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This Regret
by
Victoria Ashley
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~ Synopsis ~
Phoenix has been stumbling through life since her brother Adric's tragic death but after eight years, she is finally piecing what remains together. She has a nice apartment, a steady job and not to mention a fresh new 'relationship' with her childhood friend, Kade Haze. He's the sexy boy next door that she never even dreamed of falling for, but can’t seem to stop the pull she feels toward him.
Just when life began to make sense again and a feeling of normalcy was on the horizon, Phoenix's carefully constructed walls come crashing down.
When walking into the tattoo shop one day, the last thing that she’s expecting to see is Kellan Haze, Adric’s best friend that no one has seen or heard from since the day that they found her brother’s body. He’s nothing as she remembers him as a child, with his wild messy hair, tattoos that cover most of his undeniably sexy body and eyes so intense that it makes her legs quiver with one look. The one thing that even she can’t deny is the instant rush that she feels just by being in his presence.
But how can you choose between love and lust when one of these hold a dark secret, one that can crush your world to pieces and leave you gasping for air. Who can you trust when your mind is pulling you in two different directions and your heart has to choose for you?
The Haze brothers are sexy, daring and possibly . . . dangerous.
This Regret is a story of love, lust, betrayal and danger with an ending that no one saw coming.
~ Excerpt ~
The blast of a .38-caliber revolver sends me
crashing to my knees, landing in the road, with gravel digging deep into the
flesh of my knees.
My hands grip the gritty ground, as if my
life depends on it, making my fingers bleed. Who knows, at this point, maybe it
does.
Even
with my eyes closed, I can feel the world spinning around me, my body
threatening to give up and lose what control I have left. Tears stream down my
horror-stricken face and a silent scream is threatening to form in my throat.
It hurts. It hurts like hell.
That’s when I hear it. A bloodcurdling scream that makes my blood run
cold. Except, it’s not my screaming that is roaring through my ears as I
expected.
It’s
the screaming of a woman. A very angry, hysterical woman.
The
only thing I can decipher is, “Call 911. Somebody fucking call 911. There’s
blood everywhere.”
I can
hear bodies shuffling nearby, some of them even tripping over me to get away,
but I can only process one thought. He’s
gone. Please don’t let him be gone.
With
force, I am yanked to my feet, a large hand smacking me across the face, causing
blood to taste on my tongue.
I try
to focus, but my vision is too blurred to make any sense of who has control of
my body and at this point, I’m not so sure it even matters.
“This
is your fault,” the deep voice growls as I spit blood onto his filthy boots. Narrowing
his eyes, he wraps my hair securely around his hand and yanks my head back,
hard, while his other hand tightens around my throat, squeezing. “You’re going
to pay for this if it’s the last thing I do, you stupid bitch.”
He lets
go of my neck and shoves me down to the ground so my face is pressed into the
gravel, his boot crushing into the back of my skull. Dirt and rocks dig into my
left eye, making it even harder to see through the tears. I desperately look
for the man that hasn’t only crushed then stolen my heart just to crush it
again, but has also replaced a part of me that I thought was long ago lost.
Realizing that my search is pointless, I just lay there defeated,
feeling half-alive, but mostly dead. “Go ahead,” I whisper. “See if you can
hurt me anymore than you already have. I dare you.” My body’s trembling, but I
look him dead in the eye anyways. I’m not scared of dying. Not after losing the
biggest part of me, my heart. “Losing him will be my last regret.” I shift so
that I’m looking at the deep scars that cover his face. They make me sick. He
makes me sick. “That and not killing you when I had the chance.”
Victoria Ashley grew up in Rockford, IL and has had a passion for reading for as long as she can remember. After finding a reading app where it allowed readers to upload their own stories, she gave it a shot and writing became her passion.
She lives for a good romance book with tattooed bad boys that are just highly misunderstood and is not afraid to be caught crying during a good read. When she’s not reading or writing about bad boys, you can find her watching her favorite shows such as, The Vampire Diaries, Dexter and True Blood.
She is the author of Wake Up Call and is currently working on her next book, This Regret releasing in February 2014.
Please check out her author page https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaAshleyAuthor1.
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