I shouldn’t have run from them in the first place. They’d find me soon, and I wanted them to. An air of peace settled in my gut, and I sucked in a new breath, dropping my head back and closing my eyes. The hair on my arms raised up and my skin tingled. I ground my thumbs over my fingertips, cocking my head and studying the red under my fingernails. The gritty sands of dried pain were proof of what I’d done and what I could never deny. Turning my hands palm up, I locked my knees together as I sat on the stone bench and stared down at the blood, darker where it had gathered in the creases of my skin. I could never run, and where would I go if I could? And now every last one of her nightmares will come true. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out. The opportunity is too good to be true as well as the timing. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael.

The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. He is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch.

My nightmares, however, became my obsession.

I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new dark romance…

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