Mind Games | Dark Romance
COMPLETED ✔️
"You really want to lose your life?" I snap, pressing the knife until a thick bead of blood appears.
Josh doesn't flinch. If anything... he gets harder.
"Try me," he says against my mouth-soft, intimate, deadly.
For a second, I forget what I'm doing-caught in the way he smells, the heat of his body, the quiet hunger in his eyes.
His hand snaps to my wrist, twisting with ease. The knife drops.
"Next time you reach for a knife..."
His breath ghosts down my neck.
"I'll reach for my gun."
***
Kate has perfected the art of pretending. At home, she's the innocent daughter, playing her role flawlessly. Beneath the surface, she's a rebel shaped by trauma, driven by a need to control before anyone can hurt her first. When Josh-her mother's new boyfriend-moves in, Kate decides to pull him into her web, expose whatever he's hiding, and push him out of their lives for good. Even though Josh makes her feel things she shouldn't, Kate knows she can't let herself slip.
A reserved lawyer with a past he's desperate to keep buried, Josh came into Kate's life because of her. Whatever he knows, whatever he's running from, he's determined to keep it hidden, including his growing feelings. He wants to do the right thing. To be loyal. To be a good person. But when Kate starts digging too deep, Josh realizes he'll do anything to stop her-even if it means breaking her piece by piece.
