Ruthless 🖤 Excerpt Reveal

🖤  𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋 🖤

𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬by Hannah Gray is releasing August 29th!!! This is Hudson and Briar’s story and is a spinoff from the Puck Boys of Brooks University series. Check out this excerpt!

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What to expect:

🖤Mafia Romance

🖤Forbidden Relationship

🖤He wants her but can’t have her

🖤Secrets & Lies

EXCERPT:

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing, Dove?” the voice growls against my head. It’s familiar. Too familiar. “Snooping, are you?”

“I, um … I just wanted to see the whole house.” I try to keep my voice from shaking, but it’s nearly impossible. “I was wondering what was in that room. I’ve seen everyone else go in there. Why can’t I?”

Being blonde, I’ve already been called dumb my entire life. Right now, I’m going to lean into that stigma and play the airhead everyone paints me to be anyway.

“I heard some of the guys talking. They said it was a library.” I make my voice whiny and extremely annoying. “I love to read. Why can’t I go in? It’s such a waste.”

I cringe, hearing the shit coming from my mouth. I sound like a pouty little kid who isn’t allowed to go on the playground. But I can’t give this man any sign of what I’m actually up to.

Slowly, the strong man moves me to face him and crowds me against the wall.

I gulp when I take in Hudson. He’s in a white T-shirt today. A T-shirt that hugs his arms deliciously.

“There’s a camera directly above the door in there,” he growls at me. “You walk in there?” His eyes narrow. “Consider yourself dead.”

His jawline is sharp, and I imagine running my finger across it and touching the stubble sprinkled on it. He’s got one of those piercing, dimpled chins you see in movies that no man actually has in real life. His blue eyes are more of a stormy-gray color today. And his dirty-blond hair falls perfectly. Like he styled it, though I’m sure he didn’t.

“S-sorry,” I whisper. My body is painfully aware that he’s holding me here, against this wall. That should scare me and make me want to run. But instead … my skin buzzes, and my heart races in my chest. “I didn’t know that I wasn’t supposed to go in there.”

He gazes down at me as if he’s waiting for me to crack. He doesn’t know me well if he thinks that I will. I was raised to lie to teachers, social workers, and police officers when they questioned me about my parents’ well-being.

“Hudson?” a voice yells from the bottom of the stairs. “Did you go into the office? The system is saying there was a breach.”

Before I realize it, Hudson’s hand covers my mouth—even though I wasn’t going to say anything anyway.

He doesn’t look flustered, though his hand presses slightly harder on my mouth. “Yeah. Uh, sorry, Rossi. I was doing my check throughout the building, and the door to the office was left unlocked.” He swallows, and I watch his neck move slowly. “All set now.”

Rossi doesn’t answer right away, but eventually, he calls back, “Uh … okay. Boss isn’t going to like that.”

“I’ll take care of it,” he snaps. “Next time, they should make sure it’s fucking locked if they don’t want this shit happening.”

Seconds later, I hear Rossi’s footsteps as he walks away from the stairs, but Hudson keeps his hand on my mouth, and I panic.

“I’m going to take my hand away from your mouth, and you’re going to go to your room. Quietly,” he says through gritted teeth. “Do you fucking understand?”

My heart pumps with fear. One second, I felt like he was possibly my ally, helping me find my bracelet and taking me to McDonald’s when I told him I was hungry. And now, I fear him.

Sluggishly, I nod, and just like he said, he pulls his hand back slowly.

As I shuffle between him and the wall, he grabs my wrist and stops me from moving farther away. “Don’t go looking for things, Dove. You’re not going to like what you find.”

BLURB:

Hudson

The first time I saw Briar James, I knew she was trouble. Maybe not as far as everyone else was concerned. But for me, she was a red-hot flag that I needed to avoid at all costs. But that wasn’t an option. After all, I was hired to be her security guard. And when she looked like an angel with a voice as sweet as syrup and the body of a temptress… the job went from hard to mission impossible.

I’ve always made myself indifferent to other people’s problems. I’ve done my job and turned a blind eye when need be. But when it came to her, for the first time in my life, I couldn’t look away. But it becomes pretty clear that she’s not nearly as helpless as she’s led on.

I’m about to learn that Briar James backs down to no one. Including me. And that I can either fight alongside her or lose her altogether. And the latter? Yeah. Not an option.

Bonnie and Clyde fought together, and they both wound up dead. The question is…will that be me and my sweet Dove’s fate too?

Briar

Hudson never looked at me when he walked into a room. Instead, he’d act like I wasn’t there at all. But I knew he saw me. I just never realized how much until the night he saved my life and kissed me in the dark. And even though my uncle was forcing me to marry another man, my heart didn’t beat the same after that night.

He called me Dove because he saw me as a helpless, pathetic girl who did as she was told. He thought I was weak. Blind to my surroundings. Obedient.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

I’ve always heard that true love has no limits. I just never realized how true that was.

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