He devoured the sob that ripped from me as my fingers slid into his hair and I fisted it in my grasp, the softness of it burning its way into my memories. My heart rate was so furious I was scared I was going to pass out and my knees buckled, making his hand leave my neck and wrap around my waist to support me.
Eventually he pulled away, his large rough hand cupping my cheek. “I’m coming with you.” It wasn’t a request, it was an order.
As if on instinct, I reached up and drew my thumb softly across his bottom lip, the moisture from our kiss transferring on to my thumb. “Okay, I’ll meet you here at eight.”
He grinned at me, his eyes lighting up and sparkling like emeralds. “I’ll be ready.” Excited, he pressed his mouth firmly to mine. “I love you, Dove. We’ll be okay, we will. I promise. I’m going to take care of you both.”
I looked up at him, my eyes moving from the green of his striking eyes, to the deep contours of his heavy cheekbones, to the gruff manliness of his chin, to the soft pout of his lips, and I nodded.
With everything that was to come, throughout the brutalities I endured to keep my little sister fed, nothing was more painful than walking away from him that day.
At six o’clock, Ren and I slid from the campsite, our hands clasped tightly and my heart as numb as the frost on the ground.
And we never looked back.
She left Mr Big behind.
And I left my soul with him.
A romance novel
From D H Sidebottom
I would watch him watch the ocean. He would build fires and sit, all night waiting.
For her. For his dead wife.
She never came. I never expected her to. But he did. And he never let go.
Even when I fell in love with him he never let go.
Until the night of the storm. The night my worst nightmares came to life.
And I lost everything to her when she finally returned.
For us both.
This book contains scenes of sex, violence and substance abuse.
Ten years old I fell in love
Ten years was the price of that love
Ten years later our world’s re-collide
My brother Jonah was possessive when it came to the things he owned; this unfortunately included the people in his life. The forbidden love between his best friend and me was just that … forbidden.
Our families were from different walks of life and as a sheriff’s daughter being with a Moore’s kid would never be tolerated. To my parents their son and Dalton Moore were on different paths and their friendship would end as soon as college began but it was my brother who had a craving for trouble. He was always looking for danger, committing petty crimes and getting away with it because Dalton would take the fall, blackening his already stained name. When Jonah found out we broke the rules by loving each other, his consequences impacted us all with immeasurable suffering.
Betrayal comes with a debt and it would be paid by all of us.
One with their heart,
one with their mind
and one would pay in blood.
I want to thank my readers for having the faith in me to write my first paranormal. Although quite different for me, writing a para has been something that I have been itching to let my fingers and mind play with … and hopefully soon (Due to my teenage son constantly pushing me) I will also be working on a teenage paranormal … But more on that at a later date.
As always I need to thank my best friends, Vickie and Nikki, for their amazing confidence and support. Without your constant nag (Nikki) and your random shit (Vic) life would never be as much fun.
Ker – fucking - Dukey! Once again you’re by my side with natter, laughs and encouragement, and as always, I will forever give it back.
Kyra Lennon for always cleaning up behind me with her amazing editing skills, and Stacey (Champagne Formats) for making my creative words beautiful to the eye as well as the mind.
My betas for chasing my tail every morning and night and telling it me how it is.
And Dawn’s Devoted Divas, my amazing Street Team.
Without any of you this book simply wouldn’t be and no words of thanks are ever enough.
Thank you!!!!
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