His lips trail down my neck, sending shivers all over.
"I love looking at you," he breathes, brushing the hair off my shoulders. "Will you let me look at you?"
My heart hammers, a wild thing seeking his. "Yes."
So he does. And I feel it. For a long...
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TEASER:
''You're shaking.'' His thumb brushes her wrist, finding a slow drumbeat pulse.
''I can't keep doing this.'' Her eyes flick to his, shimmering like suns on the edge of collapse. "Telling myself it's going to get better."
"You deserve to be happy," he says, his lips so close she can feel the words more than hear them. He's here, too close, too steady, and the heat of him melts a sliver of ice inside her. "Even if it's not with me."
And there it is--raw and spoken. She closes her eyes against it.
But when he brushes his knuckles against her cheek, and when he whispers her name like a promise, she...
Wonders.
𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒕? 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.
She isn't his to protect. Not his to watch over. Not his to love.
But he's has mapped every freckle on her nose and dreamt of the way she moves. And every time he catches her boyfriend's hand gripping her wrist, tighter than it should be, his resolve weakens.
Because he's a cop. And she's taken. And rules are rules.
Until the radio crackles with a single call and he's breaking every rule from here on out.
C O N T A I N S : ❤︎ mature content ❤︎ age-gap romance ❤︎ mystery & action ❤︎ violence/abuse ❤︎ found family (of course)
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Standalone novel (you don't need to read Beneath, or Fox's book Beside, to read Faro's book). That said, the two main characters of this thrid book meet in Fox's story, Beside.
