Noah hacks, struggling for breath, and wipes the mess off his lap. Noah spurts beer from his mouth, choking and dripping liquor everywhere as he looks wide-eyed over at his father and coughs into his hand. But if you all are claiming me, you’re not doing for me what other men would do.” “If a woman claims you, then she’ll also do for you what other women do. “Your logic is flawed, you know?” I tell him, staring at him through the mirror. I’m old enough when he says, because he thinks I‘m too stupid to keep myself out of trouble.Īnd whether or not I’m ready for sex is one thing, but intimacy is another. So will I be old enough when I’m eighteen? Will he back off then? He cocks a brown eyebrow at me but doesn’t reply as he focuses back on the road. “You’re a young woman in my house,” he fires back. “We can be with women, because no one has laid claim to us.” “You can’t stop me from being with someone or having sex if I want to,” I inform him. Jake shakes his head once, blowing him off. Noah glances over his shoulder at me and then looks over at his father, whispering, “What’s going on?” “And I’ll do it, because I care about you.” “You’ll hit me, because I would do things you don’t like?” The girl next to me shifts in her seat, and the tension in the cab suddenly rises a couple notches. “Take me over your knee…” I repeat Jake’s words, looking at him in the rearview mirror. Links will be added as soon as we have them. *Credence is a new adult standalone novel suitable for readers 18+. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore.

Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she? The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.Īnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new standalone…

Credence by penelope douglas