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All his secrets.
He holds me vulnerable, but I have the upper hand here too.
For some reason, I want to use it.
All of it.
Now.
I shove the invisible knife in deeper. “You know your father loves you. He had nothing to do with your mother’s—”
In a split second, Hawk’s face is in front of me.
He grabs my chin. Drags me close.
A heartbeat later, his mouth descends on mine.
His lips are firm and unbending.
Strong fingers curl around the back of my neck, crashing my curly hair to my skin and holding firm.
He tastes like tequila.
Like sin.
Like bad decisions.
My lips cave to his naturally, as if he’s the ocean and I’m the sand.
My hands lift, but they don’t know what to do, where to go.
Salty water sprays the air. Stings my cheek. Bats my hair around.
The wind is as hard as his mouth on my lips.
I groan softly.
The pressure of his mouth increases.
Even as pleasure licks through my body, I know…
This is not a romantic embrace.
It’s a punishment.
Hawk pulls back before I can blink.
Rubbing my bottom lip, he says low under his breath, “This game is over.”
I watch in stunned silence, my heart thrashing and moaning like the wind, as Hawk gets up and storms away.
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HAWK
I grip the boat’s railing, my fingers curling over metal as a dark tempest sweeps through me.
All around, black waves gnash their teeth at the vessel thrusting inside them. The angry whoosh of the ocean is overwhelming.
