Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 101

Chapter 101

“You can go now.”

His command buzzed in my ears, and in the blink of an eye, I felt a sudden tug around my waist and was yanked into Hogan’s arms.

That familiar scent of soap wreaked havoc on my nostrils, sending my heartbeat into overdrive. I looked up, puzzled, only to see the flames of desire igniting in the depths of his eyes.

Was I seeing things? Just a second ago, Hogan was ready to kick me to the curb.

I took a step back, politely declining, “Thanks, I’m good.”

But my retreat only prompted Hogan to close in more aggressively. It was a game of push and pull until my feet hit the couch – nowhere left to run.

The man before me exuded an inexplicable sense of invasion, staring me down intensely. We were so close that I could clearly see his Adam’s apple bobbing.

“Mr. Zade, I think I should,”

fiercely, prying my lips apart, his eagerness fanning the flames of my dormant

second, the word “craving” popped into my head. My sense slowly drowned in the heat of

real. But then, I felt his fingers tracing over my wrist, and my crumbling sanity snapped back. I turned my

against me. The moment of intimacy was lost,

moment, I heard Hogan ask, “Is that bracelet really

just now. At the thought of the hideous scar it

is that trinket Darren gave you so precious

met Hogan’s gaze in disbelief, his eyes red at the edges, dark

morphed into a dagger, stabbing me

by now; even if it lost some beauty, it’d somehow healed

Oh, Hogan, if only you took a closer look at the pattern on the bracelet,

of standoff, his lips barely moved as he uttered

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