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    Tease: A Dark Bad Boy Romance: Hidden Lust Trilogy, #2
    Tease: A Dark Bad Boy Romance: Hidden Lust Trilogy, #2
    Tease: A Dark Bad Boy Romance: Hidden Lust Trilogy, #2
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    Tease: A Dark Bad Boy Romance: Hidden Lust Trilogy, #2

    By Ashley Hall

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    Tease is book 2 of the Hidden Lust Trilogy. Book 3, Seduce, is available everywhere now!​

    It takes a perfect bastard to ruin a perfect life.

    Wesley Sykes was everything I was taught to stay away from – cocky, foul-mouthed, and living in perpetual sin. He looked the part, too, with broad shoulders wrapped in a leather jacket and a smile designed by the Devil himself.

    And now he’s moving in…to my perfect, religious household.

    All my life I had been the good girl. Wes warned me he was no good, and every time I wanted to get too close, he reminded me of who he was. I wanted to hate him for it, but I couldn’t. Every time he said no just made me want him even more, and no matter how many times I laid in bed, dreaming of his hands on me, it was never enough. I had to try it.

    So I did.

    Just once, I promised myself. But once temptation finally won, once wasn’t enough for either of us. There's no turning back now. I'm just praying that no one ever finds out about the things he’s done to my body when no one was looking.

    But under this roof, nothing ever stays secret for long…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSopris Page Press
    Release dateApr 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386523277
    Tease: A Dark Bad Boy Romance: Hidden Lust Trilogy, #2

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      Tease - Ashley Hall

      TEASE: Hidden Lust Trilogy, Book 2

      By Ashley Hall

      It takes a perfect bastard to ruin a perfect life.

      WESLEY SYKES WAS EVERYTHING I was taught to stay away from – cocky, foul-mouthed, and living in perpetual sin. He looked the part, too, with broad shoulders wrapped in a leather jacket and a smile designed by the Devil himself.

      And now he’s moving in...to my perfect, religious household.

      All my life I had been the good girl. Wes warned me he was no good, and every time I wanted to get too close, he reminded me of who he was. I wanted to hate him for it, but I couldn’t. Every time he said no just made me want him even more, and no matter how many times I laid in bed, dreaming of his hands on me, it was never enough. I had to try it.

      So I did.

      Just once, I promised myself. But once temptation finally won, once wasn’t enough for either of us. There's no turning back now. I'm just praying that no one ever finds out about the things he’s done to my body when no one was looking.

      But under this roof, nothing ever stays secret for long...

      Chapter 1

      Wes

      The next day, church was disgusting and a nightmare. It seemed like every other row, if not more, were full of other poly families. I just couldn’t get away from it. To say I wasn’t in a good mood would be an understatement.

      There were too many of us to all fit in one car, and I ended up riding back to the house—still wasn’t home, would never be home to me—with Jacqueline. For the first mile, we were both quiet. It really rubbed me the wrong way that she hadn’t been one of the ones to speak up for me against Walter yesterday at dinner. April had. So had her mom. Even the boys. But Jacqueline, my own mother, remained mute. That Yvonne had kept silent hadn’t surprised me. She didn’t like me at all, and the feeling was mutual. If Jacqueline wanted to make amends with me, she was doing a shitty job. But what did I expect? Jacqueline only ever put herself first. Now it seemed like she might put her husband before herself, but that still didn’t leave any room for me.

      What do you think of my new job? I asked.

      It’s... She hesitated and glanced at her rear view mirror. Walter was driving behind us.

      You do have a mind of your own, don’t you? I snapped.

      Wesley—

      You’ve made a lot of choices in your life. You chose to wait until I phased out of the system to come and claim as your son. You chose to enter into a poly family. You chose to be the third wife to a man who is controlling and dominating and—

      That’s enough! she barked. Her grip on the steering wheel visibly tightened. I won’t have you question how I’ve lived my life.

      How is that fair? Your choices affect me! I slammed a fist into my open palm.

      Walter is a good man, she insisted, ignoring me. You are the ungrateful one. And I know where it stems from. You lack God. You need Him in your life. It will do you good to go on the youth trip.

      Fat chance. I knew what, and who, I needed in my life. I didn’t need to be told what to do or what to believe. God hadn’t answered my prayers for years. Why would I need someone else in my life who would let me down? Just like she had. I’d be so glad when I could leave this house and make it out in the world on my own. If I thought I could get by without a high school degree, I’d jet now.

      As soon as we got home, I ran out of the car and up to my room. Walter had bought me a few new clothes for school and church, but I preferred my old clothes. I yanked off the golf shirt in exchange for a regular t-shirt and swapped out of the khakis for ripped jeans and grabbed my leather jacket. It was the only item Walter had gotten me that I appreciated.

      Then I knocked on April’s door. Didn’t wait for her to invite me in, just opened the door and shut it behind me.

      Wes...ley, she said slowly. What’s up?

      I hated that she seemed so guarded around me all the time. Maybe it was my own fault. Or maybe she saw how my hands were fists, how I was ready to blow up with barely controlled anger. I just wanted to get the hell out of here, and she might be the only one in this house to understand where I was coming from.

      Too amped up to sit, I

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