Twisted Love: A Brother's Best Friend Romance

Alex…”

“Yes, Sunshine?” He ran a gentle hand through my hair.

“Kiss me.”

Most people thought the biggest sacrifice they could make was to die for something. They were wrong. The biggest sacrifice someone could make was to live for something—to allow it to consume you and turn you into a version of yourself you didn’t recognize.

So we’re coming back for Thanksgiving next year, right?”

Alex sighed. “Maybe.”

In other words, yes.

I beamed. “Maybe we could come up early and go apple pick—”

“Don’t push your luck.”

Fair enough. We’d go apple picking the year after next. Seven hundred-odd days should be enough time to convince him

No physical beating could hurt more than thinking of her. Her face before she walked away would haunt me for the rest of my days

“You are the light to my dark, Sunshine,” he said in a raw voice. His lips brushed against mine as he spoke. “Without you, I’m lost.”

Beautiful words that made my heart pound…but I couldn’t help noticing none of them were “I love you too.”

“I told you, nothing. It was just the lake.” Ava eked out a wobbly smile. “You can’t kill a lake.”

“I’ll drain every fucking lake and ocean in the world if I have to.”

Your own mother didn’t love you. Your own mother tried to kill you.

She felt like heaven to my hell, the closest I’d ever get to salvation, and yet I still wanted to drag her into the depths of Hades with me.

I simply watched her, letting her light creep into the shadowed corners of my soul.