ROMANCE: Bad Boy Obsession (Stepbrother Biker Taboo Forbidden Romance Thriller Collection) (New Adult Contemporary Romance Stepbrother Short Stories Collection Book 5) Read Online Free Page A

to his side before looking back at her. She should have known that this kind of anger should have been expected yet here she was with the stranger she shared a house with, unsure of exactly what to do to make everything ok again.
    “Will it run?” Lily asked slowly, hoping that her honestly curious question would not make matters worse but before the questioned had even fully left her lips she knew she couldn’t have been more wrong.
    “For you sake I hope it will,” Mason spat back at her as he paced the ground not daring to stare at his bike for too long, it was obvious to Lily that he cared about the bike more than he cared to admit and for some strange reason that made her warm to him. Normally Lily would have backed away from the harshness of his voice but as she looked into his eyes she knew that in a way he had not meant it, in a way he was just taking out his pain on her and for now she decided she would let me.
    Slowly Lily stood up and under the wary glare of Mason she walked over to the bike. She bent down and without any hesitation she wrapped her fingers around the handle bars and tried to pull it up towards her. It was heavier than she had expected and while she had only managed to pull it a couple of centimeters off the ground it still slowly started to slip from her grip. Giving Mason a look of urgency she was beyond pleased when he jogged over to her and gave her a hand in pulling the bike from the ground.
    Lily backed away as Mason took the full weight of the bike and kicked out the stand to support it. Beyond a couple scratches she couldn’t see any problem with it but then it was not her eye that could tell and as Mason circled the bike again and again she grew increasingly more worried. To calm her renewed nerves she wandered over to the small hedges and patches of dirt where the broken bike pieces had fallen. By the time Lily had walked back over to Mason her arms were full to the brim with bike trimmings and Mason was climbing carefully onto the bike, his helmet now back in place.
    As she struggled with the various pointy pieces of bike she stared up at Mason as he kicked the bike into life and the same thunderous roar Lily had heard before broke her eardrums once again. “Please don’t leave me here,” Lily said in a whispered voice. Lily watched as in an instant everything drained from Mason’s face and the most heartfelt laughter she had ever heard came thundering from his lips. Every single time his eyes closed and reopened to see her stood there yet another wave of laughter erupted from his mouth.
    “I change my mind, leave me here,” Lily said with a pout and she picked out the strangest looking piece of plastic from her arms and held it up, “I’m sure I can barter my way back home with these bike pieces, this thingy,” she said waving the piece around, “Is sure to get me at last half way from wherever it is that we are,”. In astonishment Mason stared at her and a fresh wave of laughter filled the forest, from both of them this time.
    “Get on before I really do leave you behind,” Mason said between his rolling laughter. Without having to be told twice Lily awkwardly climbed onto the back on the bike, all the while being sure not to a drop a single piece of the invaluable pieces just in case he changed his mind. In the short time Lily had known Mason she would definitely not put it past him to change his mind because as much as she hated it he was becoming an expert at changing her own.
     

Chapter Seven
    The ride back from the forest was a stark comparison to that of the ride there and for most of the journey Lily found herself trying not to impale Mason with the pointy plastic and metal that she held precariously in her arms. Each new bump and mound in the ground that had previously been exhilarating was now part of an arduous task to keep both her and Mason alive. She wasn’t entirely sure why she was risking her life for some pieces of plastic but for some strange