Too Wrong for Me: Chapter 3 - The Ignition
Maya is the "good girl" librarian with a secret side-hustle and a plan to escape her coastal cage. Julian Cross is her brother’s best friend—a manwhore with a smirk that should be illegal and a decade’s worth of reasons why Maya should stay away. When they’re trapped together during a coastal storm, Julian reveals he knows her secrets, and he’s using them to keep her right where he wants her. It’s wrong, it’s forbidden, and it’s the only thing that’s ever felt right. Chapter Three Maya The Ignition The smell of the workshop has always been Julian’s scent—grease, cedar shavings, and that sharp, metallic tang of cold steel. But tonight, it’s mixed with the scent of the ocean and the frantic heat coming off our skin. The rain is a relentless, deafening roar against the tin roof, sealing us into this world of shadows and amber light. I’m sitting on the workbench, the scarred wood cool against my thighs, but I’ve never felt more on fire. Julian is between my knees, his hands brace...

