Page 67 of Forever Zara

Loving them all, she would always fight anyone who had shit to say about them.

There was no simple way out of this without someone being hurt.

Harper, most of all.

Sometimes there were no whys or reasons. Just feelings that couldn’t be explained.

With her mom’s dramatics, she sighed into his side and felt him chuckling.

“Cheer up, doodle, shit ain’t as bad as it seems.”

Oh, but it was. If only he knew.

There was still the taste of a man so wrong in her mouth, aching for more. She craved the temptation of him when she was smart enough to know she should not only walk away but run in the opposite direction. Far from dumb, she’d been brought up in a biker world. They taught ABC’s and how to survive, cheat and con, lie and protect, fight, and rely on each other because the club never hurt each other.

How could she forget the taste in her mouth when it already stained her soul? It was heady and intoxicating. Hot and male. He kissed like a man, an alpha, someone who wouldn’t let her get her way. The kind of man she’d craved and not known it until he was there.

A weak man would never have turned her head, never caught her attention.

She’d never been a woman to latch onto anything for long.

But this man? Oh, she could sew herself into his skin.

That was if she didn’t kill him first.

If her dad had the full story, he’d know shit was as bad as it seemed.

Knox knew now because he was damn nosy, and he wanted blood.

She’d figure it out. Somehow.

Being a Marinos meant, though she felt helpless, she was far from it.

There was a way to fix all this.

Maybe Angie would know what she could do. She’d always been able to confide in her.

First, she had to find her dumb-headed brother, who thought he ruled her life, and put him in a box, then push him into the sea.

Or something similar which would keep his trap shut.

“You raised a pig-headed mule, Dad.” She huffed with a big sigh.

“Raised three of ‘em,” he said, amused. “Come on. Your mom has lunch made. She wants to see you.”

“And you were sent to fetch me?”

They all knew their dad would do anything for Zara Marinos.

It was so damn cute, the kind of cute which made a heart ping for the same love her parents felt for each other. Later this month, he was whisking her away for a surprise trip.

Love wasn’t easy.

It kinda stunk.

Harper would have lunch with her parents, let her mom fuss over her for a while. She wouldn’t think about hot, forbidden kisses from the last man on earth she should ever attach her feelings to.

Only she would.

Throughout lunch, it was all Harper could think about.

And that night, she went to Cain again.

THE END