This book contains adult language and adult content. BlurbPiperFrom when I was a little girl, I remember playing hide and seek with my siblings and the Corbin boys. Emeric Corbin would always find me in my secret hiding spot. When we played tag, he always made me it. When we all played chase, Em chased me. And when he caught me, he held me longer than he should.He made me like him. Love him.When … should.
He made me like him.
Love him.
When I was twelve, I dreamt of him and me skinny dipping in the pool of my back yard. I was such a silly kid then.
One late night when I was thirteen, Emeric had tossed a pebble at my window to wake me. I wished he’d been a knight and would have kissed me once he climbed up to my window. That didn’t happen. He just wanted some handheld game back he’d let me play with earlier that day.
When I turned fourteen, that summer I sat at my open window and ogled him shirtless as he and his brothers mowed their grass every other Saturday. It was the highlight of my day then.
I turned fifteen, Em turned seventeen. He grew up. He dated. A lot. I tried to stop sneaking peeks his way—God I really did try.
But not hard enough.
When I turned sixteen, I drooled for Emeric Corbin. I drew hearts on my notebooks and had a red cut out of a heart taped inside my locker. It was our heart that he didn’t know about. Well, until he saw it by accident.
One day he kissed me.
Then broke my heart.
Pushed me away.
Then he left.
Em left me.
Now I’m home for two weeks. He’s here. Emeric. Looking better than the boy that broke my heart years ago.
Emeric
I never saw her as a girlfriend. She was a friend—just a damn girl that lived next door. The prettiest girl I’d ever seen. We hung out ever since I could remember.
I was too old for her.
She was too young for me.
But damn she confused me—my head. My heart.
We had too much history between us.
I didn’t know myself when I was near Piper.
I didn’t want to hurt her again.
I left Kinley early to protect myself. To protect her from me.
Now I’m back. She’s back. And dammit, I can’t stay away from her. I want Piper Temple. Every part of her.
Blood Bayou Killer
Isn’t that the most sweetest load of crap you’ve ever heard? I hid long enough and saw entirely too damn much. It was time to ruffle some feathers once more. Let’s see who remembers…me. Us. But only when I’m ready to strike and they least expect it.
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