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"Shit, sorry," he rasped into my ear as he used every inch of himself to holdht left me as pain clouded my senses

"Hey, you still awake?" The Parker boy jostledhis shoulder into mine when I went slack "Oh, fuck I didn’t kill you, did I?" His concern sounded strange since he’d been the one to shove ainst him once and almost freed ht seeped frohtened his grip "Yeah, she’s definitely alive" His breath fannedhot and moist in the base of my stomach

Maybe the knock toelse, but the boiling tingle in an to swirl out and into my veins until every inch of my skin felt prickly It ood he smelled, hoarm he felt I wanted to burrow into his heat and let it soothe away every aching tingle inside me

My resistance slipped

"I would never hurt you on purpose" The words sounded sweet and genuine They made me catch my breath with shock as I feltI don’t know, flattered ently stroked the scrape on s deep insidewith full-body awareness

"You know that, right? You’re safe here" His hushed voice coaxed more from me than he probably intended "Justplease stay still with one, okay? Then, ive me a head start before you scream as loud as you want"

All I heard was, stay with ive hiaze to his, his chocolate brown eyes met mine, and he looked soParkerish

Parkers were the ene to me?

Horrified because I’d let a Parker led a little, just to let hi him wasn’t yes But I didn’t put much effort into it, because honestly, he still affected me I didn’t want to be anywhere else on earth just then I’d never been this close to a boy I wasn’t related to before It was thrilling Kind of daunting but alsoa

My heart thuht my breath when I realized I could feel the erratic beat of his heart, too, as his chest heaved againsthe was as scared as I wasor as scared as I’d been I wasn’t really scared any longer I was captivated

His saze to his hair; the flyaway dark locks matched the color of my favorite trees’ trunks I wanted to touch each strand, runtheainstfor out here?" a third person asked, sounding like Tad, Garrett’s best friend He was even closer to us than either of my brothers had been

I tensed If we stayed here, we’d be spotted within seconds And I wasn’t ready to be discovered just yet, not with the Parker boy so close toquickly, he crouched behind our tree, bringing me down onto er struggled as he kept his hand loosely over my mouth His touch feltto shield me from trouble instead of imprison me into it

"The hell if I know," Garrett called back "But I walked intobaby shit on my bed And when I find him, he’s dead"

This ti shelter from me I almost touched him in reassurance But I stopped myself, because that probably wasn’t what I was supposed to do for the enemy

"I bet it was one of the to claim their newest brat was yours?"

Garrett let out a derisive snort "If you ask me, it was probably that filthy bastard Bruce Parker hiirl"

The Parker boy’s rowl deep in his throat echoed through eance as he clenched his teeth and curled his top lip into a snarl

I grabbed his wrist to stop hiaze slashed tohim with my eyes not to react I’d seen Garrett mad before From the sound of his voice, he was the kind of mad you didn’t want to mess with He tortured cats and small animals for the pure pleasure of it