Part 28 (1/2)

Fear cannonballed through my system.

I looked at the curtains, noticing for the first time a sliver of light as the sun welcomed the dawn.

You're leaving tomorrow.

Forever.

My heart shrivelled into cinders.

I'd forgotten.

Somehow, this singular man had made me forget. Made me forget my grief, my goals, my dreams-all in one night of pa.s.sion.

How had I forgotten?

My skin went ice cold.

His power over me was too strong. His allure far too dangerous.

He could ruin my future. Ruin everything I'd run so blindly toward.

I couldn't stay.

I couldn't spend the day with him tomorrow.

I had to follow my dreams.

I have to leave Cas Smith behind.

That was the first time fate put him in my path.

But not the last.

Cas was right about one thing-he'd stolen a piece of me that night-a part I would never get back; something that would forever belong to him, binding us forever.

So I ran.

Did I choose the right path?

Did I follow the right dream?

I thought I had at the time.

I thought I knew what I wanted.

But in the end, the truth came out, revealing the road I'd chosen-the one glittering with fame and fortune-was the wrong one.

I chose the road covered in filth and deception.

I chose the road filled with treachery and treason.

And by doing so, I made sure I would never deserve the one person who could've saved me.

But fate wasn't done with us.

Cas wasn't done with me.

The rest of Cas and Saffron's story will be told in the full length book, Forbidden Flaws, releasing early 2015.

This is a Contemporary Erotica and a standalone.

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ABOUT PEPPER WINTERS.

Pepper Winters is a NYT and USA Today International Bestseller. She wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and s.e.x... her books have s.e.x.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She's also honoured to wear the IndieReader Badge for being a Top 10 Indie Bestsellers, best BDSM series voted by the s.m.u.tClub, and recently signed a two-book deal with Grand Central. Her books are currently being translated into numerous languages and will be in bookstores in the near future.

Her Dark Romance books include (click for buy links from numerous online sites):.

Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark #1).

Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark #2).

Twisted Together (Monsters in the Dark #3).

Debt Inheritance (Indebted #1).

Her Grey Romance books include (click for buylinks from numerous online sites):.

Destroyed.

Upcoming releases are (click the link to add to Goodreads).

First Debt (Indebted Series #2).

Ruin & Rule (Motorcycle romance).