So who was she?
Cole opened his eyes and glanced down and quickly shut them again. A redhead. Cole never bedded redheads. They reminded him too much of
his father and—
And then he remembered everything.
Jolie Tanner. The Jolie Tanner.
Hated since childhood for the sins of her mother.
Avoided ever since for sins that were all her own.
Wanted…
Cole’s body certainly thought so.
Wanted for quite some time now if he were being brutally honest…but only in the sense of a spoiled child wanting the one thing his parents had
denied him.
So he’d been attracted to her? So what? Most men were.
He’d never followed through.
And then Jolie moved in her sleep, and he groaned aloud and brought a hand up through her hair, presumably to persuade her to rearrange her
body elsewhere.
Except that his hand stayed right where it was and so did she.
Contents
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
PROLOGUE
‘HANNAH, wait up!’ Jolie Tanner slipped out of her house yard and slammed the wire gate shut behind her as she raced to catch up with her friend.
Usually Hannah called out on the way past, or Jolie waited on the step for her—the plan wasn’t foolproof but they’d been walking to school together
since kindergarten and, unless one of them was sick, they had the routine down pat. ‘Han!’
But Hannah didn’t slow down or turn around. Hannah kept right on walking.
Cole walked with Hannah today and that was unusual. Cole was Hannah’s big brother. Big as in seventeen years old and tall and strong and
in his final year of high school. Big as in handsome, and popular, and good at absolutely everything.
Cole had shaggy black hair, olive skin, and green green eyes framed by dark curling lashes. Cole left every Hollywood teen heart-throb for
dead. Including the vampires.
Hannah adored her brother. Jolie adored him too, although Jolie’s adoration of late had been tinged with an awareness she couldn’t
describe. She’d begun to feel tongue-tied around him. She didn’t know where to look or what to do. Hannah had noticed. Hannah had started
teasing Jolie about her stupid reactions to Cole.
Was that why Hannah wouldn’t turn around?
Because Jolie knew Cole was too old for her, too everything for her, and that he would never look at her like that. It was just a phase she was
