Synopsis:
Sometimes outward appearances do not always represent
reality…
That’s what twenty-year old Tori discovers when she moves in
with her best friend Liv for the summer. Liv’s older brother Brady is everything
Tori knows is wrong for her, yet he invokes feelings deep in her soul that
she’s never felt with anyone else. When the two eventually succumb to their irrefutable
feelings, Tori realizes Brady is not the same confident guy she’s secretly
loved for years. Tori desperately wants Brady to confide in her, but he refuses
to talk about the secrets that have drastically changed his life.
Turning to the one person that always makes her laugh, she
begins spending time with Liv and Brady’s younger brother Tug. While the two
spend more and more time together, Tori wonders if her feelings for Tug run
deeper than the “just buddies” status they’ve always shared. As she begins to
explore her feelings, the conflict between brothers she’d hoped to avoid erupts.
She knows she has to choose.
When Brady finally reveals his secrets, Tori makes her
decision; one that may leave them all Irreparably Broken.
Ripping my arm
from Brady’s strong grip, I whirl around glaring at him crossly. “What the fuck
was that about Brady? Jesus Christ, I think you broke his nose.”
Brady throws his
hands up, letting out an irate blast of air. “Fortunately for him that’s all I
did. That dirty bastard should be thanking me for not killing him.” Casting his
eyes over me, I look up at him and see how insanely pissed he is. “Don’t you know
better than to take drinks from strange men in bars, Tori?” His voice sounds
overly concerned for someone who doesn’t give a crap about me.
Guh! I did know
that. Goddammit! My head is swimming in alcohol, clouded and confused. I
haven’t been thinking clearly. Opening my mouth, I taste the rain before I
speak. “Yes, of course I know that. I wasn’t going to drink it.”
I’m lying and
the disbelief on Brady’s face is evident. “Good thing! That douchebag put
something in it. When I saw who he took it too, I completely fucking lost it.”
His swoop in and
save the day gloating is sending my anger to new heights. “Why do you care
anyway Brady? It’s obvious you hate me just as much as I hate you.”
Pacing, Brady
curses under his breath. Drops of water spray out around his face as he rakes
his fingers furiously through his dark wet hair. “Fuck it!” Closing the gap
between us, Brady marches towards me, his boots slapping against the wet
ground. His green eyes deepen in color until they’re nearly black. Nervously, I
back away from him until the cold bricks of the wall press into my back.
Inhaling a long fortifying breath, I glare anxiously at Brady. My heart pounds
in my throat and I struggle to swallow against it.
With one arm on
each side of me, he places his palms flat against the bricks behind me. Our
noses practically touch as hot breath mingles between us. Rain droplets fall
from his dark lashes and land on his cheeks. The tear shaped drops catch in his
stubble, changing directions like a pin ball. Breathing in through my nose, I
smell whiskey on his breath mixed with a scent I’ve loved my entire life,
Brady. Turning from his heated gaze, I shake away my thoughts, knowing how
wrong he is for me.
“Is that what
you think, Tor, that I hate you?” His fiery eyes burn into me. My desire rages
like an inferno ready to ignite my skin.
Blinking twice,
I pour a cold bucket of water on my thoughts and hang my head. “You helped Jake
to cheat on me.”
Putting his
middle three fingers under my chin, he lifts my head. I shiver and tell myself
it’s from the rain. “Jake was always a cheat. I just sped the part along where
you found out what a prick he really is.”
“You’re such a
liar!” I bite my lip because I will not cry. “I hate you, Brady!”
“Do you, Tor.”
His index finger presses into my flesh just below my collar bone. When he
begins trailing it down my skin chasing a rain drop, I have to turn away.
Ignoring the heat burning inside me like red-hot coals, I shake my head stubbornly.
His finger stops when it reaches the curve of my left breast. “Look right here
and ask yourself if you really feel that way?”
He’s right.
Jake’s always been a cheat. Brady’s also spot-on with regard to how I feel
about him. I definitely don’t hate him. I wish I did though.
“I don’t know
what I feel.” Pushing off the wall slightly, I try to move away, but Brady
holds his ground. With his wide shoulders and firm chest in front of me, I
might as well be trapped between two brick walls. My thoughts don’t form with
clarity. Alcohol makes my head feel fuzzy and the water glistening off Brady’s
skin makes him look sexy as hell. As he licks his lips, a few drops fall from
the dark hair in front of his eyes. I’m pissed at myself for thinking about him
like this – for thinking about him at all. Heat clinches my sex and I just want
him to let me go. At the same time, I want him to hold me against this wall and
give me a reason to care.
Without warning,
he crashes his lips to mine, slamming me into the wall. In one fluid motion he
lifts me up and I wrap my legs around his waist. Cupping his hands under my
ass, he holds me up against the bricks. Immediately, I open my mouth to him and
our tongues meet, sweeping and stroking against the others, warm and wet.
Tasting the whiskey on his tongue and something sweet, I moan into his mouth
and run my fingers through his soft damp hair.
Remembering Liv,
I break the kiss. He grips my face roughly between his thumb and fingers and
covers my lips again. “Shit, Brady, stop!” I scream into his mouth.
His shoulders
sag and he groans, his hips pushing into me and I feel his erection. “Christ,
Tori, I really don’t want to. Your mouth tastes as sweet as I always thought it
would and I want nothing more than to shove my tongue right back in it.”
Oh. My. God. Focus, Tori! Focus!
Teaser –
Irreparably Broken – K J Bell
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