Total pages in book: 181
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
My half sister died at the hands of a friend, and I vowed to make him pay.
In the midst of a brewing war between two rival families, the mysterious and friendly Grey Westbrook sweeps me off my feet when I need it the most.
However, my childhood friend Levi Torres—now an obsessive, vicious boy—has made it his mission to erase him from my life.
His arrogant and hedonistic cousin Apollo Torres offers protection against Levi's wrath if I agree to all his filthy demands. But Levi and Apollo aren't my only problems …
A ghost of the past is hunting me, promising sweet vengeance, and the temptation is too big to resist.
My body is ravished and ruined, and I don’t want the depravity to stop, even if my stalker is someone I know.
Three jealous, insatiable boys who were there that night still fight to own me … Betray me.
One is a killer.
One is a sinner.
One is a big, fat liar.
And I will expose them all
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PROLOGUE
Aspen
“I gave you the chance to fight, and you wasted it all … Now, I’ll lay waste to you.”
His fingers latch around my throat as he forces me to look at him.
Levi. My friend. My lover. My sworn enemy.
One of three vicious boys obsessed with the thought of owning me.
Apollo and Grey each grasp a wrist and pin it to the bed, shackling me in place.
The fire in my heart still rages on and on.
I was supposed to kill my sister’s murderer.
And they were supposed to help me.
Instead, they lied, cheated, and betrayed me, and I led myself right into the palm of their hands.
Willingly.
Over and over again … until my mind and body lay in ruin.
Levi’s fingers dig into my skin, and my eyes slowly roll back into my head as he plunges in, while Grey and Apollo play with me until my entire body quakes and my mind floats off into the nether along with my morals.
“But you don’t mind, do you?” Levi says, a filthy smirk spreading beneath his mask. “Because you like being choked until you're gasping for breath. You like being chased until your legs give out and you’re forced to kneel. You like it when I force out the moans, and you like it when you’ve turned into nothing but a good little slut for us to use.”
Theirs.
That’s what I’ve always been, even when I couldn’t see it through the anger and the deceit.
My body burns from their touch, and every depraved kiss pulls me further into their claws until there’s no way back.
No way back from the corruption that slowly taints my soul.
“You’ve destroyed me in the best way possible,” Grey says, planting kisses all over my body.
Their moans disintegrate the only resistance I had left, their need all-consuming.
And they know.
Levi pulls out, only to lean in and whisper, “Go on … beg.”
I don’t even have to think about it. “Please …”
The devilish grin on his face makes my heart flutter despite the hatred still coiled around my heart.
Apollo smirks as he circles the pad of his thumb around my most sensitive area. “Then take it like a good girl and moan for us.”
Craving these Phantom boys is the worst thing I could’ve ever done, and I never imagined hate could ever feel so fucking good …
That I would need to be yearned so badly it broke me …
To be yearned so badly that it broke them.
CHAPTER 1
Levi
The cliffs beneath me run steep, the rocks down below promising imminent death.
That’s exactly why we’re here.
I didn’t just want to camp out with the guys in the woods far above Lake Verity at the top of the mountain for the fun of it. I wanted everyone to face their fucking fears and jump into the abyss with me.
I turn my head to find the girl who has been the bane of my existence and the sole reason I’m here.
Look at me. Look at me. Look. At. Me!
Her eyes find mine in the thick of night, like a moth summoned to a flame.
It’s never going to be enough.
One breath. In and out. That’s all I need to know that she saw me.
I blink once, tighten my muscles, and make the jump. Down, down, down the cliff to the water below.
My jump is meticulous, my angle calculated, my gaze fixated.
Not on the sea beyond, but her eyes.
God, those ocean eyes will be my undoing one day. And I would rather risk drowning in the water beneath my fingertips than forever submersing myself in the limbo she banished me to.
Behind me, cheers of my friends and family erupt.
“Whooo!” Apollo, my cousin, screams into the void.
Mavis and Cecelia clap, but I ignore the sound.
The sea is as cold as ice as my entire body is submerged, and as the water fills my ears, I close my eyes and focus on my heartbeat.
Here, there are no rules, no time, no eyes to judge me.
Nothing … except me and the thought of absolute ruin.
The ruin … of her.
Fuck.
Aspen Caruso…
I would kill for you.
Aspen
Later that night
Nothing burns as brightly as the set of deep brown eyes staring right back at me through the flames.
Flickers of fire flutter into the air above, casting an eerie shadow over the ground as my gaze follows the burned-out wood chips, the thick smoke making it hard to breathe.
I cough and look away, desperate to maintain the gentle equilibrium in my heart, but the pang is almost immediate. The boy with the scorpion tattoo is seared into my mind like a scar on my vision. Levi Torres. His middle-parted fringe falls over his gleaming eyes as he leans over to grab a new marshmallow for his stick. Even when I’m not looking at him, I can still feel his penetrating gaze on my skin, coaxing out the rapid heartbeats.