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I sigh heavily “I’ to worry about”

“I thought the sarits between his teeth

“I swear to you, I won’t I don’t knohat in the hell happened all those years ago, but whatever it was, that shit’s not infor Jules” The lie slips out easily I do feel so for her I just don’t knohat it is

He takes a couple steps closer, his expression hardening He doesn’t stop until he’s in my face

“Good, because shit won’t happen like it did last ti kill you”

If any man other than Theo threatened me like that, I’d drop him faster than a whore drops her panties when she sees a hundred-dollar bill He has every right to be angry and worried The menace in his voice would scare most men, but he’s my twin, and I knohat he’s capable of Beat

“Back off,” I growl He ht, but I still don’t like hi will happen”

After a lare at each other, he takes a step back

“Make sure it doesn’t”

He turns and storms across the yard, up the stairs, and disappears inside his house I take athe re inside, I peel away from the curb

As I drive to the shop, I think about Jules’s dreah that one tries to worm its way inside, but the black room and the sinister silhouette she mentions

So tells me I’m that silhouette

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Luca

I CLOSE MY EYES AND breathe in the sildflower scent, then bury my face in the thick luscious hair in front ofthe s small bites as I work my way toward her ear I smile when I hear her breathy little moans