Synopsis
Phoenix has been stumbling through life since her brother Adric's tragic
death but after eight years, she is finally piecing what remains together. She
has a nice apartment, a steady job and not to mention a fresh new
'relationship' with her childhood friend, Kade Haze. He's the sexy boy next
door she never even dreamed of falling for, but can’t seem to stop the pull she
feels toward him.
Just when life began to make sense again and a feeling of normalcy was on the horizon, Phoenix's carefully constructed walls come crashing down.
When walking into the tattoo shop one day, the last thing she’s expecting to see is Kellan Haze, Adric’s best friend no one has seen or heard from since the day they found her brother’s body. He’s nothing as she remembers him as a child, with his wild messy hair, tattoos that cover most of his undeniably sexy body and eyes so intense it makes her legs quiver with one look. The one thing even she can’t deny is the instant rush she feels just by being in his presence.
But how can you choose between love and lust when one of these hold a dark secret, one that can crush your world to pieces and leave you gasping for air. Who can you trust when your mind is pulling you in two different directions and your heart has to choose for you?
The Haze brothers are sexy, daring and possibly . . . dangerous.
This Regret is a story of love, lust, betrayal and danger with an ending that no one saw coming.
Just when life began to make sense again and a feeling of normalcy was on the horizon, Phoenix's carefully constructed walls come crashing down.
When walking into the tattoo shop one day, the last thing she’s expecting to see is Kellan Haze, Adric’s best friend no one has seen or heard from since the day they found her brother’s body. He’s nothing as she remembers him as a child, with his wild messy hair, tattoos that cover most of his undeniably sexy body and eyes so intense it makes her legs quiver with one look. The one thing even she can’t deny is the instant rush she feels just by being in his presence.
But how can you choose between love and lust when one of these hold a dark secret, one that can crush your world to pieces and leave you gasping for air. Who can you trust when your mind is pulling you in two different directions and your heart has to choose for you?
The Haze brothers are sexy, daring and possibly . . . dangerous.
This Regret is a story of love, lust, betrayal and danger with an ending that no one saw coming.
The
blast of a .38-caliber revolver sends me crashing to my knees, landing in the
road, with gravel digging deep into the flesh of my knees.
My
hands grip the gritty ground, as if my life depends on it, making my fingers
bleed. Who knows, at this point, maybe it does.
Even with my eyes closed, I can feel the
world spinning around me, my body threatening to give up and lose what control
I have left. Tears stream down my horror-stricken face and a silent scream is
threatening to form in my throat. It hurts. It hurts like hell.
That’s when I hear it. A bloodcurdling
scream that makes my blood run cold. Except, it’s not my screaming that is
roaring through my ears as I expected.
It’s the screaming of a woman. A very
angry, hysterical woman.
The only thing I can decipher is, “Call
911. Somebody fucking call 911. There’s blood everywhere.”
I can hear bodies shuffling nearby, some
of them even tripping over me to get away, but I can only process one thought. He’s gone. Please don’t let him be gone.
With force, I am yanked to my feet, a
large hand smacking me across the face, causing blood to taste on my tongue.
I try to focus, but my vision is too
blurred to make any sense of who has control of my body and at this point, I’m
not so sure it even matters.
“This is your fault,” the deep voice
growls as I spit blood onto his filthy boots. Narrowing his eyes, he wraps my
hair securely around his hand and yanks my head back, hard, while his other
hand tightens around my throat, squeezing. “You’re going to pay for this if
it’s the last thing I do, you stupid bitch.”
He lets go of my neck and shoves me down
to the ground so my face is pressed into the gravel, his boot crushing into the
back of my skull. Dirt and rocks dig into my left eye, making it even harder to
see through the tears. I desperately look for the man that hasn’t only crushed
then stolen my heart just to crush it again, but has also replaced a part of me
that I thought was long ago lost.
Realizing that my search is pointless, I
just lay there defeated, feeling half-alive, but mostly dead. “Go ahead,” I
whisper. “See if you can hurt me anymore than you already have. I dare you.” My
body’s trembling, but I look him dead in the eye anyways. I’m not scared of
dying. Not after losing the biggest part of me, my heart. “Losing him will be
my last regret.” I shift so that I’m looking at the deep scars that cover his
face. They make me sick. He makes me sick. “That and not killing you when I had
the chance.”
Author Bio
Victoria Ashley grew up in
Rockford, IL and has had a passion for reading for as long as she can remember.
After finding a reading app where it allowed readers to upload their own
stories, she gave it a shot and writing became her passion.
She lives for a good
romance book with tattooed bad boys that are just highly misunderstood and is
not afraid to be caught crying during a good read. When she’s not reading or
writing about bad boys, you can find her watching her favorites shows such as
Sons Of Anarchy, Dexter and True Blood.
She is the author of Wake
Up Call and This Regret and is currently working on more releases for 2014.
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