Oranges.
I wipe my thumb over my jeans, cleaning it before I stroke her face on the screen.
So good. So fucking good to touch her, even like this. Her cheeks must be soft. That little nose, it’s perfect.
Those lips. I’d force them open to take my ropes as a gag, then my dick. I’ve never done it before, never even kissed a girl. But with her, the thoughts come like instinct, raw and demanding.
As if my body’s known all along what it was waiting for.
The things I’d do to her…
For her…
My cock in her pussy. Her stomach swollen with my kids.
Not because she’s some woman to be bred.
Because she’s my woman.
It won’t be easy. Taking her before I get the sleeping pills means I might have to kill my family to get us both out of here.
Sweet and lethal little Reese could stay ten years old forever.
I don’t want that.
Meaning I’ll have to figure it out.
Iwillfigure it out.
Whether she likes it or not, Skylar Evans will be mine.
2
SKYLAR
The smell of gasoline lingers as I wait for the pump to finish. The steady click of numbers is too loud in the stillness.
Manhattan feels impossibly far away.
This gas station, which is in the middle of the vast, dry expanse of Texas, is nothing like the city.
Not in a bad way, just different.
I’ve never traveled outside New York in all my twenty-three years. I spend most of my days and weeks tucked away in the quiet corners of the library or the sterile labs. I’ve been working hard toward my dream of getting into med school.
A dream that’s finally come true. I already got my acceptance letter, so starting this fall, I’ll be one step closer to becoming a surgeon.
Until then, I’m here on this road trip with Bronwyn, my twin, and her boyfriend, Easton.
Since I want to be fully present, I left everything school-related behind. Well, almost everything, except for the scalpel I keep in my bag, a good-luck charm I can’t let go of.
But other than that, nothing.
I don’t want anything eclipsing this monumental trip.
After years of bullying and outright hating me, Bronwyn said she wanted to put the past behind us. She even apologized. Actually apologized.
My jaw just about hit the floor when the words“I’m sorry”came out of her mouth.
