Rude

He has a secret.

A secret so big it would make it impossible for us to be together.

But I don’t know that in the beginning.

All I know is that his name is Cruise, he has a wicked body and a sexy smile, and that he wants to make my life a living hell.

He lives in Villa Seven at the Seascape Villas, the hotel where I’ve just started working.

The locals whisper about him. The other employees warn me to stay away, tell me that all he does is fight and screw, that a good girl like me should run as fast as she can.

He’s all tattoos and brooding stares, with a constant parade of half-naked women traipsing in and out of his villa.

But Cruise is impossible to resist.

I want to know everything about him.

I want to understand every wound, every scar that snakes through his battered soul.

Including the secret that changed him into what he is now. The thing that turned him angry and dark. The events that left him vowing never to get close to anyone.

Even if knowing the truth will break everything we’ve built together….