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Grant Carter did everything in his power to convince Harlow Manning that he was
a good guy. More than a smooth-talker and someone she could trust. He had to
overcome his reputation as a playboy, and his history with Harlow's half-sister, Nan,
a woman with a reputation of her own.
Harlow had taken the chance, falling hard and fast for the guy who thrilled her with
his all-consuming desire. After a lifetime of avoiding bad boys like Grant, she had
opened herself to the possibilities of love...
But a life-changing secret has torn them apart, and now Grant and Harlow must
decide if they have enough fight to make it work - or if the pain of betrayal has
permanently destroyed their future.
Kiro
Why couldn’t it have been my motherfucking heart?
Why did it have to be my baby girls? I had been asking this question since the day
they told me and Emmy that there was an issue with Harlow’s heart. I would have
moved heaven and earth to take that from her. But just like I couldn’t save my
Emmy. I couldn’t save our daughter.
She was stubborn and she was so
fucking brave. That damn hard head of hers had been something I admired. Until
she decided she was gonna have a baby. I knew she’d never abort it. Wasn’t in her
nature. She had been trying to save the world since she was three years old. She
always put others before herself. She preferred the people she loved over her wants
and needs.
It was one of the things that made her so damn beautiful.
Just like my Emmy. And she was all I had of my Emmy. The light in Emmy’s eyes had
been gone for so long. Every day I visited her I hoped to see her eyes light up with
understanding and she would come back to me but that never happened. Not once.
The only way I could see that light was to look at our Harlow. Our little
miracle. And now, she was lying back there on some goddamn hospital bed with
tubes in her and barely hanging onto life.
All I could think about on the
flight here was how I was going to wrap my hands around Grant Carter’s neck for
doing this to her. He hadn’t thought about her safety he had thought with his fucking
dick. And my sweet Harlow loved the man. She wanted his kid. And he let her do it.
Rush had tried to talk to me and calm me down before Grant got back
out here from seeing the baby that could have very likely just killed my baby. He
said Grant was a wreck. That he had been standing there like a man possessed
watching the door for a sign of Harlow. For any word.
He was scared.
Good. Motherfucking GOOD! He should be. Maybe death was too good for him. A life
empty and void because the woman who owns you is gone is hell on earth. That was
what he deserved. I’d lived it and I knew what it was like. Death would be too easy
for him.
I glanced back at Dean who was sitting with Blaire talking,
then found where the rest of the band had found places to sit. When I’d gotten the
call they had all shown up at the airport with me. They loved my girl too. She was
their family. There was a good chance they’d kill Grant.
“Kiro,” Grant
said and I jerked my head back around to see the man responsible for this. He was
wearing a pair of blue scrubs which meant he’d probably been back to see that baby
that took my Harlow from me. The dark circles under his eyes and the pale color of
his face didn’t make me feel any better.
“You killed my, baby,” I snarled
unable to not take out my pain on someone.
Grant tensed and Rush
was there in between us immediately. He looked fierce and ready to take me on.
“She’s alive. She’s fighting because that is what she does. I don’t give a
damn who you are I will have your ass removed from this hospital if you can’t keep
it together. I’m sorry you’re hurting. I know you’ve got to be scared as shit. But so is
he,” Rush said pointing at Grant. “He’s fucking terrified. Losing her would destroy
him. He’s already breaking apart. So don’t come in here throwing shit around and
accusing him of anything. He stood by the woman he loves when she was
determined to have this baby. He couldn’t force her to do something she’d never get
over.”
Dean came up beside his son and put a hand on Rush’s shoulder
as if to make sure I knew I wasn’t going to be able to attack Rush either.
“The boy looks like he’s been through hell. Harlow wouldn’t want this. She would
want you to be here for each other. You know that, Kiro.” Dean said in a stern tone.
They were all on the boy’s side. He could have stopped this. My baby
wanted to give him a baby. She loved that baby because it was his. So hell yes I
blamed him. He should have used a mother fucking condom.
“He didn’t
protect her. He could have saved us all this with something as simple as a damn
condom.”
Grant closed his eyes and I saw him tremble. Apparently he
knew that too. He was taking the blame. Good. He needed to know if we lost her he
killed her. Him. He didn’t take care of her. She trusted him and this was what
happened.
“He didn’t know about her heart until the day she left him.
She was pregnant before she left. She just didn’t know it,” Rush explained.
I already knew that. I didn’t care. He still should’ve used a condom. Respect a girl
like Harlow and protect her from your dick. It’s fucking courtesy.
“Where the fuck is Mase? His ass should be here,” I said, angry that the brother she
adored wasn’t here. Waiting.
“I’m right here asshole.”
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of TWISTED
PERFECTION, FALLEN TOO FAR, NEVER TOO FAR, JUST FOR NOW, WHILE
IT LASTS, BECAUSE OF LOW, BREATHE, THE VINCENT BOYS, THE VINCENT
BROTHERS, THE EXISTENCE TRILOGY.
