Title: Come
Series: Dirty, Dark & Deadly #1
Author: JA Huss
Release Date: June 25, 2014
My name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming. I walk the shadows like darkness itself. I hide in the corners where nobody looks. I live by no rules, I have no boundaries, I take no prisoners, and I never, ever blink. I am not your knight in shining armor; I’m your worst nightmare.
My name is James Fenici and you are my target. Only one of us is getting out alive, and that’s not gonna be you. Once your name is on my list, your life is over. It’s a deal I make with death, it’s a contract I sign in blood, it’s forgone conclusion—get used to it.
My name is James Fenici and I’m as dirty as they come. But then one day I saw her. And every monster I thought I was. Every fact I thought I knew. Every dirty promise I ever turned down came back to slap me in the face.
My name is James Fenici and I think I am in love.
My name is James Fenici and you are my target. Only one of us is getting out alive, and that’s not gonna be you. Once your name is on my list, your life is over. It’s a deal I make with death, it’s a contract I sign in blood, it’s forgone conclusion—get used to it.
My name is James Fenici and I’m as dirty as they come. But then one day I saw her. And every monster I thought I was. Every fact I thought I knew. Every dirty promise I ever turned down came back to slap me in the face.
My name is James Fenici and I think I am in love.
“I watched you all morning
as you did your circuit. Pull-ups hanging off the railing of the pier. Running
the steps that lead to the beach exactly fifty times. Sit-ups lying on the
sand. And then the final cooldown walk out to the end of the pier just before
dawn. And the entire time, your eyes were sweeping the area. Looking for people.”
“I never saw you,” I say,
the panic back again.
“No, I’m not someone who
likes to be seen, Harper. I’m someone who likes to do the seeing. But I
figured,” he continues, changing the subject back to me, “you were just being
careful. Maybe a bit paranoid. Afraid of getting mugged by a crazy homeless
person looking for drugs. Typical shit, Harper.”
The way he says my name,
God. Why is this man making me feel like this?
“So I was curious. Just an
ordinary kind of curious. The kind of curious I feel when I see an unusual bug.
But diving off a pier—great form by the way, did you take diving in school?” He
doesn’t wait for my answer. “Diving off a pier, to avoid telling me your name?
Now that… Harper, that shit is downright intriguing.”
“It is?”
“Yes.” His lips touch my ear
this time. His tongue slides in and flicks against my skin. I hunch my
shoulders and let out a moan. “I still want the dirty fuck. But not right now.”
“Oh God,” I whimper. “Just
say it already, what do you want with me?”
He pulls away. His hand
comes back to my throat, but it doesn’t rest there. No. His fingertips are
prodding me to lift my head up and meet his gaze head on.
I obey. It’s I’m like stuck
in a trance. He’s entranced me.
“I want to know you.”
And then his mouth is on mine,
his tongue probing, pushing for entrance. His hand goes to that spot between my
legs where it throbs wildly as he creates friction, calling forth more wetness.
His other hand goes to my breast, the nipple hard and bunched from the cold
water, my skin tingling with anticipation, fear, and want.
He tastes like salt and he
kisses like the sea. Like a dangerous, killing, unforgiving sea that can do
whatever it wants with my body. Toss me, twirl me, take me under and steal the
breath right out of me. Make me powerless.
And that’s exactly how I feel.
JA Huss is the USA Today best-selling author of the Rook and Ronin series, the epic science fiction I Am Just Junco series, and hundreds of kid-friendly science books in subjects such as biology, physics, anatomy and physiology, astronomy, and forensics. She has an undergraduate degree in equine science and a master's degree in forensic toxicology. She has never taken a creative writing class and she hopes she never will.
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