Chapter 1

I got dumped again.

Liesel Sawyer, my brand-new ex-girlfriend, gave me the same reason all of my past girlfriends gave me when they also broke up with me.

"You're such a boring guy, Aiden. Can't you be more like Kai? Look at how he treats us girls and sweeps us off our feet? Why don't you learn from him?"

I balled my hands into fists. It felt like I'd just been cucked.

Liesel was the eighth girlfriend Kai Valentine had stolen from me.

I pretended to be fine and agreed to the breakup. However, as soon as she left, I immediately shot up, grabbed my army knife, and dashed toward Kai's nest in eastern Deyork.

He'd stolen my girlfriends, and where we came from in Wooklyn, that meant blood and revenge.

Kai and I had grown up together and often played basketball in the streets. We also took part in underground activities and ran from the cops whenever we got into trouble. Kai had always looked out for me.

However, nobody expected that my family would suddenly go broke when I was just in high school. The mansion I lived in was swapped out for a run-down apartment in a housing project, and my only goal now was to get into military school so that I could escape this hellhole.

Kai had promised to always support me. But as I distanced myself from him, he began to change.

Every time I got a new girlfriend, he would always exact revenge on me and take her away.

I reached Kai's apartment and tried entering his usual passcode into the lock. It hadn't changed in years, and I barged in right after that.

I was planning to burst in and stab him the second I saw him with all the effort I had left. I was desperate.

When I kicked open the bedroom door, I suddenly froze.

Kai was shirtless. He was weight training with a dumbbell, and his body was covered in a beautiful sheen of sweat that made him look as perfect as a statue.

A nine-inch scar ran down his forearm, a relic from his past fights on the streets and a brutal reminder to me of the path he chose.

I wasn't the type who would simply ogle any man's body, but Kai's chest, abs, and beautiful V-line leading farther south had me enamored. I simply couldn't tear my eyes off him.

"Kai Valentine, you bastard!" I shouted, my voice a little shaky.

Kai slowly set down his dumbbell and shrugged on a bathrobe without tying it on, as if purposely offering me another glance.

"Why are you so worked up today, Aiden?" Kai asked, his voice low and scratchy. "I thought you'd already cut off all ties with me."

I stepped forward, the knife still in my pocket. My heart thumped loudly like it was playing the drum.

"You've stolen eight of my girlfriends, Kai Valentine! What is your problem with me?"

I gritted my teeth, barely able to hold back my anger. "What the hell do you want from me?"

Kai just glanced at me coldly and started coming closer to me.

He towered over me at six feet and two inches, and I was a whole head shorter than him. Suddenly, it looked as though I was losing ground.

"Was it because of Liesel?" he asked, stepping even closer. "Do you love her that much?"

I shoved him away. But when my hands pressed against his chest, I realized that it was warm and solid underneath my palms.

"Don't play dumb!"

I quickly pulled my hands away like I'd been electrocuted. "You always ruin things for me every time I find myself a new girlfriend. What are you trying to prove, huh?"

To my surprise, Kai just kept inching closer to me, backing me up against the wall. Then, his hand braced over my head against the wall, and his other hand slid under my chin.

"Did you really think that I was after your girls? Maybe I was just trying to tell you to stop wasting your time on them."

I laughed coldly and shoved at his chest once again, but he didn't budge. Instead, he pressed the lower half of his body against me, and I immediately felt a jolt of electricity when his burning-hot erection pressed up against me.

"Don't use this against me," I roared, unable to hold myself back. "You only stole my girlfriends to prove that you're better than me! Isn't that right?"

"I am better than you in more ways than one. For starters, I have a nine-inch monster in my pants, and I'm sure that I'm also better than you in that department. Wanna compare?"

His hands then slid to my waist, and he hooked his fingers around the end of my belt, rubbing against the edges.

I held my breath as my body began responding to his provocations despite knowing better. Soon, I felt the familiar heat pooling in my groin.

"That's enough!"

I finally shoved him off me and broke the awkward tension in the air. "I'm begging you, Kai. Please leave me and my girlfriends alone. I don't want to stay single for the rest of my life!"

"Are you seriously begging me because of a woman?"

Kai's face turned grim. "Where's that prideful attitude when you iced me out years ago? I thought you said that you were trying to get into military school. So, why are you thinking about dating all the time instead?"

I'd lost all of my leverage at that moment and slinked away in shame.

Kai had a point. I should pull myself together and do my best to get into military school.

Even so, that wasn't a reason for him to steal my girlfriends! I still needed to get revenge on him for that!