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YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU

(YOU ARE MINE BOOK 3)

YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU

I married the bad boy from Brooklyn.

The one with the tattoos and a look in his eyes that told me he was bad news.

The kind of look that comes with all sorts of warnings.

I knew what I was doing.

I knew by the way he first held me that he would be my downfall; how he owned me with his forceful touch.

I couldn’t say no to him, not that I wanted to. That was then, and it seems like forever ago.

Years later, I’ve grown up and moved on. But he’s still the man I married. Dangerous in ways I don’t like to think about and tried to ignore for so long.

I did this to myself. I knew better than to fall for him.

I only wish love were enough to fix this …

You Know I Love Youis book 1 of a duet. It is the second duet in the You Are Mine series, but it can be read first.

PROLOGUE

Kat

It only took one night; one moment, and my fate was sealed. He knew I would never tell him no.

I wonder what would have happened if I’d never met Evan. The thought makes my stomach sink and twist, and a cold chill flows in waves over my body.

Itpainsme to consider such a thing. To have never been with the man I love.

Dragging in a lungful of cold air, I steady myself with deep breaths.

It physically hurts to imagine not having him in my life for the last six years.

I didn’t know I was setting myself up for heartbreak all those years ago. Yet here I am, and that reality is what keeps me up at night. My eyes burn from both exhaustion and the tears begging to be shed.

That chance encounter set everything into motion, and only months ago I would have said it was a blessing, bestowed upon me by fate, or maybe kismet. But now I know better.

I wish I’d never stopped that night.

I wish I’d never met Evan at that gas station.

Whoever saidit’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all was a liar and a fool.

This pain isn’t worth it.

If only I could go back, because I don’t know how we’ll get through this.

KAT

Tell me a lie and make it sweet,

Like the vows you made on our wedding day.

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