Blood Red Rose (Rose and Thorn Book 1) Page 16

  We drank it together, straight from the bottle.

  Later on, he held me in his arms, my hair fanned out across his chest and the taste of cinnamon still tingling my mouth. He was stroking me, his fingers running over my bleeding feet, the damage I’d inflicted myself. I knew he was angry, and I braced myself for the punishment that was undoubtedly coming. I’d hurt myself – something that surely went against the rules he’d set for me. The rules I was meant to live by.

  “Why did you do it?” he asked roughly, his voice harsh. “Why did you dance on those roses?”

  “I had to,” I whispered. “I had to feel a different kind of pain.”

  His chest strained under my head and I crawled on top of him, my knees on his crotch as I settled down in a fetal position against his torso.

  “I don’t want to be me anymore,” I whispered, and I could feel his guilt, how fucking broken he was because of what he’d done to me.

  There was no excuse, and there was no way back. All there was left to do was for me to forgive him. It would take a long time.

  “Who do you want to be?” he asked, his tone softer, his hands stroking every spot that hurt and ached for him.

  “Yours,” I whispered. “I want to be your Rose.”

  “You have a lot to learn,” he reminded me. “You don’t know me yet… You might not like what you find out.”

  I didn’t reply, just looked up at him with my eyes brimming with tears. We were both so fucked up. He’d done terrible things to me, and I wanted more, god-fucking-damnit, I wanted more.

  “I don’t care,” I finally admitted. “Let me be yours. Train me. Let me be what you want.”

  He stroked. Touched. My body trembled with anticipation, desperate for him to kiss me. Desperate to know more about the man who held my fate in his hands.

  “My Rose…” he whispered, and in that moment, I knew my life as I knew it had ended.

  I would run from him again. This I knew for certain. But that moment hadn’t come.

  Goodbye, Harlow Granger.

  Hello, Thorn’s Rose.

  To be continued…

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  Acknowledgments

  Thank you for taking a chance on me and following me to the dark side.

  I’ve always been intrigued by darkness, and it has been a longtime dream of mine to write a captive romance. Even though Thorn and Rose’s story is only starting, I’m already feeling these characters come to life, and I have so much in store for them in the next two books (up for preorder now!)

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  I wrote this book not only for myself but also for the readers out there who CRAVE darkness just like I do. Please keep reading. The story has only just begun…

  Isabella writing as Fawn Bailey

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