He whipped around and our gazes collided, his keen, dark eyes meeting mine.
There was no sound as he crossed the room, his stride decisive. His feet were as bare as his chest, quietly carrying all those formidable muscles straight toward me. Shock and fear froze me in place as I took in my oncoming doom.
The voice I couldn’t place, the face I couldn’t recall, the indefinable something I couldn’t quite remember, all of it coalesced into this terrifying man as he bore down on me like a predator does its prey.
He stopped, looming over me, and bent close enough that I could smell the sweat clinging to his body, see the tiny lines bracketing his eyes, note the specks of gray in his weeks’ worth of scruff. I was too scared to move. Too stunned to even tremble.
“Do you know who I am?” His face was expressionless, his voice a stone slab dropping from the sky, slapping the earth, crushing and killing all living things beneath it.
I did know him. He’d loved my sister once, had smiled every time he looked at her.
Still frozen, I breathed his name. “ZZ.”
About the Author
Fantastical realm-dweller Madeline Sheehan is the USA Today bestselling author of the Holy Trinity Trilogy and Undeniable series. She has also co-authored with Claire C. Riley the Thicker Than Blood series, and Shut Up and Kiss Me.
A Social Distortion enthusiast, lover of mud and anything deemed socially inappropriate, Madeline was homegrown in Buffalo, New York, where she can be found engaging in food fights and video game marathons with her husband and son.
Welcome to her world of fantastical romance, full of unconventional love and unscripted emotions.