Tempting Little Thief

<p><br></p><p>Bastian Bishop. That's his name.&nbsp;</p><p>He's rough, rugged, and utterly unpredictable.&nbsp;</p><p>He's not cautious or contemplative. He's a volcano. Silent and steady one second, and a nightmare in the next.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>But that's not the worst of it.&nbsp;</p><p>This guy? He's an outsider and in my world outsiders don't belong.&nbsp;</p><p>They're unwanted, unwelcome and known to disappear without a trace, yet he doesn't seem to care.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>After one night of reckless rebellion, the tattooed tyrant keeps coming back, sneaking into my world without permission, and causing trouble I can't allow.</p><p><br></p><p>I should end this now before my father discovers his existence and does it for me, but he won't allow it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>He says, like it or not ... I am his now, that nothing and no one will stand in his way.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What he refuses to understand is I'm a Girl of Greyson, a coveted queen of sorts in the underground crime world.</p><p>He's a nobody, an insignificant man with nothing to his name, marking him a threat to my own.</p><p><br></p><p>We could never be, but he won't hear it.</p><p>And me? I know exactly how this ends.</p><p><br></p><p>Or so I thought I did, until betrayal burns so deep that suddenly nothing makes sense.</p><p><br></p><p>Nothing but him...</p>