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Автор Венди Хиггинс

Dedication

If you sigh for Kai, this book is for you.

With special love to two of my best friends,

and Kaidan’s original fangirls,

Courtney Fetchko and Kelley Vitollo (Nyrae Dawn).

Contents

Dedication

Author’s Note

Prologue

PART ONE Sweet Evil

CHAPTER ONE Before

CHAPTER TWO Strange Girl

CHAPTER THREE More Confused Than Ever

CHAPTER FOUR Meeting Daddy Dearest

CHAPTER FIVE Road Trip with a Nun

CHAPTER SIX Pears and Oranges

CHAPTER SEVEN Sold

CHAPTER EIGHT A New Craving

CHAPTER NINE First Time for Everything

CHAPTER TEN One-Way Flight

CHAPTER ELEVEN Off to Work I Go

CHAPTER TWELVE Triangle Thing

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Good Witch, Bad Ape

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Anna’s Test

CHAPTER FIFTEEN New Year’s Day in the Big Apple

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Postcard

PART TWO Sweet Peril

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Los Angeles

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Partying with Pharzuph

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Chill of Winter

CHAPTER TWENTY Rage

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Reunited

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Learning the Hard Way

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Alive

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Let Me Kiss You

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Saving Z

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Water and Wrath

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN No Good-Byes

PART THREE Sweet Reckoning

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Most Important Job

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Not Like This

CHAPTER THIRTY Blake and the Twins

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Till Death

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Finally

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Celebration Above

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Unexpected

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE One-Track Mind

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Heartwarming

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Ready or Not

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Anna’s Vice

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE It’s Time

CHAPTER FORTY Good

Duke Names and Job Descriptions Index

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Excerpt from The Great Hunt

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Back Ads

About the Author

Books by Wendy Higgins

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

Author’s Note

This is a companion novel to the Sweet Evil trilogy—it is parts of the story told from Kaidan Rowe’s point of view. It’s not meant to be a stand-alone novel; however, I’ve tried to incorporate as much as possible from the original books.

For those of you who read the first three, I should warn you that being in Kaidan’s head is far different from being in Anna’s. His thoughts are darker and rougher and, well . . . naughtier. Keep in mind, when the story begins, Anna has just turned sixteen and Kaidan is seventeen. By the last third of the story, Anna is eighteen and Kai is nineteen, so the crossover from young adult to adult was the natural progression of their story.

Happy reading, sweeties. Kai awaits.

PROLOGUE

“I wanna hate every part of you in me . . .

You say that I’m privileged but my gift is my curse. ”

—“Bite My Tongue” by You Me At Six

“Sit down, son. ”

Young Kaidan did as his father asked, obediently sitting in the oversized leather chair beside him in the sitting room of their London home. Kai’s stomach buzzed with nervousness. He rarely had his father’s full attention, so he felt heavy and exposed under his intense stare. Kaidan savored Pharzuph’s eyes on him, and for a moment let himself pretend this meeting was something more than business—he let himself imagine his father’s smile was born of concern for him, rather than the glee of malice. He wanted to tap out a beat on his leg to soothe himself, but his father couldn’t stand fidgeting of any kind so he remained still.