Masked

MASKED

Enemies to Lovers, Strangers to Lovers: Discover a darker, short story in Lena Little’s MASKED

Rickon’s world is brutal. He plies his trade in misery. Collecting debts is always bloody. But when he beats the father of a beautiful younger woman, he fears he’s made an enemy for life. Of the very woman who has suddenly bent his world out of shape. Then he saves her from a punk. But it’s Halloween, and they are both masked. Their bodies betray their feelings for each other. But what happens when the masks come off?

Halloween is the perfect day for men like me
The type who don’t scare easily
Collecting debts in blood and suffering
It was all going smoothly until she walked through the door
Red hair matching her trembling fury
Ocean blue eyes I wanted to drown in
The daughter of the man I had in a messy puddle at my feet
I’m hooked from the second I see her. Drawn
I’m watching, protecting, pursuing. Waiting
Halloween is a night to don a mask
But for me, it’s the one night I can take the mask off
And hers too