Chapter Twenty

EMELIA

Love should be easy.

But it never is, even when everything appears to be moving in the right direction, some circumstances will smack it into the opposite direction.

I hated love, but I also loved love and now, I live it, it's all I can breathe, thanks to Ryker.

Ryker healed me from every trauma I didn't know existed within me, and he says I made the demons that lived rent free in his head tea and it quieted them.

When I realised that I was falling for one of my brother's best friends, I knew he would have a rant about it. Ryker, Bishop, Caelum, and Cassian have been friends since before they could walk.

Well, not in the literal sense but yes, they have and of course, Caelum would presume all his friends saw me like a sister, to which I somehow understood.

They were–are a brotherhood, four most problematic men in the city, under the sun, they're simply perfect and when the night unravels, they truly come alive as the men that rule this city from the shadows, the da