BATHED IN BLOOD (DARK DESIRES AND SINFUL SWEETHEARTS #1) BY CALLIE MOSS – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Callie Moss
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Breeze
Limbo by Freddie Dredd
Mom always told me that the ferocious way I loved the people was
admirable, that someone who loved with their entire being was rare.
She said I’d make an amazing wife and mother someday. To me, love never
felt like a steady burning flame. No, it felt like an unyielding explosion. As
I grew, I realized just how wrong she was, how loving like this was painful
more times than not. I loved suddenly, deeply, and I ached deeply. Mom
admired it anyway, so I never tried to change it, never made so much as a
move to protect myself from… myself, from what that undying, selfless
kind of love does to a person.
I always knew my little brother was her favorite. Lewis needed her doting
in a way I never did, so I understood, even when it took away from what
time she and I had. Truth is, I adored him too.
Almost as much as her.
With his shaggy, caramel colored hair, the way he refused to let it be
brushed, but insisted upon keeping it long; what was there not to love about
the way he unapologetically followed every whim he had the moment it
popped into his head? The way his golden bronze eyes looked at everything
like a door waiting to be opened, consequences be dammed.
He was her baby boy, her fierce ray of sun. Me? She said I was like the
breeze on days her sun was shining too brightly. I made the fierceness of the
sun bearable. I was the best big sister ever; he told me so himself. It was a
role I took seriously.
Maybe that’s why it was so easy that day to sign my life over for his. It
wasn’t even a question in my mind; I didn’t take even a second to consider
the consequences.
When I rushed into that godforsaken parking garage and saw Lewis on
his knees, bloodied and terrified, all I could see was the bright eyed,
headstrong toddler who needed his big sister to kiss his skinned knee and
then swear to never tell his friends. He was the little boy who ran through
the woods behind our house and climbed the biggest tree he could find. I
didn’t see the man he had become, those golden eyes swallowed by his
pupils, his young face aged by years of hard addiction. I didn’t see the track
marks that lined his arms or the way his hands shook.
He was my little brother.
I should’ve left him there that day, my love soured by the times he’d
stolen from me, hurt me and Mom in a drug induced rage. I should’ve
remembered the night the very men who held him hostage broke into our
home looking for him.
How their hired muscle beat on Mom. How terrified
I was, how my throat burned from screaming. I didn’t think of any of those
things. All I felt was that stupid, unyielding, explosive love. I thought of
how hard Mom would cry. It would kill her as surely as they would kill him
once they wrung him dry. She was nothing without that little boy, but me?
I was the breeze.
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