Caution: Enzo & Paige by Lucy Rinaldi

Paige: Enzo Ryker is every woman’s fantasy come to life. He’s tall, incredibly well-built, handsome to a fault. A firefighter, paramedic, hotel owning bare knuckle cage fighter. The man I have loved all my life. The big brother of one of my best friends, my big brother’s best friend. The man who doesn’t even look at me twice. It’s not because I’m curvy, covered in tattoos and piercings. It’s because he believes himself to be a monster. I think that’s bullshit. He’s hiding from something. I believe he can’t bring himself to feel anything for me because of how his ex and her baby died. The baby who wasn’t biologically his, but he loved her nonetheless. When he’s injured in a road traffic accident, I’m the nurse his brother wants caring for him, I’m the nurse Enzo pushes all his anger toward, I’m the one he treats like the enemy. I’m the girl he beds, uses, treats like crap. I’m the girl who can’t say no. I am a toy for him to play with and put down when he’s bored. I’m the one he won’t let move on. Each time I try, he pulls me back in. But I know I will never be anything more to him, and that kills me inside. Leaving is the only way to get over him. So that’s what I do.

Enzo: Paige Monroe is everything I cannot want. Everything my heart yearns for. But you see, I am a monster, no good to any woman. My ex-killing herself should be proof enough of that. But Paige drives me crazy, one taste – one stupid taste – and I’m hooked on her. Her tight little c**t, her curves in all the right places, her moans as she O’s for me. That’s my drug, my need, my desire. But she can’t want me, she can’t want the monster within. I treat her like s**t, I use her up and wear her out. But I warned her that I would. I take her whenever and wherever the hell I please with no promise of a future for us. I want her to move on, to find somebody who will love her the way she deserves, but my selfish heart won’t allow it once I see it. Then something happens to her, something bad, and I realize just what she means to me. The little shock I get from a certain doctor only cements my need to finally make her mine. But Paige has other plans, and I have no one to blame but myself. Will I ever find her?