登入Elara Voss had always tried to ignore her cruel stepbrother Jax Rivera. But the night their parents get murdered changes everything. Suddenly the two of them are thrown together in hiding across California with shared beds and raw grief pulling them close. What starts as comfort turns into hungry, taboo lust. Jax is not just protecting her though. He is using her as bait to catch the killer. Can their dangerous passion survive the lies and the night everything comes crashing out?
查看更多The voice climbed the wooden stairs one slow step at a time. Elara sat naked on the dusty cot with Jax’s seed still warm between her thighs and the cold metal of the gun already in his hand. Dawn light poured through the four dirty windows and turned every dust mote into a floating spark. Outside, the forest stretched in every direction, gray and endless. Inside the small lookout cabin the air felt too thin to breathe.Jax moved to the open doorway and pressed his back to the wall beside it. His bare chest rose and fell in steady pulls. The bruise on his jaw looked darker in the new light. He glanced once at Elara and mouthed a single word.Dress.She pulled the wet jeans up her legs with shaking fingers. The denim stuck to her skin. Her shirt followed, buttons mismatched in her hurry. The leftover ache of him inside her made every movement a reminder of how little privacy they had left. Strangers had filmed them. Strangers had tracked them. Now strangers were climbing the only high g
The rotor blades grew from a distant pulse into a heavy roar that pressed down on the trees. Elara knelt in the cold creek with Jax’s seed still warm inside her and the last of the phone’s light already drowned in the current. Water rushed around her thighs. The first gray edge of dawn touched the ridges above them. Every second of light made them easier to find.Jax pulled her to her feet. His hands were firm on her waist. Rain had stopped but the air still held the wet weight of the night. She saw the decision settle in his eyes before he spoke.“Under the bank,” he said. “Now.”They scrambled out of the water and dropped into a deep undercut where the creek had eaten away the earth. Roots hung like curtains. The space was tight and smelled of mud and old leaves. Jax pressed her back against the damp wall and covered her body with his own as the helicopter swept low over the canopy. The downdraft ripped leaves from the branches and sent them spinning into the water. A searchlight st
The soft mechanical whir of the drone settled over the lean-to like a second rain. Elara lay on the packed dirt with Jax still heavy between her thighs, the heat of his release still wet inside her. The broken roof above them framed a dark circle of sky. In that circle the small machine hovered, red light blinking, camera lens already turned down toward their tangled bodies.She felt the violation land harder than any bullet. Strangers had watched her come apart under him. Strangers had recorded the soft broken sounds she made when he filled her. The knowledge sat in her stomach like spoiled milk. Tears mixed with the rain on her face and ran into her hair.Jax pulled out of her in one careful motion and dragged her jeans back up her legs. His hands were steady but his jaw was locked so tight the muscle jumped. He yanked his own clothes into place, then reached for the gun on the ground beside them. The drone drifted lower. The red light blinked faster.“Stay flat,” he said.He raised
The camera shutter sounded again, closer this time. Elara felt the sound like a slap across the face. She lay half naked under the fallen log with Jax still inside her, the heat of his release still pulsing between her legs. Rain dripped through the branches onto her bare shoulders. The voice from above the ravine floated down soft and pleased.“That one caught the way you look at him when you come. Beautiful work.”Jax pulled out of her in one sharp motion and dragged her jeans back up her legs with rough urgency. She shoved her arms into the wet shirt he had tossed aside earlier, fingers fumbling with the buttons. Her heart slammed so hard she tasted metal. The knowledge that strangers had watched them, had recorded the private sounds and the way her body had clenched around his, made her stomach turn even as leftover pleasure still flickered low in her belly.Jax grabbed her hand and yanked her out from under the log. They ran downhill through the dark, ferns whipping their legs, m
The motel room smelled like old cigarettes and damp carpet, the kind of place Elara Voss had only seen in movies about people running from their lives. Jax locked the door and shoved a rickety wooden chair under the handle with a sharp scrape. He pulled the thin curtains tight, blocking out the fli
Elara Voss froze in the doorway of her parents' luxurious Beverly Hills bedroom, her bare feet rooted to the cool marble floor. The coppery stench of blood hit her first, thick and nauseating, before her eyes could fully process the horror. Her mother lay sprawled across the king sized bed, designe
The stolen Honda rattled down the Pacific Coast Highway as the sun dipped low, painting the ocean in streaks of fiery orange and deep purple. Elara gripped the door handle, her stomach twisting with every curve in the road. They had left the motel before dawn, Jax insisting they couldn’t stay in on
Rain hammered the thin motel roof like it wanted to drown the whole world. Elara sat cross legged on the edge of the bed, staring at the greasy Chinese takeout containers between them. The black envelope from the funeral still burned in her mind. That photo of her sleeping in Jax’s arms felt more v
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