Temptation in Red

~BECKETT~

Garrett Lockwood was a bigger asshole than I had ever given him credit for.

I sat alone on the shaded terrace of the villa, staring at a glass of ice water I hadn't touched. The tense drive back from town played on a brutal, inescapable loop in my head. I kept replaying Hadley’s words from the car, hearing the raw exhaustion in her voice when she laid the truth bare.

Six years. She ha