Homewrecker (Into the Flames #1) (42 page)

“You OK, baby?” Gunnar whispers, shifting me back so he can see my face. The emotion he’s feeling is written all over his face.

“Yes,” I sob.

“Fuck… tears. I didn’t mean to make you cry,” Dixon whispers above my head. He lifts me off the floor and makes his way to the bed. Placing me in the middle, he climbs up beside me and holds me tightly against his chest. It doesn’t take long for Gunnar to be against my back with his arms around my middle. The entire time Dixon continues to mumble about not wanting me to cry and I think he’s starting to doubt why I’m crying. Thankfully when I can’t speak up and settle his nerves, Gunnar does.

“I think this is one time I can guarantee that she’s cryin’ for a good reason.”

Some people may call me a homewrecker, hell, Gunnar did once, and yeah, it hurt back then. I don’t see it as wrecking our home anymore. I messed up and I tore it apart, yes, but together we’re building it back up stronger than it ever was. We’re giving each other pieces of ourselves that were missing, some that we didn’t even know we needed until we found them. The truth is this outcome might not work for everyone. It’s hard to make a relationship like this work, but it does for us and that’s all we need.

Looking back, I don’t think we could have gotten where we are right now without following the path we all took to get here, sad parts and all. If that makes me a homewrecker, I will proudly walk around with that title strapped across my chest with my head held high. I know that no matter what, I will come home to the unconditional love and support of two amazing men that make me whole. That is honestly the only thing I will ever need to get me through.

There are no ends. Only beginnings.

Acknowledgments

First off we want to thank the readers and bloggers because without you none of this would be possible. You buy, read, review, and either love or hate our characters all while giving them life when reading them.

Tina Morgan, Silla Webb, and Cybill Richey for reading and helping us get our thoughts together when we were both a jumbled mess inside the writer’s cave. Thank you for your love, support, and comic relief.

Wendi Temporado, thank you for fixing our words and making things pretty even though we are complete assholes when we have went days on no sleep with our insanely self-imposed deadlines. We promise no tar and feathers, but make no promises on glitter.

To the amazing Harper Sloan for bringing Kennedy Brooks to life when we thought we’d never find the right person for the muse. You are the greatest and we can’t thank you enough for everything. You are a fucking rockstar!

Noah, the housebitch, for making sammiches and handling all (most) things domestic while we held the apartment hostage for days on end while writing the story that consumed us both. (Except cleaning. Yeah, you could totally do more of that, just sayin’)

Lynsey, Mark, and all our crazy friends because so much of all of us was captured in this book. (For all intents and purposes we made sure to remove names and etc. to protect the guilty from blowback.)

Our neighbors who had to ignore the loud laughing, screaming, music, and everything else we managed to do during the months we spent researching and writing this book. (Yeah, let’s blame the book for all this crazy.)

Also, your bed partners are very welcome.

Other books currently available by Katheryn Kiden:

Where Words Fail (Save Me series, book 1)

Freeing Tuesday (Save Me series, book 2)

Hate Me Today (Save Me series, book 3)

Collaborate (Save Me series, book 4)

Sinner (Sinners & Saints, book 1)

Saint (Sinners & Saints, book 2)

Other books currently available by Cat Mason:

Escaping Me (Shaft on Tour Book 1)

Facing Me (Shaft on Tour Book 2)

Chasing Me (Shaft on Tour Book 3)