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TheStyclarSaga Presents: Sneak Peek at JONAH

Hi guys! With the release of JONAH, the third and final installment in the Styclar Saga nearly here (Feb 7th--like what you read? Be a unicorn and preorder the book!) I'm SO excited to share this extract from Chapter Eleven exclusively here @ the wattpad block party! If you haven't read book one, LAILAH, you can still read the unedited version in its entirety right here on watty where this incredible journey first began! The scene I decided to pick could only have been between Lailah and Jonah, (because BAE!) I hope you enjoy it!

Jonah shook his head.

I said. "I guess there's a lot we don't know about each other."

"I know everything I need to. It's not a prerequisite to have shared a past in order to share a future, you know."

Why was he talking like this? I thought I'd made myself clear. "I told you before, I don't have a future. Which makes this conversation pointless. The details don't matter."

Before I could walk away, Jonah had me by the elbow, tugging me back toward him. "I need to know."

"Why? So you can save me?" I snorted. "There is no saving me, Jonah. Not this time."

Jonah growled in such a way that the hairs on my arm stood on end.

I said, "I should have died in the third, but you had to come wading in and drag me back here—"

"Yeah, and you seem real grateful."

" 'Thank you' is the last thing you'll be hearing from me." My eyes narrowed. "You really want to know how I did it? How I was able to save you? I offered myself. I exchanged my existence for yours. I took your place."

"Bullshit," he said flatly. When I didn't argue back, he only became more agitated. "Exactly who the hell do you think you made a deal with?"

"The universe." I shrugged. "God."

"We both know damn well you're not religious. Try again, beautiful."

"What's religion got to do with God?"

Jonah shook his head. "So now what? You suddenly believe in some illusive, invisible force, so much so, in fact, that you're prepared to let it play puppet master with your life because you think you owe it something?" When I didn't reply immediately, Jonah cursed under his breath. "There's nothing wrong with having faith, beautiful, but there are better places to put it."

"Such as?"

His hand found my cheek then, and looking me square in the eye, he said, "Me."

"I do have faith in you, but I've learned to manage my expectations. There are three words you just can't give me, Jonah. They're beyond you."

My Vampire released me. "You need me to say them that badly?" he said.

He'd misunderstood.

I clarified for him. "I'm talking about 'happily ever after.' There will be only two words printed on the last page of my story. Two words, six letters, that simply spell out 'The End.' " I quietly added in a whisper, "Maybe, when all this is over, it's all I will deserve."

Jonah turned away from me as he swallowed my bitter pill, and a defiant growl rose in his throat. "Managing your expectations, huh? Nice, beautiful."

I didn't need to be connected by blood to sense I had pissed him off. The veins in his neck jutted out, and his fangs cracked, making it impossible to disguise his anger.

"There is nothing that is beyond me," he started, and the arrogant look on his face took me back to the Jonah I'd first known. But then he stopped, catching himself.

"Go on," I said, "don't hold back on my account. You always get the last word, remember? It's the reason we're all in this mess, and I'm starting to think it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with your distaste for losing."

Vampires move fast, but this was blinding. He hoisted me up and his hot mouth was against mine before the last syllable left my lips. His kiss was hard, and it was endless, and it branded me as his.

His hands tangled in my hair, and he released me only when the taste of my blood spread across his tongue. Bringing his finger to my bottom lip, he blotted where he'd nipped me. As he exhaled, he said, "If you're right, if there is a God, then even if he's the one holding all the cards, I won't fold. At the end, I'll be the one to deliver the only three words that matter."

Jonah surprised me, and I struggled to keep it together as I broke away. One more minute in his company and I might start to believe him...

Copyright Nikki Kelly 2017 - All Rights Reserved

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