaping hell I lost all hope.Trusting another man and falling in love was now the last thing on my mind,making it through everyday was now the new goal for my daughter and me.Then everything changed the day I looked into the most captivating green eyes I have ever seen,it was like they saw into my very soul.And I knew nothing would ever be the same again.DOMININC -I was brought up in a dangerous world, a world I had to quickly become accustomed to.It took my brothers death and the events that unfolded after that lead me to be the man I am today a Mob Boss.One of the most powerful man in Newcastle, I'm not a good guy, I have done bad things.I closed my true self off the day I failed to protect the one person I loved dearly, and she paid the ultimate price.But one look into those ocean blue eyes and I felt my whole purpose in life shift, I didn't deserve her but I was going to make her Mine.I had finally found the missing pieces to my heart I didn't know I was missing and I wasn't letting them go...Angel: "I WANTED TO BE THE LAST THING HE TASTED AT NIGHT, AND THE FIRST THING HE TOUCHED IN THE MORNING"Dom: "SHE BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES, AND I NEVER WANTED TO GET BACK UP"